<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>I'm happy to announce that the newest issue of <i>Communication Design Quarterly </i>was just published (volume 11, issue 1). The issue features four full-length articles and two book reviews, and it's a strong and varied collection of work covering everything from neoliberal wellness campaigns to content management systems. <a href="https://cdq.sigdoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CDQ_11.1_FullIssue.pdf">You can access the full issue here,</a> and I'm including the article titles and abstracts below. Thank you to all the authors and reviewers who put so much work into making this issue so strong. I hope you all enjoy!</div><div><br></div><div><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif"><font size="2">Constructing structured content on WordPress: Emerging paradigms in web content management</font></h3><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,79,88);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">by Daniel Carter</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,79,88);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">Web content management systems (WCMSs) are widely used technologies that, like previous writing tools, shape how people think about and create documents. Despite their influence and ubiquity, however, WCMSs have received exceedingly little attention from scholars interested in social aspects of technology. I begin to address this gap by analyzing the development of WordPress’s content creation experience through the lens of<br style="box-sizing:inherit">structured content. Based on this analysis, I contribute to ongoing discussions of content management by first suggesting that concepts such as structured content need to be understood as the contingent products of technical lineages and technical and social relationships and by second drawing attention to emerging paradigms of content creation, such as the merging of content creation and arrangement and the conflation of visual and abstract representations of content objects.</p><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif"><font size="2">Questioning neoliberal rhetorics of wellness: Designing programmatic interventions to better support graduate instructor wellbeing</font></h3><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,79,88);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">by Samantha Clem and Beth Buysiere</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,79,88);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Abstract</span>: Previous research has recognized the neoliberal trends that permeate the rhetorics of academic wellness, placing the responsibility for wellbeing on individuals rather than institutions and systems. In this study, the authors implemented a participatory action research (PAR) project to collaborate with different stakeholders in one university writing program and develop programmatic approaches to support the wellbeing of one subset of academic faculty: graduate student instructors. Along with an account of how we adapted our PAR methodology to align with the wellness needs of our participants, we also provide a description and analysis of the intervention developed collaboratively in the PAR group. We end with five takeaways that researchers and stakeholders in graduate student education can apply to developing programmatic interventions that better support graduate instructor wellbeing: 1) research methodologies should adapt to foreground wellbeing; 2) productive conversations about wellbeing should start by acknowledging and validating the lived experience of graduate instructors; 3) students want to be involved in programmatic processes and procedures that support their wellbeing; 4) facilitating (but not requiring) non-productive social interaction among grad students can support GI wellbeing; 5) the work of supporting wellbeing is never fully done—we call on administrators, faculty members, and students to continue this work.</p><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="2">Exploring healthcare communication gaps between US universities and their international students: A technical communication approach</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,79,88);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">by Akshata Balghare</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,79,88);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Abstract</span>: US healthcare is a complicated system not just for US-born citizens but also international students in the US. While universities inform international students about how US healthcare functions, these students still struggle with navigating healthcare owing to the cultural and technical challenges they face with the system. This paper investigates how US healthcare information can be conveyed effectively by universities so that international students navigate healthcare with fewer challenges. This research was conducted using qualitative methods with 12 international student participants at a US university. Using the collected data, the study provides recommendations to improve healthcare communication on campuses and insights to increase the scope of this study to further investigate international students’ healthcare access challenges.</p><h3 style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 20px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.2em;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="2">The coping with COVID project: Participatory public health communication</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,79,88);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">by Kathryn Yankura Swacha</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px auto 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,79,88);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Abstract</span>: This paper reports on The Coping with COVID Project, a qualitative study and public-facing platform that invited participants to share their experiences, via stories and images, with navigating COVID-related public health guidelines. The study revealed daily activities during the pandemic summarized in three themes: lived ‘compliance;’ emplaced, storied negotiations; and affective, embodied efforts. In light of such findings, this article outlines recommendations for a participatory, actionable story and visual-driven approach to public health communication that recognizes the various contexts—e.g., physical, material, affective, structural—which impact how such communication is interpreted and acted upon by people in their daily lives. A heuristic is included for communicators, researchers, and community members to use in enacting this approach.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-size:17px;margin:0px auto 1.6em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,79,88);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif"><a href="https://cdq.sigdoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CDQ_11.1_FullIssue.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent">Download issue 11 (1) here.</a></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Jordan Frith, Ph.D.</span></p>

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