Eric J. York

Education

Appointments

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Johnson-Eilola, J., Selber, S., and York, E. J. (2024). Can Artificial Intelligence Robots Write Effective Instructions? Special Issue on the Effects of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Technical Communication Pedagogy, Practice, and Research (Ed. Stephen Carradini), The Journal of Business and Technical Communication 38(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/10506519241239641

York, E. J. (2023). Evaluating ChatGPT: Generative AI in UX Design and Web Development Pedagogy. Proceedings of the 41^st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 143–148. https://doi.org/10.1145/3615335.3623035

York, E. J. (2023). Deceptive by Design: The Visual Rhetorical Mechanism of Dark Patterns. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 27(2). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/27.2/topoi/york/index.html

York, E. J. (2022). Alternate Histories and Conflicting Futures: Git Version Control as Software Development Infrastructure. Communication Design Quarterly, 10(2), 57–65. https://doi.org/10.1145/3507857.3507863

York, E. J., Propst, L., Pelky, R., Ball, J. L., Lee, A. M., & White-Cree, P. (2022). Stories from the Circle: Extended Reality (XR), Posthumanism, and Decolonizing the Design of Communication. Proceedings of the 40^th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 143–148. https://doi.org/10.1145/3513130.3558993

York, E. J. (2021). Digital Surveillance in Online Writing Instruction: Panopticism and Simulation in Learning Management Systems. Computers and Composition, 62, 102680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2021.102680

York, E. J. (2021). Building Community Coalitions for eCommerce: Client-based Learning and Web Development during a Pandemic Lockdown. Proceedings of the 39^th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 263–268. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473651

York, E. J., & Johnson-Eilola, J. (2020). Enduring Designs, Transient Designers: A Comparison of the Workspaces and Materials of Professionals and Novices. Proceedings of the 38^th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416783

Lutz, B., O’Connell, R., & York, E. (2014). Brokering ISUComm Sites: Toward the Creation of a Large Scale ePortfolio Platform for Multimodal Composition. Proceedings of the 32^nd ACM International Conference on The Design of Communication 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/2666216.2666227

York, E. J. (2011). Culture Jams: Critical Media Literacy in The Digital/Multimodal Classroom. Computers and Composition Online, Special Issue Ethics in a Digital Age. http://cconlinejournal.org/virtualc.htm

Forthcoming

Selber, S., York, E. J. (n.d). Automation or Augmentation: Language Models as Educational Subject. Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities (Ed. Sid Dobrin). Parlor Press. Accepted, expected Fall, 2024.

York, E. J. (n.d). Collaborating on the Interface: Rhetorical and Hermeneutic Theory for User Experience Design. Collaborations and Partnerships in User Experience Design. (Eds. Ryan Webber and Joy Robinson). WAC Clearinghouse. (In press, expected early 2024).

York, E. J. (n.d.). Failing Machines: Sustainability, Scalability, and Continuity in the Digital Humanities. Accepted by Computers and Composition.

York, E. J. (n.d). Thinking Machines: Generative Rhetoric in the ‘Turing Test’ for Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities (Ed. Sid Dobrin). Parlor Press. Accepted, expected Fall, 2024.

In Progress

York, E. J. (n.d.). Machines of Loving Grace: Algorithmic Surveillance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Drafting phase.

Carlson, J., Wilkes, A., York, E. J. (n.d.). User experience methods in the study of online product marketing images. Data collection phase; funded and IRB approved.

Banavar, M., Cohen, A., DeWaters, J., Dub, W., Kocho-Williams, A., Manierre, M., Pelkey, R., Propst, L., Rogers, J., Sanja, C., York, E. J. (n.d.). Documenting Generative AI in Design and Development Pedagogy. Research design phase; funding awarded.

Funding Awards

$1,269,000. Senior Personnel, with Kavanaugh, K., Johns, L., Bowman, R. and Cabral, M. “Building Rural Aspirations in Neuroscience with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (BRAIN-STEM)” National Institutes of Health (NIH), Science Education Partnerships Award (SEPA). 2023.

$20,000 (plus 1 graduate student tuition waiver). Co-PI, with Banavar, M., Cohen, A., Manierre, M., DeWaters, J., Kocho-Williams, A., Propst, L., Pelky, R., Rogers, J., Dub, R. and Sajna, C. “Being Brave in a New World: Impacts of ChatGPT on the university.” Team Science Projects Planning Grant (TSPPG). 2023.

$1,800. Co-PI, with Carlson, J., Johnson-Eilola, J. and Wilke, A. “The Effects of Product Packaging in Online Shopping Environments”. Internally funded (Reh School). 2023.

$5,000. Co-PI, with Ball, J. L., Lee, A. M., Propst, L., Pelky, R., and White-Cree, P. “Stories from the Circle: A Public-facing Augmented Reality Application.” Undergraduate Faculty Research Award (UFRA) 2022.

$1,500. Co-PI, with Ball, J. L., Lee, A. M., Propst, L., Pelky, R., and White-Cree, P. “Stories from the Circle: Web VR and Website.” Humanities NY, Vison Grant. 2021.

$14,000. PI. “Developing eCommerce Websites for Local Businesses Closed by the Pandemic”. Shipley Center and Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) Partnership. 2020.

$39,400. Co-author, “Making Computer Classrooms More Efficient.” Liberal Arts and Sciences Computer Advisory Committee (LASCAC). 2014

$630. Co-author, “Enabling Mobile Device Testing Across Platforms.” Liberal Arts and Sciences Computer Advisory Committee (LASCAC). 2014.

