WIDE
Writing, Information, and Digital Experience (WIDE) Research is a digital lab where faculty, specialists, and students work together on wicked problems that can lead to just futures. Our researchers have won many of the highest awards in our field, including the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGDOC Diana Award, the CCCC 2015 Technology Innovator Award, SIGDOC student research competition awards, UURAF student awards, and additional awards for faculty research. Members of WIDE have led major organizations in our field, contributed as board members and editors to our journals, and advised industry partners.
In addition to faculty research infastructure, WIDE’s mission is to support student learning. In order to be successful in their careers, our students need to gain hands-on experience as researchers and practitioners. This work includes learning how to conduct ethical empirical research, manage projects, develop grants, design digital experiences, and write for publications.
Accessibility by Design.
Digital Rhetoric.
Disaster Communication.
Experience Architecture.
Fan Studies.
Multimodal Pedagogies.
Participatory Memory.
Writing Center Theory and Practice.
AXEL.
PARS.
Red Cedar Writing Project Histories. Creating a digital archive of the past 30+ years of the Red Cedar Writing Project to include news, student writings, reports, grants, and more.
Returning to Ourselves.
Sherlockians. Researching the experiences of fans and scholars of the Great Detective. Projects include Sherlockian.net, ASHsherlockian.org, and Watson’s Tin Box.
PARS Archive.
Participatory Memory: Fandom Experiences Across Time and Space. This digital book is the culmination of years of research focused on participatory memory in physical spaces, examining how fans engage with their fandom and each other. Participatory memory describes how people memorialize, celebrate, and reflect in physical and digital spaces. It seeks to examine the writing, making, crafting, etc. that takes place in these spaces by fans for fans. Exploring the social, political, and economic implications of participatory memory, this book highlights this fan work through images, sounds, and video. By understanding the ways in which fans come together in spaces of memory, we can learn how to negotiate participation to create better fan experiences, curate shared fan/producer materials, encourage this work, and help producers connect with their audiences in this multibillion dollar industry.