Author: Matthew Vetter

Happy Wiki Wednesday! This week we’re shining a spotlight on two sections of the DRC Wiki – a unique resource that harnesses the crowd-sourcing affordances of the wiki to create a compendium of information on digital rhetorics. The best part about this resource is that it provides immediate access to a range of information, including journals, conferences and websites in the fields of computers and writing, digital rhetorics, and digital humanities. It’s easy to forget about these resources, and you can miss out on a lot if you’re not checking in. The Wiki brings these resources together in one place and also encourages readers…

About a month ago, Wiki Wednesdays ran a feature titled “Literary Citizenship in Wikipedia,”  which detailed a collaborative project happening at Ohio University that engaged students with Wikipedia editing in a Creative Nonfiction class. The motivating idea behind this project was to create articles for under/non-represented literary authors in Wikipedia. When I wrote that post, the project was just getting underway. Now that students have finished the project, we’re checking in to look back at some of work they did, and to celebrate the type of “citizenship pedagogy” this project represents. Sarah Einstein, the instructor and designer of the project, has had nothing but encouraging, kind…

I have a confession to make. I haven’t used Blackboard, the preferred/subscribed Learning Management System (LMS) at my institution (Ohio University) for the past four years. I’ve gotten complaints about this from students. But the truth is, I really don’t like working with it. I think it’s bulky and confusing for instructors and students. It has way more options than we need. And it’s a closed system – which is good for student privacy – but which doesn’t take advantage of the public writing opportunities offered by the open web. Finally, Blackboard doesn’t have any other applications for students. It’s…

Text: “Let Me Queer My Throat: Queer Rhetorics of Negotiation: Marriage Equality and Homonormativity” Author: Hillery Glasby Publisher: Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persusasion Publication Date: April 16, 2014, (No. 11) A common critique of (digital) multimodal scholarship revolves around the recognition that many of the webtexts published in online journals, rather than exploring the ways that diverse media allow for alternative knowledge-making practices, do little more than remediate traditional print epistemologies. Think, for instance, of the “webtext” that is primarily text, or that only very marginally includes forms of new media, without any indication of an understanding…