Journal Articles
Cheek, R. (accepted). On the security logics of clocks and footballs: How technical communication may end the world as we know it. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication; September, 2025.
Cheek, R., & Dorpenyo, I. (accepted). Deny, defend, depose: A permission structure for bureaucratic indifference, slow (civic) violence, and the institutional betrayal of DEI. Technical Communication & Social Justice, October, 2025.
Cheek, R. (2023). Making a case for political technical communication (PxTC). Technical Communication Quarterly, 32(2), 121-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2022.2079726
Cheek, R., & Edenfield, A. (2022). Qubit ethics: a transmaterial trans-corporeal ethics of care for researching with more vulnerable online communities. enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. https://www.enculturation.net/qubitethics
Clem, S. & Cheek, R. (2022). Unjust revisions: a social justice framework for technical editing. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 65(1), 135-150. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2021.3137666
Cheek, R. (2021). Political technical communication and ideographic communication design in a pre-digital congressional campaign. Communication Design Quarterly, 8(4), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3431932.3431933
Cheek, R. (2020). Zombie ent(r)ailments in risk communication: a rhetorical analysis of the CDC’s zombie apocalypse preparedness campaign. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 50(4), 401-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281619892630
Book Chapters
Cheek, R. & Allen, S. (2025). Reply ‘STOP’: Dominant media frames of SMS-based political communication as a consumer problem. In J.A. Hendricks and D. Schill (Eds.) Media Messages in the 2022 Election: Division, Deniers, Dobbs, and the Donald. Routledge.
Cheek, R. (2025). Hospitality at the end of the world: An ideological rhetorical criticism of tactical technical communication in The Prepper Journal. In H. McCullough, H. Sarat-St. Peter & M. Kimball (Eds.), Tactical Approaches to Technical Communication: Reimagining institutions, transforming society. SUNY Press.
Cheek, R. (2022). Don’t forget to breathe: advice for coping with graduate teaching anxiety. In S. Clem (Ed.), Exploring How We Teach: Lived Experience, Lessons, and Research for Graduate Students by Graduate Students. Utah State University.
Cheek, R. & Bialowas, A. (2020). Deconstructing the hero-sidekick bromance: Foggy, Kato, and the masculine performance of friendship. In S. Parson & J.L. Schatz (Eds.), Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism. Lexington Books.
Bialowas, A. & Cheek, R. (2020). Funneling fatherhood masculinity and the super-dad through a critique of Mr. Incredible and Ant-man. In J. Leeson-Schatz (Ed.), Parenting Through Pop Culture. McFarland.
Conference Proceedings
Cheek, R., & Allen, S. (2024). Biden’s puppet and McConnell’s protégé: manipulative communication design in the 2023 Kentucky governor’s race. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, October 20-22, Fairfax, VA, https://doi.org/10.1145/3641237.3691683
Bryson, R., Cheek, R., Clem, S., & Stevens, H. (2024). “You want me to teach what?!”: Emerging technologies, required knowledge, and pedagogical practice. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, October 20-22, Fairfax, VA, https://doi.org/10.1145/3641237.3691665
Cheek, R., & Allen, S. (2024). Hoodies in the halls of power: A rhetorical materialist critique of professional decorum in the United States Senate. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, July 14-17, Pittsburgh, PA, http://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm61427.2024.00017
Davis, C., Cheek, R., Dolan, K., & Schneider, R. (2023). Mapping the DNA of conspiracy theories: Analyzing key nodes across digital geographies. In Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, October 26-28, Orlando, FL, https://doi.org/10.1145/3615335.3623061
Cheek, R., & Allen, S.T. (2023). Professionalizing Campaign Text Spam: How Technical Marketing Rhetoric Influences Rapid Change to the Professional Communication of Politics. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, July 17-20, Pittsburgh, PA, http://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm57838.2023.00013
Cheek, R., Clem, S., & Edenfield, A. (2021). Trans vulnerability and digital research ethics: A qubit ethical analysis of transparency activism. Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, October 12-14, Virtual Hub, https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473628
Book Reviews
Cheek, R. (2020). Review of [Design, ecology, politics: towards the ecocene, by J. Boehnert]. Communication Design Quarterly, 8(1), 35-36. https://doi.org/10.1145/3375134.3375137
Cheek, R. (accepted). Review of [Keywords in design thinking: A lexical primer for technical communicators & designers, edited by Jason C.K. Tham]. Technical Communication Quarterly, tbd.