Technical communication's fight against extractive large language modeling by applying FAIR and CARE principles of data
Forthcoming Jan. 2025 (39.1). We assess the data practices of the prominent AI-assisted writing technology, Grammarly, by applying data principles that advocate for empowering Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov).
Sep 24, 2024
A Stasis Network Methodology to Reckon with the Rhetorical Process of Data: How a Data Team Qualified Meaning and Practices
How do value judgments about data impact how professionals collect, process, analyze, and visualize data? I define and apply a stasis network methodology to study the rhetorical deliberations of a data journalism team.
Jan 16, 2024
Decolonizing Community-engaged Research: Designing CER with Cultural Humility as a Foundational Value
We use the Inuit cultural practice of nalukataq as a key metaphor to present our community-engaged research framework for cultural humility: listening to the caller, setting your feet, pulling equally, staying in sync.
Sep 1, 2023
Building an Infrastructural Praxis: Understanding Twitter's embeddedness in the U.S.-Mexico Border
How is Twitter embedded within the U.S.-Mexico border, and how does Twitter reorganize the oppressive conditions perpetuated by the border’s sociopolitical history? We propose a theoretical framework for technical and professional communication to study and understand our role with infrastructure.
Oct 1, 2022
"Hello, Is This the Writing Center?": Illicit Paper Mill Activity and the Compromised Recomposition of College and University Websites
By analyzing Google search engine results, we identified search optimization campaigns designed to drive traffic from compromised college and university websites to paper mills as a means of deceiving students.
Dec 1, 2021
Writing With Data: A Study of Coding on a Data-Journalism Team
Findings indicate how coding in a data-science context involved creative problem solving and meaning-making to (re)write the data during each process to create a journalistic data story.
Jan 2, 2021
Facts Upon Delivery: What Is Rhetorical About Visualized Models?
This article demonstrates how charts during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic articulated visual arguments yet also required extended communicative support upon their delivery.
Jan 1, 2021
Rhetmap.org: Visualizing Collaboration through Six Years of Field Data
Aug 1, 2020