Author Archive for Kim De Vries

I've been teaching rhetoric and writing for about 15 years. My classes generally include undergraduate composition and graduate classes in rhetoric and/or teaching composition. I'm interested in teaching courses that explore rhetoric and issues of identity: gender, race/ethnicity, class, especially online. I also teach non-western rhetoric and am developing several courses in digital rhetoric and new media; I feel it is especially important to teach graduate students, future teachers, about these topics. My research interests include transnational literacies, comparative (and contrastive) rhetoric, new/digital media, online communities, and identity studies. Most recently I've been studying the institutionalization of new media in the Netherlands, particularly the impact of gender. If you visit my research blog and look at all the posts tagged book project, you should get a pretty clear picture.

Sample Proposals

Here are several proposals I have successfully submitted for conferences.  They may be helpful examples. Desire, Dissent and Differentiation: Sustaining Growth in Virtual Networks — New Network Theory 2008 Many if not all virtual communities have been spawned out of…

Viral Video

When people talk about viral videos, memes, and such, they mean videos or more generally ideas that spread (especially online) as if they have a life of their own.  This video by Anthropology professor Mike Wesch was originally put online…

Interesting and Useful Websites

There are any number of websites that might enrich our understanding of how technology, new/digital media, and the internet are affecting our lives.  Here are a few of them: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, from Frontline. According to…

Possible Tools

Social Bookmarking Tools These websites allow you to create online bookmarks that you can annotate, tag, share, and sync with your web browser.  Further and even more usefully, you can explore the webpages other people have also tagged; for example…