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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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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