This article examines the role that algorithms may play as audiences when teaching writing
on the World Wide Web. It argues that introducing the provisional term “algorithmic …

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 …

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 …

This article considers the influence of algorithmic attention systems on writing and human
interaction within digital environments. Building on existing scholarship in writing studies on …

Western mathematics functions as a technology of violence when it enlists computational
algorithms to underwrite racial neoliberalism. Theorizing algorithmic abstraction as a racial …

The PC era is giving way to a new form of popular computing in which smart, globally-
connected objects and environments are the new computational ground. This new ground is …

We examine the rhetorical activity employed within software development communities in
code texts. For technical communicators, the rhetoricity of code is crucial for the …

This chapter argues that motivational and self-help literature is a discursive category that lies
at the margins of New Age thought. The term “New Age” has always been a vague term …

Because algorithms form the audiences that reach us online, students need algorithmic
literacy as well as rhetorical awareness when learning to write online. This article examines …