Faculty and Staff

  • Professor

Education

  • Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from University of Arizona (2007)
  • M.A. in Composition from University of Missouri-St. Louis (2001)
  • B.A. in English from Maryville University (1998)

Selected Publications

Edited Collections

  • “Games in Technical Communication.” Special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly 25.3 (2016, Fall). Print. co-edited with Jennifer deWinter.

  • “Because Facebook: Digital Rhetoric/Social Media.” Special issue of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 19.3 (2015, May). Web. co-edited with Douglas Walls.

  • e-Dentity. Ed. Stephanie Vie. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2011.

Articles/Essays

Book Sections/Chapters

  • "Critical Literacies in Mobile Games: Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, and Games Analysis." Mobile Technologies and the Writing Classroom: Resources for Teachers. Ed. Claire Lutkewitte. National Council of Teachers of English, 2016. 82-94. Print.
  • "Occupy Rhetoric: Responding to Charges of 'Slacktivism' with Digital Activism Successes." Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Age of New Media. Ed. Marco Adria and Yuping Mao. IGI-Global, 2016. 179-93. Print. Co-authored with Daniel Carter and Jessica Meyr.

  • “#Dangerousbydesign: Visualizzare Spazi Urbani Queer/Quare e Ostili con la Teoria dei Giochi” (“#Dangerousbydesign: Queerly/Quarely Visualizing Hostile Urban Spaces Through Game Theory”). Oltre il Gioco: Critica Della Ludicizzazione Urbana (Beyond the Game: Critique of Urban Spaces). Ed. Matteo Bittanti and Emanuela Zilio. Milan, Italy:  Edizioni Unicopli, 2016. 126-145. Print. Co-authored with David Moran and J. Michael Moshell.

  • “Policies, Terms of Service, and Social Networking Games.” Video Game Policy: Production, Distribution, and Consumption. Ed. Jennifer deWinter and Steven Conway. Routledge, 2015. 54-67. Print.
  • “The Role of Micro-Blogging in Responding to Corporate Controversy.” Maximizing Commerce and Marketing Strategies through Micro-Blogging. Eds. Janée N. Burkhalter and Natalie T. Wood. IGI-Global, 2015. 67-91. Print. co-authored with Megan Lambert.
  • "Don’t Fear the Reaper: Beyond the Specter of Internet Plagiarism.” Strategic Discourse: The Politics of (New) Literacy Crises. Ed. Lynn C. Lewis. Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2015. Web.
  • "‘You Are How You Play’: Privacy Policies and Data Mining in Social Networking Games.” Computer Games and Technical Communication: Critical Methods and Applications at the Intersection. Eds. Jennifer deWinter and Ryan Moeller. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 171-187. Print.
  • “‘I Gave My Rights Away for a Song’: How Billy Bragg Persuaded MySpace to Change its Tune on Ownership.” The Business of Entertainment: Popular Music. Ed. Robert Sickels. Westport, CT:  Praeger Press, 2009. 107-120.
  • “Disrupting Intellectual Property: Collaboration and Resistance in Wikis.” Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom. Eds. Matt Barton and Robert Cummings. Ann Arbor, MI: Digitalculturebooks/University of Michigan Press, 2009.  109-122.
  • “Bringing Social Networking Sites into the Writing Classroom Using MySpace and Facebook.” Teaching in the Pop Culture Zone: Using Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom. Ed. Allison D. Smith, Trixie G. Smith, and Rebecca Bobbitt. Boston: Wadsworth, 2008. 19–28.

Recordings

Conference Papers/Presentations

  • "Pokemon Go is R.A.D.: How Game Studies and Writing Center Research Can Learn From Each Other." Invited keynote at Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Conference. Reading, PA, April 1, 2017
  • “After a Decade of Social Media: The Landscape of Social Media in Writing Instruction Today.” Invited keynote at Computers and Writing Conference. Rochester, NY, May 20, 2016

  • “Literate Acts in Social Media: Personal, Professional, and Pedagogical Uses of Social Media Today.” Invited keynote at Humanities Unbound Conference. Norfolk, VA, April 21, 2016

  • “Social Media as Professional Communication: A Changing Landscape.”  Invited keynote at the University of North Florida’s English Honors Society Spring Showcase. Jacksonville, FL, March 4, 2016

  • "Yes, We're Going to Talk about Candy Crush: Surveillance, Social Games, and Screen Segmentation." Invited Talk. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) 2014. Colorado Springs, CO, September 27, 2014
  • "Paying Attention to Privacy Policies in Social Media." Invited Workshop. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, March 28, 2014
  • "Turn it Down, Don't Turnitin: An Argument against Plagiarism Detection Technologies." Invited Talk. Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Worcester, MA, March 28, 2014

Miscellaneous Publications