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2025 CRDM Symposium: Digits – Fingers, Numbers, Code

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T. R. Merchant-Knudsen is a film and media scholar focused on forms of visual ambience, global histories of moving images, animation, and sensorial experiences in spectacular media environments. Currently, Merchant-Knudsen is finishing their Ph.D. at North Carolina State University in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media where they also instruct courses on film studies, rhetoric, and digital media making. They have a Master’s in English with a concentration in Film Studies from North Carolina State University (2020), and double Bachelor’s degrees in English Literature and Film Studies from University of North Carolina – Wilmington (2016). MK is also an adjunct instructor at Wake Technical Community College and former Image Editor for Film International.

Bryce Stout gives a presentation about the progress of their dissertation

Nov 14, 2025

CRDM Short Circuits: Gaming and Data

We want to thank our first presenters and all who attended our first two Short Circuits conversations. It was a great success, and it is all due to those who attended and plugged into a lively conversation about the current work in our community.  On Thursday, November 13th, at 3:00 we hosted our second round of presenters for the Fall Semester…
David Reider demo-ing his latest research

Oct 30, 2025

Inaugural CRDM Short Circuits: Coding Languages

We extended a warm invitation to all CRDM members, faculty and students, to our inaugural Short Circuits event on October 29th in the Circuit Studio, located in Rick’s Annex. Short Circuits is an informal series of short talks and discussions where CRDM students, faculty, and friends can present drafts, brainstorms, or experiments in a relaxed, low-pressure setting. Our first presenters were Dr. David Rieder (ENG…
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Jan 14, 2025

2025 CRDM Symposium: Digits – Fingers, Numbers, Code

The 2025 CRDM Symposium seeks to explore the many meanings of “digits” and how they intersect with communication, rhetoric, and digital media. The presentations of the symposium focus on the embodied significance of digits (fingers, hands) in communication, the role of numerical data and statistics in shaping rhetoric, and the power of code in shaping digital communication…