Faculty Profiles

Sussman, K. L., & Carter, D. W. (n.d.). Detecting Effects of AI-Mediated Communication on Language Complexity and Sentiment∗. In WWW Companion ’25: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1145/3701716.3717543

Carter, D. W. (2025, March 1). ‘This Town Has Nothing’: Rural Texas’ Mental Healthcare Crisis. The Texas Observer. Retrieved from https://www.texasobserver.org/mental-health-crisis-rural-texas/

Buch, J. (2025, January). Texas’ War on Drug Users. (D. W. Carter, Ed.), The Texas Observer. Retrieved from https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-war-on-drug-users-austin-overdose-disaster/

Carter, D. W. (2024). Visualization in Literary Studies: Reconciling New Tools with Old Practices. In Cambridge Critical Concepts: Technology and Literature. Cambridge University Press.

Carter, D. W., & Stratton, C. (2024). Investigating privacy risks in open government data: an exploratory case study. In Information Research.

Carter, D. W. (2024). Safety Anchors and Deflected Desires: Generative AI and the Production of Sexualities. In Information Research.

Carter, D. W., & Roddy, D. P. (2024, April 30). Fort Worth, Houston ISD send more students to alternative education following vaping bill. The Texas Standard. Retrieved from https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/fort-worth-houston-isd-send-more-students-to-alternative-education-following-vaping-bill/

Stratton, C., & Carter, D. W. (2023). Locating information systems in the freedom of information process. Government Information Quarterly, 40(2).

Carter, D. W. (2022). Constructing Structured Content on Wordpress: Emerging Paradigms in Web Content Management. Communication Design Quarterly, 11(1).

Carter, D. W., & Eger, E. K. (2021). Visibility and vulnerability in online marketing practices. Journal of Cultural Economy, 14(4), 373–387. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2021.1879212

Carter, D. W., Acker, A., & Sholler, D. (2021). Investigative Approaches to Researching Information Technology Companies. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(6), 655–666. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24446

Carter, D. W. (2021). Producing Web Content Within Platform/Infrastructure Hybrids. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71292-1_13

Carter, D. W., & Stratton, C. (2021). Information Systems as Mediators of Freedom of Information Requests. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71305-8_22

Rao, S., Carter, D. W., Higgins Joyce, V. D., & Jeong, E. (2021). User Engagement and Activism on the DACA Hashtag: An Analysis of Tweets. Norteamérica, Revista Académica Del CISAN-UNAM, 17(1). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2022.1.498

Rao, S., Carter, D. W., Higgins Joyce, V., & Lee, E. J. (2021). User Engagement and Activism on the DACA Hashtag: An Analysis of Tweets. Norteamérica, Revista Académica Del CISAN-UNAM, 17(1). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2022.1.498

Carter, D. W., & Acker, A. (2020). To Oblivion and Beyond: Imagining Infrastructure After Collapse. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820911940

Carter, D. W. (2020). Notes on Creating the Zine, Cable TV Infrastructures: A Glossary of Illegal Access. MIT Global Media and Technologies Lab. Retrieved from https://globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/07/02/notes-on-creating-the-zine-cable-tv-infrastructures-a-glossary-of-illegal-access/

Carter, D. W. (2020). Where is communication in web development? And why is web development in communication? In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Design of Communication. Association of Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3380851.3416736

Carter, D. W. (2019). How to Debate a Border: Supporting Infrastructure Publics Through Communication System Design. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Design of Communication. Association of Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3328020.3353932

Carter, D. W. (2018). Reimagining the big data assemblage. Big Data and Society. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718818194

Carter, D. W., & Welsh, T. (2018). “Everybody Wants to Work With Me”: Collaborative Labor in Hip Hop. Popular Music and Society, 42(3), 1–17. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2018.1441639

Clement, T., & Carter, D. W. (2017). Connecting Theory and Practice in Digital Humanities Information Work. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(6), 1385–1396. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23732

Feinberg, M., Carter, D. W., Bullard, J., & Gursoy, A. (2017). Translating Texture: Design as Integration. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 297–307). Association of Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064730

Clement, T., & Carter, D. W. (2017). Information. In Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments. MLA Commons. Retrieved from https://digitalpedagogy.mla.hcommons.org/keywords/information/

Meyr, J., Carter, D. W., & Vie, S. (2017). Occupy Rhetoric: Responding to Charges of “Slacktivism” With Digital Activism Successes. In Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media. IGI Global.

Carter, D. W. (2017, December 26). The meaning of life, according to a spaceship. The Outline. Retrieved from https://theoutline.com/post/2781/the-meaning-of-life-according-to-a-spaceship

Carter, D. W. (2017, November 14). Twitter Parties Are Tupperware Parties Reborn. The Outline. Retrieved from https://theoutline.com/post/2487/twitter-parties-are-tupperware-parties-reborn

Carter, D. W. (2017). The labor of online product promotion: Barriers to collective action. First Monday, 22(10). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i10.8055

Carter, D. W. (2017, October 13). The Only Job a Robot Couldn’t Do. The Outline. Retrieved from https://theoutline.com/post/2393/the-only-job-a-robot-couldn-t-do

Carter, D. W. (2016). Hustle and Brand: The Sociotechnical Shaping of Influence. Social Media + Society, 2, 1–12.

Carter, D. W. (2016). Infrastructure and the Experience of Documents. Journal of Documentation, 72, 65–80.

Carter, D. W., & Sholler, D. (2016). Data science on the ground: Hype, criticism, and everyday work. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67, 2309–2319.

Carter, D. W. (2015). Encoding and Representing Repetition in Lyn Hejinian’s My Life. Scholarly Editing, 36.

Carter, D. W. (2015). Conceptions of Work and the Materiality of the Classroom. In iConference 2015 Proceedings.

Carter, D. W. (2014). A Design Methodology for Exploring and Communicating System Values and Assumptions. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, (7).

Carter, D. W. (2014). Encouraging ambiguous experience: guides for personal meaning making. In Proceedings of the 2014 companion publication on Designing interactive systems. Association of Computing Machinery.

Feinberg, M., Carter, D. W., & Bullard, J. (2014). A Story Without End: Writing the Residual into Descriptive Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems. Association of Computing Machinery.

Feinberg, M., Carter, D. W., & Bullard, J. (2014). Always Somewhere, Never There: Using Critical Design to Understand Database Interactions. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association of Computing Machinery.

Feinberg, M., Bullard, J., & Carter, D. W. (2013). Using Design Experiments to Investigate Conceptual Issues in Knowledge Organization: An Ongoing Study, 18(3).