Communication Design Quarterly Jul 2022

Introduction

Jordan Frith ; Sarah Read

Abstract

This article is the introduction of the first of twoCommunication Design Quarterlyspecial issues focused on conceptualizations of infrastructure. This introduction explains the inspiration for these two special issues and details the growth of infrastructural research across the humanities and social sciences. This article also explains the structure of the issue and argues that the articles found across these two issues make a strong case for centering infrastructural knowledge in our work going forward.

Journal
Communication Design Quarterly
Published
2022-07-01
DOI
10.1145/3507857.3507858
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Topics
multimodality

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    Technical Standards and a Theory of Writing as Infrastructure
    Written Communication
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    Journal of Business and Technical Communication
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    Recycled Writing: Assembling Actor Networks From Reusable Content
    Journal of Business and Technical Communication
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    Infrastructure and Composing: The When of New-Media Writing
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