Inspired by games such as the various Tycoon titles, DESPAIR (Department of English Simulated Problematic Adjunct Instructor Relations) puts players in the role of a Writing Program Administrator (WPA) in order to shed light on the plight of contingent labor in the writing classroom and within the larger institutional framework. The game's alternate mode, UPLIFT (Utopian Potential for Life with Instructors at Full Time), provides an example of a way academics might use simulation games to advocate for change in an affirmative manner by demonstrating how alternatives might work.

Grounded in a series of local accounts, this webtext examines complex issues facing pre-tenure writing program administrators as they enter the professoriate while negotiating hybrid identities as teachers, researchers, and administrators. Developed out of a roundtable at the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication, the project also emphasizes contemporary alternatives to roundtable design that regard openness, accessibility, and persistence as priorities for delivery and circulation.

In a remix of the infamous Hitler meme—taking a scene from the movie,Downfall(2005), and adding subtitles appropriate (in this case) forKairosreaders—theamishaugur makes a pointed, humorous (to some) commentary on the status of multimodal composition scholars in English departments during job market season. (See the Logging On column for more discussion about this piece.)