It's Peer Review Week, so what better time than to get on my soapbox about OPEN peer review?? @kairosdoug.bsky.social and I have a series of posts, with the first one out today—a brief introduction to open peer review models: digital-scholarship.ghost.io/open-peer-re...

Another fun post by @kairosdoug.bsky.social and I on #openpeerreview for #peerreviewweek digital-scholarship.ghost.io/peer-review-...

"Students like the LLM feedback because it helps them get done faster." Not always a good thing! One of my most effective teaching moves was to withhold evaluation and substitute inquiry by asking students questions in response to their questions. Learning isn't always efficient.

Vol. 3, Issue 2 of TCSJ is now live. This has been a horrible week for higher education, so I’m glad to have something positive to share. techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tcsj

I posted my script, my slides, and photos of — along with a full bibliography of — all the library materials we featured in the event!!

New book; free download! Artificial Infrastructures investigates how AI reshapes technical & professional writing across high-technology industries. Salvo & Sherrill interview 3 experts to historicize, analyze, and contextualize the emergent disruptive technology wac.colostate.edu/books/practi...

My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies. Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

It’s a lotus bloom kind of day here.

It took almost a decade but I have finally managed to sneak it and pay for a meal with friends in China (also was one of the best meals I’ve had here, and that’s saying something indeed.)

I’m so excited that my book is now out in the world. It pulls together my scholarly training in African American literature with my turn to digital humanities. I’ve also published the complete data dataset of 100 years of AFAM and am lit anthologies that is the backbone of the book.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I am currently at a wine and potato chip pairing/tasting.

📣We have a new #bookreview for you! Check out this review by Tommie Leigh Mcphetridge to see how #videogames, #walking, and #storytelling come together in Wandering Games! 🔗https://constell8cr.com/issue-8/walking-toward-meaning-a-review-of-melissa-kagens-wandering-games/ #TeamRhetoric #RhetComp

DRC Blog Carnival 23: Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies has begun! The inaugural post, "The Circulation of Rhetoric from Stall Walls to Social Feeds: Notes from the Analog Underground" is from Jonathan Marine. www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/09/t...

#TeamRhetoric ! New publication: In "A Data Feminist Pedagogy for Composing the Rhetorical Life of Statistics," I theorize and report on teaching quantitative writing for public audiences in contexts of activism/advocacy: compositionforum.com/issue/55/dat...

Back in 2021, at the Computer Mouse conference, I shared a talk about the 🐭MOUSE PAD🏡 — from animated mouse houses in Beatrix Potter, to the lab mouse's grim quarters, to those neoprene placemats on which our digital appendages sit. I never shared this rsch beyond that event, so I posted it here:

At Kairos, we have a 7-stage copyediting process, and not one of those stages would benefit from using AI instead of trained copyeditors. As I've been teaching editing courses & brining in AI-as-editor examples and exercises, it's clear that even the best gen AI apps are detrimental to the process.

Enjoyable, light-hearted video with Bhangra music Dance Your PhD 2025: "Plant Vaccination“ by Priya Reddy. Winner of the ‘Biology’ category.

#cwcon25 Session F- Ashley Beardsley shows us how Junior League cookbooks operate as memory texts Jason Palmer is working to craft a definition of ‘AI Rhetoric’ (different from rhetoric of AI or rhetoric with AI) Antonio Hamilton considers the role of invention for genAI composing.

#cwcon25 morning keynote from MSU alum Jen Sano-Franchini, talking about AI, data centers, and critical interface analysis. Will be talking about refusal.blog which is a great resource for folks who take a critical stance toward genAI.

#cwcon25 Session E Adrienne Raw - weaponized incompetence as mobile game ad strategy. (This time really not about DnD). Ads often show the player failing at easy tasks (so viewer says ‘I could do better’)

#cwcon25 Session E Alex Mashny and Adam Strantz: platform decay traced through online fan communities on Reddit

#cwcon25 Session E Mandy Moore: distributed cognition in D&D, analyzing ‘actual plays’ as texts 1/4

#cwcon25 Session D - Madison Bradburn: discourse analysis of fan communities being polarized through arguments about shipping (pro- and anti-). JA Siegel: deep dive into transmaxxing - the idea that incels should just give up being men as they will have access to personal gain by transitioning.

