Call for Contributions to DRC Blog Carnival 14 Editors: Derek Mueller, Lauren Garskie, Jason Tham A fishbowl-styled session at the 2018 RSA Conference in Minneapolis, MN, organized by Trent Kays, convened around a collective concern for what its title posed as “The States and Futures of Digital Rhetorics.” Panelists and the participation-willing among attendees offered and also troubled a range of definitions and premises, some cast onto futuristic horizons, some rooted in the consequences of wide ranging digital practices (and dependencies), some situated in specific problem-solution frameworks, local cases in which digital rhetorics present vividly a reconstituted social fabric or…
Author: Lauren Garskie
Jason Tham, Lauren Garskie, Derek Mueller
Lauren Garskie is a PhD student in the Rhetoric & Writing Program at Bowling Green State University. Her interests include design, literacies, digital rhetoric, and multimodality.
At the DRC’s 2018 mini-workshop at Computers & Writing, our focus was on how the work of the DRC may fill the gap between classroom conversations and real world events. Using select materials curated from past DRC posts, attendees brainstormed problems and issues that arose on a topic and created activities building from it. Guiding questions included: What kinds of activities could this post/posts help us develop? What kind of writing classroom would this activity be for? (first-year composition, upper level writing, writing in the discipline, graduate classes, etc.) What is “writing out in the world?” How does this activity…
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…