Articles & Chapters
A select list of articles and book chapters by CMS/W faculty, researchers, and students.
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New report: “#MoreThanCode: Practitioners reimagine the landscape of technology for justice and equity”
Published by the Technology for Social Justice Project, including CMS/W co-authors Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock and recent master’s student Maya Wagoner, S.M., ’17.
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Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination
Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock: “What paths, then, might lead us out of the matrix of domination?”
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Evaluating the Robustness of Learning Analytics Results Against Fake Learners
“The goal of this study is to evaluate the robustness of learning analytics results when the data contain a considerable number of fake learners.”
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Media, Communication, and Intersectional Analysis: Ten Comments for the International Panel on Social Progress
“The ‘filter bubble’ critique ignores the importance of subaltern counterpublics, although state and corporate propaganda is indeed a real problem.”
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Building Dark Patterns into Platforms: How GamerGate Perturbed Twitter’s User Experience
“GamerGate trapped both its unwilling targets and willing participants in an unending cycle of rhetorical invention through a mechanism of aggressive, hostile, mob-like activism.”
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“I Just Don’t Know Where to Begin”: Designing to Facilitate the Educational Use of Commercial, Off-the-Shelf Video Games
Documenting the implementation of commercial, off-the-shelf games in their secondary level, humanities (e.g. social studies, history, languages) classrooms.
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Engineering Innovation Through Rhetorical Invention
A “What-How-Why” diagram integrates the thinking that chemical engineers need to cover as they design the work of a project, with the thinking that they need to do in order to communicate that work to an audience.
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Toward Transformative Media Organizing: LGBTQ and Two-Spirit Media Work in the United States
We found that despite scarce resources, many LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizations have an intersectional analysis of linked systems of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other axes of identity and structural inequality.
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Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System
Kevin Driscoll, CMS ’09, in IEEE Spectrum: “The history of the BBS shows that pre-Internet social media was pretty great.”
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Communicating Humanities Research Through Video
What does a department need (and not need) to produce a video that tells a story about research? And how does an administrator determine whether the benefits outweigh the costs?
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Children’s Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community
“By supporting channels for dutiful citizenship by way of policy, design decisions, or changing governance models, designers can create channels that foster dutiful citizenship while connecting with youth interests.”
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Supporting Technical Professionals’ Metacognitive Development in Technical Communication through Contrasting Rhetorical Problem Solving
An experimental pedagogical framework that focuses on increasing the explicit “rhetorical consciousness” of professionals who are already immersed in multiple genres of workplace communication but are not confident in the effectiveness of their communication skills
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Loss, Mourning, and Climate Change
What might mourning loss due to climate change reveal about the deeper relationship between human and non-human life in the environment?
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Rhetorical Patterns in Citations Across Disciplines and Levels of Participation
The analysis of large corpora has provided great insights about the formal characteristics of citations, but little information about their rhetorical nature.
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New report: Transformative Media Organizing in LGBTQ/Two-Spirit Communities
Associate Prof. Sasha Costanza-Chock, Civic Media’s Rahul Bhargava, and recent CMS grads Heather Craig and Yu Wang help author this “Out for Change” report.
