2021-2022 was an exciting year for the Sweetland DRC Fellows. As their fellowship draws to a close, our six fellows offer reflections on their experiences and projects. This year’s cohort continued to focus on themes of accessibility, ethics, and activism, along with several other topics within the field of digital rhetoric. Our blog carnival explored emerging perspectives on new media technologies, and a new teaching materials page was created to showcase crowd-sourced classroom activities, texts, and prompts. In addition, our fellows created a new podcast, the DRC Talk Series, which features prominent scholars currently working in the field of digital…
Author: Sarah Hughes
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Sarah Hughes is a PhD candidate in the Joint Program in English & Education at the University of Michigan, where she also teaches in the English Department Writing Program. Her research interests include digital rhetoric, gender and discourse, and gaming studies. Her dissertation project explores how women use multimodal discourse—grammatically, narratively, and visually—to navigate online gaming ecologies.
Acknowledgements We are grateful for each of the contributors of Blog Carnival 19. Thank you for devoting your time and energy towards this project in this time of shifting realities. While we are all contemplating what the “new normal” might look like, the teachers in the field of computers and writing need to plan for this next era of the COVID-19 pandemic in our classrooms. In the CFP for this blog carnival, we invited contributors to reflect on changed teaching practices and lessons learned from teaching during the pandemic. The entries represent a range of reflections that portray the ways…
As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2020-2021 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. This past year has continued to highlight challenges for justice, safety, teaching, researching, and living in the world, yet it has also provided opportunities for digital rhetoric to explore solutions and larger conversations around these challenges. Our blog carnivals explored how teachers and scholars have been navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s podcast series offered insights, challenges, and celebrations around Black sound. We also saw the beginnings of a new crowd-sourced syllabus…
Editors: Sarah Hughes and Nupoor Ranade For our latest Blog Carnival, we are seeking submissions from the computers and writing community about their plans for adapting to the “new normal.” The term has taken on new significance in COVID-19 times, but we want to call attention to Hinssen’s (2010) decade-old conceptualization of the “New Normal” as a phase in the digitalisation of society, where technologies will not be framed as technology, but rather part of everyday life. While we are using this term for its current cultural pervasiveness, we also acknowledge the valid critiques of the ways it elides inequities. …