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 […]
New Pre-print!
I’m thrilled to announce the arrival of a new pre-print: “Acceptance of AI-Based Meeting Tools: Psychological Safety as a Foundation for Smart Collaboration.” This paper looks at survey information to assess what factors or characteristics influence acceptance of AI-based meeting tools in the workplace. Here’s a summary of what we […]
New pubs!
I’m very excited to announce two new publications that have recently arrived! The first is “The Potentials and Pitfalls of Computer Visioning and Machine Learning Methods for Communication Researchers,” co-authored with Claire Lauer and Eric Nystrom. This SIGDOC ’23 proceedings paper outlines a multi-year process that we went through to […]
A Book!
Hey! I co-wrote an open-access book! I’m very pleased that “Text at Scale: Corpus Analysis in Technical Communication” is available for anyone to read, right now, at WAC Clearinghouse: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/scale/ It’s a book that makes an argument for and demonstrates corpus analysis as a method to help technical communicators: not […]
New article at Business Horizons!
Virtual meetings are part and parcel of work life now, and many organizations record those meetings. Yet many organizations don’t have any policies or procedures about how, when or why to record those meetings (or how to do so legally). So, my research team and I set out to write […]
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 […]
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 […]