Doug Eyman

Open Peer Review Models Today's Peer Review Week post is a brief introduction to open peer review, the value it holds for academia, and a call to participate in a survey about humanities journal peer review.

It's Peer Review Week, so what better time than to get on my soapbox about OPEN peer review?? @kairosdoug.bsky.social and I have a series of posts, with the first one out today—a brief introduction to open peer review models: digital-scholarship.ghost.io/open-peer-re...

Peer Review Models: Crowdsourced Open Review Crowdsourced peer review takes many forms—as pre-print review, modified open review, crowdsourced review, and post-publication review. This post defines and details some examples from each model.

Another fun post by @kairosdoug.bsky.social and I on #openpeerreview for #peerreviewweek digital-scholarship.ghost.io/peer-review-...

"Students like the LLM feedback because it helps them get done faster." Not always a good thing! One of my most effective teaching moves was to withhold evaluation and substitute inquiry by asking students questions in response to their questions. Learning isn't always efficient.

Vol. 3, Issue 2 of TCSJ is now live.

This has been a horrible week for higher education, so I’m glad to have something positive to share.

techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tcsj

I posted my script, my slides, and photos of — along with a full bibliography of — all the library materials we featured in the event!!

Cover of the book Artificial Infrastructures by Salvo & Sherrill. Writing & Artificial Intelligence, literacy & technology: Artificial Infrastructures investigates how generative AI is reshaping the work of technical and professional writing across high-technology industries.

New book; free download!

Artificial Infrastructures investigates how AI reshapes technical & professional writing across high-technology industries.

Salvo & Sherrill interview 3 experts to historicize, analyze, and contextualize the emergent disruptive technology

wac.colostate.edu/books/practi...

My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies.

Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!

punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

A pink lotus in the foreground, surrounded by large green leaves; more lotus flowers in the background.

A field of lotus flowers, stretching to the horizon, a stand of pine trees in the distance.

A single white lotus flower, surrounded by large green leaves.

4 pink lotus flowers in full bloom, 7 closed up buds (not yet blooming), 3 post-bloom stems. All scattered amongst large green lotus leaves.

It’s a lotus bloom kind of day here.

Sneak it/sneak out - pretty much equivalent.

It took almost a decade but I have finally managed to sneak it and pay for a meal with friends in China (also was one of the best meals I’ve had here, and that’s saying something indeed.)

I’m so excited that my book is now out in the world. It pulls together my scholarly training in African American literature with my turn to digital humanities. I’ve also published the complete data dataset of 100 years of AFAM and am lit anthologies that is the backbone of the book.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I am currently at a wine and potato chip pairing/tasting.

Appreciate the live-skeeting! Hope others will join so we can follow along!

A colorful postcard advertising a new book review. The title and author of the review are listed, along with a quote: Walking Toward Meaning: A Review of Melissa Kagen’s Wandering Games By Tommie Leigh McPhetridge. “Wandering Games would be particularly useful for those trying to understand how video games can act as vessels of critical discourses and often engage in theoretical understandings of the world, both fictional and real.” The book cover is featured, with the title in black letters over a photo of mountains.

📣We have a new #bookreview for you! Check out this review by Tommie Leigh Mcphetridge to see how #videogames, #walking, and #storytelling come together in Wandering Games!

🔗https://constell8cr.com/issue-8/walking-toward-meaning-a-review-of-melissa-kagens-wandering-games/

#TeamRhetoric #RhetComp

The Circulation of Rhetoric from Stall Walls to Social Feeds: Notes from the Analog Underground There is something profoundly democratic about a bathroom stall. No velvet rope, no blue check, no institutional imprimatur—not even a username. Just a flat surface, a stylus, and the uncorked bile of...

DRC Blog Carnival 23: Digital Circulation in Rhetoric and Writing Studies has begun!

The inaugural post, "The Circulation of Rhetoric from Stall Walls to Social Feeds: Notes from the Analog Underground" is from Jonathan Marine.

www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2025/06/09/t...

#TeamRhetoric ! New publication: In "A Data Feminist Pedagogy for Composing the Rhetorical Life of Statistics," I theorize and report on teaching quantitative writing for public audiences in contexts of activism/advocacy: compositionforum.com/issue/55/dat...

Murine Neoprene: On the Computer Mouse Pad Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.

Back in 2021, at the Computer Mouse conference, I shared a talk about the 🐭MOUSE PAD🏡 — from animated mouse houses in Beatrix Potter, to the lab mouse's grim quarters, to those neoprene placemats on which our digital appendages sit. I never shared this rsch beyond that event, so I posted it here:

This post inspired in part by this story about AI-genenerated inefficiencies (maybe the one activity genAI is *good* at): bsky.app/profile/apud...

At Kairos, we have a 7-stage copyediting process, and not one of those stages would benefit from using AI instead of trained copyeditors. As I've been teaching editing courses & brining in AI-as-editor examples and exercises, it's clear that even the best gen AI apps are detrimental to the process.

YouTube video by Universität Jena Dance Your PhD 2025 [winner of the ‘Biology’ category]: „Plant Vaccination“ by Priya Reddy

Enjoyable, light-hearted video with Bhangra music

Dance Your PhD 2025: "Plant Vaccination“ by Priya Reddy. Winner of the ‘Biology’ category.

#cwcon25 Session F-
Ashley Beardsley shows us how Junior League cookbooks operate as memory texts
Jason Palmer is working to craft a definition of ‘AI Rhetoric’ (different from rhetoric of AI or rhetoric with AI)
Antonio Hamilton considers the role of invention for genAI composing.

Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies Visit the post for more.

#cwcon25 morning keynote from MSU alum Jen Sano-Franchini, talking about AI, data centers, and critical interface analysis. Will be talking about refusal.blog which is a great resource for folks who take a critical stance toward genAI.

Thanks! I’ll likely start with the first season and watch through

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Session E
Adrienne Raw - weaponized incompetence as mobile game ad strategy. (This time really not about DnD). Ads often show the player failing at easy tasks (so viewer says ‘I could do better’)

Thu project uses DnD subreddit as context but is really about circulation across subreddits, bleed through to other platforms, and how we study cross-platform discourse.

Yep - I posted too soon! DnD system but in a new environment/context. And now I have a bunch of new media to find time to watch! #cwcon25

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Session E
Alex Mashny and Adam Strantz: platform decay traced through online fan communities on Reddit

So actually not DnD - it’s the dimension 20 “Burrow’s End” season #cwcon25

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Session E
Mandy Moore: distributed cognition in D&D, analyzing ‘actual plays’ as texts
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