Book, Chapter
Lukowski, A. A. & Sparby, E. M. (2016). Breastfeeding, Authority, and Genre: Women’s Ethos in Wikipedia and Blogs. Establishing and Evaluating Digital Ethos and Online Credibility. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Book, Edited
Reyman, J., & Sparby, E.M., eds. (2019). Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression. London, Routledge.
Journal Article
Sparby, E. M. (2017). Digital Social Media and Aggression: Memetic Rhetoric in 4chan’s Collective Identity. Computers and Composition, 45,. Pp. 85-97.
"YouTube, Haters, and Reading Mean Comments: Testing a Rhetorical-Ethical Approach to Studying Online Aggression" as part of a co-organized panel on “Questioning the Commonplaces of Digital Aggression: New Approaches for Researching and Teaching Productive Response to Online Hate Speech and Harassment” at Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2020, Milwaukee, WI
"Digital Rhetorics and an Ethic of Responsibility in Online Aggression." Invited presentation for the English Department Faculty Lecture Series. November 2019, Normal, IL
"Meming Ethically." Invited keynote address for Language and Rhetorical Studies symposium. October 2019, Ann Arbor, MI
"Online Aggression and What We Can Do About It," with Jessica Reyman, NIU STEM Cafe, March 2019
Sparby, E. M. Political Memes and the Party Divide: A Case Study of Kim Davis and Hillary Clinton Memes. Accepted for presentation at the Digital Rhetoric/Digital Media in the Post-Truth Age symposium, March 2019, Tuscaloosa, AL.
“Toward a Theory of Digital Aggression and Memetic Screens” at Computers and Writing, June 2019, East Lansing, MI
“Toward an Ethic of Self-Care and Protection When Researching Digital Aggression” as part of a co-organized panel on “New Ethical Frameworks for Researching Digital Aggression” at Computers and Writing, June 2019, East Lansing, MI
Sparby, E. M. Behind the Scenes of Digital Aggression Research: Identity, Method, Action, and Self-Care. Roundtable given at Computers and Writing, May 2018, Fairfax, VA.
Sparby, E. M. When Trolls Become Technical Communicators: A Case Study of iOS8 and Wave, presented at the Association for the Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, March 2018, Kansas City, KS.
Sparby, E. M. Meming/Counter-Meming: Remixing Negative Memes to Deconstruct Stereotypes, presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2017, Portland, OR.
Sparby, E. M. Anonymity, Design, and Identification: The Rhetorical Construction of Identity on Digital Social Media, presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2016, Houston, TX.
Sparby, E. M. Fake Geek Girl, Remixed: Resisting Negative Stereotypes through Counter-Memes, presented at Cultural Rhetorics, October 2016, East Lansing, MI.
Day, M., Sparby, E. M., Lukowski, A. A., & Marquis, D. Digitizing Analog Networks to Share and Reflect on Student Writing, presented at Computers and Writing, May 2015, Menomonie, WI.