Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
5 articlesFebruary 2022
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“ Editors’ Introduction: Finding Humanity and Community in Pandemic Scholarship ” | Jessica Pauszek & Steve Parks “Asian/American Movements Through the Pandemic and Through the Discipline Before, During, and After COVID-19” | Terese Guinsatao Monberg, Jennifer Sano-Franchini, and K. Hyoejin Yoon “Cultivating Empathy on the Eve of a Pandemic” | Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Tamara Dean, Rachel Alsbury, Julia Buskirk, Margot Higgins, Eloise Johnson, Sharon Koretskov, Brad Steinmetz, Emma Waldinger, Samuel Wood, Carl Zuleger “Rerouting Place in Community-Engaged Teaching: Lessons from the Spatial Disruption of COVID-19” | Charles N. Lesh & Kevin G. Smith “COVID-19, International Partnerships, and the Possibility of Equity: Enhancing Digital Literacy in Rural Nepal amid a Pandemic” | Sweta Baniya, Kylie Call, Ashley Brein, Ravi Kumar “More Than Paper Islands: The Pandemic Circuitry of Quaranzines” | Jason Luther “Community Literacy as Justice Entrepreneurship: Envisioning the Progressive Potential of Entrepreneurship in a Post-Covid Field” | Paul Feigenbaum, Ben Lauren, & Dànielle Nicole Devoss “Embracing Disruption: A Framework for Trauma-informed Reflective Pedagogy “ | Jennifer Eidum “ISU Quarantine Journal Project: Reflective Writing, Public Memory, and Community Building in Extraordinary Times” | Lesley Erin Bartlett and Laura Michael Brown “Writing Historical Fiction Online: Community Digital Literacies in Regional Australia” | Sophie Masson, Lynette Aspey, Ariella Van Luyn “Inclusive and Meaningful Considerations of Failure: A Review of Failure Pedagogies: Learning and Unlearning What It Means to Fail edited by Allison D. Carr and Laura R. Micciche” | Whitney Jordan Adams “Review: Rewriting Partnerships: Community Perspectives on Community-Based Learning by Rachael W. Shah” | Megan McCool Editorial Team Steve Parks & Jessica Pauszek | Co-Editors Heather Lang | Web Editor Trenton McKay Judson | Assistant Editor Romeo García | Book Review Editor Tori Scholz | Copy Editor
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COVID-19, International Partnerships, and the Possibility of Equity: Enhancing Digital Literacy in Rural Nepal amid a Pandemic ↗
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Abstract In this article, we share our reflections as a teacher, students, and community organization on establishing an international community partnership course that drew United States’ Virginia Tech University students into dialogue with the Nepal-based Code for Nepal (registered as a non-profit in the US), an organization that serves rural communities by enhancing digital literacy… Continue reading COVID-19, International Partnerships, and the Possibility of Equity: Enhancing Digital Literacy in Rural Nepal amid a Pandemic
October 2019
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Helping to Build Better Networks: Service-Learning Partnerships as Distributed Knowledge Work by Guiseppe Getto, Kendall Leon, and Jessica Getto-Rivait ↗
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Many community stakeholders are experiencing increased pressure to enter the digital arena in order to be heard by new audiences, but many such stakeholders lack the technical expertise to do so. To meet this demand, some service-learning teachers are turning to digital media production as a new method of service. This approach to a service-learning… Continue reading Helping to Build Better Networks: Service-Learning Partnerships as Distributed Knowledge Work by Guiseppe Getto, Kendall Leon, and Jessica Getto-Rivait
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Composing With Communities: Digital Collaboration in Community Engagements by Stacy Nall & Kathryn Trauth Taylor ↗
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Service-learning courses have typically encouraged students to write for or about communities. Such courses rarely involve students writing with the communities they serve, despite the growing number of opportunities for collaboration afforded by digital media. Scholarship on collaborative writing with communities in service-learning courses is scarce; research on collaboration using digital, multimodal texts is more… Continue reading Composing With Communities: Digital Collaboration in Community Engagements by Stacy Nall & Kathryn Trauth Taylor
September 2019
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This article investigates the parameters of civic engagement through digital writing. Specifically, it examines the differences between slacktivism and activism against changing citizenship styles and definitions of civic action. With the goal of rethinking the relationship between civics, digital technology, and slacktivism, it outlines a digital writing project that uses social networking technologies to enact… Continue reading Reshaping Slacktivist Rhetoric: Social Networking for Social Change by Joannah Portman-Daley