DRC Fellows End of Year Reflection
As we begin one academic year and look back at the last, the DRC Fellows share their reflections on their projects, collaborations, and takeaways from the Fellowship. It was wonderful to work with each...
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,...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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....
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Anuj Gupta
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...
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