Author: Lauren Garskie

Summary In mid October, three prominent researchers of wearable and embodied technologies––Drs. Nicole Caswell (East Carolina University), Ann Hill Duin (University of Minnesota), and Michelle Eble (East Carolina University)––participated in a virtual roundtable hosted by DRC Graduate Fellows Jason Tham and Lauren Garskie to discuss digital rhetoric in the context of immersive technological experience. The roundtable began with Caswell, Duin, and Eble each sharing what wearable technologies meant to them. In defining wearable technologies, Eble explained them as on or in the body, which can lead to a quantified self. Caswell expanded on this by defining them as not only…

Title: Just Not Sorry Authors: Tami Reiss, Steve Brudz, Manish Kakwani, and Eric Tillberg of Def Method Publication date: Dec 2015 Experience here/Website: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/just-not-sorry-the-gmail/fmegmibednnlgojepmidhlhpjbppmlci?hl=en-US I often do not write my emails alone. Daily, my colleagues and I draft emails together around a conference table. Often, we ask, “Can I read this to you all? How do I respond to this? What goes in this subject line?” And in the most difficult instances, we write the email together. Moments like these seem to have only increased in my graduate studies. While this means emailing takes longer, it sometimes feels necessary to…

I feel as if my story is one that many of us in graduate school (or many of us who have found ourselves in academics) have told. We have that aha! moment where we realize this is probably where we are meant to be – our interests, our experiences were all leading us on the path to realizing, “Oh, this is a thing I can study!” Here is a bit about my aha! moment. I grew up in a crafting family. By crafting, I mean it is not surprising to find us, from my three-year-old cousin all the way to…