What Can We Learn about Writing and Rhetoric from a Makerspace?
“What do you want to make?” This was the first question that Eric Renn, founder of SoDo MakerSpace (SMS), asked me when I first visited just over a year ago, and it caught me off guard. I’ve been a...
View ArticleRemediating Disability: Articulating an Arts-based Pedagogy to Crip The Work...
For the past two years, much of my research has depended upon my collaboration with Elizabeth Horn-Walker, an art activist who founded the ART of Infertility. This art, oral history and portraiture...
View ArticleImage Accessibility, Part I: Beyond alt Attributes
The alt attribute is the HTML feature most often associated with accessibility. It’s been around since the HTML 2.0 specification (RFC 1866, finalized in 1995), which noted that “user agents may...
View ArticleA Reflection and Step-by-Step Process of Using Open-Source Software to Closed...
In May, at the 2016 Digital Media and Composition Institute at The Ohio State University, we (participants) were each tasked with creating a Concept in 60 video. This video needed to explore a concept...
View ArticleWrapping Up our Cripping Digital Writing and Technology Blog Carnival
In our CFP for the Cripping Digital Writing and Technology Blog Carnival, we asked writers to explore how the disability studies key term “cripping” could be explored and implemented in digital...
View ArticleMaker Session F9—Academic Activists: Pro-Immigrant Radical Feminist Praxis in...
Presenters: Christina V Cedillo, University of Houston-Clear Lake Ana Milena Ribero, Oregon State University Sonia C. Arellano, University of Arizona Review: Christina V Cedillo As part of the design...
View ArticleC&W 18 Review: “Multimodal Hip-Hop and Transforming Writing Studies”
Session B8: “Multimodal Hip-Hop and Transforming Writing Studies” Presenters: Laquana Cooke, Regina Duthely, and Todd Craig Review by Liana Clarke The session had a theme of “wokeness” in our pedagogy...
View ArticleCritical Design Rhetorics of Digital Democracy: A Course Design for Informed...
Image created by Matthew V. Jacobson Introduction A few months ago, I gave myself a challenge: design a digital rhetoric course that probed the intersections of rhetoric, democracy, and technology. In...
View ArticleSession G-8: Multimodal Composing Practices
Presenters: Elizabeth Chamberlain, James Ottoson, Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo, Teresa (Reese) Davis During “Multimodal Composing Practices,” two questions about multimodal composing practices remained...
View Article“Maps are Cool”: Investigating the Potentials for Map-Making in Multimodal...
Let’s just get this out of the way. I love maps. My fascination with maps started young, with a single mother determined to help my brother and me see the country, even on a shoestring budget. We’d...
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