Publications
Accepted/Published Journal Articles
Stewart, O.G., Hseih, B., Smith, A., & Pandya, J. (2021). What more can we do? Examining critical digital literacies in teacher education across scales. Pedagogies: An International Journal (special issue) 16(2), 125-137.
Ortlieb, E., McDowell, A., Stewart O.G., Preschern, J., & Carhart, D. (2020). Towards a model for cultivating online learning communities. Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 3(1), 21-30.
Anderson, K. T., Stewart, O. G., & Kachorsky, D. (2017). Seeing academically marginalized students’ multimodal designs from a position of strength. Written Communication, 34(2), 104–134. DOI: 10.1177/0741088317699897
Stewart, O.G. (2016). A critical review of the literature of social media’s affordances in the classroom. E-Learning and Digital Media, 12(5–6), 481–501. DOI: 10.1177/2042753016672895
Stewart, O.G., & Jordan, M. (2016). “Some explanation here”: Learning opportunities and tensions in an informal science learning environment. Instructional Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11251-016-9396-7
Anderson, K. T., Stewart, O.G., & Aziz, M. (2016). Writing ourselves in: Researcher reflexivity in ethnographic and multimodal methods for understanding what counts, to whom, and how we know. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 47(4), 385–401. DOI: 10.1111/aeq.12167
Zuiker, S., Anderson, K. T., Jordan, M., & Stewart, O.G. (2016). More than the sum of its parts: Understanding peer group interactional dynamics from a complex, situated perspective. Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction, (9), 80-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2016.02.003
Book Chapters
Stewart, O.G., Scharber, C., Share, J., & Crampton, A., (2021). Critical Media Production. In Zacher Pandya, J., Mora, R.A., Alford, J., Golden, N.A., Santiago de Roock, R. (Eds.) The Handbook of Critical Literacies (pp. 105-115).
Aguilera, E. Stewart, O.G., Mawasi, A., Pérez Cortés, L. (2020). Seeing beyond the screen: A multidimensional framework for understanding digital-age literacies. In Sullivan, P. M., Lantz, J. J. Sullivan, B., & Tomei, L. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology with Literacy Pedagogies. (pp. 1-31). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0246-4.ch001
Kachorsky, D., Goff, M., Talarico, L., Stewart, O.G., Hoelting, M., Tran, K., Lee, K., & Elwood, K. (2017). Epilogue: Standing on the shoulders of giants: Doctoral students consider the future of multiliteracies research and pedagogy. In F. Serafini and E. Gee (Eds.), Remixing Multiliteracies: Theory and Practice from New London to New Times (Language and Literacy Series). New York: Teachers College Press. ISBN-13: 978-0807758649
Invited Publications
Aguilera, E., Stewart, O.G., Tran, K.M., and Kachorsky, D. (2017, July 11). Beyond the “Fakebook” profile: Purposeful approaches to media in the classroom. [blog post] Available: https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2017/07/11/beyond-the-fakebook-profile-purposeful-approaches-to-media-in-the-classroom
Articles/Chapters Under Review
Stewart, O.G., Scharber, C., Share, J., & Crampton, A., (under proof). Critical Media Production. In Zacher Pandya, J., Mora, R.A., Alford, J., Golden, N.A., Santiago de Roock, R. (Eds.) The Handbook of Critical Literacies.
Stewart, O.G., Hseih, B., Pandya, J., & Smith, A. (under 2nd review). What More Can We Do?: Examining Critical Digital Literacies in Teacher Education across Scales. Submitted to Pedagogies: An International Journal (special issue).
Stewart, O.G. (under review). Multimodal composition through social media platforms: Alternative authoring paths for meaning making. Submitted to Discourse Process.
Stewart, O.G. (under review). What Counts as Writing in a Digital-Age Classroom from a Teacher’s perspective. Submitted to American Educational Research Journal.
Articles in Progress
Stewart, O.G. (in progress). Pedagogical Implications for Digital and Social Media for Classroom Writing. To be submitted to Learning, Media and Technology.
Stewart, O.G., Aguilera, E. (in progress). Humanizing online courses. To Be Submitted to Distance Education.
Stewart, O.G. (in progress). How students orient to what counts as writing in a classroom. To be submitted to TBD.
