My research primarily examines how digital technologies open up new avenues for making meaning. Much of my work focuses on the relationship between video production and academic argumentation, but I enjoy writing about they way all kinds of visuals are used to capture the public imagination of what writing is and does.
I’ve written about the way humorous cartoons were used to promote the plain language movement. I’ve written about data visualizations about COVID deaths. I’m moved by weird rhetoric. Strange rhetoric.
Video Production
Liddle, D., & Sherrill, J. (2023, October). Analyzing YouTube Content: Methodological Considerations for Technical Communication Research. In Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (pp. 18-25). link
Liddle, D., Braegger, V., Durazzi, A., Kim, Y., Kalodner-Martin, E., & Richter, J. (2022, October). Channeling Experience: Reflections on Developing a Technical Communication YouTube Channel. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (pp. 102-106). link
Visual Rhetoric
Liddle, D. (2016, September). Emerging guidelines for communicating with animation in mobile user interfaces. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication (pp. 1-9). link
Liddle, D. J. (2018). Beyond Animation: Toward a Rhetoric of Motion Design for Technical and Professional Writing (Doctoral dissertation, Purdue University). link
Miscellaneous
Liddle, D. (2023, July). The Goofy Roots of the Plain Language Movement: Reconsidering the Rhetorical Hedonism of ‘Gobbledygook Has Gotta Go’. In 2023 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm) (pp. 123-127). IEEE.
Liddle, D. (2020, October). The Best Donut in Class: A Lean Approach to Visual Design in Technical Communication Pedagogy. In Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (pp. 1-5). link
Swacha, K. Y., Liddle, D. (2017). Book Review: Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic: Transcultural Communication About SARS.
Liddle, D. J. (2012). Inventing laughter: Comedic writing practices and the limits of pedagogical power (Doctoral dissertation, Clemson University). link