Surveilling Strangers: The Disciplinary Biopower of Digital Genre Assemblages

�Pandemic Pedagogy� as a Framework for DIY Professional Development

“…co-construct thoughts and actions (Cagle, 2019;Gallagher, 2020;Johnson-Eilola, 1997). In this way, algorithms have effectively bridged the gap between doxa 5 and kairos; not only do algorithms produce probabilistic calculations of doxa, but the calculation itself actually co-constructs the doxic temperature in the room.…”

The Development of Privacy Norms

“…Technologies such as cellphone cameras, social media platforms, and persistently listening digital personal assistants have complicated our earlier notions of what privacy should protect and what is normatively appropriate. For example, cellphone cameras have raised questions about whether or not the practice of taking pictures of strangers in public places and then circulating them online for entertainment-a practice known as posting "strangershots" [10]-is a violation of one's privacy. Social media platforms such as Facebook have raised questions about the kinds of information resharing with third parties that are socially permissible (for more on this, read [11] on the Cambridge Analytica scandal).…”

Communicating an Outbreak: The Visual Genres of Zika Virus Reports

“…To understand how texts function persuasively, we have often turned to genre analysis. While there has been research examining the emergence of new visual genres (e.g., Cagle, 2019; Zappavigna & Zhao, 2017), little work has been done to investigate how existing visual forms act and can be understood as genres. My work begins here, calling upon genre theory to explain the ways in which images enact different rhetorical goals.…”