Publications

Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing

WRITING SPACES is an open textbook project for college-level writing studies courses. Each volume in the Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing series contains peer-reviewed collections of essays about writing—all composed by teachers for students—with each book available for download for free under a Creative Commons license from the Writing Spaces website and the WAC Clearinghouse and in low-cost printed versions from Parlor Press.

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing, much like the model made famous by Wendy Bishop’s “The Subject Is . . .” series. In each chapter, a rich variety of authors will present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers will invite students to join in the larger conversation about developing nearly every aspect of their craft. Consequently, each essay will function as a standalone text which will easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level. Thus with your submissions and the publication of subsequent volumes of essays, the Writing Spaces website will become a large library of student-centered instructional essays on writing for all across our field to use in the composition classroom.

Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Articles

[34] Lucia, Brent, Jiang, Jialei, Farag, Islam, and Matthew A. Vetter. Navigating the AI Writing Assistant: Disclosure, Trust, and Learning Among Business Undergraduates. Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Forthcoming April 2027 issue (41.2).

[33] Vetter, Matthew A., Farag, Islam, Jiang, Jialei, Lucia, Brent, and John J. Silvestro. The Hidden Cost of Disclosure: A Multi-institutional Study on Undergraduate Students’ Generative AI Usage and Faculty Accusations. Educational Policy. Forthcoming. 

[31] Lucia, Brent, Vetter, Matthew., & Patel, Varshil. (2025). The Dystopian Imaginaries of ChatGPT: A Designed Cycle of Fear. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 31(4), 1233-1250. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565251333212

[30] Vetter, Matthew A., Jiang, Jialei, and Zachary J. McDowell. (2025) “An Endangered Species: How LLMs Threaten Wikipedia’s Sustainability.” AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02199-9

[29] Jiang, Jialei, Lucia, Brent, and Matthew A. Vetter. (2024) “From Hype to Practice: Reinterpreting the Writing Process through Technical Writing Students’ Engagement with ChatGPT.” Technical Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2024.2445302

[28] Jiang, Jialei, Vetter, Matthew A., and Brent Lucia. “Toward a ‘More-Than-Digital’ AI Literacy: Reimagining Agency and Authorship in the Postdigital Era with AI Text Generators.” Postdigital Science & Education, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00477-1

[27] Yim, Andrew, Vetter, Matthew A., and Jun Akiyoshi. “I Don’t Feel Like It Is ‘Mine’ at All”: Assessing Wikipedia Editors’ Sense of Individual and Community Ownership.” Written Communication, vol. 41, no. 3, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883241242103

[26] Vetter, Matthew A., Jiang, Jialei, Othman, Mahmoud, and Mercy Muguimi. “Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Wikipedia Writing: A Feminist Affective Analysis of Student Writers’ Engagement with the ‘Be Bold’ Guideline. Computers and Composition, vol. 72, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102850 

[25] Vetter, Matthew A., Lucia, Brent, Jiang, Jialei, and Mahmoud Othman. “Towards a Framework for Local Interrogation of AI Ethics: A Case Study on Text Generators, Academic Integrity, and Composing with ChatGPT.” Computers and Composition [Special Issue on “Composing with AI”], vol. 71, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102831.

[24] Brent Lucia, Matthew A. Vetter & David A. Solberg. “‘I Feel Like I’m in a Box’: Contrasting Virtual Reality ‘Imaginaries’ in the Context of Academic Innovation Labs.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2023.2245442

[23] Lucia, Brent, Vetter, Matthew A., and Isaac Adubofour. “Behold the Metaverse: Facebook’s Meta Imaginary and the Circulation of Elite Discourse.” New Media & Society, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231184249

[22] McDowell, Zachary J., and Matthew A. Vetter. “The Re-Alienation of the Commons: Wikidata and the Ethics of “Free” Data.” International Journal of Communication.  2024. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/20807/4453

[21] Vetter, Matthew A., and Zachary J. McDowell. “A Spectrum of Surveillance: Charting Functions of Epistemic Inequality Across EdTech Platforms in the PostCovid Era.” Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, vol. 20, no. 2, February 2023, https://doi.org/10.53761/1.20.02.02.

[20] McDowell, Zachary J., and Matthew A. Vetter. “Fast ‘Truths’ and Slow Knowledge; Oracular Answers and Wikipedia’s Epistemology.” Fast Capitalism, vol. 19, no. 1, November 2022, https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.202201.009. 

[19] Vetter, Matthew A., et al. “Assessing the Art + Feminism Edit-a-Thon for Wikipedia Literacy, Learning Outcomes, and Critical Thinking.” Interactive Learning Environments, vol. 30, no. 6, July 2022, pp. 1155–67, https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2020.1805772.

