Selected Publications and Creative Works
Curriculum Vitae
Books
Black, R.W. (2008). Adolescents and online fan fiction. New York: Peter Lang.
Articles in Refereed Journals
da Silva Campelo Costa Barcellos, P., Reateagui, E., & Black, R. W. (2020). Digital literacy in foreign language through text mining and fanfiction writing. Revista X.
B. Tomlinson, A. Torrance, R. W. Black, M. S. Silberman, Y. Xie, and P. S. Atwal. To appear. “Judging Corporate Directors by the Companies They Keep: Results from an Interactive Simulation about the Motivations of Corporate Directors.” To appear in University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs.
B. Tomlinson, M. S. Silberman, A. Torrance, Y. Xie, R. W. Black, K. Squire, P. S. Atwal, A. Mandalik, and S. Railkar. To appear. “Accountability with a Capital ‘Ism’: A Computational Simulation of the Accountable Capitalism Act vs. Delaware Corporate Law.” To appear in Ohio State Technology Law Journal.
Krishnan, J., Black, R. W., & Olson, C. B. (2020). The power of context: Exploring teachers’ formative assessment for online collaborative writing. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 1-20.
Olson, C. B., Woodworth, K., Arshan, N., Black, R. W., Chung, H. Q., D’Aoust, C., Dewar, T., Friedrich, L., Godfrey, L., Land, R., Matuchniak, T., Scarcella, R., & Stowell, L. (2019). The pathway to academic success: Scaling up a text-based analytical writing intervention for Latinos and English learners in secondary school. Journal of Educational Psychology.
Black, R. W., Alexander, J., Chen, V., & Duarte, J. (2019). Representations of Autism in Harry Potter Fanfiction. Journal of Literacy Research.
Reich, S. M., Black, R. W., & +Foliaki, T. (2017). Constructing difference: Lego® set narratives promote stereotypic gender roles and play. Sex Roles. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0868-2
Black, R. W., Alexander, J., & *Korobkova, K. (2017). Flows of literacy across corporate and user-produced virtual worlds. Teachers College Record.
Missakian, I., Olson, C. B., Black, R. W. & Matuchniak, T. (2016). Writing center efficacy at the community college: How students, tutors, and instructors concur and diverge in their perceptions of services. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 44 (1), 57-78.
Black, R. W. (2016). Review of Handbook of Digital Media and Society. Education Review, 23.
Black, R. W., Tomlinson, B. & Korobkova, K. (2016). Play and identity in gendered LEGO franchises. International Journal of Play, 5(1) 64-76
Alexander, J. & Black, R. W. (2015). The darker side of the sorting hat: Representations of educational testing in dystopian young adult fiction. Children’s Literature, 43, 208-234.
Korobkova, K. & Black, R. W. (2014). Contrasting visions: Identity, literacy, and boundary work in a fan community. E-Learning and Digital Media, 11 (6) 619-632.
Reich, S. M., Black, R. W., & Korobkova, K. (2014). Establishing connections and community in virtual worlds for children. Journal of Community Psychology, 42 (3) 255-267.
Black, R. W., Korobkova, K. & Epler, A. (2013). Barbie Girls and Xtractaurs: Discourse and identity in virtual worlds for young children. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.
Long, J., van Es, E. & Black, R. W. (2013). Supervisor-student teacher interactions: The role of conversational frames in developing a vision of ambitious teaching. Linguistics and Education.
Rama, P. S., Black, R. W., van Es, E. & Warshauer, M. (2012). Second language learning in World of Warcraft. ReCALL.
Reich, S. M. & Black, R. W. (2012). Missed opportunities on Webkinz when developmental abilities are not considered. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
Black, R. W. & Reich, S. M. (2011). Affordances and constraints of scaffolded learning in a virtual world for young children. International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 1 (2), 52-64.
Black, R. W. (2010). The language of Webkinz: Early childhood literacy in an online virtual world. Digital Culture and Education, 2 (1), 7-24.
Black, R. W. (2009-10). Online fan fiction and critical media literacy. Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 26 (2), 75-80.
Thorne, S. L., Black, R. W., & Sykes, J. (2009). Second language use, socialization, and learning in Internet interest communities and online games. Modern Language Journal, 93, 802-821.
Black, R.W. (2009). Online fanfiction, global identities, and imagination. Research in the Teaching of English, 43 (4), 397-425.
Black, R.W. (2009). English language learners, fan communities, and twenty-first century skills. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 52 (8), 688-697.
Lewis, L., Black, R., & Tomlinson, B. (2009). Let everyone play: An educational perspective on why fan fiction is or should be legal. International Journal of Learning and Media, 1 (1), 67-81.
