This article theorizes the term infrastructure as a framework for articulating how writing products, activities, and processes underwrite organizational life in technical organizations. While this term has appeared broadly in writing studies scholarship, it has not been systematically theorized there as it has been in other fields such as economics, computing, and information science. This article argues for a four-part framework that incorporates and builds on Star and Ruhleder’s relational theory of infrastructure. Fieldwork from a federally funded supercomputing center for scientific research operationalizes the theory for its contributions to writing studies scholarship and its applications for industry and writing …

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On The Death Of Travel Writing, Caleb L. González Mar 2019

On The Death Of Travel Writing, Caleb L. González

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Macabre Upbringings: A Look Into Identity In Mort By Terry Pratchett And The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman, Cody Thomas Mar 2019

Macabre Upbringings: A Look Into Identity In Mort By Terry Pratchett And The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman, Cody Thomas

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

Graduate Program Application: English Studies

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On The Wind, Wyatt Georgeson Mar 2019

On The Wind, Wyatt Georgeson

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Queering Consent: Design And Sexual Consent Messaging, Avery C. Edenfield Mar 2019

Queering Consent: Design And Sexual Consent Messaging, Avery C. Edenfield

English Faculty Publications

For decades, sexual violence prevention and sexual consent have been a recurrent topic on college campuses and in popular media, most recently because of the success of the #MeToo movement. As a result, institutions are deeply invested in communicating consent information. This article problematizes those institutional attempts to teach consent by comparing them to an alternative grounded in queer politics. This alternative information may provide a useful path to redesigning consent information by destabilizing categories of gender, sexuality, and even consent itself.

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2019 Iggad Conference Program, Charles Joyner Institute For Gullah And African Diaspora Studies Mar 2019

2019 Iggad Conference Program, Charles Joyner Institute For Gullah And African Diaspora Studies

IGGAD Conference Programs

Program of the 2019 IGGAD Conference: Tracing the African Diaspora: Places of Suffering, Resilience, and Reinvention.

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