Throughout its history the Digital Writing and Research Lab has maintained a commitment to digital pedagogy. In his history of the early days of the lab, John Slatin mentions one of our first projects, a digital archive.
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Infographic: Vale, Zeugma
With the changes to the DWRL’s structure and operations this year, we’re bidding farewell to our previous publications. Zeugma was made between 2012 and 2015, and over its run tackled a broad range of current issues around rhetoric and technology. While we are not currently planning an ongoing podcast series like Zeugma, lab members will […]
Letter From the Director
We’re celebrating our thirtieth anniversary this year! The Computer Research Lab (CRL), as it was initially called, was informally founded in 1985 when Professor Jerry Bump and a handful of extremely industrious graduate students armed themselves with power drills, duct tape, and a vision: by linking a makeshift “computation lab” with a classroom, they aimed […]
Introducing Our Fall 2015 Research Priorities: Activist Twitter and Race
The Research Priority for Social Media in 2015 is ‘Activist Twitter and Race’. Twitter has emerged as a significant site for activism and activist rhetorics, and it has been an especially important nexus of Black activism. Hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, #Ferguson, #IfIDieInPoliceCustody, and #ICantBreathe, among others, have drawn attention to stories and social inequities that traditional […]
Fall 2015 DWRL Staff Orientation
Welcome Fall 2015 Staff Members!
Resources for Instructors
Are you an instructor looking for resources about digital pedagogy? Check out our retired Lesson Plan site, and our retired Blogging Pedagogy site. Make sure you check back soon for more content related to digital pedagogies.
Introducing Our Research Areas: Social Media
In recent years, social media websites have become increasingly popular venues for rhetorical exchange as well as social and political engagement. They have also attracted the attention of teachers and researchers interested in writing in digital environments.
Introducing Our Research Areas: Multimodal Writing
The Multimodal Writing research area is founded on the assumption that all writing is already multimodal—even traditional or analog writing. “Multimodal writing,” then, is not simply the practice of remediating text or supplementing it with additional media; rather, the DWRL sees “multimodality” as being at the core of writing itself—a potential site of interaction between […]
Introducing Our Research Areas: Games
Digital games are always laden with values: they make assumptions about players’ bodies and beliefs as well as race, gender, class, sexuality, and ability. Games invite their players to identify with these assumptions in order to succeed. But players can also resist a game’s procedural rhetorics, sometimes learning more from the resulting friction than from […]