Digital Writing & Research Lab

Just a few more weeks until Digital Field Methods Institute 2023: LANDSCAPES. We're so excited for you to get to know our featured speakers, Dr. Ashanté Reese, Dr. Edgar Gómez Cruz, and Professor Jiabao Li. Get registered today! https://dfmi.dwrl.utexas.edu/

We're thrilled to share that registration for the Digital Field Methods Institute is open! This year's summer Digital Field Methods Institute explores digital methods for the study of landscapes: broadly construed, thoroughly contested, and infinitely iterated. Learn more and join us in July! https://dfmi.dwrl.utexas.edu/

Worried about Chat GPT in the classroom? Excited to teach with AI? Check out our very own Dr. Scott Graham in his talk "AI & Student Writing: Perils and Pedagogies." Sponsored by the DWRL and the Department of Rhetoric & Writing, this talk gives us some practical next steps and considerations for what AI does (and doesn't) mean for our classrooms.

AI & Student Writing: Perils and Pedagogies Dr. Scott Graham, associate professor in the Department of Rhetoric & Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, gives a talk about LLMs like ChatGPT and ...

Tomorrow at 2 pm CT on Zoom, Catherine Knight Steele joins us to talk about her new book, Back to Black Feminist Blogging: Rhetorical Principles of Digital Black Feminism. There's still time to register! https://bit.ly/30bfU3l [image: informational banner with photo of the author]

Catherine Knight Steele Back to Black Feminist Blogging: Rhetorical Principles of Digital Black Feminism

Explore how words from different languages are related with this etymological dataset http://etym.org

Check out DWRL alum Jake Cowan's article in the newest issue of Rhetoric Review

The Constitutive Rhetoric of Late Nationalism: Imagined Communities after the Digital Revolution (2021). The Constitutive Rhetoric of Late Nationalism: Imagined Communities after the Digital Revolution. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 183-197.

Animal rhetoric meets digital rhetoric?

Cornell's Elephant Listening Project using autonomous recording devices to capture and study forest elephant calls.

Eavesdropping on Elephants INFRASOUND - why it matters Infrasound is sound that is below the threshold of human hearing. The figure to the right shows the frequency (or tone) for average humans when they talk, compared to a forest elephant rumble. Humans with very good hearing can just barely detect sounds at 20 Hz, but par

Apr 12 at 12 pm CT: Don't miss out on Dr. Clay Spinuzzi's webinar on how to strategically use your time. Great for academics and industry alike!

Dr. Clay Spinuzzi's Webinar: Managing Commitments and Expectations Managing Commitments and Expectations: What to Do When There's Not Enough Hours in the Day Join HDO and Rhetoric & Writing Professor, Dr. Clay Spinuzzi, as he covers basic self-management strategies such as being deliberate about taking on commitments, scheduling tasks appropriately, retaining flexi...

If art can be tokenized, writing can't be far behind. What would it mean for an essay to be tokenized?

The Coming Era of Tokenized Essays Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.

Bring some color into your life with the DWRL's peep diorama contest! Submit your entry—representing a favorite tv or movie scene—to [email protected]—by April 10 for a chance to win some cash and some serious klout

Heads up policy/professional comm scholars! New dataset compiles official emails from every member of Congress

dcinbox.com

This month and next, a three-part speaker series about using podcasting to change the world—from within and outside the classroom.

Podcasting Toward Social Change: Sound-Based Pedagogy & Scholarship Series Join us for this three-part series, where practitioners, theorists, and pedagogues will talk about podcasting toward social change.