[18] McDowell, Zachary J., and Matthew A. Vetter. “Wikipedia as Open Educational Practice: Experiential Learning, Critical Information Literacy, and Social Justice.” Social Media + Society, vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221078224.

[17] Vetter, Matthew A., Brent Lucia, and Oksana Moroz. “The Rhetoric of Locative Media: A Discursive/Material Look at Google Lens.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 40, no. 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2020.1841452.

[16] Xing, Jiawei and Matthew A. Vetter. “Editing for Equity: Understanding Instructor Motivations for Integrating Cross-disciplinary Wikipedia-based Assignments.” First Monday, vol. 25, no. 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i6.10575.

[15] Vetter, Matthew A. “Broadening Representations of Rhetoric in Wikipedia: Disciplinary Praxis as Graduate Pedagogy.” Studies in Higher Education, vol. 45, no. 5, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1749798.

[14] McDowell, Zachary J., and Matthew A. Vetter. “It Takes a Village to Combat a Fake News Army: Wikipedia’s Community and Policies for Information Literacy.” Social Media + Society, vol. 6, no. 3, 2020, p. 205630512093730, https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120937309.

[13] Jiang, Jialei and Matthew A. Vetter. “A Feminist Rhetorical approach to Wikipedia-based Writing Instruction in First-Year Composition Classrooms.” Composition Forum, vol. 45, 2020. http://compositionforum.com/issue/45/wikipedia.php.

[12] Vetter, Matthew A., and Oksana Moroz. “Wikipedia-based Education for First Year Composition.” Composition Studies, vol. 47, no. 2, 2019. https://compstudiesjournal.com/issues/current-issue-fall-2019-47-2/.

[11] Jiang, Jialei and Matthew A. Vetter. “The Good, the Bot, and the Ugly: (Mis)Information and Critical Media Literacy in the Postdigital Era.” Postdigital Science and Education, vol. 2, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-019-00069-4.

[10] Vetter, Matthew A., Zachary McDowell, and Mahala Stewart. “From Opportunities to Outcomes: The Wikipedia-based Writing Assignment.” Computers and Composition, vol. 51, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2019.01.008.

[9] Vetter, Matthew A., John Andelfinger, Shahla Asadolahi, Wenqi Cui, Jialei Jiang, Tyrone Jones, Zeeshan Siddique, Inggrit Tanasale, Jiawei Xing, and Ebenezer Ylonfoun. “Wikipedia’s Gender Gap and Disciplinary Praxis: Representing Women Scholars in Digital Rhetoric and Writing Fields.” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, vol. 2, no. 2, 2018. http://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/2-2-vetter-et-al.

[8] Vetter, Matthew A. “Teaching Wikipedia: Appalachian Rhetoric and the Encyclopedic Politics of Representation.” College English, vol. 80, no. 5, 2018, pp. 397-422. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26773390.

[7] Vetter, Matthew A., and Matthew Nunes. “Writing Theory for the Multimajor Professional Writing Course.” Pedagogy, vol. 18, no. 1, 2018, pp. 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-4217010.

[6] Vetter, Matthew A., Theresa McDevitt, Dan Weinstein and Ken Sherwood. “Critical Digital Praxis in Wikipedia: The Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon.” Hybrid Pedagogy, 2017. https://hybridpedagogy.org/wikipedia-art-feminism-edit-a-thon/.

[5] Vetter, Matthew A., and Keon Pettiway. “Hacking Hetero/Normative Logics: Queer Feminist Media Praxis in Wikipedia.” Technoculture, vol. 7, 2017. https://tcjournal.org/vol7/hacking-hetero-normative-logics. 

[4] Vetter, Matthew A. “Archive 2.0: What Composition Students and Academic Libraries Can Gain from Digital-Collaborative Pedagogies.” Composition Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, 2014, pp. 35-53. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1031809.

[3] Vetter, Matthew A. “Queer the Tech: Genderbending and Anti-Consumer Activism in Social Media.” Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion, vol. 11, 2014. http://harlotofthearts.org/index.php/harlot/article/view/195/148.

[2] Vetter, Matthew A., and Sara Harrington. “Integrating Special Collections into the Composition Classroom: A Case Study of Collaborative Digital Curriculum.” Research Library Issues, vol. 283, 2013. https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.283.4.

[1] Vetter, Matthew A. “Composing with Wikipedia: A Classroom Study of Online Writing.” Computers and Composition Online, 2013. http://candcblog.org/mvetter/public_html/composingwithwikipedia/.

