The Thing about Networks, or Big Data Rhetoric
“Big data.” It’s in the air. For instance, IBM claims that ”[e]very day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data—so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years...
View ArticleDefining Digital Rhetoric with 20-20 Hindsight
Like Doug Eyman, who began this blog carnival a few weeks ago, I started trying to define the phrase “digital rhetoric” about a decade ago. There were already many conversations going on in which the...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name? The Anatomy of Defining New / Multi / Modal / Digital /...
The Digital Rhetoric Collaborative got its start back in May with a Blog Carnival post from Doug Eyman (and others since then) providing his perspective on the meaning of “digital rhetoric.” Eyman...
View ArticleDRC Blog Carnival: Back-to-School Edition!
Photo by Señor Codo, CC BY-SA 2.0 With the colder winds starting to blow (here in Michigan, at least) and school back in session for a few weeks now, it seems high time to launch the “back-to-school...
View ArticleDesign Writing and Marketing Fictions
Pinterest. Instagram. Steampunk. Cosplay. Food trucks. Mumblecore. Anti-perfumes. World of Warcraft. Plus, typography goes shopping; Apple and value; True Blood and queer brand communities; and...
View ArticleMy MOOC-y and SOCC-y Summer
“What cool digirhet projects” have I been working on during “summer vacation?” Well, I don’t think this is exactly digital rhetoric or cool or even that “new,” but I have been working and thinking a...
View ArticleSlow Time
This summer I taught the novel Watchmen, which amazes me with its narrative loops and movements through history. I found myself thinking about our experiences of time. I was also lucky enough to have...
View ArticleDRC goes to WIDE-EMU 2012
We’re excited at the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative to be gearing up for WIDE-EMU next weekend (Oct 20) in E. Lansing. The input we received at last year’s unconference at EMU in Ypsi was crucial to...
View ArticleCode? Not So Much
I dedicate this post to all those digital rhetoricians out there who made it a goal to “learn to code” this Summer. I hope you did, and I hope you had fun. But I also hope you get back to doing your...
View ArticleThe Revision Project: A Summer of DigiRhet Drafting
What did you do this summer? Memories of sitting in school on the first day, recounting the summer activities for our teachers in essays about experiences that couldn’t possibly be narrated in the...
View ArticleFall Blog Carnival Call for Posts: Dealing with Data, Digitally
Tools abound these days to streamline (or, sometimes, complicate) the collection and analysis of data. Some digital data tools even make the impossible possible, allowing us to visualize phenomena we...
View ArticleDigital Data in a Networked World
Welcome to the first post of the DRC Fall Blog Carnival! We are looking forward to many interesting posts about the creative things people are doing with digital and digitized data in the humanities...
View ArticleThe Right Tools for the Job – Choosing a Qualitative Data Analysis Program...
My dissertation is the first project I’ve done involving qualitative analysis of data – specifically, the coding and analysis of 30+ student interviews. So when it came time to choose a program with...
View ArticleCorpus linguistic analysis of written language: How to use “I” and more
Thanks to freeware toolkits like AntConc, and searchable databases like the Corpus of Contemporary American English, or COCA, it is easier than ever to analyze electronically-available texts for...
View ArticleCollecting Audio-Visual Data, Composing Audio-Visual Arguments
A big part of my research is the collection and use of audio-visual (AV) qualitative data. I use video cameras and microphones to gather information about participants and their experiences, and I use...
View ArticleFrom Big Data to Boutique Data
This blog post is a small excerpt from a chapter co-authored by Ball, Tarez Samra Graban, and Michelle Sidler on open data and rhetoric.io and submitted to Networked Humanities (eds. McNely &...
View ArticleVisualizing Data through Infographics
Progressing through the Information Age, Big Data has come to the attention of many in the humanities, at times even eclipsing the importance of other forms of data (Cheryl Ball, Tarez Samra Graban,...
View ArticleProcess and Processing: Methods for Discovery and Representation in Data
This semester I am teaching a graduate seminar, Techniques in Information Visualization, and although my classes never enroll only cinema students, this one includes graduate students from five...
View ArticleVisualization as sensemaking: experiences from approaching a large dataset
As a designer, I have previously carried out a range of projects that have involved some sort of data visualization. However, most often the clients I have been working with have given me relatively...
View ArticleHey, We’re Trending! But, What are We Saying?: Analyzing Digital...
In Liza Pott’s Digital Rhetoric class at Michigan State University, we were assigned a “Tracing Digital Events” project, with the objective of learning “how to trace events in digital spaces,...
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