Tomlinson, B., *Baumer, E., *Yau, M.L., Carpenter, L., & Black, R.W. (2008). A participatory simulation for informal learning in restoration ecology. E-Learning and Digital Media, 5 (3), 238-255.
Thorne, S.L., & Black, R. (2007). Language and literacy development in computer mediated contexts and communities. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 27, 1-28.
Black, R.W. (2007). Fanfiction writing and the construction of space. E-Learning and Digital Media,(4) 4, 384-397.
Gomez, M.L., Black, R.W., & Allen, A.R. (2007). “Becoming” a teacher. Teachers College Record, 109 (9).
Black, R.W. (2006). Language, culture, and identity in online fanfiction. E-Learning and Digital Media, 3 (2), 170-184.
Black, R.W. (2005). Access and affiliation: The literacy and composition practices of English language learners in an online fanfiction community. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 49 (2), 118-128.
Steinkuehler, C.A., Black, R.W., & Clinton, K.A. (2004). Researching literacy as tool, place, and way of being. Reading Research Quarterly, 40 (1), 7-12.
Conference Papers
Johnson, J., Hayes, G., & Black, R. W. (2020) Roles in the Discussion: An Analysis of Social Support in an Online Forum for People with Dementia. In Proceedings of the CSCW conference on computer supported collaborative work. PACM-HCI, in press.
B. Tomlinson, M. S. Silberman, A. Torrance, K. Squire, P. S. Atwal, A. Mandalik, S. Railkar, R. W. Black. (2020). A Participatory Simulation of the Accountable Capitalism Act. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI ’20). ACM, in press.
Johnson, J., Black, R. W., Chen, Y., & Hayes, G. R. (2019, November). Older Adults with Dementia in an Online Forum: A Preliminary Analysis. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 231-235).
Black, R.W., Tomlinson, B., Korobkova, K. & Ivy, S. (2014). Learning, play, and identity in gendered Lego franchises. Games, Learning, and Society Conference, Madison, WI. (1 Page)
B. Tomlinson, J. Ross, P. André, E.P.S. Baumer, D.J. Patterson, J. Corneli, M. Mahaux, S. Nobarany, M. Lazzari, P. Penzenstadler, A.W. Torrance, D.J. Callele, G.M. Olson, M.S. Silberman, M. Ständer, F.R. Palamedi, A. Salah, E. Morrill, X. Franch, F. Mueller, J. Kaye, R.W. Black, M.L. Cohn, P.C. Shih, J. Brewer, N. Goyal, P. Näkki, J. Huang, N. Baghaei, and C. Saper. 2012. “Massively Distributed Authorship of Academic Papers.” ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012) Extended Abstracts (alt.chi). 10 pages.
Marcu, G., +Kaufman, S.J., Lee J.K., Black, R.W., Dourish, P., Hayes, G.R., Richardson, D.J. Design and Evaluation of a Computer Science and Engineering Course for Middle School Girls. Proceedings of SIGCSE 2010.
Book Chapters
Alexander, J., & Black, R. W. (2017). The darker side of the sorting hat: Representations of educational testing in dystopian young adult fiction. In Alexander, J., Writing youth: Young adult fiction as literacy sponsorship (pp. 55-78). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Black, R. W. (2017). Discourse analytic methods for understanding online writing communities. In Knobel, M. & Lankshear, C. (Eds.), Researching New Literacies: Design, theory and data in sociocultural investigation. New York: Peter Lang.
Black, R. W. (2017). Fan fiction. In Peppler, K. (Ed.) Sage encyclopedia of out-of-school learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Reich, S. M., Korbokova, K., Black, R. & Sumaroka, M. (2013). “Hey! Can you show me how to do this?”: Digital Games Mediating Family Interactions. In Marsh, J. & Burke, A. (Eds.), Children's virtual play worlds: Culture, learning and participation. New York: Peter Lang.
Black, R. W. & Reich, S. (2012). A sociocultural approach to exploring virtual worlds. G. Merchant, J. Gillen, J. Marsh & J. Davies (Eds.), Virtual literacies: Interactive spaces for children and young people. London: Routledge.
Black, R. W. & Reich, S. (2012). Culture and community in a virtual world for young children. In C. Steinkuehler, K. Squire, & S. Barab (Eds.), Games, learning, and society: Learning and meaning in the digital age. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Thorne, S. & Black, R.W. (2011). Interaction and identity in Internet-mediated contexts. In C. Higgins (Ed.), Negotiating the self in a second language: Identity formation and cross-cultural adaptation in a globalizing world. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Warschauer, M., Black, R. W., & *Chou, Y.-L. (2010). Online Englishes. In A. Kirkpatrick (Ed.), World Englishes handbook. New York: Routledge.
