Douglas M. Walls

Also known as: Douglas Walls

Hi, welcome to my professional portfolio. I’m Douglas M. Walls and I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. My research interest are in digital rhetorics and user experience (UX) particularly in social networks and social justice contexts.

Works (12)

Updated: April 4th, 2024 16:19

2020 conference paper

Usability Testing and Experience Design in Citizen Science

Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication.

By: W. O'Keeffe n & D. Walls n 

TL;DR: Challenges and opportunities are outlined for usability and user experience technical communicators to explore issues of inclusive user experience design and the teaching of such as well as contribute to inclusive citizen science efforts. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: November 21, 2023

2018 chapter

Chapter 20. Safely Social: User-Centered Design and Difference Feminism

In Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis (pp. 391–407).

By: D. Walls n , B. Dieterle * & J. Miller *

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: November 21, 2023

2017 chapter

Chapter 8. Visualizing Boutique Data in Egocentric Networks

In Social Writing/Social Media: Publics, Presentations, and Pedagogies (pp. 145–160).

By: D. Walls n 

TL;DR: This chapter takes as a starting point that social media networks and platforms record rhetorical behavior beyond linguistic production, as well as producing a way to measure and visualize the embodied rhetorical production of egocentric network behavior. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: November 21, 2023

2017 chapter

Designing Digital Activism

In L. Potts & M. J. Salvo (Eds.), Rhetoric and Experience Architecture (pp. 291–303). Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.

By: D. Walls , D. Garcia & A. Van Schaik

Ed(s): L. Potts & M. Salvo

Source: ORCID
Added: November 21, 2023

2017 book

Social Writing/Social Media: Publics, Presentations, and Pedagogies

In The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado.

Douglas Walls

Ed(s): D. Walls  & S. Vie

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 5, 2022

2017 journal article

The Professional Work of “Unprofessional” Tweets: Microblogging Career Situations in African American Hush Harbors

Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 31(4), 391–416.

By: D. Walls n 

Contributors: D. Walls n 

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 conference paper

Use what you choose: Applying computational methods to genre studies in technical communication

SIGDOC 2016 - 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication.

By: B. Larson *, D. Walls n , W. Hart-Davidson *, K. Walker * & R. Omizo *

Contributors: B. Larson *, D. Walls n , W. Hart-Davidson *, K. Walker * & R. Omizo *

TL;DR: Evidence of genre hybridity is discovered in the signals of instructional genres embedded into customer reviews of Amazon.com consumer electronic product customer reviews, which contribute to rhetorical genre theory and offer ideas on applying genre theory to inform application design for users of information services. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: July 17, 2023

2016 conference paper

User experience in social justice contexts

SIGDOC 2016 - 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication.

By: D. Walls n 

Contributors: D. Walls n 

TL;DR: The author focuses on the differences of development cycles and user advocacy/representation in social justice UX contexts as opposed to more typical of UX development work. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: July 17, 2023

2015 article

Because Facebook: Digital rhetoric/social media

Walls, D. (Ed.). (2015, July). Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.3/index.html

Contributors: D. Walls 

Ed(s): D. Walls 

kairos.technorhetoric.net
Source: ORCID
Added: November 21, 2023

2015 journal article

Access(ing) the Coordination of Writing Networks

Computers and Composition, 38, 68–78.

By: D. Walls* 

Contributors: D. Walls* 

TL;DR: The story of Diana is presented as a problematic case study through which scholars are asked to think about accessing in deeply ecological and newly traceable ways and challenges researchers to think of accessing as enacted, distributed, and traceable across networks. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 21, 2020

2009 journal article

Hacking Spaces: Place as Interface

Computers and Composition, 26(4), 269–287.

By: D. Walls* , S. Schopieray * & D. DeVoss*

Contributors: D. Walls* , S. Schopieray * & D. DeVoss*

TL;DR: This article attempts to return to the roots of hacking and to situate hacking as a particular tool for negotiating and, at times, disrupting the assumptions built under, within, and across instructional spaces. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 28, 2020

2007 conference paper

Distributed value system matrix: A new use for distributed usability testing

SIGDOC'07: Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 256–262.

By: D. Walls* 

Contributors: D. Walls* 

TL;DR: It is made the case that User-Centered Design principles, specifically those principles that view design through the lens of distributed usability, should be at the center of research into how organizations determine and value writing work. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: July 17, 2023

Employment

Updated: September 5th, 2023 09:16

2016 - present

North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Assistant Professor, Director, Masters of Science in Technical Communication English

2011 - 2016

University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, US
Assistant Professor Writing and Rhetoric

Education

Updated: September 9th, 2020 08:23

Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, US
PhD Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures

University of Nevada Reno Reno, NV, US
M.A. English

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