Stephen Carradini

Assistant Professor, CISA - School of Applied Professional Studies

Asst Professor, Hugh Downs School Of Human Communication, Affiliated Faculty

Senior Global Futures Scholar, Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

7271 E. Sonoran Arroyo Mall, 251F Mesa, AZ 85212
Mail code: 2780

Campus: Poly
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Long Bio

Stephen Carradini teaches courses on online professional communication and digital ethics in the Technical Communication program. He uses qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate how people who work outside large organizations use online professional communication to do their work. Artists, entrepreneurs, artisans, and consultants form the core groups he studies. The entrepreneurial crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is the focus of his most recent research. He also studies disciplinarity in academic fields using corpus analytic methods.

He is a member of the Association for Business Communication and ACM SIGDOC. In addition, he has presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Rhetoric Society of America, and Symposium on Applied Rhetoric conferences.

Formerly a professional editor and writer, he writes music journalism at Independent Clauses and co-hosted the Winning Slowly podcast.

Education

Ph.D., Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media, North Carolina State University, 2017
M.A., Technical and Professional Communication, Auburn University, 2013
B.A., Journalism – Professional Writing, University of Oklahoma, 2009

Curriculum Vitae

Research Website URL

http://stephencarradini.com

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Qxyx1rIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Experts.asu.edu URL

https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/stephen-carradini

Research Interests

Emerging Technologies in Professional Spaces: social media (e.g. Kickstarter, Facebook), artificial intelligence tools, smartphone use, video games in the workplace

Disciplinarity: meta-research, methodology (corpus analysis), graduate education, social media pedagogy

Research Group

Artificial Intelligence Working Group: Peter Cardon (University of Southern California), Kristen Getchell (Babson University), Stephen Carradini (Arizona State University), Carolin Fleischmann (Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences), James Stapp (Cornell University), Jolanta Aritz (University of Southern California)

Publications

Forthcoming Book

Carradini, S. & Swarts, J. (2023, expected). Text at Scale: Corpus Analysis in Technical Communication. WAC Clearinghouse / Colorado State Press.

Published Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Carradini, S. & Fleischman, C. (2022). The effects of multimodal elements on success in Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns. Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651922112169
Carradini, S. (2022). Civic social media: A detailed case for classroom use. Programmatic Perspectives, 13(1), 104–113.
Getchell, K. M., Carradini, S., Cardon, P. W., Fleischmann, C., Ma, H., Aritz, J., & Stapp, J. (2022). Artificial intelligence in business communication: The changing landscape of research and teaching. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 85(1), 7–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906221074311
Janssen, D. & Carradini, S. (2021). Generation Z workplace communication habits and expectations. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 64(2), 137–153. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2021.3069288
Carradini, S. (2020). Assessing the research topics associated with technical communication, business communication, and professional communication, 1963–2017. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 63(2), 118–138. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPC.2020.2988757
Carradini, S. & Hommadova Lu, A. (2020). New motivations: Change over time in motivations for mobile gaming. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 12(3), 259–285. https://doi.org/10.1386/jgvw_00019_1
Hommadova Lu, A., & Carradini, S. (2020). Work–game balance: Work interference, social capital, and tactical play in a mobile massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game. New Media & Society, 22(12), 2257–2280. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819889957
Carradini, S., Baker, M., Sharp, M., & Davidson, E. (2020). Locations, programs, and content of graduate education in business communication. Business Communication Research and Practice, 3(1), 4–16. https://doi.org/10.22682/bcrp.2020.3.1.4
Carradini, S. (2019). Artist communication: An interdisciplinary business and professional communication course. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 82(2), 133–152. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329490619826113
Carradini, S. (2018). An organizational structure of indie rock musicians as displayed by Facebook usage. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 48(2), 151–174. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281616667677

Forthcoming Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Carradini, S. and Nystrom, E. (2023). An emergent style guide for Kickstarter campaigns. Technical Communication.
Carradini, S. (2023). “Analytical Pluralism as a Response to Extreme Changes in Communication Environments.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. (Invited)

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

Carradini, S. & Hommadova Lu, A. (2023, forthcoming). New qualitative methodologies in virtual ethnographies: Flash surveys, images, and built-in translators. In G. Muschert, M. Ragnedda, & M. Şentürk (Eds.), New Media/New Society? Istanbul Press.
Carradini, S. (2022). The ship of Theseus: Change over time in topics of technical communication research abstracts. In J. Schrieber and L. Melonçon (Eds.), Assembling Critical Components: A Framework for Sustaining Technical and Professional Communication. WAC Clearinghouse. https://doi.org/10.37514/TPC-B.2022.1381.2.02

Published Editorially Reviewed Book Chapter

Hommadova Lu, A. & Carradini, S. (2021). Bonding and bridging social capital in an international video game guild. In R. Jackson (Ed.), Social Capital: Issues, Challenges and Perspectives. Nova Science Publishers, p. 73–109.

