Somehow, I never pushed publish on this thought from April of 2023. It’s still a good thought: I saw a big and important article about life after being an influencer at the New York Times. Social media has many hazards; due to how rapidly social media entered the world of […]
A Schema for Social Media Networks
I’ve been thinking about how social media platforms function recently, and I’ve come up with some notes toward a schematizing idea. So: there are a few aspects of social media networks that are baked in: user to user access, content moderation schemes, business model, goal scale, and content focus. No […]
Kickstarter Article, pt 2
I am very excited to announce that Eric Nystrom and I have a new article that published today in Technical Communication (the journal of Society for Technical Communication). “Elements of an Emerging Style Guide for Kickstarter” is a corpus analysis piece that identifies written stylistic elements common to successful (and […]
Award!
It’s always lovely to receive an award that you had no idea was on its way. I am deeply honored to note that this month I received the (ASU) President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness. (In my university mailbox! Out of nowhere!) The award cited my significant contributions to Project Cities, […]
Books of the Year 2022
My reading habits generally include a wide range of things, but this year I was all over the place. In the non-fiction realm, I intentionally did not read as much for work as I usually do. This year was about finishing projects for me, and so I didn’t want to […]
AI Ethics!
For my last talk of the year, I was honored to be invited to the classroom of the ASU Prep Poly Experience. These ASU Prep high school students have been hearing lectures from faculty in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts all semester about a wide array of topics. […]
Jaunting about (intensely)
In September and October, I made the most of a pre-tenure teaching leave and gave five separate talks. I’d like to thank New Valley Church, the Association for Business Communication, ACM SIGDOC, The Arizona Site Stewards Conference, and the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication for welcoming me! […]
Fulfilling Work, or not
I’ve been finishing up some big projects this year, and I’ve begun to look to the future. One can’t look too deeply into the new projects before finishing the old, lest one get distracted. But still, the faint outlines of new work can become a little less faint while wrapping […]
Published at JBTC!
I am absolutely thrilled to report that “The Effects of Multimodal Elements on Success in Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaigns” is live now at the Journal of Business and Technical Communication! This is my first JBTC article, and I’m very excited to publish there. I’m also very excited because this is the […]
Co-editing!
I’m happy to announce that I’m co-editing an edition of Frontiers in Communication on the topic of “Advances in Entrepreneurship and Communication.” I’m working with a great team of Ryan Miller, Antonio La Sala, Cheng Hong, and Gustavo L. Simao to curate work on the topic. If you have any […]