Selected publications online. Here you find preprint versions of published and upublished work.
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Humanities Computing
Challenges in Curating Real-Time Data: COVID-19 Data for Alberta
Co-authored with Tchoh, B., Barnard, S., Budac, R., Ingram, K., Chartier, R., and Baumgart, D. C. in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. 2025.
Tremendous Mechanical Labor: Father Busa's Algorithm
Co-authored with Sinclair, S. in Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 14, No. 3. 2020.
Tool criticism in practice. On methods, tools and aims of computational literary studies
Co-authored with Herrmann, J. B., Bories, A., Frontini, F., Jacquot, C., Pielström, S., Rebora, S., and Sinclair, S. in Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 17, No. 2. Rockwell and Sinclair were responsible for the section on "Recapitulation, Replication, Reanalysis, Repetition, or Revivification." 2020.
Absorbing DiRT: Tool Directories in the Digital Age
Co-authored with Grant, Kaitlyn, Quinn Dombrowski, Kamal Ranaweera, Omar Rodriguez-Arenas, and Stéfan Sinclair in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. Vol. 10, No. 1. 2020.
The Interface of the Digital Library: The Perseus Digital Library as a Case Study
Co-authored with Vela, S., Cerrato, L. M., Ilovan, M., and Ruecker, S. in Minds Alive: Libraries and Archives Now. Eds. Demers, P. and A. Samek. University of Toronto Press, p. 101-117. 2020.
The Index Thomisticus as a Big Data Project
Co-authored with Passarotti, M. in Umanistica Digitale. Vol. 5. 2019.
Too Much Information and the KWIC
Co-authored with Sinclair, Stéfan in Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 11, No. 4, P. 443-452. 2018.
Co-authored with Budac, A., Palmer, Z., Budac, R., Suomela, T., Sinclair, S., Ruecker, S., and INKE Team in Journal for the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities. Vol. 2 (2017) No. 1, p. 73-89. 2017.
On Big Data and Text Mining in the Humanities
Co-authored with Berendt, B. in Data Mining and Learning Analytics: Applications in Educational Research (1st ed.). Eds. ElAtia, S., Ipperciel, D., & O. Zaïane. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, p. 29-40. 2016.
Scholarly Editions in print and on the screen: A theoretical comparison
Co-authored with Sondheim, D., Ruecker, S., Ilovan, M., Frizzera, L., Windsor, J., and INKE Research Group in Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century. Ed. Brent Nelson and Richard Cunningham. Digital Studies/Champ Numérique. 2016.
The Rise and Fall of Tool-Related Topics in CHum
Co-authored with Simpson, J., Dyrbye, A., and Chartier, R. in Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. Vol. 5, No. 3. 2016.
Les potentialités du texte numérique
Co-authored with S. Sinclair in Pratiques de l'édition numérique. Collection Parcours numériques. Ed. M. Vitali-Rosati and M. E. Sinatra. Montréal, Canada: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014, p. 191-204.
Burying Dead Projects: Depositing the Globalization Compendium
Co-authored with Day, S., Yu, J., and M. Engel in Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 8, No. 2. 2014.
A Visual Workflow Interface for the Editorial Process
Co-authored with Frizzera, L., Radzikowska, M., Roeder, G., Peña, E., Dobson, T., Ruecker, S., Brown, S. and the INKE Research Group in Literary and Linguistic Computing. Vol. 28, No. 4. Pages 615-628. 2013.
Ukrainian Folklore Audio Project
Co-authored with Sellmer, M., Kononenko, N., Chernyavska, M., and K. Anvik in Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. Vol. 3, No. 2. 2012.
Before the Beginning: The Formation of Humanities Computing as a Discipline in Canada
Co-authored with Gouglas, S., Smith, V., Hoosein, S., and H. Quamen in Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. Vol. 3, No. 1. 2012.
Trading Stories: an Oral History Conversation between Geoffrey Rockwell and Julianne Nyhan
Co-authored with Nyhan, J., Welsh, A., and J. Salmon. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 6, No. 3. 2012.
The Design of an International Social Media Event: A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities 2009
Co-authored with Organisciak, P., Meredith-Lobay, M., Ranaweera, K., Ruecker, S., and J. Nyhan in Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 6, No. 2. 2012.
Acculturation and the Digital Humanities Community
Co-authored with S. Sinclair in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, and Politics. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch. OpenBook Publishers, 2012, p. 177-211.
