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Practicing Digital Activisms reframes digital activism as embodied, situated work that extends across classrooms, communities, institutions, streets, and ecosystems. It develops frameworks for studying and practicing activism in an era shaped by social media, datafication, and artificial intelligence. At the heart of the collection is a rethinking of digital activism for the twenty-first century that traces activism through networks of people, platforms, infrastructures, and material practices.
Bringing together scholars in rhetoric, writing studies, technical communication, and community engagement, contributors show how activism now unfolds across interconnected media ecologies, through affective and material infrastructures, and at multiple tempos ranging from viral moments to the quieter practices of organizing, care, and persistence. Through case studies of food activism, environmental advocacy, reproductive health, social media movements, and emerging data practices, contributors demonstrate digital activism as a sustained practice of coalition building, circulation, documentation, and persistence. The chapters provide theoretical tools for making infrastructures visible, negotiating ethical responsibility, and designing interventions responsive to local needs and broader struggles for justice.
Attending to the risks that shape contemporary digital life—including surveillance, commodification, algorithmic bias, harassment, platform control, and unequal access—the collection offers language, methods, and examples for understanding how communities build power, sustain movements, and imagine just futures through digital practice. For scholars, teachers, students, organizers, and readers interested in digital rhetoric and social change, Practicing Digital Activisms invites attention to digital participation as a vital site where collective action is imagined, contested, and practiced.
“Fresh and important, this book advances the field forward in a necessary way.”
—Bridget Gelms, San Francisco State University
Nicole E. Allen is a PhD candidate in rhetoric, writing, and professional communication at East Carolina University, and her research interests are multimodal discourses in wayfinding systems and how they shape accessibility and perception.
Mina Bikmohammadi is a PhD student in rhetoric, writing, and professional communication at East Carolina University. Her research focuses on computers and writing, writing pedagogy, programmatic research in technical and professional communication, and TESOL. Her publications have appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, Programmatic Perspectives, and Technical Communication and Social Justice.
Codi Renee Blackmon, a lecturer in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University, is a scholar-teacher-activist committed to social justice in academic and community contexts.
Amanda Patterson Partin is assistant director of the University Writing Center at East Carolina University, and her research lies primarily at the intersections of religious rhetoric and multicultural belonging.
Desiree Dighton is assistant professor of technical and professional communication at East Carolina University. Her research and teaching intervene in housing justice and other public issues through community-engaged rhetorical methods.
William P. Banks is professor of rhetoric, writing, and professional communication at East Carolina University. He has published essays on digital rhetorics, queer rhetorics, writing assessment, and pedagogy in several recent books, as well as numerous professional journals. He is coeditor of Re/Orienting Writing Studies and Reclaiming Accountability and coauthor of Failing Sideways.
Erin A. Clark is a scholar of technical and risk communication, author of the award-winning book Feminist Technical Communication, and coeditor of Interrogating Gendered Pathologies. Her research—spanning feminist theory, health communication, and community-engaged media—reimagines how knowledge is produced, shared, and used to advance equity and justice.
Michelle F. Eble is professor of technical and professional communication at East Carolina University, where she teaches technical and professional writing courses and research methods. She is coeditor of Reclaiming Accountability, Key Theoretical Frameworks, and Interrogating Gendered Pathologies.