Published Proceedings

Carradini, S. (2019). Teaching students to communicate as technical communicators in the interdisciplinary space of social media: Ways forward in interdisciplinary education. In T. Carnegie (Ed.), Proceedings for the 2019 CPTSC Annual Conference, 64–65. https://cptsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CPTSC2019.pdf#page=64
Carradini, S. (2017). Working outside: A problems-based approach for studying musicians and other extra-institutional individuals. In B. Keller (Ed.), SIGDOC ’17: The 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, Halifax, NS, Canada. New York, NY: ACM.

Research Activity

Active

“Social Media Article Visualizer Project.” Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication Career Advancement Research Grant. $1200. PI, 100% involvement. Spring 2020–Fall 2022.
Content focuses on a meta-analysis tool for large-scale interdisciplinary research meta-analysis. The ask is for cloud computing power and cloud storage space for specific data types.

Completed

“How Writers Write Crowdfunding Campaigns: A Study of an Emerging Form of Grant and Proposal Writing.” Association for Business Communication’s C.R. Anderson Research Grant. $1945. PI, 100% involvement. April 2018–August 2022
Content focuses on a big data study of a new genre of writing that should be included in the concepts of professional, technical, and business communication. The ask is for technology support via custom software program coding and corpus analysis tools.
“ASU Project Cities & The City of Glendale Social Media Guidelines and Strategic Plan.” City of Glendale. $7500. Co-PI, 65% involvement. August 2018–May 2019.
Content focused on work created by students in a service learning course. One course delivered a Social Media Guidelines document and a second course delivered a Social Media Strategic Plan tailored to the City of Glendale’s needs.

Courses

2024 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
TWC 593	Applied Project
TWC 593	Applied Project
TWC 599	Thesis
TWC 599	Thesis
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 522	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
CEN 580	Practicum

2023 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
TWC 599	Thesis
TWC 599	Thesis
TWC 544	User Experience
TWC 501	Fundamentals of Technical Comm

2023 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 522	Social Media in the Workplace

2022 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 394	Special Topics
TWC 394	Special Topics
TWC 522	Social Media in the Workplace

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 522	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 522	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace

2021 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 394	Special Topics
TWC 394	Special Topics

2020 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 522	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 522	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace

2020 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
TWC 522	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 522	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace

2019 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 422	Social Media in the Workplace
TWC 590	Reading and Conference

Honors / Awards

2021 Rising Star Award, Association for Business Communication

Given to a member of the association who shows evidence of excellence in teaching, research, and/or public practice; evidence of significant contributions to the mission of ABC through service to the Association; and evidence of commitment to growing with the Association in the future.

Editorships

Assistant Editor, Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Research, ’13-‘17

Assistant Editor, Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Education, ’14-‘17

Assistant Editor, Meridian: A Journal of K-16 Education Technology, ’13-‘16

Professional Associations

Association for Business Communication, ACM SIGDOC (Special Interest Group for the Design of Communication), Applied Rhetoric Collaborative

Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History

Doctoral Students Mentored

Anya Hommadova – committee member, Hugh Downs School of Communication, completed

Dr. Hommadova is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Communication at Sam Houston State University.

Graduate Students Mentored

Dawn Janssen – committee chair, Technical Communication thesis, completed

Lucas Patterson, Morgan Pettit – committee chair, Technical Communication applied project, completed

Darby Taylor, committee member, Technical Communication thesis, completed

Jennifer Freel, Cody Begaye, Sam Pollock, Jamie Klemp – committee member, Technical Communication applied projects, completed

Rosemary Smith, committee chair, Technical Communication thesis, in-progress

Jarrett Hanks, committee chair, Technical Communication applied project, in-progress

Work History

Co-host, Winning Slowly Podcast, ’14-present

Delivered 100+ episodes of a half-hour podcast on technology, religion, ethics and art
Edited half of the episodes, starting in 2015

Editor-in-chief and author, IndependentClauses.com music blog, ‘03-present

Wrote or edited all 2500+ blog posts on independent music

Service

To the Community

Speaker/mentor, Hustle Phoenix, ’18-present

Spoke to entrepreneurs about how to develop a communication plan
Led small groups focused on problem-solving related to social media and marketing tactics

To the Disciplines

Member, ABC Awards Ad Hoc Committee, ’18-present

Member, ABC Strategic Planning Ad Hoc Committee, ’18-present

Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Association for Business Communication, ’18-present

Developed the Graduate Studies In-progress Research Session for the ABC International Conference
Administered the Graduate Student Travel Grant and the Margaret Baker Graham Research Award

Expertise Areas

Digital Media

Professional Writing

Social Media