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 recent, selected publications in my current areas of research. A fuller accounting is available in my CV
Swarts, J. (forthcoming 2011). Technological Literacy as Network Building. Technical Communication Quarterly, mid 2011.
Swarts, J. (2010). Recycled writing: Assembling actor-networks from reusable content. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 24(2), 127-163.
Swarts, J. and Kim, L., Eds. (2009). New technological spaces: Mastering the literacies of thinking and doing across multiple modalities. Technical Communication Quarterly, 18(3).
Swarts, J. (2007). Mobility and composition: The architecture of coherence in non- place. Technical Communication Quarterly, 16(3), 279-310.
Swarts, J. (2006). Coherent fragments: The problem of mobility and genred information. Written Communication, 23(2), 173-201.
Swarts, J. (2009). The collaborative construction of 'fact' on Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (Bloomington, IN, October, 2009) SIGDOC '09. ACM Press, New York, NY, forthcoming.
Swarts, J. (2008). Together with technology: Writing review, enculturation and technological mediation. Amityville, NY: Baywood. !AWARD! - NCTE Best Book in Technical and Scientific Communication - 2009
Swarts, J. (2008). Information technologies as discursive agents: Methodological implications for the empirical study of knowledge work. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 38(4), 301-329. !AWARD! - NCTE Best Article on Theory in Technical and Scientific Communication - 2009
Swarts, J. (2004). Textual grounding: How people turn texts into tools. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 34(1), 67-89. !AWARD! - NCTE Best Article on Theory in Technical and Scientific Communication - 2005
Swarts, J. (2004). Technological mediation of document review: The use of textual replay in two organizations. Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 18(3), 328-360.