Moving from site to presence with a writing program's online identity

This report explores the activity of a graduate "Digital Rhetoric" class that was largely responsible for the redesign of a stand-alone writing program's institutional website and its migration to a new, institutionally-mandated content management system. Despite notable successes, the class-based project failed to take into account the complex socio-technical networks that inform institutional websites. Building on these findings, the project continues --- not just to improve the website, but to map a "presence" for the department that is both distributed across multiple online publishing platforms and embedded in teaching and research within the program.