USU English Department graduate students Rachel Bryson, Sam Clem, Kailey Collins, Margaret Hsiao, Wesley Mathis, and Hannah Stevens along with Assistant Professor Chen Chen and CHaSS Associate Dean Rebecca Walton, presented at the SIGDOC conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 6-8th.
SIGDOC is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Design of Communication (DOC).
On Thursday, October 6th:
Master of Technical Communication and Rhetoric student Kailey Collins and PhD students Margaret Hsiao, Wesley Mathis, and Hannah Stevens presented: “Constructing the Online Classroom Amid a Pandemic: Advocating for Students Through User-Centered Design.”
PhD candidates Rachel Bryson and Sam Clem presented “Cultivating Ethics in the Peer Review Process.”
Assistant Professor Chen Chen and co-presenter Xiaobo Wang presented “Reporting Violations on Weibo and Twitter: A Comparative Critical Interface Analysis.”
Additionally, Chen presented an ignite talk at MIT.
On Friday, October 7th:
USU alum Jamal-Jared Alexander, Hannah Stevens, and Rebecca Walton presented “Diversifying Knowledge: Presenting and Applying a Framework for Inclusive Graduate Program Websites.”
Sam Clem and Director of Composition Beth Buyserie presented “Participatory Communication: Collaborative Approaches to Well-being in Graduate Instructor Development Programs.”
In addition to presenting, multiple USU graduate students, faculty, and alumni published in the SIGDOC conference proceedings:
Jamal-Jared, Hannah, and Rebecca published “Diversifying Knowledge: Presenting and Applying a Framework for Inclusive Graduate Program Websites.”
Rachel and Sam published “Cultivating Ethics in the Peer Review Process.”
Hannah, Margaret, Wesley, and Kailey published “Constructing Online Spaces Amid a Pandemic: Advocating for Students Through User-Centered Design.”