Book Chapters

[7] Vetter, Matthew A. “Knowledge Equity Strives for Universal Access and Participation in Human Knowledge.” Digital Literacies for Human Connection: 25 Ways to Engage Students in People-Centered Digital Practices, edited by David Coad, Rich Shivener, and Amber Buck. NCTE, 2026. 208-216

[6] Vetter, Matthew A. and Oksana Moroz. “You are Good for Wikipedia.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 6, edited by Trace Daniels-Lerberg, Dana Driscoll, Mary Stewart, and Matthew Vetter, Parlor Press, 2023. 

[5] Vetter, Matthew A.. “Collaboration.” In J. Tham (Ed.), Keywords in Design Thinking: A Primer ForMakers, Designers, & Technical Communicators. Parlor Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.37514/TPC-B.2022.1725.2.08

[4] Heise, Megan and Matthew A. Vetter. “Centering Translingualism in Multimodal Practice: A Reflective Case Study of a Linguistically Diverse Graduate Program.” Professionalizing Multimodal Composition, Eds. Shyam Pandy and Santosh Khadka. Utah State U P, 2023.

[3] Jiang, Jialei and Matthew A. Vetter. “Writing against the ‘Epistemology of Deceit’ on Wikipedia: A Feminist New Materialist Perspective Towards Critical Media Literacy and Wikipedia-based Education.” The Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era: Dupery by Design, Eds. Alison MacKenzie, Jennifer Rose, and Ibrar Bhatt. Springer, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72154-1_9.

[2] Vetter, Matthew A. “Possible Enlightenments: Wikipedia’s Encyclopedic Promise and Epistemological Failure.” Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution. Eds. Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12366.003.0024.

[1] Vetter, Matthew A., and Cori Woods. “The Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Critical Information Literacy and Public Service.” Library Service and Learning: Empowering Students, Inspiring Social Responsibility, and Building Community Connections. Eds. Theresa McDevitt and Caleb Finegan, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2018. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1086477735.

Reviews

Vetter, Matthew A. “Giota Alevizou, The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age” [Review]. International Journal of Communication, vol. 20, 2026. https://doi.org/10.65476/6m9r5d24.

Vetter, Matthew A. “Webtext of the Month: ‘Let Me Queer My Throat’” Review of “Let Me Queer My Throat: Queer Rhetorics of Negotiation: Marriage Equality and Homonormativity,” by Hillery Glasby.” Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, University of Michigan Press/University of Michigan Center for Writing, 2014. https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2014/11/18/webtext-of-the-month-let-me-queer-my-throat/.

Non-Refereed & Popular Writing

Vetter, Matthew A. “Why You Need to Understand Wikidata, No Matter What Field You’re In.” Wiki Education Blog. 21 Dec., 2021. https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/12/21/why-you-need-to-understand-wikidata-no-matter-what-field-youre-in/

McDowell, Zachary J. and Matthew A. Vetter. “Seeing the world like Wikipedia: What you should know about how the world’s largest encyclopedia works.” LSE Impact Blog. Nov 18, 2021. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2021/11/18/seeing-the-world-like-wikipedia-what-you-should-know-about-how-the-worlds-largest-encyclopedia-works/

Vetter, Matthew A., and Veronica Paz. “Using LittleBits Robot Kits to Sponsor Community Building and Student Engagement Across Campus.” IUP Center for Teaching Excellence Blog, IUP, 19 Nov., 2018, iblog.iup.edu/ctebloggers/2018/11/19/using-littlebits-robot-kits-to-sponsor-community-building-and-student-engagement-across-campus/.

Vetter, Matthew A. “On Weariness, Privilege and Community: New Faculty Reflections on the Strike.” Works & Days, no. 35, 2017, pp. 113-115. 

Vetter, Matthew A. “Wiki Ed and Digital Humanities: Pedagogy That Works.” Wiki Education Blog, 3 Nov. 2015, wikiedu.org/blog/2015/10/26/wikipedia-digital-humanities-pedagogy/.

Vetter, Matthew A., and Sarah Einstein. “Women Writing in Digital Spaces: Engaging #Gamergate and Twine in the Gender Studies-Composition Course.” Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Blog Carnival 6: Gaming and Social Justice, 2015. https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2015/05/07/women-writing-in-digital-spaces-engaging-gamergate-and-twine-in-the-gender-studies-composition-course/.

Vetter, Matthew A., Char Booth, Ryan McGrady, Diana Strassman, and Eryk Salvaggio. “Theories: Wikipedia and the Production of Knowledge.” Wiki Education Foundation, 2015. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theories_Wikipedia_and_the_production_of_knowledge.pdf.