Stewart, O.G. (in progress). Behind the scenes: Analyzing undergraduate students’ use of Instagram to document digital portfolios. To be submitted to TBD.
Conference Presentations
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
Stewart, O.G. (October, 2022). The Importance of Opening Spaces for Critical Digital Literacies in Higher Education Courses. Critical Questions in Education, Denver, CO
Stewart, O.G. (April, 2022). Teaching Critical Digital Literacy in Pre-Service Education Courses. Paper part of the Symposium “The Continuing and Renewed Urgency of Critical Digital Literacies: Ethical and Political Considerations on Research and Practice”. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2021). Critical Digital Literacies in the Classroom. Literacy Research Association, Atlanta, GA.
Stewart, O.G., & Aguilera, E. (April, 2020). A Dual-Examination of Humanizing Online Courses. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. (canceled)
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2019). Humanizing Online Courses. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2019). Pedagogical Implications for Digital and Social Media for Classroom Writing. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2019). Multimodal Composition as Alternative Authoring Paths for Meaning Making. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (June, 2019). Humanizing Online Courses for Motivation. Featured Presentation at St. John’s Teaching Narratives Symposium, Queens, NY.
Smith, A., Stewart, O.G., & Pandya, J. (April, 2019). Critical Digital Literacy Pedagogies: Challenges and Possibilities. Paper a part of the American Educational Research Association Working Group Roundtable Critical Digital Literacies in a “Post-Truth” Era, Toronto, Canada.
Aguilera, E., Stewart, O.G., Mawasi, A., & Perez Cortez, L. (December, 2018). Expanding Analytical Perspectives on Digital-Age Literacies. Literacy Research Association, Indian Wells, CA.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2017). The changing nature of literacies in modern classrooms: What counts as writing? Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2017). Students’ representation of self as writers across three social media platforms. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Aguilera, E., Stewart, O.G., Tran, K., and Kachorsky, D. (July, 2017). Beyond the "Fakebook" profile: Engaged and purposeful literacy instruction using alternative media. Panel discussion. International Literacy Association, Orlando, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (April, 2017). Behind the scenes: Analyzing undergraduate students’ use of Instagram to document digital portfolios. American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
Stewart, O.G. (January, 2017) High school students’ representations of themselves as writers across multiple social media platforms. Spring 2017 3rd Annual Teachers College Graduate Student Organization Research Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Stewart, O.G. (January, 2017). A Comparative Analysis of Students’ use of Social Media Platforms to Represent Themselves as Writers. Spring 2017 3rd Annual Teachers College Graduate Student Organization Research Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Stewart, O.G., & Jordan, M. (November, 2016). A young woman’s deference to male peers in a collaborative, STEM informal learning environment. Literacy Research Association, Nashville, TN.
Jordan, M., Anderson, K. T., Stewart, O.G., & Zuiker, S. (April, 2016). More than the sum of its parts: Understanding peer group interactional dynamics from a complex, situated perspective. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C.
Stewart, O.G. (January, 2016). An analysis of students’ literacy practices through a multimodal social media application. Spring 2016 2nd Annual Teachers College Graduate Student Organization Research Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Anderson, K.T., Stewart, O.G., & Kachorsky, D. (December, 2015). Seeing academically marginalized students’ multimodal authoring from a position of strength. Literacy Research Association, Carlsbad, CA.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2015). Classroom technology and sharing practices on Pinterest. Literacy Research Association, Carlsbad, CA.
Stewart, O.G., Jordan, M. (April, 2015). An analysis of learning opportunities in informal learning environments through case study. Spring 2015 Doctoral Research Forum, Tempe, AZ.
Stewart, O.G. (January, 2015). An analysis of learning opportunities in informal learning environments through case study. Spring 2015 1st Annual Teachers College Graduate Student Organization Research Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Anderson, K. T., & Stewart, O.G., (May, 2014). Systems, selves and positioning: Illuminating ideological tensions for marginalized youth. 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL.
Additional Conference Participation
2019 Discussant, Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
2019 Chair, Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Conference Proposals Under Review
Stewart, O.G., Hseih, B., Smith, A., & Pandya, J. (2021). What more can we do? Examining critical digital literacies in teacher education across scales. Pedagogies: An International Journal (special issue) 16(2), 125-137.