Crowdsourcing the Humanities: Social Research and Collaboration
Chapter in Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Marilyn Deegan and Willard McCarty. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, P. 135-154. 2012
As Transparent as Infrastructure; On the research of cyberinfrastructure in the humanities
Chapter in Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come. Proceedings of the Mellon Foundation Online Humanities Conference at the University of Virginia, March 26-28, 2010, edited by Jerome McGann. Houston, Rice University Press, 2010. Pages 461-487.
The Canadian Arts and Humanities Computing Centre: Past, Present, and Possible Futures
Co-author with Siemens, Burk, Butler, Gerrity, and Liddell of a section in Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, edited by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 257-284. My sub-section, “Humanities Computing at McMaster” runs from p. 259-266.
Untitled Number 4: A Brechto-Socratic Dialogue
Co-authored with Stephen Ramsay, this is an updated version of a dialogue performed at the ACH/ALLC 2003 in Athens, Georgia. The original Untitled Number 4 was a literary program and can be found here.
Multimedia, Is it a Discipline? The Liberal and Servile Arts in Humanities Computing
Online version of "Multimedia, Is it a Discipline? The Liberal and Servile Arts in Humanities Computing", in the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie – online, vol. 4, 2002. A print version of the collection is also available.
Is humanities computing an academic discipline?
Presented for a seminar on that subject at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA in November 1999. The seminar was organized by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
“Report on the Questionnaire”, TheCredibility of Electronic Publishing
Online version of the section "Report on Responses to Questionnaire" written with Lynne Siemens. This is one section of “The Credibility of Electronic Publishing” which was led by Raymond Siemens. It is online and was published in Text Technology, Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 210-228
Text Analysis and Visualization
Co-edited with Nyhan, J., Sinclair, S., and Ortolja-Baird, A. London, UK: UCL Press. I co-authored the Introduction with Nyhan and wrote the final chapter, "If Voyant then Spyral: remembering Stéfan Sinclair." 2023.
Social Analytics Through Spyral
Co-authored with Land, K., and MacDonald, A. in Pop! Public. Open. Participatory. No. 3. 2021.
Reading Text Analysis Tools
In The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura. Eds. Ohno, Hideshi, Kazuho Mizuno and Osamu Imahayashi. Hiroshima: Keisuisha. 16 Pages. 2018.
Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities
Co-authored with Sinclair, S. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. This book is part of a hybrid Text and Tool project with Voyant 2.0. (246 pages). 2016.
Thinking-through the history of computer-assisted text analysis
Co-authored with Sinclair, S. in Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research. Eds. Crompton, C., Lane, R., and R. Siemens. New York: Routledge, p. 9-21. 2016.
Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count
Co-authored with Sinclair, S. in A New Companion to the Digital Humanities. Eds. Schreibman, S., Siemens, R., and J. Unsworth. Wiley-Blackwell, p. 274-290. 2016.
Is it Research or is it Spying? Thinking-Through Ethics in Big Data AI and Other Knowledge Sciences
Co-authored with B. Berendt and M. Buchler in Künstliche Intelligenz (German Journal of Artificial Intelligence.) A pre-print author version is here.
Teaching Computer-Assisted Text Analysis: Approaches to Learning New Methodologies
Co-authored with S. Sinclair in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, and Politics. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch. OpenBook Publishers, 2012, p. 241-263.
Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities
Co-authored with Stephen Ramsay this is a chapter in Debates in the Digital Humanities. Ed Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Primary author with Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker, and Peter Organisciak of article in Visualizing the Archive, an issue of the Poetess Archive Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2010). PDF is 18 pages.
The Big See: Large Scale Visualization
Primary author with Garry Wong, Stan Ruecker, Megan Meredith-Lobay, and Stéfan Sinclair or article in the online Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, University of Chicago, Vol 1, No 2, 2010. PDF is 14 pages.
Between Language and Literature: Digital Text Exploration
Chapter co-authored with Stéfan Sinclair in Teaching Literature and Language Online, edited by Ian Lancashire. New York: Modern Languages Association of America, 2009. Pages 104 - 117.
TAPoR: Building a Portal for Text Analysis
Chapter in Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, edited by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 285-299.
MIMes and MeRMAids: On the possibility of computer-aided interpretation
Preprint of the unpublished English version. This was published in French at, Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Des MaMI et des MaMER: Sur la possibilité de l'interprétation assistée par ordinateur,” Trans. Stéphanie Posthumus, in L’Astrolabe, an online, peer reviewed journal edited by Michel Lemaire at http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe/, 2003.
