A unique perspective on climate‐change graphics is provided by the discipline of rhetoric,
which treats these images as arguments that configure polities in specific debates over …

This article explores how “flatten the curve”(FTC) visualizations have served as a rhetorical
anchor for communicating the risk of viral spread during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning …

Let me begin with a question. What, if anything, unites the following three, very different,
media products: a scientific article called “Trajectories of the earth system in the …

Currently, there is not a consensus in science education regarding representational
competence as a unified theoretical framework. There are multiple theories of …

In visual risk communication, there has been a push toward using realism to show potential
effects of sea level rise on coastal communities, often with the assumption that higher …

Coding has typically been understood as an engineering practice, where the meaning of
code has discrete boundaries as a technology that does precisely what it says …

Sustained dialogue and collaborative work between art historians and technologists have a
great deal to offer both fields of inquiry. In this paper, we propose that effective …

Drawing on fieldwork, this article examines nursing students' design and use of a patient
health record during clinical simulations, where small teams of students provide nursing …

Purpose: The communication of technical information is often susceptible to cognitive
biases. Technical communicators need to understand cognitive biases and know how to …

Taking the human-induced ecological crisis as our starting point, in this chapter we discuss
the implications of how this crisis is communicated. The knowledge and data produced by …