About
Douglas Eyman is Director of the PhD in Writing and Rhetoric, the MA concentration in Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), and the undergraduate Professional Writing Minor at George Mason University. He teaches courses in digital rhetoric, technical and scientific communication, editing, web authoring, advanced composition, and professional writing. His current research interests include investigations of digital literacy acquisition and development, new media scholarship, electronic publication, information design/information architecture, teaching in digital environments, and video games as sites of composition. Eyman is the senior editor and publisher of
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, an online journal that has been publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on computers and writing since 1996.
His most recent publications include
Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (University of Michigan Press, 2015) and
Play/Write: Games, Writing, Digital Rhetoric (co-edited with Andrea Davis, Parlor Press, 2016).
His scholarly work has appeared in
Pedagogy, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication, Cultural Practices of Literacy (Erlbaum, 2007),
Digital Writing Research(Hampton Press, 2007),
Rhetorically Rethinking Usability (Hampton Press, 2008),
Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities (Chicago, 2015), and
Microhistories of Composition (Utah State, 2015).
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Writing Studies friends — if you teach or have recently taught a methods course in composition/rhetoric/tech comm, we'd like to know what main texts you used in the class. One of our PhD students, Maria Miranda, has put together a very short survey (mainly asking you to cut and past the reading list from your syllabus) so we can get a sense of the most common texts we use in these courses (I know these fields might be quite different in terms of method, but that's something she'll need to wrestle with once she has the data!) Here's a link to the survey (which of course starts with the informed consent statement): https://gmuchss.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aW9CcSXUcbRoMLk Please pass on to anyone you know who is teaching or has recently taught a methods course – thanks! (2024-09-29 ↗)
Our program is hiring! NTT faculty role focused on tech comm, with an interest in teaching with/about AI. Happy to answer questions – please share with anyone who might be interested. https://listings.jobs.gmu.edu/jobs/english-technical-communication-term-instructor-or-term-assistant-professor-fairfax-va-virginia-united-states-other (2024-05-30 ↗)
Happy to note that the special issue of Computers & Composition on "Composing with AI" Nupoor Ranade and I co-edited is now available (for those who have institutional access – individual authors have some free access links for those who don't). This issue (technically a March publication) came together very quickly – we had a very high interest in the topic and received so many excellent proposals that it was truly challenging to select the few we could include in one journal issue. We are working on an OA edited collection that extends the topic, which will hopefully be out in the fall. I sincerely hope the other great proposals we couldn't accommodate find a venue as they all represent smart, relevant work in this area. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-composition/vol/71/suppl/C (2024-02-07 ↗)
Pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Kairos: https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/ We have webtexts on FYC-Library collaborations, the podcast version of Bad Ideas about Writing, a piece on using Scalar for collaborative composing, and a fascinating piece on "neuroqueer erotics of digital collaboration" plus interviews, reviews, and more. (2024-01-15 ↗)
Cheryl Ball and I are pleased to announce the publication of our latest entry in our on-going digital publication project (aka 'the Kairos book'), this time on defining 'born-digital' scholarship. https://digital-scholarship.ghost.io/defining-born-digital-scholarship/ (2023-10-10 ↗)
Publications
Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. University of Michigan Press, Digital Culture Books series, (2015).
http://www.digitalculture.org/books/digital-rhetoric/
Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games. Co-edited with Andrea Davis. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, (2016).
Ball, C., Eyman, D., & Morrison, A. (2018). The rise of multimodal languages in academic publishing. In Mary Jane Curry and Theresa Lillis, (Eds.),
Global Academic Publishing: Policies, Practices, and Pedagogies (pp. 117-136). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Publishing.
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Eyman, D. & Ball, C. (2016). History of a broken thing: The multi-journal special issue on electronic publication. In Bruce McComiskey
(Ed.),
Microhistories of Composition (pp. 117-136). Logan: Utah State University Press.
“Digital rhetoric as evolving field: Traditional and contemporary practices.”
Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, 23 (2016):
http://enculturation.net/looking-back-and-looking-forward
“From player to maker: The value of rhetoric in an age of ubiquitous gaming.”
PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, 21 (2016): 45-57.
“Composing for Digital Publication: Rhetoric, Design, Code.” with Cheryl Ball.
Composition Studies, 42.1 (2014): 114-117.
“Writing, Rhetoric, and Design: A Virtual Collaboration Case Study.”
Virtual Collaborative Writing in the Workplace: Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies and Processes. Ed. Beth Hewett and Charlotte Robideaux. Hershey: IGI Press, 2010. 350-359.
“Usability: Methodology and Design Practice for Writing Processes and Pedagogies.”
Rhetorically Rethinking Usability: Theories, Practices, and Methodologies. Ed. Susan Miller-Cochran and Rochelle Rodrigo. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2009. 213-28.
