Panelists: Kristin Arola, Washington State University Angela J. Aguayo, Southern Illinois University E. Cram, St. Lawrence University Near the end of Session 5 at IDRS, Anna Smith tweeted the following: hadn’t realized how much I missed the human in our #IDRS15 convos until this morning’s panel w/ @kristinarola @activistdocgrrl & @emcram — anna smith (@anna_phd) April 11, 2015 As I’ve reflected over the session in the process of composing this review, I’ve returned to Anna’s tweet, remembering Doug Eyman’s reminder in Session 1 that digital rhetoric should be concerned with texts and technologies, but also with humans and bodies. In their presentations, Arola,…
Author: Crystal VanKooten
Crystal VanKooten
Crystal VanKooten is an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, where she teaches courses in first-year composition and new media.
1. Memory Here’s what I remember. The room yawned wide, windows along the back wall. Three rows of seats, long tables pushed up against each other end to end. It was Sunday morning, and we faced the presenters: Steven Hammer at a laptop, managing the computer and the mics, advancing the slides; Kyle Stedman, Jonathan Stone, and Harley Ferris sitting in chairs off to the side and standing to speak. The front table was crowded with sound stuff: a record player, a console, what looked like a funnel made of tin foil standing up from the table like a flag,…
A big part of my research is the collection and use of audio-visual (AV) qualitative data. I use video cameras and microphones to gather information about participants and their experiences, and I use video editing software to compose with this data as a part of the analysis and presentation of findings. Let me be more specific about what this kind of AV research can look like. For my dissertation project, I conducted a qualitative study in two sections of first-year writing at a major university where each instructor included a unit of video composition as part of the curriculum. I…