Black, R.W. & Steinkuehler, C. A. (2009). Adolescents in virtual worlds. In L. Christenbury, R. Bomer, & P. Smagorinski (Eds.), Handbook of adolescent literacy research. Guilford Press.
Black, R.W. (2008). Convergence and divergence: Online fanfiction communities and literacy pedagogy. In Z. Bekerman, N. Burbules, H. Giroux, & D. Silberman-Keller (Eds.), Mirror images: Popular culture and education. New York: Peter Lang.
Black, R. W. (2008). Just don’t call them cartoons: The new literacy spaces of animé, manga, and fanfiction. In D. Leu, J. Coiro, C. Lankshear, & M. Knobel (Eds.), Handbook of research on new literacies. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Black, R.W. (2007). Digital design: English language learners and reader feedback in online fanfiction. In M. Knobel & C. Lankshear (Eds.), A new literacies sampler. New York: Peter Lang.
Creative Works
Black, R. W. (2015). Pathway Project i3 Student Welcome Video. (a video introducing students to the i3 Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. (2014). A Place to Stand Edited Video. (Edited video to be used with the i3 Pathway Project curricular materials).
Black, R. W. (2014). A Dolphin Tribute Video. (a video to be used with the i3 Pathway Project curricular materials).
Black, R. W. (2014). Cognitive Strategies Video. (a video to help students learn about cognitive strategies for improving their academic writing for the i3 Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. (2014). OELA Pathway Project Wiki. (a professional development wiki for educators for the OELA Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. (2014). i3 Pathway Project Wiki. (a professional development wiki for educators for the i3 Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. & Tomlinson, B. (2014). Grammar Brushstrokes. (a website for teachers and students to help students improve their academic writing skills via writing, peer-review, revision, and teacher feedback for the i3 Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. & Tomlinson, B. (2014). UCI Highlighter. (a tool to help students differentiate between evidence, summary, and commentary in their academic writing).
Tomlinson, B. & Black, R. W. (2011). The Seed Cycle. Apple App Store. (educational iPadapplication for teaching children about plant growth and pollination)
Books
Black, R.W. (2008). Adolescents and online fan fiction. New York: Peter Lang.
Articles in Refereed Journals
da Silva Campelo Costa Barcellos, P., Reateagui, E., & Black, R. W. (2020). Digital literacy in foreign language through text mining and fanfiction writing. Revista X.
B. Tomlinson, A. Torrance, R. W. Black, M. S. Silberman, Y. Xie, and P. S. Atwal. To appear. “Judging Corporate Directors by the Companies They Keep: Results from an Interactive Simulation about the Motivations of Corporate Directors.” To appear in University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs.
B. Tomlinson, M. S. Silberman, A. Torrance, Y. Xie, R. W. Black, K. Squire, P. S. Atwal, A. Mandalik, and S. Railkar. To appear. “Accountability with a Capital ‘Ism’: A Computational Simulation of the Accountable Capitalism Act vs. Delaware Corporate Law.” To appear in Ohio State Technology Law Journal.
Krishnan, J., Black, R. W., & Olson, C. B. (2020). The power of context: Exploring teachers’ formative assessment for online collaborative writing. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 1-20.
Olson, C. B., Woodworth, K., Arshan, N., Black, R. W., Chung, H. Q., D’Aoust, C., Dewar, T., Friedrich, L., Godfrey, L., Land, R., Matuchniak, T., Scarcella, R., & Stowell, L. (2019). The pathway to academic success: Scaling up a text-based analytical writing intervention for Latinos and English learners in secondary school. Journal of Educational Psychology.
Black, R. W., Alexander, J., Chen, V., & Duarte, J. (2019). Representations of Autism in Harry Potter Fanfiction. Journal of Literacy Research.
Reich, S. M., Black, R. W., & +Foliaki, T. (2017). Constructing difference: Lego® set narratives promote stereotypic gender roles and play. Sex Roles. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0868-2
Black, R. W., Alexander, J., & *Korobkova, K. (2017). Flows of literacy across corporate and user-produced virtual worlds. Teachers College Record.
Missakian, I., Olson, C. B., Black, R. W. & Matuchniak, T. (2016). Writing center efficacy at the community college: How students, tutors, and instructors concur and diverge in their perceptions of services. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 44 (1), 57-78.
Black, R. W. (2016). Review of Handbook of Digital Media and Society. Education Review, 23.
