This webtext invites audiences to engage with Conference Creatures, an experiment in feminist new materialist praxis in which the authors create and distribute crochet creatures at academic conferences. Through photos, videos, and interactive elements, we demonstrate how Conference Creatures enacts non-extractive forms of networking that move our professional spaces toward relational praxes of belonging in academia, particularly for graduate students and junior scholars.

In this webtext, I develop an in situ approach for the rhetorical study of large-scale social media data. Grounding this in situ methodology in rhetoric and feminist critiques of data and visualization, this webtext models techniques and strategies for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing Twitter data.

The comments sections below online news articles are popularly regarded as hostile—but many scholars see comments sections as spaces that expand democratic discourse. This webtext complicates the tension between these two interpretations of the comments sections by examining women’s rhetorical strategies in response to gendered hostility that accompany articles covering feminism and women’s issues.

In this webtext, Hidalgo and Grimes respond to Kristine Blair’s call to make online spaces more hospitable to women’s social professional and political goals by developing six social media guidelines rooted in feminism. They argue that feminism provides key insights on how to create online communication styles that foster positive and productive interactions.

Using a mix of archival footage, music, spoken word performance and voiceover, this video is a direct address to the field on a rarely considered subject: queer female masculinity.

Gendered appearance inWorld of Warcraftis of particular interest because it seems to infiltrate interactions between individuals without serving a functional purpose within the game itself. It provides an opportunity to look at avatar choice in environments that have a primary purpose aside from existing as an arena for creating identity, and possibly the opportunity to uncover some new insight into why individuals select avatar gender the way they do.