Matthewvetter

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Name	Matt
Born	Kentucky
Pronouns	He/him/his
Country	United States
Current location	Pennsylvania
Languages	English
Education and employment
Occupation	Professor
Education	PhD
University	Ohio University
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Religion	Radical Atheism
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Joined	March 2011
First edit	March 2011
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I'm Matt Vetter, Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I hold a PhD in English with a specialization in writing, rhetoric, and digital humanities from Ohio University. As a scholar, I am primarily interested in the ways technologies shape writing and writing pedagogy. I am drawn toward investigations of the ideological and epistemological functions of technologies and communities and the possibilities for human intervention and praxis within those communities.

I’m Matt Vetter (PhD, MFA), Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. As a scholar in writing, rhetoric, and digital humanities, I am interested in the ways that technologies shape writing and writing pedagogy. I am drawn toward investigations of the ideological and epistemological functions of technologies and digital communities and the possibilities for human intervention and praxis within those spaces. I am the co-author, with Zach McDowell, of Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality (Routledge, 2021). The book, which leverages Zach and my 20+ years of researching and teaching with Wikipedia, is a contemporary examination of epistemological policy and practice in what has become the world’s largest and most widely-used knowledge archive, the “free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.” My critical work has also appeared in journals such as College English, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition: An International Journal, Computers and Composition Online, the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, Harlot, Technoculture, the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Pedagogy, Hybrid Pedagogy, Rhetoric Review and publications sponsored by the Wiki Education Foundation. I am also currently a co-editor (with Dana Driscoll and Mary Stewart) of Writing Spaces, an open access composition textbook series. Since 2018, we have published two volumes in this series. In my teaching, I seek out opportunities for students to write in venues where they can reach concrete audiences and come to understand how writing can effect real world change. As a creative writer of mainly poetry, my work has appeared in numerous national and regional literary journals including Midwest Quarterly, American Life in Poetry, The Louisville Review, and the Journal of Kentucky Studies. A Pushcart Prize and AWP Intro Award Nominee, I was the 2009 winner of the Danny Miller Memorial Award. My first collection of poetry, Kentucky Lullaby, a chapbook, was published by Finishing Line Press (2018).

I am a veteran instructor and frequent participant in the Wiki Education Program. As a teacher of writing, I see a lot of benefits to Wikipedia writing projects and I try to be active in these communities.

My Wiki Education Profile: dashboard.wikiedu.org/users/Matthewvetter

Finally, I am a trained Wikipedia Campus Ambassador and I enjoy leading workshops for academic audiences on how to get involved in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Campus_Ambassadors

I am also co-chair of the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative, a task force dedicated to improving article content related to rhetoric and writing studies in Wikipedia, and increasing understanding of the encyclopedia among academics.

CCCC Wikipedia Initative: cccc.ncte.org/cccc/wikipedia-initiative

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As of August 2021, I am serving as a regional grants committee officer for United States and Canada.

1. McDowell, Zachary J., and Matthew A. Vetter. Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality. Routledge, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003094081. Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality has been favorably reviewed by Ian Ramjohn in the Wikipedia Signpost, Bob Cummimgs in Computers & Composition, Jan Baetens in Leonardo, and Vanessa Osborne in Composition Studies.
2. (In progress) Vetter, Matthew A., and Zachary J. McDowell. Wikipedia and Beyond: Open Education for an Equitable Future. MIT Press. 2025.

1. 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://link.springer.com/chapter/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://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vduoh45c/release/5
3. 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, edited by Theresa McDevitt and Caleb Finegan, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2018.

1. Yim, Andrew, Vetter, Matthew, and Jun Akiyoshi. "'I Don't Feel Like It's '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
2. McDowell, Zachary J. and Matthew A. Vetter. "Wikipedia as Open Educational Practice: Experiential Learning, Critical Information Literacy, and Social Justice." Social Media + Society. February, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F20563051221078224
3. Matthew A. Vetter & Krista Speicher Sarraf. Assessing the Art + feminism Edit-a-thon for Wikipedia literacy, learning outcomes, and critical thinking, Interactive Learning Environments. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2020.1805772
4. 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://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10575/9552
5. Vetter, Matthew A. “Broadening Representations of Rhetoric in Wikipedia: Disciplinary Praxis as Graduate Pedagogy.” Studies in Higher Education, vol. 45, no. 2, 2020. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075079.2020.1749798?journalCode=cshe20
6. 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, July 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2056305120937309
7. Jiang, Jialei and Matthew A. Vetter. “A Feminist Rhetorical approach to Wikipedia-based Writing Instruction in First-Year Composition Classrooms.” Composition Forum. Accepted with revisions. http://compositionforum.com/issue/45/wikipedia.php
8. 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/
9. 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://www.researchgate.net/publication/335180878_The_Good_the_Bot_and_the_Ugly_Problematic_Information_and_Critical_Media_Literacy_in_the_Postdigital_Era
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://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461517300671
11. 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329813868_Wikipedia's_Gender_Gap_and_Disciplinary_Praxis_Representing_Women_Scholars_in_Digital_Rhetoric_and_Writing_Fields
12. Vetter, Matthew A. “Teaching Wikipedia: Appalachian Rhetoric and the Encyclopedic Politics of Representation.” College English, vol. 80, no. 5, 2018. http://mattvetter.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Vetter-College-English.pdf
13. 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/
14. 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
15. 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. http://mattvetter.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Vetter-Composition-Studies.pdf
16. 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
17. Vetter, Matthew A. “Composing with Wikipedia: A Classroom Study of Online Writing.” Computers and Composition Online, 2013. http://candcblog.org/mvetter/public_html/composingwithwikipedia/

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