Publications
Books, articles, and reports published by Digital Life Institute members.
Writing Futures: Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous
Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen
Book: This collection explores the future of writing. As non-human agents and artificial intelligences (AI) disrupt all writing fields and professions, human writers have to adapt.
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Connectivism for writing pedagogy: Strategic networked approaches to promote international collaborations and intercultural learning
JasonTham, Ann HillDuin, Saveena (Chakrika)Veeramoothoo, Brandi J.Fuglsby
Journal Article: Global learning promotes intercultural understanding among learners and their nodes. Students use networked technologies to connect with other students located in various parts of the world. Students interact to co-construct knowledge and respond to unique situations collaboratively. Connectivism is a strategic theory that leverages the availability of distributed knowledge.
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A future so close: Mapping 10 years of promises and futures across the augmented reality development cycle
Tony Liao, Andrew Iliadis
Journal Article: New Media & Society. This study analyzes two futures data sets to understand 10 years of futures surrounding AR.
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The Rhetoric, Science, and Technology of 21st Century Collaboration
Ann Hill Duin, Jason Tham, Isabel Pedersen
Book chapter: Effective teaching of technical communication: Theory, practice and application, M. Klein (Editor)
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Metaphors, mental models, and multiplicity: Understanding student perception of digital literacu
Jason Tham, Kenyan Degles, Burnham, Daniel L. Hocutt, Nupoor Ranade, John Misak, Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen, Jessica Lynn Campbell
Journal Article: Computers and Composition 59 (2021)
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The Wearable Past: Integrating a Physical Museum Collection of Wearables into a Database of Born-digital Artifacts Digital Studies / Le champ numérique.
Isabel Pedersen, Tom Everrett, Sharon Caldwell
Journal Article: Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. 10(1), 1-12.
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Instructor Roles in Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Kenyan Burnham, Adam Narine, Christopher Trotter
Conference Paper: This study details research currently underway exploring the perceived roles that higher education instructors embody during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of interest to this study-up research, are the ways that instructors evaluate themselves as they pivot from previous modalities into emergency remote instruction and how their response provides insights into emergency continuity strategies. Through teleconferenced interviews, perspectives are transcribed, qualitatively coded through two coding cycles, culminating in an inductively derived insights that provide guidance to instructors and institutions.
From the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication(SIGDOC ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 53, 1–2.
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Embodied Computing: Wearables, implantables, embeddables, ingestibles
Isabel Pedersen, Andrew Iliadis (Authors, Editors)
Book: Practitioners and scholars explore ethical, social, and conceptual issues arising in relation to such devices as fitness monitors, neural implants, and a toe-controlled computer mouse.
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Collaborating Internationally to Build Digital Literacy Learning through TPC Instruction
Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen, Sharon Caldwell, Danielle Stambler, Jason Tham, Katlynne Davis
Refereed Conference Paper: Proceedings for 2019 CPTSC Annual Conference, October 10-12, 2019, West Chester, West Chester University PA. p. 131-132.
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Human-Centered Content Design in Augmented Reality
Ann Hill Duin, Dawn Armfield, Isabel Pedersen
Book Chapter: Content Strategy in Technical Communication. Guiseppe Getto, Jack Labriola, Sheryl Ruszkiewicz (Editors)
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Ready to Wear
Isabel Pedersen
Book: Ready to Wear explores how and to what ends wearable inventions and technologies augment or remix reality, as well as the claims used to promote them. As computer components shrink and our mobile culture normalizes, we wear computers on the body to create immersive experiences.
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