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<\/a>Jason Tham<\/b><\/p>\n
It\u2019s a privilege to work with Naomi Silver, Anne Gere, Adrienne Raw, and the DRC Fellows this past academic year. Through the various projects we have undertaken and collaborated on, I have expanded my personal learning network immensely.<\/p>\n
The DRC has given me a platform to share my perspectives and ideas. More importantly, being a DRC Fellow lets me connect with scholars in the field who are doing very interesting work. I appreciate every opportunity I had at conferences and informal meetings last year to get to know researchers, teachers, graduate students, and other digital rhetoric super stars whose work I follow closely.<\/p>\n
I also enjoyed meeting with previous DRC Fellows who gave me valuable advice on tackling the job search process. I can see how the DRC Fellows program is slowly creating a community of scholars who aren\u2019t just focusing on their individual projects but are willing to share intellectual resource to support those who are coming behind them.<\/p>\n
I cherish all the connections I have made and look forward to new ones this coming academic year as I return for another term in the next DRC Fellow cohort.<\/p>\n
Lauren Garskie<\/b><\/p>\n
As someone deep in her dissertation, I have naturally become very focused on a specific area of research. I don\u2019t think being a DRC fellow could have come at a better time in my graduate student career. I wanted to be a fellow to the have the opportunity to collaborative with fellow graduate students. Being a part of the DRC has done that and more. It has allowed me the opportunity to not only work with the other fellows but to learn from them and to learn from all those who contribute to the DRC.<\/p>\n
As a returning fellow, Brandee\u2019s advice was that if we had idea or wanted to do something that we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to share it. That really was perfect advice to hear during our first meeting (thanks Brandee!). There have been times where there were projects where I did not know much about the content, but I was interested to learn about it. That curiosity has led me to learn more than I could have imagined in just one year. I think of those initial projects where I took that advice to heart: the Webtext of the Month about Just Not Sorry<\/a> by Brandee and I or The Virtual Roundtable on Wearable & Embodied Technologies<\/a> that Jason and I hosted. \u00a0I have especially enjoyed working on blog carnivals, which truly showcase the collaborative efforts of the fellows and allowed an opportunity to work with those in the digital rhetoric community. With the many parts required for a blog carnival, they demonstrate how integral flexibility is to productive collaboration. To all the contributors to our blog carnivals, thank you! I\u2019ve so enjoyed the time spent with your posts.<\/p>\n Most of all the DRC has made me more confident. More confident to throw an idea out there, to try something out, to approach someone in person at a conference who I have only worked with digitally. I am excited as I begin to look towards my future as an instructor and a scholar. I know the DRC will not only be a resource, but a community that I can continue to come back to and can continue to share all that it has to offer.<\/p>\n Thank you to everyone at the DRC for such a wonderful year.<\/p>\n Kristin Ravel<\/b><\/p>\n One of my main motivations for applying to be a DRC fellow for a second year came from looking back at my first year and realizing how much I had neglected to pull my knowledge of feminist theory and its intersection with concerns of digital rhetoric. My hope this last year was to amend this by developing a feminist-focused blog carnival (with the help of the other DRC fellows of course) and highlighting the diverse work of feminist authors in the field.<\/p>\n With the Material and Digital Rhetorics: Openings for Feminist Action<\/a>\u00a0blog carnival, the DRC featured topics tied to feminist theory and practice, digital rhetoric, and new materialism. The main priorities for this carnival were to better understand current feminist digital rhetoric concerns and to consider what feminist new materialist perspectives offer to how we think about and define the work of digital rhetoric. The editors (Lauren Brentnell, Brandee Easter, Carleigh Davis, and Lauren Garskie) and I made an effort to prioritize the feminist goal of inclusivity in this blog carnival by inviting and prioritizing the work of early career scholars and graduate students. I look back at the collaborations of this blog carnival fondly, especially as I grew to know many of the contributors via email and social media as time went on.<\/p>\n One of the other meaningful projects I worked on this year was my review of NYMG: Feminist Game Studies<\/a>. At the time leading up to my review, I was making efforts to be more honest and critical of the conventions and limitations of traditional academic scholarship. After reading the first issue of NYMG, I immediately knew I needed to write a review for the DRC, but I didn\u2019t just want it to be an impersonal review that summarized the features of the blog. Instead, I wanted it to merge together the journal with my personal histories and how we may rethink conventions of academic writing through practices related to digital publication. What resulted was not quite a review, not quite an essay, and not quite a personal narrative. I sincerely appreciated the freedom the DRC gave me in allowing this post to grow into what I wanted it to be\u2014without concern for how it may fit with the format of previously published reviews on the site.<\/p>\n And I can\u2019t leave this reflection without also talking about the DRC community. I could go on about this for some time, but for now I\u2019ll just say I am continually thankful for everyone I\u2019ve grown to know through the DRC. You have all helped me to remember the fun and joy that comes from collaborative knowledge-making, and this has been especially important considering this politically challenging time.<\/p>\n To the DRC fellows and folks at Michigan I\u2019ve grown to know through our video meetings, emails, and conference presentations; to everyone who stepped up to the DRC table during C&W and CCCCs just to have a conversation; and to the folks I\u2019ve worked with \u00a0as I\u2019ve participated in publishing content for the DRC: Thank you. You are all so great! Lauren Brentnell<\/b><\/p>\n What I\u2019ve found most valuable about my time with the DRC is the collaboration that I got to engage in with other fellows, graduate students, and faculty in digital rhetorics. From getting to read through submissions for the two blog carnivals I co-edited (Material and Digital Rhetorics: Openings for Feminist Action<\/a> and Rhetorics and Ethics in Smart Technologies and Artificial Intelligence<\/a>) to getting to review Tim Lockridge and Derek Van Ittersum\u2019s amazing book<\/a> with Carleigh, I have loved the opportunities to engage in ongoing conversations in the field.<\/p>\n Outside of official DRC activities, I\u2019ve also engaged with fellows at conferences, through social media, and in other spaces both formal and informal. As a dissertating student about to go on the job market, their advice and support has been so welcomed as we move through our graduate careers together. I know that I\u2019ve not only met a group of people I have learned so much from this year, but will continue to learn from throughout our professional and personal lives.<\/p>\n Finally, I want to extend my thanks to Naomi Silver and Anne Gere\u2014the amazing folks at Michigan who\u2019ve helped us navigate our time as fellows and scholars. It\u2019s been incredible to work with everyone, and I look forward to continuing to participate in this field with you!<\/p>\n Brandee Easter<\/b><\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to believe that I\u2019ve had the opportunity to be part of the DRC for two years. When I reflect on this time, I am proud of the work we\u2019ve done. I continue to return to the blog carnival on \u201cTeaching Digital Rhetoric after the Election\u201d I co-led with Sara West because find its resources continually useful and important for teaching. I\u2019m especially proud of the work we\u2019ve done this year to build community across social media (Thanks, Jason, Carleigh, and Lauren G.!).<\/p>\n Something else that stands out to me about these two years is that I never felt like I was doing anything alone as part of the DRC. I am struck by how every DRC project was taken on by more than one contributor, sometimes all of us! This experience collaborating with other scholars\u2014both DRC Fellows and the community more broadly\u2014is an approach I hope to take with me into the next phase of my career.<\/p>\n To anyone reading this and considering becoming a DRC Fellow, you should do it! 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