Research
Publications
Pihlaja, B. (2025). Duty/Deontological Ethics. In Derek G. Ross (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Technical and Professional Communication (pp. 94-105). New York: Routledge.
Pihlaja, B., Das, M., Davis, L., Dean, A., Fonseca, D. M., Hughes, E., Joswiak, R., Koleva, L., Yang, M., & Zhang, J. (2024). Translation and Localization in Global Technical Communication. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 67(3), 386–402. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2024.3418237
Pihlaja, B. (2022). Everyday Ethics at the Border: Normative Ethics for the 21st Century. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 36(3), 296-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/10506519221087937
Pihlaja, B. (2022). “A nice change of pace”: Involving student-as-course-users early and often. In K. Crane and K. Cargile Cook (Eds.), User Experience as Innovative Academic Practice. The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/TPC-B.2022.1367.2.06
Pihlaja, B. (2021). Rhetoric. In Stephen Pihlaja (Ed.), Analysing Religious Discourse. Cambridge University Press.
Pihlaja, B. (2020). Inventing others in digital written communication: Intercultural encounters on the U.S.-Mexico border. Written Communication, 37(2), 245–280. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088319899908
Pihlaja, B., & Durá, L. (2020). Navigating messy research methods and mentoring practices at a bilingual research site on the Mexico-U.S. border. Technical Communication Quarterly, 29(4), 358–375. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2020.1790665 [100%]
Pihlaja, B. (2018). Activity theory, actor-network theory, and culture in the 21st century. In Rich Rice and Kirk St. Amant (Eds.) Thinking globally, composing locally: Rethinking online writing in the age of the global internet. Louisville, CO: Utah State University Press. [Purchase book]
Pihlaja, B., Das, M., Davis, L., Dean, A., Fonseca, D. M., Hughes, E., Joswiak, R., Koleva, L., Yang, M., & Zhang, J. (2024). Translation and Localization in Global Technical Communication. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 67(3), 386–402. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2024.3418237
Pihlaja, B. (2022). Everyday Ethics at the Border: Normative Ethics for the 21st Century. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 36(3), 296-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/10506519221087937
Pihlaja, B. (2022). “A nice change of pace”: Involving student-as-course-users early and often. In K. Crane and K. Cargile Cook (Eds.), User Experience as Innovative Academic Practice. The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/TPC-B.2022.1367.2.06
Pihlaja, B. (2021). Rhetoric. In Stephen Pihlaja (Ed.), Analysing Religious Discourse. Cambridge University Press.
Pihlaja, B. (2020). Inventing others in digital written communication: Intercultural encounters on the U.S.-Mexico border. Written Communication, 37(2), 245–280. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088319899908
Pihlaja, B., & Durá, L. (2020). Navigating messy research methods and mentoring practices at a bilingual research site on the Mexico-U.S. border. Technical Communication Quarterly, 29(4), 358–375. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2020.1790665 [100%]
Pihlaja, B. (2018). Activity theory, actor-network theory, and culture in the 21st century. In Rich Rice and Kirk St. Amant (Eds.) Thinking globally, composing locally: Rethinking online writing in the age of the global internet. Louisville, CO: Utah State University Press. [Purchase book]
Book Reviews
Pihlaja, B. (2021). Lynching: Violence, rhetoric, and American identity. The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 5(2), 185-188.
Pihlaja, B. (2019). Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues, Technical Communication Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2019.1613332
Pihlaja, B. (2019). Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues, Technical Communication Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2019.1613332