CRDM Happenings

Apr 2, 2026

2026 CRDM Symposium: Circuit Breakers

Today’s digital world is built for smooth, automated control, driven by profit and colonial history. These systems often ignore the reality of the people who actually use them—those who have to fix, repurpose, or rebel against technology just to survive. Circuit Breakers is a call to action to dismantle these rigid structures together. This year’s…

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…

Header Image for Digits: Fingers, Numbers, Code

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…

Jun 6, 2024

CRDM at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference 2024

This year, CRDM was represented by several faculty and students at the 21st biennial Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Conference: "Just Rhetoric". The conference was held on May 23-26 in Denver, CO.

Jun 3, 2024

CRDM Alumni Spotlight: Cindy Rosenfeld

Name: Cynthia (Cindy) RosenfeldGraduating year: Graduated December 2022Title: Teaching Assistant Professor/Interim Director of Undergraduate Programs at North Carolina State UniversityResearch Interests: Environmental Communication, More-than-Human Ethics of Care, Worldbuilding Rhetorics, Communication Pedagogy In her own words: CRDM is a wonderfully interdisciplinary program. It was quite challenging while I was in the program to learn to recognize,…

Jan 1, 2024

2024 CRDM Symposium: Mobile Media, Self, and Society

The 2024 CRDM Research Symposium is partnering with the Networked Mobilities Lab (NML) Lecture Series this year. The theme of the symposium, "Mobile Media, Self, and Society", encourages us to consider the relationships between humanity, technology, and the spaces we occupy.

Nov 20, 2023

CRDM Students Awarded CHASS Mini-Grant

CRDM Students Megan Flannery, Maurika Smutherman, and Grace Wiedrich were awarded a mini-grant of $2,250 to fund their proposed workshop series. The series, composed of three different hour-long workshops, focus on activities instructors can use in their classrooms to include identity work in an effort to build a beloved community. The term “beloved community” comes…

Jan 1, 2023

2023 CRDM Symposium: Civic Engagement, Games, and the Smart City

The 13th annual CRDM Research Symposium will be held March 23rd, 2023, in the Caldwell Lounge. The theme for this year's symposium is "Civic Engagement, Games, and the Smart City".

Jan 1, 2022

2022 CRDM Symposium: Infrastructures and/as Anticolonialism

The aim of the 2022 CRDM Symposium (March 24-25) is to collectively envision the potential of infrastructures as sites of resistance against colonialism and settler capitalism.