The capacity of wiki platforms for knowledge building and curation has led to an unprecedented growth in “crowd-sourced” epistemologies in the last decade. At the Sweetland DRC, we’re harnessing wiki technology to create a resource through which individuals involved in digital rhetorics and humanities communities can come together to share disciplinary knowledge. We seek to build and sustain a diverse group of editors from all stages of the profession (advanced, undergraduate students, graduate students, newly minted PhDs, and seasoned academics) in order to build a truly representative resource. To this end, we invite academics and instructors of all ranks to…
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
I’m not completely sure how we got here so fast, but it’s November people, (which means I haven’t got nearly enough done on my dissertation) but which also means… Digital Writing Month! Or “DigiWriMo” if you prefer. To celebrate, this week’s Wiki Wednesday features a digital writing project happening right now at Ohio University, something I’m working on with a friend and colleague, the amazing and talented Sarah Einstein! Sarah’s teaching a creative nonfiction course this semester, and was kind enough to invite me to collaborate with her on a Wikipedia writing project. We spent the first few meetings arguing (good naturedly of…
(As of 2/2/2018 this storify has been archived and shared below) Last night's Twitter #DRCchat turned out out to be quite a lively discussion! The conversation was so rich, in fact, that we couldn't even get to all our prepared questions. The chat was meant to extend and enrich our most recent Blog Carnival on Multimodality and Multilingualism and I think we were incredibly successful in that regard. I especially like this mode of discussion as a means to take the Carnival beyond the "walls" of the DRC and encourage more voices in the twittersphere. Moderators @linzharding and @rhetgrrrl posed…
For this week’s Wiki Wednesday, and in celebration of Open-Access Week, we’re shining a much deserved spotlight on Dr. Dundee Lackey and her work as section editor of Kairos’ PraxisWiki, a digital “repository of useful and provocative information and ideas for scholars and teachers at the intersections of rhetoric and technology.” Dr. Lackey earned her PhD in Rhetoric & Writing at Michigan State University, and currently teaches in the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages at Texas Woman’s University. She was kind enough to answer my questions about her time working at PraxisWiki, and offers a number of insights about…