Below are recent, selected publications in my current areas of research. A fuller accounting is available in my CV
Mobility and Networks
Swarts, J. (forthcoming '10). Recycled writing: Assembling actor-networks from reusable content. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, April, 2010.
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.
Technological Mediation & Cooperative Work
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.
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.
Swarts, J. (2004). Textual grounding: How people turn texts into tools. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 34(1), 67-89.
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.