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🚨Couldn't make it to the 2026 Computers & Writing Conference? No problem! We are bringing the conference to you on The Big Rhetorical Podcast! Episode 201 is Live From the Computers & Writing Conference 2026!

🔑: Computers, Writing, Conference, Academics, Interviews.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/yPaQo

🎙️The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website https://lnkd.in/dxZz9rEm and follow us on social media

The Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective is excited to welcome two new Advisory Board members. We look forward to highlighting each of them this week during in coordination with the Computers and Writing Conference at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.

Our second new DRPC Advisory Board member is Dr. Emily Gillo! Dr. Gillo is an instructor/coordinator in the English Department, serving as the departmental Marketing Manager and Event Coordinator. She maintains the department website, creates digital and print marketing materials, and manages all social media accounts. In addition to her marketing service, Dr. Gillo also teaches freshman composition and undergraduate technical communication courses online and currently serves as a member of the English Online Programs Committee and as a co-lead for UM3D's AI Community of Practice. Her research interests focus on the intersections of digital literacy and literacy crises in writing studies, online writing instruction, and EdTech surveillance studies.

For more information visit www.drpcollective.com.

The Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective is excited to welcome two new Advisory Board members. We look forward to highlighting each of them this week during in coordination with the Computers and Writing Conference at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.

Our first new DRPC Advisory Board member is Dr. Sarah Young! Dr. Young researches surveillance, technology, communication, digitalization, policy, justice and ethics, especially for systems and in the workplace. She spent over 11 years as an investigator doing national security and public trust background investigations in the United States. She is currently a social impacts research fellow with the Center for Quantum Networks, drawing on surveillance studies scholarship and practices of technical communication to identify and discuss spaces of visibility and surveillance in an emerging quantum network.

For more information visit www.drpcollective.com.

🚨Episode 200 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is live! Season 13 concludes with an engaging, timely, and celebratory interview with Dr. Dustin Edwards as he discusses his book, "Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival."

🔑: Digital Rhetoric, Environmental Rhetoric, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Storytelling.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/e4XyZ

⚡️Dr. Dustin Edwards is associate professor of rhetoric and writing studies at San Diego State University. His work has been published in journals such as Computers and Composition, Enculturation, Rhetoric Review, and Present Tense, and his book, "Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings and Planetary Survival," is available now from the University of Alabama Press.

🎙️The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website https://lnkd.in/dxZz9rEm and follow us on social media

🚨Episode 199 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is live now! Don't miss an engaging conversation with one of the good ones, Dr. Nathan R. Johnson. We discuss his book, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age," which is available from the University of Alabama Press.

🔑: Information Technologies, Memory, Infrastructure, Labor, Library.

🔗: https://tinyurl.com/2t957wfh

⚡️Dr. Nathan R. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of South Florida who studies the history of information technologies, focusing on how infrastructure and labor shape large technical systems. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Information School, developing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates science and technology studies (STS), critical information theory, and media studies.

🎙️The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website https://lnkd.in/dxZz9rEm and follow us on social media See less

🚨New DRPC Blog Post🚨

⚡️Pulling the Plug: Instructure/Canvas Breach, Educational Data Privacy, and a Call to Reduce/Rethink/Refuse LMS Use ⚡️

🔗: https://shorturl.at/48uru

"This may be difficult, especially since LMSs are often mandated and, for-better-or-worse, do provide a level of centralized exchange that makes teaching and learning more convenient, but maybe it's time to reduce and rethink (at minimum) or perhaps even refuse LMS use. Our dependence on data creating and data collecting technologies in education makes classrooms vulnerable. Canvas––just one of many Ed Tech companies–– has exclusive multi-year multi-million contracts with schools, universities, and even entire states. If this company can be hacked and its data archives ransomed, what confidence can we have with these technologies as tools for learning? Recent moves to reduce Ed Tech use and refuse GenAI integrations demonstrate opportunities for, if not disentangling ourselves completely, at least not adding to and simplifying the techno-infrastructures that hold up contemporary education. How to move forward is a pedagogical choice every teacher will need to make based on their specific institutional, technological, and ethical contexts."

📌Episode 198 of TBR Podcast is live now! Don't miss Drs. Kirsti Cole and Sarah Henderson Lee discuss their new book, "Reimagining Graduate Education in Writing Studies." Just a few episodes left in Season 13!

🔑Graduate Education, Writing Studies, Program Administration, Sustainability, Equitable

🔗https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/IL2d8vdy32b

⚡️Kirsti Cole is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University. Sarah Henderson Lee is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Their book, "Reimagining Graduate Education in Writing Studies," explores the development of sustainable, equitable, and interdisciplinary graduate programs within Writing Studies.

🎙️The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website https://lnkd.in/dxZz9rEm and follow us on social media

📌Episode 197 of TBR Podcast is live now! Don't miss the brilliant Dr. Tiffani Tijerina discuss her research agenda and innovative approach to teaching technical communication as a part of TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Series. We are one step closer to episode 200!

🔑 Technical Communication, Open Pedagogy, Open Access, Digital Publishing, Writing.

🔗https://shorturl.at/7uLdA

⚡️Dr. Tiffani Tijerina is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her teaching and research focus on open educational resources, open pedagogy, instructional design, alternative grading, social justice, design justice, emerging technology, AI writing, and the intersections of all.

🎙️The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website https://lnkd.in/dxZz9rEm and follow us on social media

▶️ Episode 196 of TBR Podcast is live now featuring the team behind the First-Year Composition Archive.

🔑: Teaching, Composition, Course Design, Pedagogy, Archives

🔗: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/lMwcDyWrG2b

The First-Year Composition Archive serves as a resource for scholars and teachers who seek to learn more about trends in first-year writing, the history of the discipline, teaching resources, pedagogical developments, and much more. To extend the research mission of this archive, we hope to receive syllabi, assignments, and course materials from your earliest years in the profession to your current courses.

🎙️The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website https://lnkd.in/dxZz9rEm and follow us on social media

▶️ Episode 195 of TBR Podcast is live now featuring Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad discussing her new book, "Searching for Solidarity: Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements."

🔑: Solidarity, Syria, Social Movements, Political Rhetoric, Cultural Studies

🔗: https://tinyurl.com/3dbnww6r

🎙️The Big Rhetorical Podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles Woods, Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. The Big Rhetorical Podcast has garnered the Kairos Service Award, John Lovas Award, Computers & Composition Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship, and the CCCC Technology Innovator Award. Reach out to [email protected] if you would like to be featured on The Big Rhetorical Podcast. Visit our website https://lnkd.in/dxZz9rEm and follow us on social media