I almost wish I hadn't edited this book so I could read it again for the first time because, dear LORDT, there's been few weeks in my career more taxing than this one (yes, I know it's only Tuesday). I need it now

Started watching the Time Bandits series (having been irredemably warped by watching the original film when I was..young-ish. Ok, not *that* young, but much younger than I am now), and it is really fantastic. Maybe later I'll say why.

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

The videos can be watched in any order and are intended for normal people, not experts -- there is so much confusion and misunderstanding out there. (For instance, I'm sending it to my students and non-academic friends). I've also included a very extensive reference list. Please share these widely!

A thread on ZEN AND SLOW GAMES (MIT Press, 2026)

For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

I'm pleased to announce the release of issue 30.2 of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric Technology, and Pedagogy. kairos.technorhetoric.net We'll be celebrating our thirtieth anniversary in the fall (how is it possible that I've been an editor for 30 years???)

From #MLA26 session on AI and the ‘typed self’ - Matthew Parfitt: GenAI is an answering machine, while humans *question* - we need to foreground teaching how to question (and sustain the questioning). Whole session has been fantastic.

@writerethink.bsky.social Just saw your recorded presentation for #MLA26 - really great examples and presentation and hope your call to focus on experience and intentionality when teaching writing gets wide circulation.

Useful: I’ve been looking for a good, plain-language source to help students understand that artificial neural nets are very limited representations of actual human brains news.mit.edu/2022/neural-...

Happy to announce the publication of _Composing with AI_, a new open access online anthology on teaching writing with and in the age of AI. Co-edited with my colleague Nupoor Ranade (CMU), this collection’s authors look at a broad range of issues and applications: ccdigitalpress.org/composing-wi...

UKSG webinar: The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? Feb 05, 2026, noon (GMT) | UKSG https://www.uksg.org/events/free-uksg-webinar-the-open-access-ai-conundrum-does-free-to-read-mean-free-to-train/

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

It's publication day! (In the UK.) @politybooks.bsky.social www.wiley.com/en-ae/Gender...

I've heard this 1,000 times a day. I believed it until 2 weeks ago. Then I learned that the 2026 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Jobs Outlook report found that only 10% of job ads ask for AI skills. Tell your friends.

This is starting in two hours and it's going to be so cool! Join us! issues.org/event/what-i...

Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer: Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Center for Humanities Research at GMU is hosting a hybrid book talk for my monograph Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy this upcoming Friday from noon-12:30. Register at this link: chr.gmu.edu/events/17595

📢 THIS FRIDAY - November 21 @ 2PM ET 📢 ⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻 TreaAndrea Russworm talks about what the Black arts tradition can tell us about The Sims, broken systems, and utopian possibilities⚒️🏠🧑🏿💻 🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/DDUsvVm 💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE

The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Welcome back to #FeministFridays! The Fall 2025 issue of Peitho is live, and editors Jamie White-Farnham, Bryna Siegel Finer, and Cathryn Molloy are launching two new submission formats: 🌈 Overlays & 🌟 Pedagogies Read on for details! wacclearinghouse.org/peitho/

Get Enduring Digital Damage and use the discount code "DAMAGE" to get 30% off: www.uapress.ua.edu/97808.../end...

Best day of the year: getting author copies of my new book, “The Data Management Workbook.” It comes out on December 2 from @pelagic.bsky.social and is already available for pre-order.

Tell all your friends. It's coming in June 2026.

NEW (FREE) GAME FORTHCOMING: SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book. In SPINE, you are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative…

It’s time to separate language from the journey of thought: a reflection on dyscalculia and rejecting AI as a “model of the human mind.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/untitled-2/?...

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