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 […]
New Article about Civic Social Media
I’m very excited to announce that my new piece “Civic Social Media: A Detailed Case for Classroom Use” is now published at Programmatic Perspectives! The article details a complex pedagogical case for use in technical communication classrooms, drawn from a service learning project I ran in 2018. Here’s the abstract: […]
Applied Rhetoric Symposium!
This month, I was pleased to virtually attend and present at the 4th Applied Rhetoric Symposium. I spoke on a new project I’m developing, and this initial version of the project was called “Let’s Have Better Arguments About the Internet: A Stasis-Question Analysis of Rhetoric Concerning the Governance of the […]
Guest Lectures!
Spring was a busy season for guest lectures! I gave five talks in four different venues. In April, Missouri State University’s Technical and Professional Writing program invited me to give a faculty workshop as part of MSU’s English Week Conference. I was honored to lead keynote workshop and give a […]
Back on the Pod!
I’m thrilled to report that Mercy Harper invited me to talk on the APQC (American Productivity and Quality Center) podcast again! This time I got to talk about the role of artificial intelligence in business communication. I love talking about this stuff. Here’s a direct link to the pod, but […]
Collaborative Journal Article!
Collaborative work is some of my favorite work, so I’m proud to announce that our newest article “Artificial Intelligence in Business Communication: The Changing Landscape of Research and Teaching” is online now! Thanks to Kristen Getchell, Peter Cardon, Carolin Fleischmann, Haibing Ma, Jolanta Aritz, and James Stapp for being a […]
New book chapter!
I’m really excited to announce that I have a new open-access book chapter called “The Ship of Theseus: Change Over Time in Topics of Technical Communication Research Abstracts” out now. It’s meta-research (research on research) about the field that I work in, so if you want to know what sorts […]
Let’s Break Up Facebook into 16 Parts
As you can read anywhere on the Internet, Facebook is in trouble. Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg has been on the talk show circuit, saying things. I am today specifically interested in one statement Clegg made to NBC: We’re not saying this is a substitution of our own […]
A Busy October
I had a busy October, winning an award and giving three different talks. So as not to bury the lede: I am deeply honored to announce that the Association for Business Communication named me the 2021 recipient of the Rising Star Award at this month’s 86th Annual International Conference. The […]
From the Archives: Genre Theory as Ontology
When I was working on my doctorate, I was thinking a lot about genre theory, activity theory, and other ways of understanding the effects of communicative actions. (I even gave a shout-out to Actor-Network Theory in my dissertation thank-yous, though I did not use it.) My work since then has […]