Communication Design Quarterly Sep 2022

Introduction

Sarah Read ; Jordan Frith

Abstract

This article is the introduction to the second of two Communication and Design Quarterly special issues focused on conceptualizations of infrastructure. While there are more continuities than differences between the themes and methodologies of articles in the first and second issues, this second issue leans towards articles that have taken up infrastructure as it pertains to writing and rhetoric. This introduction frames the value of infrastructure as a metaphor for making visible how writing and rhetoric structure and enact much of our world, especially for writing pedagogy. In addition, this article concludes by introducing the six contributions in this issue.

Journal
Communication Design Quarterly
Published
2022-09-01
DOI
10.1145/3507870.3507871
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Topics
writing pedagogy multimodality

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Littlefield (2025)
    From Tactical Technical Communication to Infrastructural Writing: The Role of U…
    Communication Design Quarterly

Cites in this index (7)

  1. Read (2020)
    How to Build a Supercomputer: U.S. Research Infrastructure and the Documents Th…
    Written Communication
  2. Frith (2020)
    Technical Standards and a Theory of Writing as Infrastructure
    Written Communication
  3. Read (2019)
    The Infrastructural Function: A Relational Theory of Infrastructure for Writing…
    Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  4. Read (2016)
    The <i>Net Work</i> Genre Function
    Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  5. Hart-Davidson et al. (2007)
    Coming to Content Management: Inventing Infrastructure for Organizational Knowl…
    Technical Communication Quarterly
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  1. DeVoss et al. (2005)
    Infrastructure and Composing: The When of New-Media Writing
    College Composition and Communication
  2. Edbauer (2005)
    Unframing models of public distribution: From rhetorical situation to rhetorica…
    Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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