He is the author of Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground, a book challenging teachers and scholars in writing and technology fields to explore the depths of Black rhetorical traditions more thoroughly and calling African Americans, from the academy to the street, to make technology issues a central site of struggle. This debut book was awarded the 2007 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award. His current book, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, was released in 2011 by Southern Illinois University Press.