Excitable Media
This project group will explore and push the rhetorical limits of social media platforms, researching and practicing inventive uses of these composing technologies. Members of Excitable Media will explore ways that scholars, teachers, and students of rhetoric and writing can use social media to encourage and enact rhetorical and critical reflection.
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TheJUMP
Two co-managing editors will have the opportunity to edit TheJUMP, an online journal dedicated to publishing excellent digital and multimedial projects created by undergraduates. TheJUMP also serves as a pedagogical resource for teachers working with (or wanting to work with) "new media."
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Video/Games
Over the past decade, video-game players, critics, fans, and creators have integrated games and digital video in a variety of remarkably inventive ways. Video/Games will build upon this inventiveness, exploring the ways that digital video can function in tandem with video games in order to advance and contribute to rhetoric and writing pedagogy and scholarship.
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viz.
This project’s members will join the DWRL’s award-winning visual rhetoric research and publishing project, viz. This distinguished site ranks among the most widely-read of all publications produced at UT and won the Kairos 2010 John Lovas Memorial Weblog Award. During the 2013- 2014 academic year, the site averaged nearly 14,000 page views per month.
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Zeugma
This year, group members will produce the third season of Zeugma, an audio podcast spotlighting various intersections of rhetoric and technology. The first two seasons of Zeugma provide a framework for the series' identity and direction. The 2014-15 group will continue to develop Zeugma’s style and content while highlighting its identity as a rhetoric and technology podcast.
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