Associate Professor of Technical Communication at North Carolina State University.
Program Faculty in the Science Technology and Society Program.
Associate Director and Program Faculty in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Ph.D. program.
Campus Box 8105
Department of English
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
1.919.515.4115
Jason_Swarts[at]ncsu[dot]edu
Below are some recent, selected presentations. A fuller account is available in my CV.
Conference Chair Networks of Technical Communication - ATTW 2011
Being Somewhere: The Mobile Composition of Location. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 2011
Technological Literacy as Network Building. Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference. Las Cruces, NM. October 2010.
Postcards from the Hinterland: The Constructive and Interrogative Functions of Writing on Wikipedia. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. March 2010
Constructing location: How location-based mobile applications articulate location [w/ Adriana de Souza e Silva]. Society for Social Studies of Science. Washington, DC. October 2009.
Collaborative construction of fact in Wikipedia. ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication. Bloomington, IN. October 2009
Remix as rhetorical act: Invention and arrangement in the digital age. Rhetoric Society of America. Seattle, WA.
Rhetorical innovation and remixing: The challenge of writing in technologically-mediated spaces. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. New Orleans, LA.
Microrhetorical Structure and CSS. Computers and Writing. Detroit, MI.
Writer as Remixer: Base Units of Remixable Content. Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY.
The Rhetorical Functions of IT in Cooperative Work. Rhetoric Society of America. Memphis, TN.
Meaning Between the Spaces: Creating Coherence with Mobile Information Technology. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL.