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

#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.