About the Authors<\/h2>\n

Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt<\/strong> is a Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research deals with technical communication pedagogy, workplace writing, and usability, as well as emerging and open source technologies.<\/p>\n

Katlynne Davis<\/strong> is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication program at the University of Minnesota. She is interested in how social media is used in business and technical communication to build relationships with stakeholders and customers. She is also interested in technical communication pedagogy and theory, digital rhetoric, and human-computer interaction.<\/p>\n

Eduardo Nevarez<\/strong> is a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota in the Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication program. His research interests align with transnational and intercultural communication, composition theory and pedagogy, technical and risk communication, posthuman embodied technologies, and applied research methodologies.<\/p>\n

Chakrika Veeramoothoo<\/strong> is a Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research interests include the rhetoric of protest movements, technical communication and composition pedagogy and the use of wearables in workplaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Background In this collection, four graduate scholars investigate a suite of collaborative technologies, namely join.me, Facebook Messenger, Scalar, and WebEx, for their features and rhetorical implications on our communication, work, and pedagogy. Using various theoretical frames drawn from rhetoric, technical communication, and team science literature, these scholars evaluate the design of specific virtual workspaces and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":14613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1339],"class_list":{"0":"post-14612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hack-yack","8":"category-yack","9":"category-hack"},"authors":[{"term_id":1339,"user_id":187,"is_guest":0,"slug":"jasontham","display_name":"Jason Tham","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9ef22c552bcfc6ba65992005c112eb1f?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","user_url":"http:\/\/jasontham.com","last_name":"Tham","first_name":"Jason","job_title":"","description":"Jason is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication at the University of Minnesota\u2013\u2013Twin Cities. His current research focuses on making and design thinking in writing pedagogy, multimodality, and emerging technologies such as wearables and mixed reality."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14612"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20980,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions\/20980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14612"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=14612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}