I research emerging technologies in technical and professional communication to understand their relationship to discourses and practices, and I work on interdisciplinary teams to secure funding for technology-related studies that examine the jagged and uneven effects of technological progress on peoples and cultures. View all research
Funding Awards
$1.3MBrain-S.T.E.M. Fostering Rural Interest in Health. National Institutes of Health (NIH); Science Education Partnerships Award (SEPA). 2023.
$20kGenerative AI across the Curriculum. Team Science Projects Planning Grant (TSPPG). 2023.
$6.5kStories from the Circle. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Undergraduate Faculty Research Award (UFRA) 2021–’22.
$14kBuilding eCommerce Websites for Pandemic Relief. Shipley Center and Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) Partnership. 2020.
$1.8kProduct Packaging in Online Shopping Environments. Reh School of Business. 2023
$39kMaking Computer Classrooms More Efficient. Liberal Arts and Sciences Computer Advisory Committee (LASCAC). 2014.
$630Enabling Mobile Device Testing Across Platforms. Liberal Arts and Sciences Computer Advisory Committee (LASCAC). 2014.
$32kPutting the Silent-E Back in WOVE. Liberal Arts and Sciences Computer Advisory Committee (LASCAC). 2013.
$1kPiloting Virtual Peer Review in ISUComm. ISUComm. 2012.
Publications
York, E. J. (2023). Evaluating ChatGPT: Generative AI in UX Design and Web Development Pedagogy.
York, E. J. (2023). Deceptive by Design: The Visual Rhetorical Mechanism of Dark Patterns.
York, E. J. (2023). Alternate Histories and Conflicting Futures: Git Version Control as Software Development Infrastructure.
York, E. J., et al. (2022). Stories from the Circle: Extended Reality (XR), Posthumanism, and Decolonizing the Design of Communication.
York, E. J. (2022). Digital Surveillance in Online Writing Instruction: Panopticism and Simulation in Learning Management Systems.
York, E. J. (2021). Building Community Coalitions for eCommerce: Client-based Learning and Web Development during a Pandemic Lockdown.
York, E. J., & Johnson-Eilola, J. (2020). Enduring Designs, Transient Designers: A Comparison of the Workspaces and Materials of Professionals and Novices.
Lutz, B., O’Connell, R., & York, E. (2014). Brokering ISUComm Sites: Toward the Creation of a Large Scale ePortfolio Platform for Multimodal Composition.
York, E. J. (2011). Culture Jams: Critical Media Literacy in The Digital/Multimodal Classroom.
Forthcoming
York, E. J. (2024). Collaborating on the Interface: Rhetorical and Hermeneutic Theory for User Experience Design.
York, E. J. (2024). Thinking Machines: Generative Rhetoric in the ‘Turing Test’ for Artificial Intelligence.
Johnson-Eilola, J., Selber, S., York, E. J. (2024). Can AI Robots Write Effective Instructions?
Selber, S., York, E. J. (2024). Augmentation or Automation? Analyzing ChatGPT’s user interface and user experience