Lara PortmannThe Cultural Politics of Digital User Experience Writing
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.
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.