Introduction 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....
View Article2025-26 DRC Graduate Fellowship Application
The Digital Rhetoric Collaborative invites graduate students to apply for our 2025-26 fellowship! Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently doing research...
View Article2024-25 DRC Fellows End of Year Reflection
In this post the 2024-25 DRC Fellows cohort share their reflections of working on collaborations and developing their scholarship alongside the DRC. During this past year, this cohort of Fellows...
View ArticleIntroduction to Ali Alalem
Over time, I have come to realize how deeply our lived experiences shape who we are as scholars and teachers. I often ask myself what drives my passion for leveraging multimodal composition to foster...
View ArticleIntroduction to Erin Miller: Incidental Digital Rhetorics
I’ll admit I’m probably not the first person my friends think of when they think of digital rhetorics. I’ve pulled my hair out trying to move Google Docs from one folder to another, and I avoid systems...
View ArticleIntroduction to Funmilola Fadairo
My initial experience with computers began when my Dad bought our first family desktop, which we used to play Zuma games. When the adults complained that my siblings and I were getting addicted to...
View ArticleIntroduction to Nicole Golden
Hi there, I’m Nicole! And, I’m super excited to be a DRC Fellow this year. My relationship to technology has always centered around community. Beginning with the huge family PC my sister and I used to...
View ArticleThe Rhetorical Power of Data Centers
Though we may not realize it, data centers are an indispensable part of virtually all contemporary composition and rhetorical work. For example, any scholar who studies digital rhetoric or uses their...
View ArticleRe-Introduction to Thais Rodrigues Cons
This year as a continuing DRC Fellow, I decided to create a video-based, multimodal introduction. If you want to read my first introduction that has my chronological history with digital platforms and...
View ArticleFlock vs. DeFlock: The Constitutive Limits of Community
Part 1: Driving to the Grocery Store I don’t know exactly when the Flock cameras arrived. They blend into the infrastructure built around cars—the stop signs and speed limit signs, parking meters,...
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