Hacking Bias: Designing advocacy in the classroom
Can technology be racist? This is a question I ask students to grapple with. Many of my students…
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Toward a More Disruptive Approach to Design
As someone who teaches a variety of academic, technical, and multimodal writing classes, I have drawn influence from…
Democratizing Design: A Case for Utilizing Affordable Design Programs in Business and Technical Writing Classrooms
Document and information design plays a key role in the rhetorical force of compositions, and learning design is…
Care Ethics: Meeting Your Parents for the First Time
In his book Provocations of Virtue: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing, John Duffy explores the role…
Design Advocacy, Folklore, and Designing Multimodal Documents
As teachers, scholars, writers, and community members, document design plays an important role in our daily work. How…
How 4 Memes Pose Environmental Debate: Lessons for Design Advocates
Memes are defined by Heidi Huntington in her article “Pepper Spray Cop and the American Dream” as “still…
Teaching poster design as graphic advocacy
I teach in a communications department that emphasizes critically-informed digital literacy, social justice, and civic engagement. Many courses…
Exploring Social Advocacy Through Community-engaged, Public-facing Technical Communication
When I learned I would be teaching an asynchronous, online section of Advanced Technical Writing at the University…
(Re)Animating Queer Life(after?)Death:Queer/ing Multimodality and/as Practicing Mourning
Content warning: This post will explore topics relating to anti-queer violence and death. In Digital Death: Mortality and…
Designing for Ethos: Katharine Hayhoe’s Climate Change Advocacy
Katharine Hayhoe has impressive academic credentials. As a climate scientist, she has 125 peer-reviewed publications and serves as…
Critical Design Rhetorics of Digital Democracy: A Course Design for Informed Dissent and Design Advocacy
Image created by Matthew V. Jacobson Introduction A few months ago, I gave myself a challenge: design a…
Promoting Linguistic Diversity in Community-Centered Multimodal Design
How can language diversity be centered through multimodal design and community-centered technical communication work? And what can that…
Digital Advocacy in Digital Rhetoric & Literacy: Part II
This is the second of two posts detailing digital advocacy projects created by master’s students in a Digital…
Digital Advocacy in Digital Rhetoric & Literacy: Part I
Designing the Course: Kristi’s Project How does the digital change what we know about and how we practice…
ATLAS.ti: Desktop and Cloud-based Coding Software
ATLAS.ti offers various qualitative data analysis (QDA) solutions for researchers and students working with qualitative data. In this…
Call for Blog Contributions: Multimodal Design & Social Advocacy
Editors: Jialei Jiang and Jason Tham Introduction The recent return to virtue ethics and social equity in the…