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(This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/drcprod/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114We thank all contributors of the 14th Blog Carnival\u2013\u2013Jim Brown, Amber Buck, Amelia Chesley, Sergio Figueiredo, Jennifer Juszkiewicz, Kim Lacey, Megan McIntyre, Derek Mueller, Scott Sundvall, and Sara West\u2013\u2013for their perspectives and engaging discussion on the states of digital rhetorics. Just before the end of summer, we shared a CFP<\/a> calling for critical reflections that would help update our understanding of digital rhetorics. We are excited to curate ten blog posts that have made plausible attempts to revisit digital rhetorics\u2019 pasts, examine its current influence, and speculate possible futures.<\/p>\n In an effort to account for our key takeaways, we wanted first to position this carnival in relationship to the DRC\u2019s first blog carnival, \u201cWhat Does Digital Rhetoric Mean to Me<\/a>,\u201d which was organized and published in May-August 2012. Entries honored the call with considerations of accessibility<\/a>, networks and big data<\/a>, remembrance<\/a>, naming and identification<\/a>, definition<\/a>, and more. Then, as now, responses encompassed concerns simultaneously personal and disciplinary, collectively underscoring the wayfinding digital rhetoric scholars experience as they study digital phenomena while simultaneously leading (as least in part) digital lives.<\/p>\n Douglas Eyman\u2019s entry, \u201cOn Digital Rhetoric<\/a>,\u201d was the first released in that inaugural carnival. In it, he invoked James Zappen\u2019s 2005 characterization of digital rhetoric and then added to Zappen\u2019s list with his own observations, as follows:<\/p>\n I would add, following Zappen (2005), that the primary activities within the field of digital rhetoric include<\/p>\n <\/p>\n but I would add to that list<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Eyman went on to express hopefulness about the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative and its work, especially for the potential of the DRC to contribute to an expanding arena of digital rhetoric scholarship:<\/p>\n I\u2019m hoping that the DRC site will be a place where we can provide examples of each of these activities, as well as provide resources (tools, stories, potential collaborators) for both theorizing and doing<\/i> digital rhetoric.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What activities of digital rhetoric that Zappen and Eyman identify might be found within our discerning of digital rhetorics\u2019 futures? The first of these activities from Zappen is the use of rhetorical strategies in production and analysis of digital text. Such is the case with Jim Brown\u2019s Unhealthy Infrastructures<\/a>, Kim Lacey\u2019s Unintended Use and Digital Rhetoric<\/a>, and Sergio Figueiredo\u2019s The Same As It Ever Was: Invention as the Future of Digital Rhetoric<\/a>. Additionally, the formation of digital identities can be found in Megan McIntyre\u2019s I Hate My Voice<\/a>, Scott Sundvall\u2019s Look at me! Don\u2019t Look at me!<\/a>, and Amelia Chesley\u2019s Hypermediated Workscapes and the Digital Rhetorics of Personal Branding<\/a>.<\/p>\n Both Jennifer Juszkiewicz\u2019 In (Partial) Defense of Algorithms<\/a> and Amber Buck\u2019s How to See the Forest for the Trolls: Studying Digital Rhetoric on Compromised Platforms<\/a> examine (and perhaps even call into question) the use of rhetorical methods for uncovering and interrogating ideologies and cultural formation in digital work. And, finally, Derek Mueller\u2019s Availability Dereliction<\/a> provides inquiry and development of rhetorics of technology, though digital rather or in addition to technology may be more appropriate. Sara West\u2019s Back to the Future? Reflections on Digital Infrastructures<\/a> identifies that technology fails (but people adapt), identifying characteristics, affordances, and constraints of new media.<\/p>\n Identifying some of the activities that can be found in these posts is not meant to be all-encompassing, granted many if not all of the posts fit multiple activities Zappen and Eyman share. Instead, as the posts provide examples, theorize, and complicate, they may be seen as following Eyman\u2019s hopefulness that the DRC serves as a site \u201cfor both theorizing and doing <\/i>digital rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n We would love to hear debates and discussions from readers about the ideas presented in this blog carnival. Whether you are responding to a post we shared on our Facebook page or tweets, or leaving a direct comment under a blog entry in this collection, we welcome your own reflections and reactions. Even better, share some of the posts here with your colleagues or students, and invite them to add their perspectives. A rich and varied reciprocation is what we hope to achieve through this effort. And, ultimately, as we all continue doing digital rhetorics we hope that future carnivals are as rich and varied and engaging as this one has been.<\/p>\n Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acknowledgement We thank all contributors of the 14th Blog Carnival\u2013\u2013Jim Brown, Amber Buck, Amelia Chesley, Sergio Figueiredo, Jennifer Juszkiewicz, Kim Lacey, Megan McIntyre, Derek Mueller, Scott Sundvall, and Sara West\u2013\u2013for their perspectives and engaging discussion on the states of digital rhetorics. 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