#cwcon25 Session C - Lora Anderson: provides framework for designing prompting assignments and considering AI as a collaborator Chenxing Xie: shares genAI supported website audit assignment 2/2

#cwcon25 Session C - Christa Albrecht-Crane: had students record a think-aloud protocol while prompting genAI and coded/analyzed the transcripts Yeqing Kong: described an algorithmic audit assignment; notes 2023 Algorithmic Accountability Act 1/2

#cwcon Tham: timescapes of writing with AI: compression of drafting time; expansion of evaluation time; elimination of incubation time; fragmentation of writing time

#cwcon Jason Tham takes a balanced view of AI use in teaching writing but ultimately asks whose time has been saved by AI efficiency (if any has been saved at all) - and notes AI’s erasure of labor. Writing takes time (and should), and reducing time reduces quality.

#cwcon Session B - Brandy Dieterle: queer and bi identity on discord Caitlin Allen Burns: women's embodied experiences and expertise around chronic illness Heather Listhartke: challenges of accessibility across identity in VR spaces

#cwcon Session A - Ali Alelem: digital storytelling and rhetorical agency Jill Chihak: motion simulators (amusement park rides) and rhetorical movement Alexandra Gunnell: visualizations of embodied experiences of chronic illness (the body as a multimodal composition space).

At #cwcon - Computers and Writing 2025 at UGA. I'm attending panels on embodiment and materiality (although AI is probably unavoidable, I haven't seen any AI talk in the first two sessions!).

All grades are in! So have some flowers from our garden.

Roses have started to bloom! Now all the different flower scents are mingling and the front and back yard smell fantastic.

A Facebook post unearthed a legend: the lost MingKwai typewriter, designed by Lin Yutang in 1947, resurfaced in a NY basement. Hailed as a marvel yet dismissed as a failure, its rediscovery revives debates over innovation, identity, and what it means to be Chinese, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

In the midst of everything, the spring flowers yet bloom.

Bill Hart-Davidson Memorial Scholarship give.msu.edu?sid=18633&fb...

I12 - a history and report of research on the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (UMich). www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org #4C25

H4 Daniel Hocutt introduces the Digital Life Institute and its work on digital literacy #4C25

H4 Jialei Jiang showed us a number of cool multimodal projects created with the assistance of AI, using a framework of invention -> design -> revise #4C25

H4 - from a large multi-institution survey: 14% of respondents reported being incorrectly accused of using genAI (mostly by Turnitin). That’s a lot of damage being done to students. #4C25

H4-on Data-driven research on genAI and teaching writing has a great lineup, looking forward to it but also wish I had a seat (this room needs about 20 more chairs…seems to be a theme as all the AI sessions are in small rooms) #4C25

In D27, Mandy Olejnik presented our challenges with AI in a historical context of always having to shape public perceptions of what constitutes ‘good’ writing (and now also arguing that the key qualities require human agency). #4C25

Just a quick shout-out of thanks to @voleuseck.bsky.social for the detailed reports of #4C25 here on the blue skies!

At C26 on Wikipedia in the age of AI and now I’m thinking I should go back to having. Wikipedia editing assignment (which I last assigned in 2006); lots more scaffolding available now) #4C25

In session B2 on Critical Language Awareness as a response to gen AI in writing classes and writing centers #4C25. Really smart, nuanced approaches with helpful pedagogical practices.

Time for @jsanofranchini.bsky.social's talk! And here it is: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #4C25

At the Research Network Forum at #4C25 - it’s always so great to hear (and hopefully provide good advice) to folks working on all sorts of cool projects

Hi everyone preparing for #4C25 ! Here’s the “Composing Access” website with all kinds of resources and downloadable media for making your presentation more accessible (including comics!) u.osu.edu/composingacc... Also includes links to this year’s access guide and a history of CCCC access work!

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Excited to see my next monograph (a return to narrative game studies!) with an amazing cover and a pending release date this year - check out *Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope?* in the new Replay series at University of Chicago Press: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...