What is Text Analysis, Really?
Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey, “What is Text Analysis, Really?”, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 18, no. 2, 2003, p. 209-219.
Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey, “The Visual Concordance: The Design of Eye-ConTact”, Text Technology, vol. 10, no. 1, 2001, p. 73-86.
Printing in Sand; Scientific Visualization and the Analysis of Texts
Preprint of English version published in French as Rockwell, Geoffrey and John Bradley, "Empreintes dans le sable: Visualisation scientifique et analyse de texte", in Litterature, informatique, lecture edited by Vuillemin and LeNoble, Paris: Pulim, p. 130-160, 1999. French reprinted online at L’Astrolabe as "Visualisation scientifique et analyse de texte".
Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in Textual Applications
Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey, "Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in Textual Applications", (Primary Author) written with John Bradley and Patricia Monger, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, 1999, p. 115-130.
Eye-ConTact: Towards a New Design for Research Text Tools
Rockwell, Geoffrey and John Bradley, "Eye-ConTact: Towards a New Design for Research Text Tools," Computing in the Humanities Working Papers, A.4. February 1998. This online refereed journal is located at: URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/.
Computer Games
On the Play of Yakumono: The Evolution of Audiovisual Effects in Pachinko
Co-authored with Amano, K. in The Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay. Ed. Rachael Hutchinson. Tokyo: Japan Documents Press; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 62-78. 2025.
The Gamergate Social Network: Interpreting Transphobia and Alt-Right Hate Online
Co-authored with Bevan, C., Tunggal, J., and Zhang, A. in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. Vol. 14, No. 1. 2024.
Co-authored with Amano, K., and Okabe, T. in Replaying Japan. Vol. 3, p. 11-20. 2021.
On the Infrastructure of Gaming: The Case of Pachinko
Co-authored with Amano, K. in The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader: Communities, Cultures and Play. Edited by Mark R. Johnson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 294-313. 2022.
Representations of Play: Pachinko in Popular Media
Co-authored with Amano, K. in Media Technologies for Work and Play in East Asia. Eds. M. Lee and P. Chung. Bristol University Press. 2021.
Experiments in Alternative / Augmented Reality Game Design: Platforms and Collaborations
Co-authored with Gouglas, S. in Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History. Ed. K. Kee and T. J. Compeau. University of Michigan Press, pp. 158-175. 2019.
Pachinko: A Case Study in Hybrid Physical and Virtual Interface
Co-authored with Amano, K. in Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities. Vol. 4, Issue 1, p. 72-89. 2019.
Assessing Serious Games: The GRAND Assessment Framework
Co-authored with Gee, D., Chu, M., Blimke, S., Gouglas, S., Holmes, D., and S. Lucky in Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. 2014.
Campus Mysteries: Serious Walking Around
Co-authored with Uszkalo, K., Henry, C., deJong, E., Lucky, S., Illovan, M., Gutierrez, L., Gouglas, S., Boechler, P., and E. Stroulia in Loading... Vol. 7. No. 12. 2013.
The Indie Academy: Promoting Gaming Communities through University Collaboration
Co-authored with S. Gouglas in Loading... Vol. 7. No. 11. 2013.
The Leisure of Serious Games: A Dialogue
Co-author with Kevin Kee of article in Game Studies. Vol. 11, No. 2 (May 2011).
Computer Games and Canada's Digital Economy: The Role of Universities in Promoting Innovation
Gouglas, S., Della Rocca, J., Jenson, J., Kee, K., Rockwell, G., Schaeffer, J., Simon B., and R. Wakkary. Report to the Social Science Humanities Research Council Knowledge Synthesis Grants on Canada's Digital Economy. December 1, 2010.
Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games
Preprint version of Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games”, Computers and the Humanities, vol. 36, no. 3, 2002, p. 345-358.
Serious Play at Hand: Is Gaming Serious Research in the Humanities?
Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Serious Play at Hand: Is Gaming Serious Research in the Humanities?” is part of a collection on “The Ivanhoe Game” in Text Technology, No. 2, 2003.
Multimedia
Introduction to a Class-based Online Writing Environment: GWrit (Game of Writing)
Co-authored with Zhang, J., Graves, R., Graves, H., McKellar, M., and Ranaweera, K. in Digital Studies/le Champ Numérique. Vol. 9, No. 1. 2019.