Black, R. W., Tomlinson, B. & Korobkova, K. (2016). Play and identity in gendered LEGO franchises. International Journal of Play, 5(1) 64-76
Alexander, J. & Black, R. W. (2015). The darker side of the sorting hat: Representations of educational testing in dystopian young adult fiction. Children’s Literature, 43, 208-234.
Korobkova, K. & Black, R. W. (2014). Contrasting visions: Identity, literacy, and boundary work in a fan community. E-Learning and Digital Media, 11 (6) 619-632.
Reich, S. M., Black, R. W., & Korobkova, K. (2014). Establishing connections and community in virtual worlds for children. Journal of Community Psychology, 42 (3) 255-267.
Black, R. W., Korobkova, K. & Epler, A. (2013). Barbie Girls and Xtractaurs: Discourse and identity in virtual worlds for young children. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.
Long, J., van Es, E. & Black, R. W. (2013). Supervisor-student teacher interactions: The role of conversational frames in developing a vision of ambitious teaching. Linguistics and Education.
Rama, P. S., Black, R. W., van Es, E. & Warshauer, M. (2012). Second language learning in World of Warcraft. ReCALL.
Reich, S. M. & Black, R. W. (2012). Missed opportunities on Webkinz when developmental abilities are not considered. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
Black, R. W. & Reich, S. M. (2011). Affordances and constraints of scaffolded learning in a virtual world for young children. International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 1 (2), 52-64.
Black, R. W. (2010). The language of Webkinz: Early childhood literacy in an online virtual world. Digital Culture and Education, 2 (1), 7-24.
Black, R. W. (2009-10). Online fan fiction and critical media literacy. Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 26 (2), 75-80.
Thorne, S. L., Black, R. W., & Sykes, J. (2009). Second language use, socialization, and learning in Internet interest communities and online games. Modern Language Journal, 93, 802-821.
Black, R.W. (2009). Online fanfiction, global identities, and imagination. Research in the Teaching of English, 43 (4), 397-425.
Black, R.W. (2009). English language learners, fan communities, and twenty-first century skills. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 52 (8), 688-697.
Lewis, L., Black, R., & Tomlinson, B. (2009). Let everyone play: An educational perspective on why fan fiction is or should be legal. International Journal of Learning and Media, 1 (1), 67-81.
Tomlinson, B., *Baumer, E., *Yau, M.L., Carpenter, L., & Black, R.W. (2008). A participatory simulation for informal learning in restoration ecology. E-Learning and Digital Media, 5 (3), 238-255.
Thorne, S.L., & Black, R. (2007). Language and literacy development in computer mediated contexts and communities. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 27, 1-28.
Black, R.W. (2007). Fanfiction writing and the construction of space. E-Learning and Digital Media,(4) 4, 384-397.
Gomez, M.L., Black, R.W., & Allen, A.R. (2007). “Becoming” a teacher. Teachers College Record, 109 (9).
Black, R.W. (2006). Language, culture, and identity in online fanfiction. E-Learning and Digital Media, 3 (2), 170-184.
Black, R.W. (2005). Access and affiliation: The literacy and composition practices of English language learners in an online fanfiction community. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 49 (2), 118-128.
Steinkuehler, C.A., Black, R.W., & Clinton, K.A. (2004). Researching literacy as tool, place, and way of being. Reading Research Quarterly, 40 (1), 7-12.
Conference Papers
Johnson, J., Hayes, G., & Black, R. W. (2020) Roles in the Discussion: An Analysis of Social Support in an Online Forum for People with Dementia. In Proceedings of the CSCW conference on computer supported collaborative work. PACM-HCI, in press.
B. Tomlinson, M. S. Silberman, A. Torrance, K. Squire, P. S. Atwal, A. Mandalik, S. Railkar, R. W. Black. (2020). A Participatory Simulation of the Accountable Capitalism Act. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI ’20). ACM, in press.
Johnson, J., Black, R. W., Chen, Y., & Hayes, G. R. (2019, November). Older Adults with Dementia in an Online Forum: A Preliminary Analysis. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 231-235).
Black, R.W., Tomlinson, B., Korobkova, K. & Ivy, S. (2014). Learning, play, and identity in gendered Lego franchises. Games, Learning, and Society Conference, Madison, WI. (1 Page)
B. Tomlinson, J. Ross, P. André, E.P.S. Baumer, D.J. Patterson, J. Corneli, M. Mahaux, S. Nobarany, M. Lazzari, P. Penzenstadler, A.W. Torrance, D.J. Callele, G.M. Olson, M.S. Silberman, M. Ständer, F.R. Palamedi, A. Salah, E. Morrill, X. Franch, F. Mueller, J. Kaye, R.W. Black, M.L. Cohn, P.C. Shih, J. Brewer, N. Goyal, P. Näkki, J. Huang, N. Baghaei, and C. Saper. 2012. “Massively Distributed Authorship of Academic Papers.” ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012) Extended Abstracts (alt.chi). 10 pages.
