PHASE 1: Most common topic in Communication Design Quarterly Volumes 9-11
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Using the Google Word Cloud generator, all article titles in all 3 volumes and in every issue were used. The word count was not reduced in words to obtain the most dominant topics within the volumes. Like ATTW, this word cloud can be analyzed in varioys ways:
Size of the word as the dominating topic
Color connections as a way to observe topical connections in all three volumes from 2021-2023
Word proximity to larger words to make sub-topical observations
Size of the word
"INFRASTRUCTURE", "TECHNICAL", "WRITING", and "DESIGN" are the largest of all the topics in the cloud, congruently by font size. Hence, these are the most dominant in all three volumes for the last three years. The other topics that follow by size dominance are:
"experience"
"engaged"
Color connections
Using "INFRASTRUCTURE" as one of the main point of reference, the following words are connected to this main topic:
"design"
"online
"digital"
Using "TECHNICAL" as another main point of reference, the following words are connected to this main topic:
"driven"
"practices"
"theory"
Using "DESIGN" as the other main point of reference, the following words are connected to this main topic:
"digital"
"teach"
"theories"
"introduction"
"development"
Using "WRITING" as the final main point of reference, the following words are connected to this main topic:
"prevention"
"genres"
"titles"
"crises"
"collaboration"
Word Proximity
In this aspect, the topic connections become more complex and the interpration of the data will change visually and changes based on what the research is intending for. Because the questions has the writing component, the word proximity using "WRITING" as the core is as follow:
"user" (interesting location being at the base of "WRITING". It position may be the foundation for the topic.)
"genres" (juxtaposed to "writing")
"life" (locations is central and perpendicular to "writing")
"cleary"
"experience"
"technical"
"change"
"hybrid"
"dirty"
"attention"
"post"
"case"
"effects"
"health"
In synthesis, writing encompases the user as its foundation and life experiences as its central genre in these volumes. AI is not a specified topic within the technology aspect of the research question.
WORD CLOUD GENERATORS ANALYSES
vOL. 11
vOL. 11
Issues 1-4, Year 2023
COMMUNICATION COMMUNITY of WRITING
Like ATTWs volume cloud analysis, using these visuals from the issue is that in the word cloud, "INFRASTRUCTURE" appears as the dominant topic and "COMMUNICATION" and "COMMUNITY" is not visible within the cloud itself. Nevertheless, the frequency table indicates that "COMMUNICATION" and "COMMUNITY" are the dominant topics across the volume. Hence, it can be implied from this form of data with word clouds, frequency of words needs to be juxtaposed to understand the why the words clouds have a specific design and what the frequency is indicating. Both visualizations show in size and frequency how "WRITING" is the next dominant topic.
In this particular aspect, the issue is dominantly referencing communication community with an emphasis in writing.
Volume 9
Volume 9
Issue 1-4, Year 2021
COMMUNICATING RHETORICAL EXPERIENCE in ADOPTION ANALYSIS of TECHNOLOGY
In this volume, the quintuple effect focuses is on "EXPERIENCE", "PREVENTION", "RHETORICAL, and "TECHNICAL", and "TECHNOLOGY" as the dominant topics. Given the global issues of health, education, and social justice, each word reflected narratives that gives testament to these major social turns.
Contradictorily, the word cloud shows "RHETORICAL" and "EXPERIENCE" as two dominant topics followed by "COMMUNICATING", "ADOPTION", and "ANALYSIS". Because of the visual and numrical dichotomies presented in both images, I used Mueller's turns to make sense of them as a topic reflective of the social experiences during this year.
Social Turns in 2021:
Covid-19 experiences and health crises
Remote school education worldwide
Schools learning through technology
Social Justices issues across the globe
What I realized about these words plays using visuals and numerical frequencies of topics is that they can help provide topics that together might not be evident in the vastness of conversations and publications taking place for years but allowing a newcomer like me room to look at this differently and hopefully add to TPC community. What I beginning to notice as the years of volume publication and these topics emege is that technology began in 2021 as a new way fo functioning across professional fields, then in 2022 the ethical implications of infrastructure became a topic of conversation, followed the communal writing taking place across many countries within the journal.
Hence, can it be concluded that the effect of technology, as used within the results of these word clouds and frequency charts, on writing is a homegenous global reach into communicating user experiences through and with technology? Could the effect be social turns affecting how ethical analyses of technology and design will evolve based on its innovations? Could linguistic turns use technology to evolve the user experience in writing and adopting new technologies for communication in the long run?
While AI has not been spefically search to meet the focus question, the broad sense of the frequency appearance of 'TECHNOLOGY" can be broadly applied.
THE ISSUE
Because I have to manually copy and paste titles and abstracts, this mapping became much more difficult than anticipated. Also, the approach to only limit this to 3 years, I realized that the technology used in the classroom in the last three years is not as evident since AI was not a specific topic within any of the articles in the volumes.
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