Elena Kalodner-Martin, PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric, recently published "Channeling Experience: Reflections on Developing a Technical Communication YouTube Channel" in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC). The paper took the form of an experience report and was written with Daniel Liddle, Victoria Braegger, Allison Durazzi, Yoonji Kim, and Jacob Richter.
The report builds off of the authors’ experiences developing and maintaining More Than Memos, a technical communication YouTube channel geared towards making scholarly advances in the field of technical communication more accessible for a public audience.
Kalodner-Martin’s research is at the intersection of the rhetoric of health and medicine, technical communication, and feminist studies. Her dissertation theorizes patient narratives on social media as a form of technical and technological expertise. She currently teaches writing in the disciplines courses in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and the College of Engineering.