Marcu, G., +Kaufman, S.J., Lee J.K., Black, R.W., Dourish, P., Hayes, G.R., Richardson, D.J. Design and Evaluation of a Computer Science and Engineering Course for Middle School Girls. Proceedings of SIGCSE 2010.
Book Chapters
Alexander, J., & Black, R. W. (2017). The darker side of the sorting hat: Representations of educational testing in dystopian young adult fiction. In Alexander, J., Writing youth: Young adult fiction as literacy sponsorship (pp. 55-78). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Black, R. W. (2017). Discourse analytic methods for understanding online writing communities. In Knobel, M. & Lankshear, C. (Eds.), Researching New Literacies: Design, theory and data in sociocultural investigation. New York: Peter Lang.
Black, R. W. (2017). Fan fiction. In Peppler, K. (Ed.) Sage encyclopedia of out-of-school learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Reich, S. M., Korbokova, K., Black, R. & Sumaroka, M. (2013). “Hey! Can you show me how to do this?”: Digital Games Mediating Family Interactions. In Marsh, J. & Burke, A. (Eds.), Children's virtual play worlds: Culture, learning and participation. New York: Peter Lang.
Black, R. W. & Reich, S. (2012). A sociocultural approach to exploring virtual worlds. G. Merchant, J. Gillen, J. Marsh & J. Davies (Eds.), Virtual literacies: Interactive spaces for children and young people. London: Routledge.
Black, R. W. & Reich, S. (2012). Culture and community in a virtual world for young children. In C. Steinkuehler, K. Squire, & S. Barab (Eds.), Games, learning, and society: Learning and meaning in the digital age. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Thorne, S. & Black, R.W. (2011). Interaction and identity in Internet-mediated contexts. In C. Higgins (Ed.), Negotiating the self in a second language: Identity formation and cross-cultural adaptation in a globalizing world. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Warschauer, M., Black, R. W., & *Chou, Y.-L. (2010). Online Englishes. In A. Kirkpatrick (Ed.), World Englishes handbook. New York: Routledge.
Black, R.W. & Steinkuehler, C. A. (2009). Adolescents in virtual worlds. In L. Christenbury, R. Bomer, & P. Smagorinski (Eds.), Handbook of adolescent literacy research. Guilford Press.
Black, R.W. (2008). Convergence and divergence: Online fanfiction communities and literacy pedagogy. In Z. Bekerman, N. Burbules, H. Giroux, & D. Silberman-Keller (Eds.), Mirror images: Popular culture and education. New York: Peter Lang.
Black, R. W. (2008). Just don’t call them cartoons: The new literacy spaces of animé, manga, and fanfiction. In D. Leu, J. Coiro, C. Lankshear, & M. Knobel (Eds.), Handbook of research on new literacies. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Black, R.W. (2007). Digital design: English language learners and reader feedback in online fanfiction. In M. Knobel & C. Lankshear (Eds.), A new literacies sampler. New York: Peter Lang.
Creative Works
Black, R. W. (2015). Pathway Project i3 Student Welcome Video. (a video introducing students to the i3 Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. (2014). A Place to Stand Edited Video. (Edited video to be used with the i3 Pathway Project curricular materials).
Black, R. W. (2014). A Dolphin Tribute Video. (a video to be used with the i3 Pathway Project curricular materials).
Black, R. W. (2014). Cognitive Strategies Video. (a video to help students learn about cognitive strategies for improving their academic writing for the i3 Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. (2014). OELA Pathway Project Wiki. (a professional development wiki for educators for the OELA Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. (2014). i3 Pathway Project Wiki. (a professional development wiki for educators for the i3 Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. & Tomlinson, B. (2014). Grammar Brushstrokes. (a website for teachers and students to help students improve their academic writing skills via writing, peer-review, revision, and teacher feedback for the i3 Pathway Project).
Black, R. W. & Tomlinson, B. (2014). UCI Highlighter. (a tool to help students differentiate between evidence, summary, and commentary in their academic writing).
Tomlinson, B. & Black, R. W. (2011). The Seed Cycle. Apple App Store. (educational iPadapplication for teaching children about plant growth and pollination)
