Author: Whitney Lew James

Almost three years since the Women’s March on Washington set records for the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, a contingent of marchers continues to march in perpetuity. For these marchers the wounds of the 2016 Presidential Election are still fresh, their anger, hurt, fear, and hope still visceral. I am referring to the Disability Marchers—3,014 disabled and chronically ill women and their allies—who continue to march on the Disability March website. Although the website now serves as a publicly accessible archive from January 21, 2017, the testimonies of participants exist in the present. In this Blog Carnival entry, I…

As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2018-2019 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham I am thankful for the opportunity to serve as a returning DRC Fellow this year. In my first year, I learned how to engage different scholars and field leaders in sharing their projects with the greater community of digital rhetoric. This year, I got to experience another dimension of serving this field by encouraging junior scholars––graduate students and new faculty––to promote their emerging research and cutting-edge ideas through various events…

ATLAS.ti offers various qualitative data analysis (QDA) solutions for researchers and students working with qualitative data. In this review, you’ll learn about how we have used two different ATLAS.ti products—ATLAS.ti desktop and ATLAS.ti Cloud (beta version)—a quick capabilities comparison of each, and their best uses for research and pedagogy. How Whitney used ATLAS.ti Desktop I first learned about ATLAS.ti during my research methods course when we received an introduction and demo on the software from Dr. Ricardo Contreras, one of ATLAS.ti’s senior trainers and an anthropologist and ethnographer. I was immediately struck by the software’s ability to annotate traditional text…

The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) or the 2019 Two-Year College English Association Conference (TYCA) in Pittsburgh, PA. We are particularly interested in conference reviews relating to digital rhetoric, though you can propose another session to review. Reviews are published on the DRC website to help facilitate conversations about conference sessions among attendees and others who may not have been present at the conference. If you would like to be a reviewer for a #4C19 or TYCA session, please visit this Google Spreadsheet to sign up for a…