Introducing Jason Tham
I am thrilled to return as a second-year Graduate Fellow with the DRC. I had a very good experience last year learning from different scholars across the field and contributing to its body of knowledge...
View ArticleIntroduction: Angela Glotfelter
As kids, my siblings and I would often play Super Mario Bros. on the NES, blasting through the first Mushroom Kingdom level to get to the “basement” and, eventually, to “water world” and to Bowser’s...
View ArticleIntroducing Katie Walkup
Hi there! I’m Katie, and I’m excited to be working as a DRC fellow this year. Digital rhetoric permeates my pedagogy, research, and administrative work. Hopefully I’ll be sharing resources related to...
View ArticleIntroducing Whitney Lew James
My path to digital rhetoric as a scholarly interest has been a long and winding one. I hand-coded my first website in high school. But, as a master’s student and then adjunct at Emerson College, I...
View ArticleIntroduction to Jialei Jiang
We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it. Everything is vision, becoming. We become universes. –Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari My way of seeing the world has...
View ArticleDRC 2018-2019 Fellows End-of-Year Reflection
As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2018-2019 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham I am thankful for the...
View ArticleIntroduction to Dana Comi
Wait, people build their own Internet? This realization and research interest (now, obsession) pulled me into the world of digital rhetoric, as well as the multidisciplinary and complex areas of...
View ArticleIntroduction to McKinley Green
My interests in digital rhetoric and networked technologies are relatively new. Growing up, I found no joy in video games. I avoided online chat or messaging systems (sorry AIM). I held onto my flip...
View ArticleIntroduction to Soyeon Lee
My engagement in digital rhetorics started with an unexpected event. Living in Houston, one of the most vulnerable cities near the Gulf of Mexico in climate change, I came to be interested in...
View ArticleIntroduction to Wilfredo Flores
This piece of writing started in my apartment, which sits on a little hill. Rabbits and chipmunks live in and around the hill—some under the stones that lead up to the building door—and squirrels and...
View ArticleIntroduction to Nupoor Ranade
It is interesting how sometimes, you know exactly what you want to say, but you don’t have the right words because you were not trained to imagine things a certain way. That is how I feel about the...
View ArticleIntroduction to D’Arcee Charington Neal
If you’d asked me anytime before 2017 what the term “digital rhetoric” meant, I probably wouldn’t have any idea aside from a picture of Aristotle rocking with an iPad in my head. These days, I think of...
View ArticleIntroduction to Sarah Hughes
I approached the arcade on a clear but chilly Tuesday in December. It stood out against the crowded backdrop of Ann Arbor storefronts with its fuchsia awning and blocky, western-style letters. Glowing...
View ArticleDRC 2019-2020 Fellows End-of-Year Reflection
As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2019-2020 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. This year has presented numerous crises...
View ArticleIntroduction to Jianfen Chen (陈剑芬）
I understand digital rhetoric as a creative extension of traditional Aristotelian rhetoric thanks to digital technologies, but with more heuristic and persuasive powers given to the three canons of...
View ArticleIntroduction to Kimberly Williams
Black android griots. The battery packs of the unhuman. Necromancy in codes, wires, and equations. I’ve had my Twitter account for a few years; however, this year I created my Facebook and Instagram...
View ArticleDRC 2020-2021 Fellows End-of-Year Reflection
As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2020-2021 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. This past year has continued to...
View ArticleIntroduction to Laura McCann
My interest in digital rhetorics began when I worked in digital marketing before I returned to graduate studies. After completing my BA, I spent six years working on digital teams to create platforms...
View ArticleIntroduction to Laura Leigh Menard
My earliest memory of interacting with digital media is sitting on the floor of my grandpa’s enclosed porch playing Pong with my older sister. Soon after, the video game business exploded with Atari,...
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