It is with both celebration and sadness that we announce that the Social Media Collective, our research team of critical, humanistic social sciences at Microsoft Research’s New England lab, is comi…

May 12, 2026 Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective May 7, 2026, will long be remembered beyond the end of this spring semester. Not because of any major breakthrough in scientific discovery or even…

CFP: “Pandemic PhDs and the Possible Futures of Rhetoric & Writing” Please consider submitting a proposal to a Cs roundtable about experiences of “pandemic PhDs” in rhetoric & writing studies. I hope...

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Eloquentia perfecta was a cornerstone of early Jesuit rhetorical education, which Gannett and Brereton tell us was unique in that it “joined sacred rhetoric with civic rhetoric and action for the p…

Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.

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