Co-authored with Sondheim, D., Ilovan, M., Radzikowska, M., & Ruecker, S. in Scholarly and Research Communication. Vol. 3, No. 1. 2012.
On the Evaluation of Digital Media as Scholarship
Profession. MLA, 2011. Pages 152–168. PDF available from MLA site as part of a section on Evaluating Digital Scholarship.
Interrupting Digitization and Thinking about Text
Article in Informatica Umanistica, edited by Massimo Parodi, Vol. 2. Pages 65 – 86.
Multimedia Education in the Arts and Humanities
Secondary author with Andrew Mactavish of a chapter in Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, edited by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 225-243.
This is a preprint of a co-authored (with Andrew Mactavish) chapter on “Multimedia” for the Companion to Humanities Computing. Eds. Ray Siemens, Susan Shriebman, and John Unsworth. London: Blackwell Press, to be published in 2004-5.
Turing's Reaction: Dialogue as a model for interactivity in multimedia
Originally presented at MITH in March of 2002. Streaming video of the questions period is here.
Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Diderot and Hypertext; Dreaming the Circle of Knowledge.” Unpublished essay presented in January, 1999 to the McMaster Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Philosophy and the Ethics of Technology
Platitudes: The Carbon Weight of the Post-Platform Scholarly Web
Co-authored with Miya, C. in The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Vol. 28, No. 2. 2025.
Thinking-Through the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Co-authored with Hegde, N. in The Companion to Digital Humanities Practice. Eds. Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane and Ray Siemens. New York: Routledge, p. 281-298. 2025.
A Rossian Method for Applying Principles in AI
Co-authored with Andes, P., Lau, R., and Mah-Fraser, T. in International Review of Information Ethics special issue on "Case Studies in AI Ethics." Vol. 34, No. 1. 2024.
Co-authored with Al-Zaman, S., Khemka, A., and Zhang, A. in Journal of Academic Ethics. Vol. 22, pages 163-189. 2023.
Ethical principles for artificial intelligence in K-12 education
Co-authored with Adams, C., Pente, P., and Lemermeyer, G. in Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. 4. 2023.
Applying Feminist Ethics of Care in Conducting Internet-based Archival Gender Research: The Case of Studying Gamergate Reactions
Co-authored with Chee, F., Suomela, T., and Berendt, B. in Handbook of Gender and Technology: Environment, Identity, Individual. Eds. Eileen M. Trauth and Jeria L. Quesenberry. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, p. 369-385. 2023.
Artificial Intelligence and Teachers’ New Ethical Obligations
Co-authored with Adams, C., Pente, P., Lemermeyer, G., and Turville, J. in The International Review of Information Ethics 31 (1). 2022.
Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene
Co-edited with Miya, C., and Rossier, O. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers. Together the Editors wrote an Introduction. Rockwell and Rossier also wrote a chapter on Greening Academic Gatherings: A Case Study for Econferences. 2021.
Applying an Ethics of Care to Internet Research: Gamergate and Digital Humanities
Co-authored with Suomela, T., Chee, F., and Berendt, B. in Digital Studies/le Champ Numérique. Vol. 9, No. 1. 2019.
Watching out for the Olympians! Reading the CSEC Slides
Co-authored with Sinclair, S. in Information Ethics and Global Citizenship: Essays on Ideas to Praxis. Eds. T. Samek and L. Shultz. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, p. 46-61. 2017.
Information Wants to Be Free, Or Does It? The Ethics of Datafication
Co-authored with Berendt, Bettina in Electronic Book Review. Technocapitalism thread. Dec. 3. 2017.
A Unity of Voices: A Definition of Philosophical Dialogue
These are preprint chapters of book published with the title Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet by Humanity Books (an imprint of Prometheus Books), 2003.
Table of Contents and Abstract, PDF 52 KB
Chapter 1: Introduction, PDF 84 KB
Chapter 2: The Danger of Dialogue, PDF 144 KB
Chapter 3: Orality of Dialogue, PDF 148 KB
Chapter 4: The Reader of Dialogue, PDF 108 KB
Chapter 5: The Writing of Dialogue, PDF 152 KB
Chapter 6: The Definition of Dialogue, PDF 160 KB
Chapter 7: Conclusion, PDF 140 KB
Bibliography, PDF 84 KB
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