Ortlieb, E., McDowell, A., Stewart O.G., Preschern, J., & Carhart, D. (2020). Towards a model for cultivating online learning communities. Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 3(1), 21-30.
Anderson, K. T., Stewart, O. G., & Kachorsky, D. (2017). Seeing academically marginalized students’ multimodal designs from a position of strength. Written Communication, 34(2), 104–134. DOI: 10.1177/0741088317699897
Stewart, O.G. (2016). A critical review of the literature of social media’s affordances in the classroom. E-Learning and Digital Media, 12(5–6), 481–501. DOI: 10.1177/2042753016672895
Stewart, O.G., & Jordan, M. (2016). “Some explanation here”: Learning opportunities and tensions in an informal science learning environment. Instructional Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11251-016-9396-7
Anderson, K. T., Stewart, O.G., & Aziz, M. (2016). Writing ourselves in: Researcher reflexivity in ethnographic and multimodal methods for understanding what counts, to whom, and how we know. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 47(4), 385–401. DOI: 10.1111/aeq.12167
Zuiker, S., Anderson, K. T., Jordan, M., & Stewart, O.G. (2016). More than the sum of its parts: Understanding peer group interactional dynamics from a complex, situated perspective. Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction, (9), 80-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2016.02.003
Book Chapters
Stewart, O.G., Scharber, C., Share, J., & Crampton, A., (2021). Critical Media Production. In Zacher Pandya, J., Mora, R.A., Alford, J., Golden, N.A., Santiago de Roock, R. (Eds.) The Handbook of Critical Literacies (pp. 105-115).
Aguilera, E. Stewart, O.G., Mawasi, A., Pérez Cortés, L. (2020). Seeing beyond the screen: A multidimensional framework for understanding digital-age literacies. In Sullivan, P. M., Lantz, J. J. Sullivan, B., & Tomei, L. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology with Literacy Pedagogies. (pp. 1-31). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0246-4.ch001
Kachorsky, D., Goff, M., Talarico, L., Stewart, O.G., Hoelting, M., Tran, K., Lee, K., & Elwood, K. (2017). Epilogue: Standing on the shoulders of giants: Doctoral students consider the future of multiliteracies research and pedagogy. In F. Serafini and E. Gee (Eds.), Remixing Multiliteracies: Theory and Practice from New London to New Times (Language and Literacy Series). New York: Teachers College Press. ISBN-13: 978-0807758649
Invited Publications
Aguilera, E., Stewart, O.G., Tran, K.M., and Kachorsky, D. (2017, July 11). Beyond the “Fakebook” profile: Purposeful approaches to media in the classroom. [blog post] Available: https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2017/07/11/beyond-the-fakebook-profile-purposeful-approaches-to-media-in-the-classroom
Articles/Chapters Under Review
Stewart, O.G., Scharber, C., Share, J., & Crampton, A., (under proof). Critical Media Production. In Zacher Pandya, J., Mora, R.A., Alford, J., Golden, N.A., Santiago de Roock, R. (Eds.) The Handbook of Critical Literacies.
Stewart, O.G., Hseih, B., Pandya, J., & Smith, A. (under 2nd review). What More Can We Do?: Examining Critical Digital Literacies in Teacher Education across Scales. Submitted to Pedagogies: An International Journal (special issue).
Stewart, O.G. (under review). Multimodal composition through social media platforms: Alternative authoring paths for meaning making. Submitted to Discourse Process.
Stewart, O.G. (under review). What Counts as Writing in a Digital-Age Classroom from a Teacher’s perspective. Submitted to American Educational Research Journal.
Articles in Progress
Stewart, O.G. (in progress). Pedagogical Implications for Digital and Social Media for Classroom Writing. To be submitted to Learning, Media and Technology.
Stewart, O.G., Aguilera, E. (in progress). Humanizing online courses. To Be Submitted to Distance Education.
Stewart, O.G. (in progress). How students orient to what counts as writing in a classroom. To be submitted to TBD.
Stewart, O.G. (in progress). Behind the scenes: Analyzing undergraduate students’ use of Instagram to document digital portfolios. To be submitted to TBD.
