Social Media in Technical Communication

Abstract

This special issue addresses social media and their effects on the field of technical communication. Through various methodologies and distinct sites of inquiry—from research into ways knowledge workers use specific social media sites, to collaborations by scholars across the globe using social media and other technologies, to classroom practices that investigate social media—contributors consider the imbricated nature of social media in public life and its significance to our work as researchers and teachers.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The guest editor thanks her colleague Melinda Turnley for sharing her insights on media and critical theory and for prompting the guest editor to take on this project. The guest editor is grateful for the support of Amy Koerber, outgoing TCQ editor, who has worked to move this issue to press and to Donna Kain, incoming TCQ editor, who is generously seeing the project through its final phases. The guest editor deeply appreciates the generosity of colleagues who served as blind reviewers, reading and offering substantive feedback to authors during the manuscript review process: Huiling Ding, Brenton Faber, Ashley J. Holmes, Charles Kostelnick, Lisa Meloncon, Colleen Reilly, Michael Salvo, Karl Stolley, Clay Spinuzzi, Stephanie Vie, and James P. Zappen. Last, the guest editor thanks the contributors for their talent as scholars in providing articles that help to understand social media and their impacts on the field of technical communication.

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Amy C. Kimme Hea

Amy C. Kimme Hea is Writing Program Director and Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona and author of Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Composition Teachers and Researchers.