TY - JOUR
T1 - Empty Templates
T2 - The Ethical Habits of Empty State Pages
AU - Gallagher, John R.
AU - Holmes, Steve
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
PY - 2019/7/3
Y1 - 2019/7/3
N2 - This article examines how empty state pages (ESPs) constrain user-generated communication through the ethical lens of Bourdieu’s habitus. The authors define ESPs as interactive instructional templates that prompt users to input information to participate in an online network. Through a case study analyzing ~450,000 online comments from The New York Times, the authors find a direct connection between ESP elements, such as the character limit for comments, and online writers’ cultivated habitus.
AB - This article examines how empty state pages (ESPs) constrain user-generated communication through the ethical lens of Bourdieu’s habitus. The authors define ESPs as interactive instructional templates that prompt users to input information to participate in an online network. Through a case study analyzing ~450,000 online comments from The New York Times, the authors find a direct connection between ESP elements, such as the character limit for comments, and online writers’ cultivated habitus.
KW - Design of communication
KW - ethics
KW - research methods
KW - visual rhetoric/visualization techniques
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U2 - 10.1080/10572252.2018.1564367
DO - 10.1080/10572252.2018.1564367
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060707965
SN - 1057-2252
VL - 28
SP - 271
EP - 283
JO - Technical Communication Quarterly
JF - Technical Communication Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -