Recent publications.
2024
McNely, B. (2024). Engaging Ambience: Visual and Multisensory Methodologies and Rhetorical Theory. Logan: Utah State University Press.
2022
McNely, B. (2022). The Edges. Invisible City.
2021
McNely, B. (2021). 8 p.m. in Vesterbro. Off Assignment.
McNely, B. (2021). A shade across the fields. Passengers Journal.
McNely, B. (2021). Umbrology. Porridge.
2019
McNely, B. (2019). Lures, slimes, time: Viscosity and the nearness of distance. Philosophy & Rhetoric 52(3), 203–226.
McNely, B. (2019). Under pressure: Exploring agency–structure dynamics with a rhetorical approach to register. Technical Communication Quarterly 28(4), 317–331.
2018
Rice, J., & McNely, B. (2018). Networked humanities: Within and without the university. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.
McNely, B. (2018). El Paso, plastic bags, aesthetics. In C. Boyle and J. Rice (Eds.), Inventing Place: Writing Lonestar Rhetorics (220–231).
2017
McNely, B. (2017). Moments and metagenres: Coordinating complex, multigenre narratives. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 31(4), 1–38.
2016
McNely, B. (2016). Circulatory intensities | Take a book, leave a book. In S. Barnet and C. Boyle (Eds.), Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things (139–154).
Gestwicki, P., & McNely, B. (2016). Interdisciplinary projects in the academic studio. Transactions on Computing Education 16(2), 80–104.
2015
McNely, B. (2015). Instagram, geocaching, and the when of rhetorical literacies. Kairos 19(3).
McNely, B. (2015). Taking things seriously with visual research. Communication Design Quarterly 3(2), 48–54.
McNely, B., Spinuzzi, C., & Teston, C. (2015). Guest Editors' Introduction: Contemporary research methodologies in technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly 24(1), 1–13.
McNely, B, & Teston, C. (2015). Tactical and strategic: Qualitative approaches to the digital humanities. In J. Ridolfo and W. Hart-Davidson (Eds.), Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities (111–126). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2014
McNely, B. (2014). Writing in sacred spaces: Tangible practices for understanding intangible spirituality. College Composition and Communication 66(2), 243–246.
McNely, B., & Rivers, N. (2014). All of the things: Engaging complex assemblages in communication design. In SIGDOC '14: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference on Design of Communication. New York: ACM.
McNely, B. (2014). Knowledge work, knowledge play: A heuristic approach to communication design for hybrid spaces. Communication Design Quarterly 2(4), 14–51.
2013
McNely, B. (2013). Visual research methods and communication design. In SIGDOC '13: Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference on Design of Communication. New York: ACM.
McNely, B. (2013). "That light-bulb feeling": An Interview with Clay Spinuzzi. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 3(1).
McNely, B. (2013). Exploring lived experience through ambient research methods. In N. Sappleton (Ed.), Advancing Research Methods with New Technologies (227–242). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
McNely, B., Gestwicki, P., Gelms, B., & Burke, A. (2013). Spaces and surfaces of invention: A visual ethnography of game development. Enculturation 15.
2012
McNely, B. (2012). Big data, situated people: Humane approaches to communication design. Communication Design Quarterly 1(1), 27–30.
McNely, B., Gestwicki, P., Burke, A., & Gelms, B. (2012). Articulating everyday actions: An activity-theoretical approach to Scrum. In SIGDOC '12: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference on Design of Communication. New York: ACM.
Hashimov, E., & McNely, B. (2012). Left to their own devices: Ad hoc genres in the design of transmedia narratives. In SIGDOC '12: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference on Design of Communication. New York: ACM.
Stewart, J., Baker, N., Chaney, S., Hashimov, E., McNely, B., & Romano, L. (2012). A qualitative metasynthesis of activity theory in SIGDOC Proceedings 2001–2011. In SIGDOC '12: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference on Design of Communication. New York: ACM.
McNely, B. (2012). Shaping organizational image-power through images: Case histories of Instagram. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
Gestwicki, P., & McNely, B. (2012). A case study of a five-step design thinking process in educational museum game design. In Proceedings of the 2012 Meaningful Play Conference. East Lansing, MI.
McNely, B., Gestwicki, P., Hill, J.H., Parli-Horne, P., & Johnson, E. (2012). Learning analytics for collaborative writing: A prototype and case study. In Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge. New York: ACM.
Selected other publications
McNely, B. (2011). Informal communication, sustainability, and the public writing work of organizations. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
McNely, B. (2011). Sociotechnical notemaking: Short-form to long-form writing practices. Present Tense 2(1).
McNely, B., Teston, C., Cox, G., Olorunda, B. & Dunker, N. (2010). Digital publics and participatory education. Digital Culture and Education 2(2), 152–171.
McNely, B. (2010). Exploring a sustainable and public information ecology. In SIGDOC ‘10: Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Design of communication. New York: ACM Press.