As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2017-2018 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham It’s a privilege to work with Naomi Silver, Anne Gere, Adrienne Raw, and the DRC Fellows this past academic year. Through the various projects we have undertaken and collaborated on, I have expanded my personal learning network immensely. The DRC has given me a platform to share my perspectives and ideas. More importantly, being a DRC Fellow lets me connect with scholars in the field who are doing very interesting…
Author: Lauren Brentnell
Jason Tham, Lauren Garskie, Brandee Easter, Adrienne Raw, Lauren Brentnell, Kristin Ravel, Carleigh Davis
Lauren is a doctoral student in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. Her research is within trauma studies, particularly in how trauma survivors use nonlinear, multimodal, and digital forms of composing during recovery.
It was great to see everyone at the 2018 Computers & Writing conference (#cwcon) in Fairfax, Virginia! Held May 24-27, this year’s conference was hosted by Douglas Eyman and his team at George Mason University. The theme for the conference was Digital Phronesis: Code/Culture/Play. Presentations and talks were given around topics that intersect digital rhetoric, practical wisdom, embodied experience, pedagogy, ethics, and more. As with past C&W conferences, we put out a call for conference panel and keynote reviews, and are glad to showcase a handful of them here. These reviews give us a glimpse at the conference. We hope…
As we wrap up our 13th Blog Carnival, we want thank all of our contributors for their engaging and thought-provoking ideas. In January 2018, we shared our CFP with the goals of considering how digital rhetoricians are being called to help fill important theoretical voids in the ethics of these technologies and how intelligence in AI is identified/defined and by whom. In response, our contributors have offered critical observations about the connections between AI and digital-rhetorical theories. Here are three main themes that emerged from the seven posts: 1. Feminist resistance to AI narratives In our first post, “Tropes of…
Popular sources like The Verge, Techcrunch, and Forbes have recently revealed that millions of households have bought and installed “smart home assistants” or “smart speakers” like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. Since its release in mid October 2017, Google has reportedly sold more than 6 million units of its newest, more affordable smart speaker, the Google Home Mini. In the first quarter of 2018, Apple is slated to expand this market with its version of home assistant, the Apple HomePod. Together, these retail intelligent units are making artificial intelligence (AI) a recognizable and approachable household technology in an age…