Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference, 2024

Computers & Writing 2024 was hosted by Texas Christian University from Thursday, June 20th – Sunday, June 23rd, 2024. The theme for the conference was Seriously Digital: Work, Play, and Digital Storytelling for “Post” Pandemic People. In their call for proposals, the conference directors observed, "Throughout the ongoing pandemic, digital tools have been heralded as solutions to pandemic-related problems. This historical moment features several disruptions to “business as usual” where the lines between work, play, and digital storytelling have been blurred. This theme is designed to explore those boundaries and to consider the impact of these tools moving forward."

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The Proceedings

Edited by Christopher D. M. Andrews, Elena Kalodner-Martin, Nicole O’Connell, Hua Wang, Lydia Wilkes, and Charles Woods
Copy edited by Christopher D. M. Andrews, Nicole O’Connell, Hua Wang, and Brandy Dieterle. Designed by Mike Palmquist.

This book includes selected proceedings from the 2024 Computers and Writing Conference, exploring topics in archival work, gaming, artificial intelligence, and pedagogies. Contributions engage the 2024 conference theme—Seriously Digital: Work, Play, and Digital Storytelling for “Post” Pandemic People—using a variety of theoretical, pedagogical, and research-based approaches familiar to scholars of digital rhetorics, multimodal composition, and closely related fields.

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Acknowledgments

On Fishbowls, Student Personas, and the Wicked Problem of Generative Artificial Intelligence, On Behalf of The 7C’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI: Morgan Banville, Antonio Byrd, Anuj Gupta, Gavin P. Johnson, TJoseph Robertshaw, and Charles Woods
DOI: 10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616.2.01

Seeking Connectivity: Grappling with Data Privacy in Digital Social Settings, Morgan Banville and Danielle Koepke
DOI: 10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616.2.02

Coding with Flavor: Combining Foodways Research and Inclusive Design to Teach Empathy in a Digital Composing Course, Ashley M. Beardsley
DOI: 10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616.2.03

Roll$20: Economies of Labor in Online Role-Playing Games, Cameron Irby
DOI: 10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616.2.04

Listening For and Listening To: Narrative Inquiry in Pandemic Health Communication, Elena R. Kalodner-Martin
DOI: 10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616.2.05

From Writing Texts Towards Writing Platforms: A Story of Mastodon, Thomas Pickering
DOI: 10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616.2.06

Forging New Practices: AI Use Cases and the Need for Experimentation, Breemn Vance, Samuel Oliver, Jr., and Philip B. Gallagher
DOI: 10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616.2.07

The Autistic Me, Produced Digitally: Experienced Responses to Digital Storytelling, Christopher Scott Wyatt
DOI: 10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616.2.08

About the Proceedings

Publication Information: Andrews, Christopher D. M., Elena Kalodner-Martin, Nicole O’Connell, Hua Wang, Lydia Wilkes, & Charles Woods (Eds.). (2025). The Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference, 2024. The WAC Clearinghouse. https://doi.org/10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616

Publication Date: January 30, 2025

ISBN: 978-1-64215-261-6 (PDF) | 978-1-64215-262-3 (ePub)
DOI: 10.37514/PCW-B.2025.2616
ISSN: 2643-7376

About the Editors

Christopher D. M. Andrews is Associate Professor in the English Department at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and a managing editor at Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. His research explores programmatic issues in writing studies and technical communication, rhetorics of technology, and how people use digital networks to learn and professionalize. His scholarship has appeared in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Computers and Composition, Open Words: Access and English Studies, The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and Kairos.

Elena Kalodner-Martin is Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her teaching and research is broadly focused on understanding and interrogating the values, norms, and discourses in technical and scientific communities. Her work has been published in Technical Communication, Programmatic Perspectives, Kairos, and elsewhere.

Nicole O’Connell is a Ph.D. candidate in composition and rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she serves as a teaching associate and graduate assistant director of technology for the writing program. Her research focuses on technical and professional communication, social justice, career education, and public history.

Hua Wang is Senior Lecturer in the College of Engineering at Cornell University, where she teaches engineering communication courses. Her research focuses on technical and professional communication, the rhetoric of health and medicine, cross-cultural communication, community-engaged learning, and pedagogy. Her work has been published in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Rhetoric of Health and Medicine. She has also contributed chapters to several books and some conference proceedings.

Lydia Wilkes is Assistant Professor and Writing Program Administrator in the English Department at Auburn University. Her research interests include rhetorics of violence, cultural rhetorics, Indigenous rhetorics, and writing program administration. She co-edited Rhetoric and Guns with Nate Kreuter and Ryan Skinnell and Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration with Lilian Mina and Patti Poblete. Her scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Veterans StudiesThe Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference, and PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors.

Charles Woods is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at East Texas A&M University. He researches digital rhetorics and technical communication, particularly data privacy, digital surveillance, and emerging technologies. His scholarship has been published in Computers and Composition, Communication Design Quarterly, Peitho, and elsewhere.

Contact Information:
Christopher D. M. Andrews: christopher.andrews@tamucc.edu
Lydia Wilkes: lydiacwilkes@gmail.com 

Series Editors

Christopher D. M. Andrews and Lydia Wilkes


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