Josh Tenenberg, Ph.D.
About
Degrees
My interdisciplinary research is in the borderlands of the human and the technical. I have undertaken empirical research studies in computing and engineering education, software development, human-computer interaction, design research, semiotics, and technical communication. I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and undertook advanced study at the Ostrom Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University in 2006. I served as visiting professor in Informatics at Indiana University in 2006 and in Computer Science at the University of Victoria (Canada) in 2013. I served for six years as the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computing Education, have published several dozen papers in the human sciences, and am the author of Narratives of Qualitative Research: Making Praxis Visible, published by Routledge (2024). I teach human-oriented aspects of computing at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Tenenberg, J. (2024). Notional machines: Retrieving background practices of perception and action. ACM Transactions on Computing Education. https://doi-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/10.1145/3688390
Tenenberg, J. and Chinn, D. (2024). Epistemic practices in conceptions of computer science. Computer Science Education, 35(1): 190–211. https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2024.2381398
Tenenberg, J. (2024). Narratives of Qualitative Research: Making Praxis Visible, Routledge.
Tenenberg, J. and Fincher, S. (2023). Bridging the gap between the individual and the group: the education of attention in design. CoDesign, 19(1), 36-50.
Roth, W-M., Socha, D., Tenenberg, J. (2021). How actions and words come to make sense in a continuously changing world of work: a case study from software development. Semiotica, 238, 211-238.
Tenenberg, J. (2019). Factors Affecting Free Riding on Teams: Implications for Engineering Education. International Journal of Engineering Education, 35(6A), 1703–1724.
Tenenberg, J. and Chinn, D. (2019). Social Genesis in Computing Education. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 19(4): Article 34.
Tenenberg, J. (2019). Qualitative Methods for Computing Education. In Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research. Fincher, S. and Robins, A. (Eds.). Cambridge University Press.
Rose, E., Tenenberg, J. (2017). Poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: Theorizing the use of personas in practice. Technical Communication Quarterly, 27(2), 161-174.
Tenenberg, J., Roth, W.-M., Socha, D. (2016). From I-Awareness to We-Awareness in CSCW. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 25(4), 235-278. (Focal article of special issue on "Awareness in CSCW")
Tenenberg, J. (2014). Learning through observing peers in practice. Studies in Higher Education, 41(4):756-73.
Tenenberg, J. and Knobelsdorf, M. (2014). Out of our minds: a review of sociocultural cognition theory. Computer Science Education, 24(1), 1-24.
Lim, Y., Stolterman, E., and Tenenberg, J. (2008). The anatomy of prototypes: Prototypes as filters, prototypes as manifestations of design ideas. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 15(2), 1-27.
Tenenberg, J. (2008). An institutional analysis of software teams. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 66(7), 484-494.
Fincher, S. and Tenenberg, J. (2006). Using Theory to Inform Capacity-Building: Communities of Practice in Engineering Education Research. Journal of Engineering Education, 95(4), 265-277.