Bibliograpy
WROC Bibliography
While still a work-in-progress, this bibliography aims at being an important collection of scholarship for the subfield of the writing and rhetoric of code.
To find another list of readings, including tangentially related research from adjacent disciplines and fields, visit the WROC Zotero Group.
books
- Banks, Adam. (2006). Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground. Lawrence Erlbaum and National Council of Teachers of English.
- Black, Michael L. (2022). Transparent Designs: Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness. John Hopkins UP.
- Brock, Kevin. (2019). Rhetorical Code Studies: Discovering Arguments in and around Code. University of Michigan. 10.3998/mpub.10019291
- Brown, James J., Jr. (2015). Ethical Programs. University of Michigan. https://doi.org/10.3998/dh.13474172.0001.001
- Graham, S. Scott. (2020). Where’s the Rhetoric? Imagining a Unified Field. The Ohio State UP.
- Johnson, Nathan R. (2020). Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age. The University of Alabama Press.
- Roundtree, Aimee K. (2013). Computer simulation, rhetoric, and the scientific imagination. Lexington.
- Vee, Annette. (2017). Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing. MIT Press.
- Young, Sarah. (2023). Working Through Surveillance and Technical Communication: Concepts and Connections. SUNY Press.
chapters
- Beck, Estee. (2018). Implications of persuasive computer algorithms. In Alexander and Rhodes, (Ed), The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, (pp. 291 -302). Routledge.
- Brooks, Kevin, and Lindgren, Chris. (2015). Responding to the Coding Crisis: From Code Year to Computational Literacy. In Lynn C. Lewis, (Ed), Strategic Discourse: The Politics of (New) Literacy Crises. CCDP / Utah State UP.
- Hartzog, Molly. (2017). Inventing Mosquitoes: Tracing the Topology of Vectors for Human Disease. In L. Walsh & C. Boyle, (Ed), Topologies as Techniques for a Post-Critical Rhetoric, (pp. 75–98). Palgrave / MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51268-6
- Omizo, Ryan. (2019). Stormwatch: Machine learning approaches to understanding white supremacy online. In J. Ridolfo and B. Hart-Davidson, (Ed), RhetOps: Rhetoric and Information Warfare, (pp. 142-157). University of Pittsburgh Press.
edited collections
- Jones, John J., and Hirsu, Lavina, (Eds). (2019). Rhetorical Machines: Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics. University of Alabama Press.
journals
- Brown, James, Jr. (2014). The Machine That Therefore I Am. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 47(4), pp. 494-514. muse.jhu.edu/article/562412
- Byrd, Antonio. (2020). "Like Coming Home": African Americans Tinkering and Playing toward a Computer Code Bootcamp. College Composition and Communication, 71(3), pp. 426-452.
- Byrd, Antonio. (2019). Between Learning and Opportunity: A Study of African American Coders’ Networks of Support. Literacy in Composition Studies, 7(2), pp. 31-56. https://dx.doi.org/10.21623%2F1.7.2.3
- Cummings, Robert. (2006). Coding with power: Toward a rhetoric of computer coding and composition. Computers and Composition, 23(4), pp. 430-443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2006.08.002
- Danner, Patrick. (2020). Story/Telling with Data as Distributed Activity. Technical Communication Quarterly, 29(2), pp. 174–187. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2019.1660807
- Easter, Brandee. (2020). Fully Human, Fully Machine: Rhetorics of Digital Disembodiment in Programming. Rhetoric Review, 39(2), pp. 202-215. https://doi-org/10.1080/07350198.2020.1727096
- Easter, Brandee. (2018). “feminist_brevity_in_light_of_masculine_long-windedness”: Code, space, and online misogyny. Feminist Media Studies, 18(4), pp. 675-685. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1447335
- Gouge, Catherine C. and Erin Brock Carlson. (2022). Building Toward More Just Data Practices. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 65(1), pp. 241-254. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2021.3137675
- Gray, Kellie, and Steve Holmes. (2020). Tracing Ecologies of Code Literacy and Constraint in Emojis as Multimodal Public Pedagogy. Computers and Composition, 55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2020.102552
- Haefner, Joel. (1999). The politics of the code. Computers and Composition, 16(3), pp. 325-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/S8755-4615(99)00014-6
- Hutchinson, Les and Marie Novotny, (Eds.). (2021). Special Issue: Rhetorics of Data: Collection, Consent, & Critical Digital Literacies. Computers and Composition, 61.
- Lindgren, Chris. (2021). Writing With Data: A Study of Coding on a Data-Journalism Team. Written Communication, 38(1), pp. 114-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088320968061
- Masters, Christina. L. (2015). Women’s ways of structuring data. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, & Technology, 8.
- Mauriello, Nicholas, Pagnuccia, Gian S., and Winter, Tammy. (1999). Reading between the code: The teaching of HTML and the displacement of writing instruction. Computers and Composition, 16(3), pp. 409-419. https://doi.org/10.1016/S8755-4615(99)00020-1
- Messina, Cara. (2019). Tracing Fan Uptakes: Tagging, Language, and Ideological Practices in The Legend of Korra Fanfictions. The Journal of Writing Analytics, 3, pp. 151-182.
- Quigley, Stephen. (2022). Basic Coding. Kairos, 26(2).
- Rea, Ashley. (2022). Coding Equity: Social Justice and Computer Programming Literacy Education. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Early Access, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2022.3143965
- Sorapure, Madeleine. (2006). Text, image, code, comment: Writing in Flash. Computers and Composition, 23(4), pp. 412-429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2006.08.001
- Tekobbe, Cindy, and McKnight, John Carter. (2016). Indigenous cryptocurrency: Affective capitalism and rhetorics of sovereignty. First Monday, 21(10). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i10.6955
- Young, Sarah. (2021). Not too deep: Privacy, resistance, and the incorporation of social media in background checks. First Monday, 26(9). https://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i9.11591
- Young, Sarah. (2021). Organizational change and security clearance reform: From the January 2021 Capitol insurrection to a future with artificial intelligence?. Journal of Information Policy, 11, pp. 350-375. https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.11.2021.0350
proceedings
- Masters, Christina L. (2018). Addressing Data Fluency in Curriculum Development. In 2018 CPTSC Conference Proceedings, 58-59.
- Overmeyer, Tina. (2019). UX methods in the data lab: Arguing for validity. In SIGDOC ’19: The 37th International Conference on the Design of Communication Proceedings, 1-6.