Conference Presentations
Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
Stewart, O.G. (October, 2022). The Importance of Opening Spaces for Critical Digital Literacies in Higher Education Courses. Critical Questions in Education, Denver, CO
Stewart, O.G. (April, 2022). Teaching Critical Digital Literacy in Pre-Service Education Courses. Paper part of the Symposium “The Continuing and Renewed Urgency of Critical Digital Literacies: Ethical and Political Considerations on Research and Practice”. American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2021). Critical Digital Literacies in the Classroom. Literacy Research Association, Atlanta, GA.
Stewart, O.G., & Aguilera, E. (April, 2020). A Dual-Examination of Humanizing Online Courses. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. (canceled)
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2019). Humanizing Online Courses. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2019). Pedagogical Implications for Digital and Social Media for Classroom Writing. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2019). Multimodal Composition as Alternative Authoring Paths for Meaning Making. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (June, 2019). Humanizing Online Courses for Motivation. Featured Presentation at St. John’s Teaching Narratives Symposium, Queens, NY.
Smith, A., Stewart, O.G., & Pandya, J. (April, 2019). Critical Digital Literacy Pedagogies: Challenges and Possibilities. Paper a part of the American Educational Research Association Working Group Roundtable Critical Digital Literacies in a “Post-Truth” Era, Toronto, Canada.
Aguilera, E., Stewart, O.G., Mawasi, A., & Perez Cortez, L. (December, 2018). Expanding Analytical Perspectives on Digital-Age Literacies. Literacy Research Association, Indian Wells, CA.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2017). The changing nature of literacies in modern classrooms: What counts as writing? Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2017). Students’ representation of self as writers across three social media platforms. Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Aguilera, E., Stewart, O.G., Tran, K., and Kachorsky, D. (July, 2017). Beyond the "Fakebook" profile: Engaged and purposeful literacy instruction using alternative media. Panel discussion. International Literacy Association, Orlando, FL.
Stewart, O.G. (April, 2017). Behind the scenes: Analyzing undergraduate students’ use of Instagram to document digital portfolios. American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
Stewart, O.G. (January, 2017) High school students’ representations of themselves as writers across multiple social media platforms. Spring 2017 3rd Annual Teachers College Graduate Student Organization Research Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Stewart, O.G. (January, 2017). A Comparative Analysis of Students’ use of Social Media Platforms to Represent Themselves as Writers. Spring 2017 3rd Annual Teachers College Graduate Student Organization Research Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Stewart, O.G., & Jordan, M. (November, 2016). A young woman’s deference to male peers in a collaborative, STEM informal learning environment. Literacy Research Association, Nashville, TN.
Jordan, M., Anderson, K. T., Stewart, O.G., & Zuiker, S. (April, 2016). More than the sum of its parts: Understanding peer group interactional dynamics from a complex, situated perspective. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C.
Stewart, O.G. (January, 2016). An analysis of students’ literacy practices through a multimodal social media application. Spring 2016 2nd Annual Teachers College Graduate Student Organization Research Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Anderson, K.T., Stewart, O.G., & Kachorsky, D. (December, 2015). Seeing academically marginalized students’ multimodal authoring from a position of strength. Literacy Research Association, Carlsbad, CA.
Stewart, O.G. (December, 2015). Classroom technology and sharing practices on Pinterest. Literacy Research Association, Carlsbad, CA.
Stewart, O.G., Jordan, M. (April, 2015). An analysis of learning opportunities in informal learning environments through case study. Spring 2015 Doctoral Research Forum, Tempe, AZ.
Stewart, O.G. (January, 2015). An analysis of learning opportunities in informal learning environments through case study. Spring 2015 1st Annual Teachers College Graduate Student Organization Research Conference, Tempe, AZ.
Anderson, K. T., & Stewart, O.G., (May, 2014). Systems, selves and positioning: Illuminating ideological tensions for marginalized youth. 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL.
Additional Conference Participation
2019 Discussant, Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
2019 Chair, Literacy Research Association, Tampa, FL.
Conference Proposals Under Review
Areas of Research Specialization
- Educational use of Digital Technology and Social Media
- Critical Digital Literacies
- Critical Media Production
- Digital Communication, Writing, and Literacy Practices
- Multiliteracies and Multimodality
- Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods
- Informal and Digital Learning Environments
- Humanizing Online Courses