MOST COMMON TOPICS IN BOTH JOURNALS

With TCQ, in 2021 this is one was heavily influence by the major social turns of the pandemic and social justical, SOCIAL, PROJECT, and WORK had congruent trends. On the hand, STUDENTS were at the forefront, with RESEARCH following its lead. Evidently, rhetoric in outside the classroom became a heavy aspect of pedagogies within it. In 2022, we are continuing with SOCIAL but now having TECHNICAL, TPC, and BLACK take the lead. The integration of technologies with a cultural rhetoric (RHETORICAL) in its design is emergent. In 2023, JUSTICE is part of the topic trend with a higher emphasis on TPC. There is a higher dominance in advocacy rhetoric. Social media played a large role in the social issues that were recording in these three years, particularly the use of cell phones as primary devices of capture and platforms such as TikTok were used for oral expressions of the human experience reflective of the social turn of the time.

TO BE CONTINUED....

This was an interesting process because even though I had a focus question with follow-ups, there was no direct response to my inquiries. I began with a  curiosity with the effect of AI in writing in the last 3 years, but the answer were not as concrete as I sought out to find them. The beauty of the process is that new concepts came out! When I bumped into the topic "BLACK" , I was astonished at is abrupt topical disappearance in a span of a year. The more I made connections, new questions in complete dichotomy to the original ones ensued:

• What social turns are evident with a small impact currently? 

• Can this be a precursor to new and larger rhetorics at play?

• What role will technology play to keep "MINOR-ity" rhetoric at the forefront of the journal's publications? 

• Is there something much more dominant at play that has caused the practical "...discursive attention...." (Mueller, p. 72) of minor-ity rhetoric to disappear entirely in ATTW's journal and possible other publications?

• Does technology have a role in diminishing minor-ity rhetorics?

This intentionally mispelled term is not just referring to underrepresented groups but involves small trends that might show the possibility of something larger at play in the future. 

BLACK rhetoric in the last 3 years did not gradually diminish within the ATTW's journal, but it rather took a dive where it was no longer evident. But I would like to dig deeper of technology has a role to play in this. The deeper dive is how AI might take a part in this? 

Rather than looking at a short span, the next research migh focus on an entire publication do a broader search of key concepts to understand its patterns and trends over a longer period of time. This will allow me to make citation connections in a vast array to find these smaller social turns as predictor turns into new conversation taking rise.