Destroy All Humans: The Dematerialisation of the Designer in an Age of Automation and its Impact on Graphic Design—A Literature Review

Digital automation is on the rise in a diverse range of industries. The technologies employed here often make use of artificial intelligence (AI) and its common form, machine learning (ML) to augment or replace the work completed by human agents. The recent emergence of a variety of design automation platforms inspired the authors to undertake a review of the research literature on the impact of Automation, AI and ML on visual communication, and its subset practice of graphic design, with a view to understanding the implications for the education of practitioners entering that specific field. This review discovered that there was relatively little research published on the topic but what did exist noted that graphic design as we have known it has an uncertain future. Furthermore, the scant literature argued for a shift in educational and professional focus away from the aesthetic and technical skills required to design visual modes of communication and towards a deeper engagement with the softer, more human skills associated with negotiation, facilitation and judgement. The paucity of literature on this topic suggests to the authors that visual communication design education and the industry are poorly prepared for the impact of automation, AI and ML on them.     

Identifying Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Instructional Technology

Interdisciplinarity is defined as communication and collaboration across academic disciplines. The instructional technology (IT) field has claimed to have an interdisciplinary nature influenced by neighboring fields such as psychology, communication, and management. However, it has been difficult to find outstanding evidence of the field’s interdisciplinary research efforts, except with psychology. IT and neighboring fields including human performance technology, instructional design, learning sciences, human resource development, and human resource management share common goals of learning and performance in diverse contexts. These fields are converging in terms of underscoring the importance of people in improving organizational performance through learning, development, and innovations. In this context, the purpose of this study was to identify interdisciplinary research collaboration efforts in the field through a review of literature on the topic. Based on the review of the literature, I provided implications for research and practice.     

Enhancing learning,communication and public engagement about climate change – some lessons from recent literature

This paper sets out to develop key messages for the theory and practice of environmental education from a review of recent research literature on climate change communication (CCC) and education. It focuses on how learners of climate science understand messages on climate change, the communicative contexts for education on climate change, the barriers that can be found to public engagement with climate change issues, and how these barriers can be addressed. 92 peer-reviewed studies were examined. The analysis focuses on the goals and strategies of CCC, and how barriers can be addressed given the research findings on: (a) the content of CCC, (b) visualizations, (c) framing, (d) audience segmentation. The paper concludes that CCC and education need to address barriers to public engagement on several levels simultaneously. It recommends that scholars of environmental education focus critical attention on how practice addresses senses and spheres of agency; sociocultural factors; and the complexities of developing scientific literacy given the interpretative frames and prior understandings that are brought to bear by the public in non-formal education settings.     

Durable Research,Portable Findings: Rhetorical Methods in Case Study Research

ABSTRACT

Case studies have been a central methodology employed by scholars working in the rhetoric of science and technical communication. However, concerns have been raised about how cases are constructed and collected, and what they convey. The authors reflect on how rhetoricians of science and technical communication researchers can – and do – construct a variety of case-based mixed-methods studies in ways that may make our research more portable and durable without undercutting the important and central role of case-based analysis.     

国内师生交往研究综述

师生交往是学校教育中学习与生活的基本方式,一直以来,师生交往问题成为国内最具有前沿性和交叉性的教育科学研究课题之一。文章以近年来国内师生交往研究为主题,从师生交往的特质、价值导向与方法论、结构能力以及师生交往的异化根源与对策等方面进行系统阐述与总结,以期为未来研究提供有益借鉴。     

近十年我国残疾人体育研究回顾及发展展望

残疾人体育活动的蓬勃发展推动了残疾人体育研究的不断深入,残疾人体育理论研究水平的不断提高又将科学化地指导实践。利用非反应测量的内容分析法,对近十年公开发表的残疾人体育研究文献进行分析发现:残疾人体育相关研究的总体趋势表现为:文献总量快速增加,期刊类型更加丰富;研究的时代特征日益鲜明;理论性基础研究占较大比例。同时,目前关于残疾人体育的研究也存在明显缺陷,研究主题分布较为集中;跨学科研究的理论支撑不足;研究的传统价值观受到挑战;研究工具单一化;研究成果的关注范围扩大但影响力不足。建议:从个体研究转向关系研究、解决研究的技术性问题和理论体系的建构应当成为残疾人体育未来研究的重要方向。     

