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UT-Austin's site for exploring emerging digital literacies through writing, research, instruction, hardware, and theory.
In the mid-1980s, a group of English graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin started drilling holes in the wall. They ran cable that allowed the students to connect twelve computers, which Dr. Jerome Bump had obtained via a grant, to form a local area network. And thus the Computer Research Lab (CRL) was born. Located in the basement of UT’s undergraduate library, the CRL’s network—which predated the popularization of the Internet—made possible some of the first digitally networked writing classrooms. Grad students working in the CRL also developed software for writing teachers and students, with some CRL staffers eventually founding a software company called The Daedalus Group. John Slatin, the Lab’s first director, published an essay on the Lab’s history in Language Learning Online with the Daedalus Group. The CRL was renamed the Computer Writing and Research Lab in the 1990s, before finally becoming the Digital Writing and Research Lab in 2010. While the DWRL is still staffed by graduate students studying rhetoric and English, and while its main office is still located in the basement of UT’s former undergraduate library (now Flawn Academic Center), the projects that DWRL staffers have undertaken stretch far beyond software design. In the past 30 years, the DWRL has launched a range of influential and award-winning research projects, publications, and scholars.
05/20/2023
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/
04/06/2023
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/
03/13/2023
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 ...
11/11/2021
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
06/16/2021
Explore how words from different languages are related with this etymological dataset http://etym.org
06/09/2021
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.
04/15/2021
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
04/06/2021
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...
03/30/2021
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.
03/04/2021
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
02/03/2021
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.
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