The more I've considered the implications of Gilyard's question, however, the more I've contemplated the role and work of online instructors of rhetoric and composition in producing civil rights act. Our and our students’ participation in civic literacy (if not civic activism) is removed from cameras and floats in an intangible medium. Of course, this access to information (and means of information dissemination) presents challenges and rewards. Knowledge must not conceal the grounds of its own foundations, Gilyard argued in the same presentation. But in this information age, where everyone sees and everyone knows, who sees and who knows?
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