Zhaozhe Wang

Biographic Data

ID5596440
NAMEZhaozhe Wang
GIVEN NAMESZhaozhe
FAMILY NAMEWang
SIGNATUREWANG Z
AFFILIATIONSPurdue University West Lafayette
ORCID0000-0001-6608-7530
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The Banality of Rhetoric

    Zhaozhe WangARTICLERhetoric Society Quarterly2026

    As disembodied, synthetic rhetoric increasingly supplants affective, intentional, and contingent rhetoric in circulating rhetorical capital, generating value, and distributing communicative labor, rhetorical economies are being redefined by what I call the banality of rhetoric: the normalization and invisibility of mechanized, indifferent, instrumental discourse— algorithmically optimized for velocity and virality yet stripped of accountability. …

  • Precarious Participation

    Open AccessZhaozhe WangARTICLEWritten Communication2026

    For many transnational students in North America, digital literacies entail precarious participation—the adaptive engagement in digital literacy practices under conditions of systemic vulnerability and instability. This multiple case study examines how Chinese international students at a Canadian university perceive and navigate the precarity of their digital literacy practices across national and cultural boundaries. Findings reveal that the fou…

  • Economies of academic writing for multilingual international students

    Open AccessZhaozhe WangARTICLEJournal of English for Academic…2026

    Existing scholarship in applied linguistics and writing studies has shown how multilingual students mobilize linguistic, technological, and semiotic resources, make strategic investments in literacy activities, and draw on various forms of capital in academic contexts. Building on this work, this study conceptualizes academic writing as an economic activity embedded in the neoliberal knowledge economy of higher education, and highlights how these…

  • Investigating L2 writers' critical AI literacy in AI-assisted writing

    Open AccessChaoran Wang, Zhaozhe WangARTICLEJournal of Second Language Writing2025

    While the need to foster critical AI literacy (CAIL) among L2 writers has gained increasing recognition, research offering empirically grounded models for integrating CAIL into L2 writing remains limited. To contribute to the ongoing research in AI-assisted L2 writing and CAIL, we designed the current study to understand how students used ChatGPT, a popular generative AI technology, to support their writing and to uncover their CAIL in their writ…

  • Carnival rhetoric

    Zhaozhe WangARTICLECommunication and Critical/Cultural…2025

  • CLA and translingualism

    Open AccessQianqian Zhang‐Wu, Zhaozhe Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Second Language Writing2023

  • Rhetorical economy

    Zhaozhe WangARTICLEQuarterly Journal of Speech2022Cited by: 1

    Web 3.0 informational capitalism and authoritarianism challenge our assumptions about rhetorical circulation in relation to affect, labor, and capital forces, particularly in transnationally networked publics. A new model is needed in tandem with the robust ecological model to analyze the axiological dimension of transnational digital rhetorical circulation, i.e., how rhetorics produce and accumulate what types of value as they circulate digitall…

  • Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing

    Open AccessT J Silva, Zhaozhe Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Second Language Writing2021

  • Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing

    Open AccessT J Silva, Zhaozhe Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Second Language Writing2021

  • Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing

    Open AccessT J Silva, Zhaozhe Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Second Language Writing2021

  • Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing

    Open AccessT J Silva, Zhaozhe Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Second Language Writing2021

  • Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing

    Open AccessT J Silva, Zhaozhe Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Second Language Writing2020