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rhetoric phd candidate-- @utaustin | https://linktr.ee/trentwintermeier
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📣We're hiring! The Research Portfolio Lead will embed oversight and quality assurance into every stage of our work.

The role will ensure our research is conducted with integrity, and within a culture of care and support.

Deadline: 1st December 2025.

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/research...
Research Portfolio Lead
The Ada Lovelace Institute is recruiting a Research Portfolio Lead to ensure that research is conducted with integrity and within a culture of care.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
is there a hotline for being called "so unc" by a student before 9:30am on a wednesday
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Call for reviews! Kairos is actively seeking reviews of technologies (games, software, tools, etc.) and nonprint and print texts. This list is not exhaustive, and we welcome the opportunity for inquiry.
October 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Tell all your friends. It's coming in June 2026.
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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"The impression that the internet is 'down' opens up moments for rhetorical action: to reconsider our dependency on platforms that require environmental injury, to create learning experiences beyond the centralization of our digital landscape," writes @trentwintermeier.bsky.social.
Where the Internet Goes When It’s Down — Civics of Technology
Today, we have a midweek blog post from Trent Wintermeier on a timely event Trent Wintermeier is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. His r...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
yay!!!!!
I don't have many professional goals. However, this was always at the top of my list. It is a dream come true. I'm incredibly thankful and fortunate to have the opportunity, responsibility, and honor to serve in this capacity.

Congrats to everyone who was elected! ❤️

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CCCC Elections - Conference on College Composition and Communication
2025 CCCC Election Results Assistant Chair Donnie Johnson Sackey, University of Texas at Austin CCCC Executive Committee: At-Large Members Antonio Byrd, University of Missouri–Kansas City Jason Tham, ...
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August 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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On Tuesday morning, DWRL ADs @hannahhopkins.bsky.social and @trentwintermeier.bsky.social led a workshop at the Seaholm Power Plant, which explored the scales required to investigate energy's contours and expose its capacities.
July 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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DFMI 2025: ENERGY - DAY 4

On Thursday, DFMI participants logged and introduced energy through cyanotyping. Check out what @martheawebber.bsky.social, @mez-rperez.bsky.social, and Jered Mabaquiao are working on!
July 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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July 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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DFMI 2025: ENERGY – DAY 2

Today we heard from our first speaker, @apasek.bsky.social. “Energy is the Raw Material of the Cloud” focused on mapping where data is housed, alongside discussion of local land use conflicts, wobbling climate pledges, and the utopian hopes for a digital future.

⚡️🖥️🛜🔌
July 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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This July 7th MeMerMo has paired up with the Digital Field Methods Institute at UT Austin to host a night of soundscapes crafted around the theme of energetic soundscapes – the acoustic reverberations, resonances, and traces of energy composing our fields.

All are invited to attend! See you there!
July 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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DFMI 2025: ENERGY kickoff begins at 1pm! Stay tuned for more updates from our online week.
June 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The fine folks of UT Austin's Digital Field Methods Institute are hosting me as a keynote this year. This means that I get the coolest mail! Y'all are setting quite the feast.
June 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I'm on the jury for this open call to fund works opposing tech fascism. Awards are between €1500 and € 7000. Applications due tomorrow!

error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...
Call For Projects — Error 406 Tech Fascism Not Acceptable
We are looking for 10 scores against tech fascism. Artists, curators, and collectives worldwide are invited to apply with project ideas that must be realized as a set of instructions, scores, how-tos,...
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June 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Digital humanists! JITP is seeking submissions for Issue 27 of the journal. Deadline is June 15.

Details here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...
May 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Out now!
The "Atlas of Spatial Figures" presents new spatial imaginaries to capture the complex realities of our world.
Through the interplay of analytical, narrative, and visual elements, it encourages readers to explore #sfb1265 research by thinking visually!
#OpenAccess⬇️
jovis.de/de/book/9783...
May 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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New blog post: Recognizing AI Hype Masquerading as Research (a reworking of my previous LinkedIn post) refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/r...
Recognizing AI Hype Masquerading as Research
Jennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University I recently posted to LinkedIn a critique of some AI hype masquerading as research, and I thought to do a blog post on this topic, in case it’s help…
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May 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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May 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio
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The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School
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May 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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New this week from the MIT Press 📚👇
February 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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My first solo-authored article is up now in RSQ! This piece was a dream to work on. I'm so humbled by the generosity of the RSQ reviewers and editors, and even more sure that my crackerjack home team of friends + colleagues is the best in the game. Check it out! bit.ly/hhopkinsrsq
A Sense of Direction: Rhetoric, Energy, and Infrastructure
This article argues for a sense of proprioception as a conceptual frame for how energy materializations tangle with digital infrastructure, suggesting terms through which rhetoricians might advance...
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February 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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My book is now out in the wild! I wish the timing of its release could have been different--things feel so dire right now--but, honestly, what I've written is more relevant than ever. I'd be honored if you'd snag a copy and/or request one for your library 🙂
www.uapress.ua.edu/978081732221...
February 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Now in NEH program guidelines, via @jacklynch000.bsky.social :
February 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Submissions are open for our online conference "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality" with great keynotes.

Please send in your abstracts by 28 Feb 2025.
We're very much looking forward to reading them.

🔗 hub.redico.eu/events/95/di...
February 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
students this semester are really excited about our collaborative spotify playlist... 19 of them submitted 62 SONGS
February 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM