ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Abi is a professor of technical communication and rhetoric; Benton... is not. Abi reads scholarly articles; Benton reads science fiction. And they are both connoisseurs of mixed drinks and bad puns.
Listen in as they connect the academic to the everyday, spanning topics like misinformation, science communication, digital rhetoric, and health and medical writing.
Go to http://faculty.mnsu.edu/tctalk/ for transcripts and show notes.
Listen in as they connect the academic to the everyday, spanning topics like misinformation, science communication, digital rhetoric, and health and medical writing.
Go to http://faculty.mnsu.edu/tctalk/ for transcripts and show notes.
Update frequency:
every 69 days
Average audio length:
47 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
36 episodes
since Sept. 20, 2021
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
For this episode of TC Talk: A Tech Comm Podcast, Abi and Benton interview Dr. Rollag Yoon, a professor of English Education and curriculum editor for the Journal of Climate Literacy in Education. We talk about definitions of climate literacy, how to communicate about climate to young people, and w…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Benton and Abi agree to disagree about how to disagree.
In our "polarized" political climate, what value is there in a rhetoric that doesn't aim to change minds? Is it possible to embody empathetic listening while protecting ourselves from harmful views?
They discuss their not-especially-succ…
Recycling or trash? It's a question you may have asked yourself when faced with a gross can, a heavily-stickered art project, or some weird plastic thing. Benton hijacks the podcast to teach Abi the behind-the-scenes of the recycling process: How it works, how effective it is, the consequences of &…
Benton and Abi feel bad about climate change. As they should. They talk about how to channel negative emotions into productive action, as recommended in the book Facing the Climate Emergency by Margaret Klein Salamon.
Transcript and sources can be found at http://faculty.mnsu.edu/tctalk/
An interview with Dr. Dawn Armfield of Minnesota State, Mankato about how accessibility intersects with artificial intelligence. She shares about AI in teaching, visual AI, inclusivity, ethics, classroom technology, and her current research on virtual reality for young adults with cognitive disabil…
How to turn off your inner literature professor and create a habit of reading for enjoyment.
For transcripts and sources, visit https://faculty.mnsu.edu/tctalk/
This is part 2 of 2 about the book IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black. In Part 1, we described how IBM, through its German subsidiary Dehomag, supported the mass extermination of the Jewish people. How do we know IBM's involvement made a difference in the scope of the mass murders? One clue comes…
Nazi Germany systematically identified, relocated, and murdered millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust. But how were they able to kill so many so efficiently? IBM equipment played a key role. Meanwhile, IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson got rich off of Nazi Germany and strategically escaped scrutiny…
More jokes, ChatGPT-generated and otherwise, cut from the recording for the "AI is a joke" episode
We reflect on AI text generators, creativity, technical communication, writing instruction, algorithmic literacy, magic, and more. Importantly, we reveal the results of our Twitter experiment: Are we funnier than a robot? (Results were mixed.) Also, find out what happens when we drink an AI-generat…
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