The Sweetand Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is pleased to announce our inaugural blog carnival on the topic “What does digital rhetoric mean to me?” Be a participant and take part in continuing to define this field. Offer your perspective on how writing is and is not transformed in digital environments, what rhetoric means in this realm, and what the future of digital rhetoric may hold. Doug Eyman gets our carnival rolling with his serious and playful reflection “On Digital Rhetoric”: I’ll end with a question or two: how do you define digital rhetoric? What examples would you point to to explain…
Author: Naomi Silver
In conjunction with the launch of the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Book Series from the University of Michigan Press and the Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, we are pleased to announce the UM Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric. The prize, which is funded by the Sweetland Center for Writing, will be awarded annually to an innovative and important book-length project that displays critical and rigorous engagement in the field of digital rhetoric. These projects should be born-digital or digitally enhanced. Eligible projects will be peer reviewed with the recipient determined by the DRC advisory board and directors. The…
In the spirit of Christopher Dean and KairosWiki and the CCCCReviews, the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for Computers & Writing 2012 sessions. For each session you are assigned, please compose a concise, analytical review. The review should include an overview of the session, but should also address key implications, stakes, or take-away points. Please also make sure that if you offer relevant critique in your review, you do so in a collegial and constructive manner. Previous examples of CWReviews may be consulted at http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CWReviews/Home. Reviews can be composed in written text (500-1500 words) or in any other appropriate media as long as the…