Keeping Track of DMAC


Visualizing Influence Across Space and Time


Trey Conatser

introduction method analysis i analysis ii maps conclusion appendices

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participating institutions by number of participating years and number of pariticpants


The following map plots data points for 117 home institutions and may take a minute to load. The circle size corresponds to the number of years that a home institution has sent participants to DMAC, and the circle color corresponds to the number of participants that a home institution has sent to DMAC (see the color key). Hover over data points for more information (dense clusters reveal a magnified view). For the most part, the number of years and number of participants maintain a somewhat linear relationship, indicating that home institutions prefer to send one or two people at a time to DMAC. Funding presents the most obvious explanation for this pattern with a notable exception at Kennesaw State University, which sent 6 participants to the 2006 DMAC Institute. The relationship between years and numbers of attendance also suggests the pace of institutional change with respect to the integration of digital media amd multimodal composition in broader departmental contexts. In other words, incremental attendance may indicate institutional support for individual initiatives, while large-scale attendance may indicate institutional or administrative initiatives. Kennesaw State's 6-person cohort, for example, was arranged by their Director of Composition, and the University of Louisville's 4-person cohort in 2014 was arranged by their own Director of Composition (as part of an initiative to develop an online publication venue for undergraduate work).

circle size: number of participating years | circle color: number of participants



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The Ohio State University (67 participants, 9 years) has been excluded from this data set to avoid an unbalanced scale. The American University of Cairo (1 participant, 1 year) has also been excluded because the map features only one region: in this case, the United States. One participant is not included due to a lack of institutional affiliation at the time of DMAC attendance.