Abstract Algorithmic platforms (Facebook, Google, Amazon) have become ubiquitous in our
digital communication practices. While some users may be nominally aware of the role that …

Writing studies uses the case study at its primary method and methodology. This article
offers a theoretical grounding about case study research and especially internet case study …

Winner of the 2017 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize Software
developers work rhetorically to make meaning through the code they write. In some ways …

Abstract From June through October 2016—and beyond—the subreddit r/the_donald
periodically took over parts of Reddit, making its content dominant on the ninth largest social …

Compositionists can train students to rhetorically approach AI as a writing assistant—a
metaphor that can help students maintain authority in dialogue with AI. Such an approach …

Students, and internet users generally, rely heavily on search engines for academic and
personal research. Search engines, driven by algorithms, are so central to students' …

Research approaches that emphasize embodied practice and value the idiosyncratic uptake
of writing technologies should be central to how writing researchers process the early …

Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing explores “neglected circulatory writing
processes” to better understand why and how digital writers compose, revise, and deliver …

This article offers a methodology for conducting large-scale audience analysis called “big
data audience analysis”(BDAA). BDAA uses distant reading and thin description to examine …

Digital rhetoric is an emerging field, not yet very known among researchers and students in
Finland. The term 'digital rhetoric'refers both to the production of persuasive digital texts and …