Welcome back to Wiki Wednesday! As part of the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative’s current focus on activism in online spaces, we’re dedicating a series of Wiki Wednesday posts to interrogating Wikipedia as a site for making, sharing, and circulating meaning. We’ve already shared a few posts that work toward this focus. Heather Lang’s recent reflection on some of the obstacles she faced as a female graduate student trying to adapt to the culture of Wikipedia kicked off our series, and I followed up a few weeks ago with a post about how Wikipedia’s adherence to print culture limits the types of knowledge it can…
Author: Matthew Vetter
Matthew Vetter
VIsiting Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University Zanesville, Matthew Vetter earned his PhD from Ohio University in 2015, where he previously served as Assistant Director of Composition. His research and professional interests include digital rhetoric and humanities, writing program administration, and composition pedagogy. Vetter is a former Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Graduate Fellow and current editor of PraxisWiki, a section of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Check out his portfolio at mattvetter.net
Welcome back to Wiki Wednesday. In the coming weeks, the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative will be focusing on digital activism and ways of engaging activist and advocate discourse in online spaces. To usher in that focus, we’ll be dedicating a series of Wiki Wednesday posts to interrogating Wikipedia as a site for making, sharing, and circulating meaning. In last week’s Wiki Wednesday post, Heather Lang shared her experience working on a Wikipedia writing assignment in a graduate seminar and some of the ways it helped her to begin to think about what it is we are asking our students to do when we ask them to write in…
Happy Wiki Wednesday! This week we’re shining a spotlight on a unique section of the DRC Wiki: Threshold Concepts in Digital Rhetoric. This section outlines and introduces a number of important concepts, and provides a number of resources for both teaching and scholarship. As a scholar in digital rhetorics, I appreciate how this section calls attention to the unique disciplinary knowledge we can claim, as well as the opportunities for expanding the conceptual and intellectual parameters of the field. One of the most well-developed entries in this section is an article on “Rhetorical Velocity,” what Jim Ridolfo and Danielle Nicole DeVoss…
(As of 2/2/2018 this post has been archived from Storify and shared below) Our second Twitter #DRCchat was everything you could want in a Twitter chat! Plenty of great discussion from a number of different perspectives on all things teaching online. Moderators @linzharding and @rhetgrrrl kept the conversation lively with a number of terrific questions. You can revisit last night's chat in a "storified" round-up of questions and responses, below. I couldn't squeeze everything in there, though, so check out the #DRCchat hashtag if you want to see all the posts. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this event. I…