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Understanding Digital Privacy During Cybersecurity Awareness Month
By Michele Hearn, DRPC Graduate Assistant Researcher The mission of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM), a collaboration between the government and private industry, is held every October to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and to empower everyone to protect their personal data from digital forms of crime. The theme for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023…
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Designing Privacy-Surveillance Rhetorics
Charles Woods here. In the Spring of 2020, I launched “Rhetorics of Big Data,” an innovative, interdisciplinary writing course available in the general education curriculum at Illinois State University (ISU). I was a graduate student working on my dissertation about digital privacy, data collection, and New Surveillance technologies, specifically direct-to-consumer DNA technology, like Ancestry or…
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Meet DRPC Graduate Research Assistant Michele Hearn
My name is Michele Hearn and I am from the awesome city of San Antonio, Texas. Currently, I serve as an English as a Second Language (ESL) coordinator in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. My educational journey began at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, where I earned my bachelor’s degree. Today, I have nearly…
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Becoming the Research: Surveillance and Respecting Student Privacy in the Writing Program
Charles Woods here. When I first wrote about the DRPC in my dissertation, I outlined a coalitional approach to researching and understanding privacy and surveillance in the field of rhetoric, composition, and technical communication. Mission accomplished! The DRPC Advisory Board includes a diverse arrangement of scholars who each approach privacy and surveillance as an aspect…
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Toward a Pedagogy of Democracy and Privacy
Author(s): Britt Beatte, Texas A&M University Commerce Martín Guerra-West, Texas A&M University Commerce Stormy Montes Texas A&M University Commerce Charles Woods, Texas A&M University Commerce Introduction “How can and have historically marginalized groups leveraged writing to enact systemic change? How have calls for global human rights played out locally?” These were the questions posed to…
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