Rich Shivener
Associate Professor
Office: ROSS S355
Phone: 416-736-5184 Ext: 33985
Email: richshiv@yorku.ca
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Rich Shivener's recent research has investigated digital media composing practices and emotions, and he teaches courses in the Writing Department's digital authoring stream. From 2016-2024, Rich was also an section editor for the digital journal Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Years prior to academia, he reported for local newspapers and national magazines, and he wrote technical support documents with software developers. He takes pride in being a flexible colleague who can research and teach a range of writing inquiries.
Degrees
PhD, University of CincinnatiMA, Northern Kentucky University
Research Interests
Shivener, R. (2024). On the slippages and swells of revising digital media. In C. LaVecchia, A. Carr, L.R. Micciche, H. J. Rule, and J. E. O. Stone (Eds.), Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (pp. 94-105). Utah State University Press.
Shivener, R. (2022). Cultivating signal, noise, and feeling: Songwriting practices in digital rhetoric courses. In Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies: Integrating Sound into Rhetoric and Writing, edited by Michael J. Faris, Courtney S. Danforth, & Kyle D. Stedman. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PRA-B.2022.1688
Shivener, R., Caravella, E., & Gittins, R. (2024). Heuristics for equitable technical communication in remote & hybrid game development. Technical Communication, 71(2), 43-57.
Edwards, D. W., Gelms, B., & Shivener, R. (2023). Infrastructural storytelling: A methodological approach for narrating environmental (in) justice in technical and professional communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 32(3), 242-253.
Caravella, E., Shivener, R., & Narayanamoorthy, N. (2023). Surveying the effects of remote communication & collaboration practices on Game developers amid a pandemic. Communication Design Quarterly, 10(4), 5-15.
Riddick, S., & Shivener, R. (2022). Affective spamming on Twitch: rhetorics of an emote-only audience in a presidential inauguration livestream. Computers and Composition, 64, 102711.
Shivener, R. & Silva, J. O. D. (2022). Sharing pain and pleasure: A case for studying post-mortems and game development feelings. Computers and Composition Online, http://cconlinejournal.org/fall2022/ccwebtext_shivsilva/index.html
Shivener, R., Silva, J. O. D., & Rahman, A. (2022). The discourse-based interview on Twitch: Methods for studying the tacit knowledge of game developers. Composition Forum, 49
Shivener, R. et al. (2021). Canadian mixtape: Sounding out digital authoring practices with undergraduate writer/designers. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, https://praxis.technorhetoric.net/tiki-index.php?page=PraxisWiki%3A_%3ASoundWriting
Bahl, E. K., Figueiredo, S., & Shivener, R. (2020). Comics and graphic storytelling in technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 29(3), 219-221.
Shivener, R. (2020). Pressurized rhetorical bodies: Between feeling rules and affective publics. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. https://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/pressurized-rhetorical-bodies-student-athletes-between-feeling-rules-and-affective-publics/
Shivener, R., & Edwards, D.(2020). The environmental unconscious of digital composing: Mapping climate change rhetorics in data center ecologies. enculturation, 32.
Bahl, E. K., & Shivener, R. (2020). The needle and the bird: Invention, delivery, and serialized webcomics. enculturation. http://enculturation.net/needle_and_the_bird
Shivener, R. (2020). Theorizing rhetorical-affective workflows: Behind the scenes with webtext authors. College English, 83(1), 42-65.
Rich Shivener's recent research has investigated digital media composing practices and emotions, and he teaches courses in the Writing Department's digital authoring stream. From 2016-2024, Rich was also an section editor for the digital journal Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Years prior to academia, he reported for local newspapers and national magazines, and he wrote technical support documents with software developers. He takes pride in being a flexible colleague who can research and teach a range of writing inquiries.
Degrees
PhD, University of CincinnatiMA, Northern Kentucky University
Research Interests
All Publications
Shivener, R. (2024). On the slippages and swells of revising digital media. In C. LaVecchia, A. Carr, L.R. Micciche, H. J. Rule, and J. E. O. Stone (Eds.), Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (pp. 94-105). Utah State University Press.
Shivener, R. (2022). Cultivating signal, noise, and feeling: Songwriting practices in digital rhetoric courses. In Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies: Integrating Sound into Rhetoric and Writing, edited by Michael J. Faris, Courtney S. Danforth, & Kyle D. Stedman. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PRA-B.2022.1688
Shivener, R., Caravella, E., & Gittins, R. (2024). Heuristics for equitable technical communication in remote & hybrid game development. Technical Communication, 71(2), 43-57.
Edwards, D. W., Gelms, B., & Shivener, R. (2023). Infrastructural storytelling: A methodological approach for narrating environmental (in) justice in technical and professional communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 32(3), 242-253.
Caravella, E., Shivener, R., & Narayanamoorthy, N. (2023). Surveying the effects of remote communication & collaboration practices on Game developers amid a pandemic. Communication Design Quarterly, 10(4), 5-15.
Riddick, S., & Shivener, R. (2022). Affective spamming on Twitch: rhetorics of an emote-only audience in a presidential inauguration livestream. Computers and Composition, 64, 102711.
Shivener, R. & Silva, J. O. D. (2022). Sharing pain and pleasure: A case for studying post-mortems and game development feelings. Computers and Composition Online, http://cconlinejournal.org/fall2022/ccwebtext_shivsilva/index.html
Shivener, R., Silva, J. O. D., & Rahman, A. (2022). The discourse-based interview on Twitch: Methods for studying the tacit knowledge of game developers. Composition Forum, 49
Shivener, R. et al. (2021). Canadian mixtape: Sounding out digital authoring practices with undergraduate writer/designers. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, https://praxis.technorhetoric.net/tiki-index.php?page=PraxisWiki%3A_%3ASoundWriting
Bahl, E. K., Figueiredo, S., & Shivener, R. (2020). Comics and graphic storytelling in technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 29(3), 219-221.
Shivener, R. (2020). Pressurized rhetorical bodies: Between feeling rules and affective publics. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. https://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-8/pressurized-rhetorical-bodies-student-athletes-between-feeling-rules-and-affective-publics/
Shivener, R., & Edwards, D.(2020). The environmental unconscious of digital composing: Mapping climate change rhetorics in data center ecologies. enculturation, 32.
Bahl, E. K., & Shivener, R. (2020). The needle and the bird: Invention, delivery, and serialized webcomics. enculturation. http://enculturation.net/needle_and_the_bird
Shivener, R. (2020). Theorizing rhetorical-affective workflows: Behind the scenes with webtext authors. College English, 83(1), 42-65.
