Michael McLeod’s research while affiliated with Michigan State University and other places

... Un riferimento in tal senso, si rileva nell'approccio community-based all'archiviazione digitale (Ridolfo, Hart-Davidson & McLeod, 2011;Cantillon, Baker e Buttigieg, 2017;O'Quinn, 2022), che interpreta la costruzione di un database come un'attività che coinvolge un gruppo di persone che si riconoscono in una cultura comune e che vengono guidate nel racconto e nella codifica della stessa e nel suo divenire un oggetto materialmente accessibile, attraverso la digitalizzazione di immagini, racconti, oggetti… Questo modello di ricerca si concretizza in alcune azioni peculiari (O'Quinn, 2022): ...

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Collective agency in socio-ecological systems evaluated through theatre-based research

... Of course, this work builds on decades of scholarship in digital rhetoric that explores writing as a mode of production constituted by (and constituting) online technologies (Blair, 1998;DeVoss, Cushman, & Grabill, 2005;Dush, 2014). Recently this work has focused explicitly on design as a method of teaching writing and thinking about writing, however (Carpenter, 2014;Lane, 2018;Leverenz, 2014;McLeod et al., 2013). This work adds a third dimension to the use of UX in the classroom: these scholars assert that design discourse is a useful mode of writing for students to utilize in order to think through complex problems like how to help a local non-profit better visualize information or how to compose in multiple modes while balancing all the affordances necessary for being effective with a specific audience. ...

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The Story/Test/Story Method: A Combined Approach to Usability Testing and Contextual Inquiry

... In such studies (Artemeva & Freedman, 2001;Bazerman et al., 2003;Berkenkotter & Huckin, 1995;Bracewell & Witte, 2003;Freedman & Smart, 1997;Haas & Witte, 2001;Kain & Wardle, 2005;Spafford et al., 2006;Walker, 2004; see Russell, 1997b for a review up to 1997), activity-often portrayed as an activity system with subjects or actors, mediating instruments or tools, an object or object(ive), rules, community, and division of labor-provided an analytical language suitable for dissecting context: bounding a case or a rhetorical situation via productive consensual orientation of a community to an object(ive). This notion of activity has given technical and professional communication practitioners a grounded framework for understanding and describing context in cases such as designing new content management systems (McCarthy et al., 2011), understanding user-generated documentation (Sherlock, 2009), identifying how texts support different functions in an organization , or developing engineering communication workshops (Gygi & Zachry, 2010). ...

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Editing

... There was early concern about what it meant for technical communicators whose employers enhanced efficiency by adopting CMSs and single-source publishing (Clark, 2002;Hart-Davidson et al., 2007). Yet, scholarship has become more encouraging or at least more accepting (Hart-Davidson, 2010). ...

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A Maturity Model for Content Strategy Development and Technical Communicator Leadership

... Additionally, an incorrect click and rating noise are introduced by paid workers to offer false likes or a low rating on products [9] also has an inherent influence on the untrustworthiness of ratings. E-commerce websites, like Yelp and Amazon, permit their customers to provide reviews of their product purchasing experience and offer judgment like down or up to estimate the effectiveness of the feedback [10]. Nowadays, reviews are utilized to enhance the intelligibility of recommender systems [11]. ...

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Enhancing Top-N Recommendation Using Stacked Autoencoder in Context-Aware Recommender System