Introduction to Jiaxin Zhang (张佳欣)
My early experiences with computers can be traced back to elementary school in the early 2000s. I still remember that in the brand-new school computer lab, we first learned to type on a piece of...
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I still remember the first time I got a Python computer program that I wrote to work. I was auditing an Introduction to Python class in the second year of my PhD at the University of Arizona. While I...
View ArticleIntroduction to Saurabh Anand
My name is Saurabh Anand. I was born in 1992. It was one of the initial years when many postcolonial countries wentthrough “Globalization,” “Privatization,” and “Liberalization,” including India....
View ArticleIntroduction to Alex Mashny
Hello! I’m Alex. Technology seemed somewhat inaccessible to me while I was growing up. It wasn’t that I had no access to technology. We had a family computer, and in my teenage years I was given a...
View ArticleApply to be a 2024-25 DRC Graduate Fellow!
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently working in some area of digital rhetoric who want practical experience collaborating with emerging and established...
View ArticleIntroduction to Thais Rodrigues Cons
Writing and technology—either together or separately—have always played a big role in my identity. I was a middle-class Brazilian kid in the early 1990s. So I would write about my feelings in a...
View ArticleIntroduction to Mehdi Mohammadi
I’ve been captivated by digital technology ever since computers began making their mark in Iran in the late ’90s. Back then, owning a computer was a luxury, but I finally got my hands on one when I...
View ArticleIntroduction to Toluwani Odedeyi
Hi, I’m Toluwani! From a young age, I had an innate interest in finding elegant solutions to communication problems. Growing up in Nigeria, I crafted fictional stories that brought characters to life,...
View ArticleIntroduction to Marie Pruitt
Would you rather listen to this post instead? Check out the podcast version here: Two truths and a lie: The road to my disciplinary identity has been paved with curiosity, bad assumptions, and lots of...
View ArticleIntroduction to Alex Mashny
Hello again! If we haven’t met before, I’m Alex. I’m a returning fellow to the DRC, and I’m excited to be back. I’m now a third-year PhD student at Michigan State University, am halfway through the...
View ArticleIntroduction to Robert Beck
Hello, I’m Robert. In addition to being a PhD candidate, I am a licensed Captain legally allowed to operateany vessel of 100 gross register tons or less on any of the Great Lakes or domesticrivers....
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