Introduction to Jennifer Burke Reifman
Exactly one year after my first time stepping into a classroom during my Master’s program, I started my first gig as a part-time contingent instructor at a community college. Because of my training,...
View ArticleIntroduction to Laken Brooks
Earlier this year, President Joe Biden announced his plan to expand WIFI and broadband internet access to rural areas in the United States. However, some political and pop culture conversations about...
View ArticleIntroduction to Courtney A. Mauck
I came to be interested in digital rhetoric almost by accident. During my MA, it was a requirement to incorporate at least one multimodal project into our curriculum. To be clear, multimodality and...
View ArticleDRC 2021-2022 Fellows End-of-Year Reflection
2021-2022 was an exciting year for the Sweetland DRC Fellows. As their fellowship draws to a close, our six fellows offer reflections on their experiences and projects. This year’s cohort continued to...
View ArticleIntroduction To Nitya Pandey
Ever since my parents bought me a desktop computer as an eighth grader in 2002, I have loved computers. The introduction to that machine was a turning point for my literacy practices. I started reading...
View ArticleIntroduction to Laura Leigh Menard
My first video game was Pong. My first computer an Apple IIe. I have great memories of grade school and being rewarded for good behavior with 15 minutes of computer time, and of my middle school...
View ArticleIntroduction to Christoffer Turpin
In my teens I dropped out of high school and got involved in the hacktivism scene. I did a lot of stuff during this time, but the thing that probably says the most about me is an art project called...
View ArticleIntroduction to Alexandra Krasova
My earliest memory of interacting with digital technology goes back to 2002 when I started attending IT classes at school. It was a fascinating experience. When I received my first computer two years...
View ArticleIntroduction to Sarah Akomoh
As a first generational student, I never had the opportunity to own a personal computer or actively interact with digital technology until my first year in college. Having a humanities background made...
View ArticleIntroduction 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...
View ArticleApply to be a DRC Graduate Fellow for 2023/2024!
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently doing research in some area of digital rhetoric who seek professional development experience in online publishing...
View ArticleTransformative Pedagogy and Decolonial Approach Through Digital Storytelling
“Digital Narratives” Project for Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Fellowship 2022-2023, University of Michigan English performs a dominant (Daniel & Zybina, 2019) and colonial (Alim & Paris,...
View Article2022-2023 Fellows End of Year Reflection
This year, we had six graduate fellows that worked on various projects on digital rhetoric. Below are some of their reflections on the year, including some information on the projects that they’ve been...
View ArticleIntroduction to Sarah Fischer
I hardly remember a time before social media. I made my first email account to instantmessage my friends after school when I was in elementary school (AIM “away messages” were iconic). I made a MySpace...
View ArticleIntroduction to Luke Hernandez
I originally wanted to work in politics and law to make positive change. In high school I was proudly part of the Tumblr social justice era, and I am proud of that. My drive was always to support...
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...
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...
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