A Review of Recent Research on Individual‐Level Score Reports

As the primary interface between test developers and multiple educational stakeholders, score reports are a critical component to the success (or failure) of any assessment program. The purpose of this review is to document recent research on individual‐level score reporting to advance the research and practice of score reporting. We conducted a search for research studies published or presented between 2005 and 2015, examining 60 scholarly works for (1) the research focus, (2) stated or implied theoretical frameworks of communication, and (3) the characteristics of data sets employed in the studies. Results show that research on score properties, especially subscores, and score report design/layout are well‐represented in the literature base. The predominant approach to score reporting has been through a cybernetics tradition of communication. Data sets were often small or localized to a single context. We present example research questions from novel communication frameworks, and encourage our colleagues to adopt new roles in their relationships to stakeholders to advance score reporting research and practice.     

历史气候变迁对中国古代社会影响的研究综述

历史气候变迁对中国古代社会的发展产生了重大的影响,近年来,学界的相关研究较多。文章首先对学界关于气候变迁与王朝的盛衰治乱、游牧民族南下以及人口数量增减、迁移等问题的研究进行回顾总结,并对相关研究的不足和未来的发展提出了进一步研究的建议。     

对文学研究工作的几点思考

要从文学本身来研究文学,进一步扩展研究领域,注意文学诸多样式的沟通,加强文学创作与文学研究的沟通,关注文学的社会功能。     

我国国际传播研究的知识图谱分析(2000-2018)——基于Cite Space可视化

伴随着信息科技和全球化趋势的不断深入,中国同世界的联系日益紧密,国际传播也获得较为充足的发展基础。近年来我国国际传播相关研究文献不断增长,为把握和理解新时期国际传播的特点和规律提供了参考。基于科学知识图谱对2000-2018年期间中国知网(CNKI)收录的国际传播研究文献进行全方位扫描,并绘制当前国际传播研究的关键词共现图。结果发现,打通国际传播的技术渠道,全方位建设国际传播事业是当前研究重点,且国际环境发展对我国新时期的国际传播发出创新和变革呼吁。     

Framing climate change communication to prompt individual and collective action among adolescents from agricultural communities

Climate communication research suggests strategic message framing may help build public consensus on climate change causes, risks and solutions. However, few have investigated how framing applies to adolescents. Similarly, little research has focused on agricultural audiences, who are among the most vulnerable to and least accepting of climate change. Among 950 high school agriculture students in North Carolina, we found agriculture and environment framing of climate change, but not community and health frames, elicited feelings of worry, and these together with community frames elicited hope. Further, students feeling more worry were more supportive of individual and collective action. Those accepting climate change and females had more emotive responses and higher support for all action measures, and acceptance of human causes predicted more worry and support for collective action. We find these results encouraging as agriculture teachers likely employ agriculture and environment frames when following best teaching practices.     

A roadmap for forming successful interdisciplinary education research collaborations: a reflective approach

Current literature about interdisciplinary education research is focused on three points: conceptual definitions of interdisciplinarity, the need for interdisciplinary research to tackle the advent of problem-based research and the positive curriculum outcomes to be gained from interdisciplinary research. While this research is important, it does not always include an account of the often complex and politicised interactions that might affect the outcomes of interdisciplinary research groups. This paper provides one possible ‘roadmap’ for successful interdisciplinary collaboration. It is based on a reflective case study of the authors’ own formation of an interdisciplinary research group and the practical resolutions to both the theoretical and the practical issues involved in achieving interdisciplinarity in education research.     

