As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2016-2017 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their time, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. David Coad The DRC has been a wonderful experience of engaging in and promoting community in our scholarly world. I am using this post to share some things I’ve learned about digital community building—something I am interested in and something I believe is very key to the DRC, it’s purpose and success. I recently published an article in Computers and Composition about graduate students engaging in community building on Twitter at the 2015 Computers…
Author: Kristin Ravel
Kristin Ravel, Adrienne Raw, Brandy Dieterle, Brandee Easter, David Coad, Sara West, Jason Luther
Dr. Kristin Ravel is an Assistant Professor of English at Rockford University. Her research interests encompass multimodality, digital media studies, ethics in communication, and feminist theory.
We at the DRC had a wonderful time at the 2017 Computers and Writing Conference and were happy to see all the new and familiar faces at our table and Wiki panel! In tradition with past Computers and Writing conferences, we put out a call for conference panel reviews and are now excited to offer a small glimpse at the many wonderful presentations the conference offered. Thanks so much to our reviewers and to everyone else who made this year’s Computers and Writing possible. This year, the University of Findlay hosted the conference, which was held June 1-4, 2017. Focusing…
Presenters Bridget Gelms, Miami University Dustin Edwards, University of Central Florida Rich Shivener, University of Cincinnati Review In “Life of the Networked Body: Harassment, Circulation, and Affect in Digital-Material Spaces,” the panelists each examined communication in digital spaces by focusing on the role of the body and its various identities, positions, and patterns of movement. The first speaker, Bridget Gelms, presented her research on the online harassment of women in her talk “Digital Writing and Vulnerable Identities.” Given that women are more likely to be the targets of online harassment—especially women who engage in topics related to social justice, civil rights,…
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2017 Computers and Writing Conference. If you would like to be a reviewer for a Computers and Writing session, please visit our Google Form to either sign up for a keynote or session to review. Reviews can be composed in written text (500-1500 words) or in any other appropriate media as long as the information can be received by a user in 3-5 minutes.Your review should include an overview of the session, but should also address key implications, stakes, or take-away points. Please also make sure that if you offer…