The two Blair pieces we read–McKee & Blair and Blair, Dietel-McLaughlin & Graupner Hurley–are most definitely in conversation together. One looks at literacy acquisition/sponsorship among older adults (with a specific focus on community based technology literacy programs) and the other looks at literacy acquisition/sponsorship among junior high females (through the Digital Mirror Camp). That is […]
In “Rhetorica Online: Feminist Research Practices in Cyberspace” Heidi A. McKee and James E. Porter take a close look at how feminist research principles may help inform ethical quandaries inherently embedded in online studies. To that end, they first examine whether informed consent is needed when referring to online publications such as blogs or forums; […]
Kathleen J. Ryan’s “Making Pathways: Inventing Textual Research Methods in Feminist Rhetorical Studies” focuses on how feminist pragmatic rhetoric can be a means to practicing textual research; specifically, she looks to offer a “pathway for practicing feminist textual research as a means of individual scholarly invention, and more broadly, disciplinary invention” (91). In “Rhetorics of […]
Though all three pieces I read for this week (I chose the Dolmage & Lewiecki-Wilson, Rawson, and Crawford chapters) were engaging and interesting, I’m going to focus primarily on Rawson’s “Queering Feminist Canonization.” And in the true spirit of blogging, I’m going to attempt to work through some problems and questions I had reading through […]