"Drawing on a range of interviews with digital user experience (UX) writers, this book offers a thorough introduction to how language is used in the production of websites, apps, and other software. It is essential reading for anyone interested in how language shapes the way people can use digital media"-- Provided by publisher.
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Discussing the work of UX writers, this book offers a unique focus on language in the production of digital media.
Introduction;
1. The production, pragmatics, and politics of digital
media; Part I. Mapping the Profession: The Language Work of UX Writers;
2.
Designing words: the language work and expertise of UX writers; Part II.
Establishing Status: UX Writing as Elite Language Work;
3. Skilling the
writer: UX writing and the professionalization of (elite) language work;
4.
Claiming (non-)creativity: the symbolic economy of creativity in UX writing;
Part III. Producing Little Texts: Politics And Power in UX Writing;
5.
Deconstructing the invisible interface: semiotic and media ideologies in UX
writers' work;
6. Crafting an audience: UX writing, user stylization, and the
symbolic violence of little texts; Conclusion.
7. The cultural politics of
the interface: towards a posthumanist sociolinguistics of digital media;
Appendices.
Lara Portmann holds a Ph.D. in Language and Communication from the University of Bern, Switzerland. She has also worked in user experience design for nearly a decade. Through her research, she strives to build a bridge between academic research and industry practice.