$32,600. Co-author, “Putting the Silent-E Back in WOVE.” Liberal Arts and Sciences Computer Advisory Committee (LASCAC). 2013.

$1,000. Co-author, “Piloting Virtual Peer Review in ISUComm.” ISUComm. 2012.

Conference Presentations

“GenAI and Visual Literacy: Re-seeing our workplaces, worldviews, and pedagogies.” International Visual Literacy Association. 2024.

“Prompting Bias: Visual rhetoric, posthumanism and AI-generated images.” Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication. 2024.

“Refiguring Bias in AI-Generated Technical Visuals.” Association for Teachers of Technical Writing. 2024.

“GenAI and Visual Literacy: Re-seeing our workplaces, worldviews, and pedagogies.” International Visual Literacy Association. 2024.

“Artificial Interfaces, Artificial Ideologies: A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of ChatGPT.” Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and the Teaching of Technical Communication. 2024.

“Digital Opportunities and Challenges.” Invited speaker. Teaching Effectiveness Conference; Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley. 2023.

“Evaluating ChatGPT: Generative AI in UX Design and Web development Pedagogy.” Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC); 2023.

“Deregulating and Domesticating ChatGPT in Technical Communication Pedagogy and Practice.” Association for Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) 2023

“Stories from the Circle: Extended Reality (XR), Posthumanism, and Decolonizing the Design of Communication.” Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC); 2022.

“Building Community Coalitions for eCommerce: Client-based Learning and Web Development during a Pandemic Lockdown.” Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC); 2021.

“Enduring Designs, Transient Designers: A Comparison of the Workspaces and Materials of Professionals and Novices.” Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC); 2020.

“Toward a Rhetoric of Deceit: Dark Patterns in UX Design.” Association for Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW); 2018

“Navigating Identity in Action: How New Instructors Construct Their Professional Teaching Identity.” Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC); 2016

“The Learning Management System as Boundary Object: Discontinuity and Transformation.” Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC); 2015

“Brokering Across Administrative Boundaries: Provisional Consensus for Building ISUComm Sites.” ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC); 2014

“Digitally-Mediated Peer Review in Multimodal Composition Courses: Implications for Writing Pedagogies.” Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC); 2014

“The Invisible Made Visible: Virtual Peer Review in the Writing Classroom.” Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC); 2013

“Learning Management Systems and Writing Program Administration.” Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing (GPACW); 2012

“Technical Communications Role in Language Learning: What Intensive English Courses Have Taught Us.” Association for Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). 2012

“Culture Jams: Critical Media Literacy in Multimodal Composition.” Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC); 2012

“Underlife, Cell-phones, and the Writing Classroom.” Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC); 2010

“Mirrors to the Heart of Poetry: Speculative Language in Laura Riding.” University of Maine, English Graduate Symposium; 2005

“When the Woods were Commons: An Ethos of Destruction in Maine Poetry.” Maine Studies Award Symposium; 2004

Workshops and Instructional Presentations

“Using WordPress Content Management for Village Governance.“ Village of Potsdam, 2023

“Copyright, Creative Commons, and Intellectual Property.” Web development club presentation, 2023

“Using WebVR for Antiracist, Decolonial Activism”. Impossible Projects symposium round table, 2022

“Rhetoric, Technology, and Boundaries.” Rhetoric and Professional Communication Colloquium, 2014

“Web Conventions and Assessing ePortfolios.” ISUComm Courses Orientation, 2014

“Getting Started with ISUComm Sites.” ISUComm Sites Workshop Series, 2014

“Intro to Teaching with ePortFolios.” ISUComm Sites Workshop Series, 2014

“Online Courses Orientation and Tutorials.” ISUComm Courses Orientation, 2011, 2012, and 2013

Courses Taught

Clarkson University, 2016–

Iowa State University, 2010–’16

Husson University, 2006–’2010

Kennebec Valley CC, 2006–’07

University of Maine, 2004–’06

Thesis Advising and Interships

Student Club Advising

Professional Service

National Service

Clarkson University

Iowa State University

Husson University

University of Maine

Professional Affiliations

Awards and Scholarships

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award; 2021

Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching; 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021

Graduate Research Excellence Award (Best dissertation); 2015

Graduate Teaching Excellence Award; 2013

W. Paul Jones Scholarship (Best article); 2012

Freda Hunke Endowment Scholarship; 2010

Steve Grady Award (First place, poetry); 2006

Maine Studies Award (First place, research); 2006

Steve Grady Award (First place, fiction); 2005

Alice T. Ayerling Leadership Scholarship; 1996

Technical Proficiencies

Frontend web development (HTML5, CSS3, ES6+, PHP)

User experience (research, testing)

Fullstack and dev-ops (LAMP, NodeJS)

Content / learning management (WordPress, Moodle)

Graphic design (Adobe, Figma, Sketch)

Media (image, video, 3D, hypertext)

Web Development Administration

Lead Technician, Clarkson's BRAIN-STEM

Lead Technician, Village of Potsdam website

Lead Technician, Kiawentiio's site

Lead Technician, Stories from the Circle

Lead Technician, Clarkson Pepband

Lead Technician, Shipley / ANCA / eCommerce

Lead Technician, Smart Housing Project

Lead Technician, Comm and Media website

Project Lead, Lead ISUComm Sites

Online Courses Coordinator / Systems Administrator

Selected Websites