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.
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).
wac.colostate.edu (publisher PDF)
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Contributors: B. Larson *, 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.
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
Source: ORCID
Added: November 21, 2023
2015 journal article
Access(ing) the Coordination of Writing Networks
Computers and Composition, 38, 68–78.
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.
Contributors: * , 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.
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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