Hi all,
I’m happy to announce the publication of Volume 12, Issue 4 (you can access the full issue here) of Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ). This issue features 5 full articles and 4 book review. I want to thank the authors for all the amazing work they did and our Associate Editor Amber Lancaster and our Book Review Editor Kristin Bennett for putting it all together. . I’m including the table of contents of the issue below, and I hope you all read it and enjoy it. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions about the issue or are interested in submitting your own work!
Oh and as always should be the case…if you read an article you like, email the authors and let them know :). I promise that pretty much everyone loves receiving that kind of email.
Table of contents:
Empowerment through Authorship Inclusivity: Toward More Equitable and Socially Just Citation Practices
Amber Lancaster and Carrie S. Tucker King………………………………………………………………………………….1
Heat Vulnerability Mapping: Designing Visual Tools that Effectively Communicate Risk
Kathryn Lambrecht…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..16
Are Academia and Industry Listening to Each Other? A Citation Analysis of UX Research Methods Resources
Abigail Bakke and Leonard DiBono……………………………………………………………………………………………27
Commemoration and Context: The Death Counter Graphics of COVID-19
Daniel Liddle……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………39
Between the Lines: Visual Euphemism in Technical and Professional Communication Visuals
Kevin Van Winkle………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………54
Book review: Data justice and the right to the city
Nathan R. Johnson……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………64
Book review: Book anatomy: Body politics and materiality of Indigenous book history
Shiva Hari Mainaly……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………66
Book review: Amplifying voices in UX: Balancing design and user needs in technical communication
Yingying Tang…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..69
Book review: Engineering words: Communicating clearly in the workplace
Hua Wang………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..71
(Apologies for any typos. I am using voice to text to deal with carpal tunnel)
Jordan Frith, Ph.D.
Pearce Professor of Professional Communication, Clemson University
Pronouns: He/Him
Editor-in-Chief, Communication Design Quarterly
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