Associate Professor Avery Edenfield and Technical Communication& Rhetoric PhD students Ryan Cheek and Sam Clem have recently published “Trans* Vulnerability and Digital Research Ethics: A Qubit Ethical Analysis of Transparency Activism” in the proceedings of SIGDOC '21: The 39th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. Their article on digital research ethics compares two transparency activist organizations—Wikileaks and DDoSecrets—to introduce “qubit ethics,” a trans*material, trans-corporeal ethics of care as praxis within vulnerable online communities. They demonstrate how this unique approach to research design allows for the complex entanglements that is trans* life, particularly digital life. They present clear take-aways for qubit-ethics informed social justice research.
Mufti Nadimul Quamar Ahmed is a graduate student in his second year, pursuing a doctorate in sociology at USU. He recently helped survey Utahns to see if environmental concerns affect the decision to have children.
Utah State University President’s Office recently held receptions for this year’s round of inaugural lectures. Three recently promoted faculty in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences presented thoughtful reflections on their research and the even...
