Author: Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt

Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt is a PhD student in the Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication (RSTC) program at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include technical communication pedagogy, workplace communication, and open source technologies.

join.me is an online meeting platform that provides desktop and mobile conferencing and screencasting abilities (PC Magazine, 2017). Join.me is considered a “freemium” conferencing platform: many of its features are available at no charge, making it a viable choice for collaboration among enterprises, both large and small, and private citizens who need to share screens. These benefits are extensible to non-profit and academic contexts as well, as libraries’ use of the platform (Johnston, 2012) partly demonstrates. Join.me can be used with systems more common in the academy; one example is Slack, a messaging system used in at least one rhetoric-oriented…

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