Hi all,I’m happy to announce the publication of two new online first articles for Communication Design Quarterly. I’m including the article info below, and you can find full PDFs of the articles available open access (along with other articles and the special issue published in May) at CDQ’s online first page. I hope you enjoy reading them.
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StoryMapping community engagement: Reflexive chorography, spatial justice, and the Carnegie classification for community engagement
by Brian Gogan and John C. Scott
Abstract: Institutions of higher education can use communication design to more fully realize the transformational potential of applying for the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement. In particular, we contend that chorography is one way that institutions can seek spatial justice in conjunction with place-based community engagement understandings. To support this argument, we focus on the location of community-engaged work as a defining characteristic of that work. We further process one year’s worth of our home institution’s community-engaged work by using a three-step research methodology called chorography, in which we (1) collected community engagement data; (2) designed a multi-layered community engagement map; and, (3) reflexively considered the inclusivity and sustainability of our institution’s community-engaged work. Our aim is to use this map-making method to orient our institution to more inclusive and more sustainable community-engaged work.
Collaboration as a shared value: Instructor and student perceptions of collaborative learning in online business writing courses
by Brigitte Mussack and Jason Tham
Abstract: This article presents a case study of instructor and student perceptions of collaborative learning in multiple sections of an upper-level, online business writing course. Our goals are to understand current attitudes toward collaboration among business writing instructors and students and to examine points of dissonance regarding attitudes, frameworks, and definitions of collaborative writing. Further, we aim to understand how collaboration is valued, how it is framed and valued in terms of either process or product, and various associations between collaboration and community. Our results revealed collaboration to be a shared interest by business writing instructors and students alike but at the same time it is received differently in online versus in-person interactions. In this article, we identify these dissonances and discuss what they mean for collaborative learning.
Jordan Frith, Ph.D.
Pearce Professor of Professional Communication
Clemson University
Pronouns: He/Him
Editor-in-Chief, Communication Design Quarterly
Editor, The X-Series, Parlor Press