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 […]
Article Quote
I was recently asked by Financial Times to weigh in on “Why internet slang is a riddle for bosses,” based on my co-authored work about Gen Z employees. I was happy to provide a quote! You can read the whole article here (although it’s currently behind a paywall). Great thanks […]
AI Ethics at Polytechnic Prep, Round 2
For my last talk of the year, I was once again honored to be invited to one of the classrooms of the ASU Prep Poly STEM High School. These ASU Prep high school students have been hearing lectures from faculty in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts all semester […]
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 […]
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 […]