英语交际能力与英语口语教学

英语专业的教学目的是培养学生实际运用英语的能力，英语口语课的教学任务是培养学生口头表达争交际的能力。如何搞好英语口语教学，培养学生的英语交际能力是实现英语专业教学目的的关键。     

Interdisciplinarity in Adapted Physical Activity

ABSTRACT

It is commonly accepted that inquiry in adapted physical activity involves the use of different disciplines to address questions. It is often advanced today that complex problems of the kind frequently encountered in adapted physical activity require a combination of disciplines for their solution. At the present time, individual research questions in adapted physical activity are most often developed and pursued by researchers from a single discipline despite incentives to the contrary. However, the inclusion of multiple disciplines to address research questions raises a number of challenges. A major one is effective communication. The language related to the use of multiple disciplines is often used loosely. Key terms, such as multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary, are often used interchangeably. We introduce the technical meaning of these terms and outline some key epistemic challenges to communication across disciplines and highlight the importance of willingness, on the part of researchers, to carefully listen to each other.     

Language–content partnership in higher education: development and opportunities

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Interdisciplinary collaboration, in the sense of partnership between English language teachers and content teachers, is significant for enhancing university students’ English-medium academic success. It has long been advocated, but it has not become a common phenomenon in higher education institutions. The present article aims to synthesize what has been revealed about such collaboration in tertiary contexts in the (English-medium) literature, and to consider implications for practice and research. A systematic approach was adopted in conducting the literature review. The main body of the article focuses on illustrating five themes grounded in the literature: theoretical perspectives on the need for interdisciplinary collaboration; motivations for interdisciplinary collaboration and slow development of the trend; interdisciplinary collaboration on a continuum of partnership; team teaching in interdisciplinary collaboration; and benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration. Implications for practice and research are then discussed.     

Multimodality in the Technical Communication Classroom: Viewing Classical Rhetoric Through a 21st Century Lens

The authors provide a robust framework for using rhetorical foundations to teach multimodality in technical communication, describing a pedagogical approach wherein students consider the rhetorical canons—invention, arrangement, style, delivery, and memory—when developing texts beyond print. Students learn to assess their own work, reflecting on how each canon contributed to the rhetorical effectiveness of their multimodal projects. The authors argue for using the canons as a rhetorical foundation for helping students understand technical communication in the digital age.     

多模态话语跨学科研究述评

信息科技的发展促生了诸多新兴多模态话语形式,这些话语的纷繁与复杂使得多模态话语的跨学科研究成为必然.目前为止,多模态话语跨学科研究还处于初始阶段,虽然多模态话语分析与社会符号学、交互社会学、认知科学、人类学、民族学、传播学、哲学、计算机科学等学科的融合研究取得了一定的成就,但也暴露出跨学科研究维度不够宽广、研究深度欠缺、实证研究较少、跨学科团队建设和人才培养滞后、国内研究匮乏等问题.基于此,文章建议未来的研究应关注与多模态话语研究相关的跨学科团队建设和跨学科人才培养,重视微观研究与实证研究.     

Technological Literacy: A Framework for Teaching Technical Communication Software Tools

Understanding technological literacy for technical communicators is crucial for effective pedagogy in technical and professional communication. Challenges of teaching technical communication students the functions and concepts of workplace software include the number of rapidly changing applications, a desire to focus on education over training, limited faculty expertise in software, limited resources for teaching software, and a desire to focus on technical communication principles. To address these challenges, the authors explore how to use a four-level framework of technological literacy along with existing resources to design a course to help students use, understand, and evaluate technical communication technology.     

Intercultural Competence in Technical Communication: A Working Definition and Review of Assessment Methods

The field of technical communication has made notable progress in researching and teaching intercultural issues. Not enough discussion, however, is available on assessing students’ intercultural competence. This article attempts to start this discussion and invite further research. It suggests a working definition to conceptualize intercultural competence and draws upon diverse disciplines to review different assessment methods, including their strengths, drawbacks, and potential applications in technical communication classes.