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Dr. Allegra Smith

@argella.bsky.social
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assistant professor @ Georgia Tech ϟ she/her ϟ studies tech writing, design, feminisms, generations, internships ϟ posts are my own + don’t represent my employer

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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Anybody know of large-scale studies on the literacy of older adults (age 65+) in the United States, post-1990s? I'm finding a bunch of "health literacy" stuff, but the National Literacy Institute, National Center for Education Statistics, etc. seem to think that the need to read stops at age 64?
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The love interest in the trashy Victorian romance I’m reading right now is named “Baron Kelso,” so unfortunately all I can picture is this:
Bob Kelso from Scrubs says, “Who has two thumbs and doesn’t give a crap? Bob Kelso, how ya doing?”
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A song about today’s weather, to the tune of “Frère Jacques:” 🎶 Cold and rainy (cold and rainy) This is crap (this is crap) Time to go back to bed (time to go back to bed) Nap, nap, nap (nap, nap, nap) 🎶
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"Design that listens, cares. Design that cares, lasts." (Damilola F. Adebayo at #SIGDOC25)
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Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We are delighted to announce the finalists in the 2025 Student Research Competition. Please join us at 8:00am on Sat Oct 25 in Room 124 in the Student Union Building to hear their presentations. Thanks to all of participants, our excellent judges, and everyone who attended the poster session.
Undergraduate student presenting posterUndergraduate student presenting posterGraduate student presenting posterUndergraduate student presenting poster
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
You know, there are some days when having the initials “AWS” makes my life mighty confusing…
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Are you a civic or community design practitioner? Digital Media graduate student Mohsin Yousufi is conducting 1-hour interviews for about the challenges and breakdowns that occur in civic design and civic technology projects. See available times here: calendly.com/mohsiny/expe...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If anyone at CSCW is doing or knows about work studying how athletes are dealing with online security/harassment issues or how sports (like the WNBA) become focal points for clickbait, AI slop, or political propaganda… come find me, I want to chat!
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
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Aaron Levine @aarondlevine.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech invites applications for multiple open-rank tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions with a focus on science, technology and innovation policy. careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/... #AcademicSky #PolicySky @appam.bsky.social
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It is 8pm on a Monday, why does finding a parking spot at the Beltline Kroger feel like competing in the hunger games
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Organizing group projects checks all of my Virgo boxes: ☑️ Using my craft supply arsenal to write student names on color-coded little slips of construction paper, sliced with my Big Teacher Paper Cutter ☑️ Sorting things into neat little categories to optimize the best possible outcome ☑️ Playing God
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology is hiring an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication with an emphasis in science communication. Priority consideration for applications is October 27. careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psp/careers/...
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
#a11y hivemind: what, if anything, can be done for accessibility for looping videos on websites? I'm thinking about a video description or equivalent to alt text for a still image. For example, the video overlay banner on the homepage of this coffee site: kaldiscoffee.com
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Kaldi's Coffee | Specialty Coffee Roasters in St. Louis, MO
Kaldi’s Coffee is dedicated to creating a memorable coffee experience for customers and guests via sustainable practices and education. We have cafes in St. Louis, MO, and Atlanta, GA.
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ATTW @attwconference.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Be sure to tag your posts with #ATTW2025 or #ATTW25 so we can find you! We want to hear about and amplify your experiences and research at the conference. Help us build our community on Bluesky through tags.
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Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Extended abstracts for “Track B” of the Student Research Competition are due by June 16. Questions may be directed to @cbdilger.bsky.social (dilger@purdue.edu) and @argella.bsky.social (allegra@gatech.edu)
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Chinese takeout night: 😁 They forget to put the crispy noodles in the bag with my soup: 🥺
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Proud of my mentee, Jocelyn Le, for being selected as one of the top 5 undergrad researchers to represent GaTech at the 2025 ACC Meeting of the Minds Symposium. Her work on digital games for advocacy shows us that humanities research matters and makes an impact. urop.gatech.edu/node/841
Jocelyn smiles in front of her research poster on “Combating Gender Inequality Through Serious Games”
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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Here's the working paper on AI literacy I helped with from the MLA Task Force on Writing and AI. aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-pape...
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Working Paper 3: Building a Culture for Generative AI Literacy in College Language, Literature, and Writing – MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
As a technical communication professor, let me say that there is nothing more enjoyable than when I receive an “important safety notice” email about a product I’ve bought that gives me no guidance on 1) what the safety issue is with the product, or 2) what follow-up action I should take. A+ job.
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ATTW @attwconference.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Final call for all PhD students in technical & professional communication! Apply for the 2025 ATTW Graduate Research Awards!Get $500 for research and conference costs and a waived registration fee. Deadline: March 24, 2025. Details: tinyurl.com/369m2bw2 #ATTW2025 #GradResearch
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2025 Graduate Research Awards – Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Excellent journalism coming out of an Atlanta HBCU | Morehouse Confronts Potential Threat of ICE Arrival on Campus atlanta.capitalbnews.org/morehouse-im...
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Morehouse Confronts Potential Threat of ICE Arrival on Campus - Capital B News - Atlanta
“You’re not going to drag people out of here in handcuffs,” campus Police Chief Charles Prescott said.
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
St. Paddy’s Day is the first day of Spring Break! It’s also the day when my undergraduate researcher and I are getting together to begin analyzing a mountain of data (around a dozen interviews).
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a computer with the word data on it
Alt: a computer with the word data on it
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Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The early decision deadline for the Student Research Competition may have passed, but there is still a chance to submit your projects. Need convincing? Check out this testimonial from the 2024 Graduate SRC Winner, Rachael Jordan! Link here: sigdoc.acm.org/blog/2025/01...
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Why participate in the SRC? 2024 SRC Winner, Rachael Jordan, Shares Her Insights – ACM SIGDOC
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Conference acceptances abound! I will be at Computers & Writing (Athens, GA), Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (Rolla, MO), IEEE-ProComm (Sønderborg, Denmark), and ACM-SIGDOC/Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (Lubbock, TX). Who will I see where?
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Man, grief sucks so much.
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
RIP to the hole on the street outside my apartment that’s been there since I moved in last year. I don’t know how the report I filed with the city of Atlanta last week convinced them to finally fill it (and on a SATURDAY!), but I feel almost godlike in my power having done so.
The hole in the street, with a metal plate covering it, and a spray-painted label on the pavement that says “HOLE” in May 2024The hole in the street, January 2025, with the metal plate shifting to reveal a cavernous inside. Seven orange traffic cones block the hole from traffic.The hole in the street, February 2025. The spray painted “HOLE” has faded with traffic. The metal plate has shifted even further, revealing a gap of three or more feet.The hole in the street being filled by a work crew on Saturday, March 1, 2025.
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
One of my favorite pastimes is making up lyrics to “Pink Pony Club” that are about Rings of Power and annoying my boyfriend with them
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Continually hounding my college’s communications team to put captions on their damn Instagram video stories and documenting this on my faculty annual review as “academic service”
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Bradley Dilger @cbdilger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Call for submissions: sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2... First deadline is Sat Feb 01. Not ready yet? Enter the second round, Wed Apr 30. Questions? Let me or @argella.bsky.social know!
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Student Research Competition – ACM SIGDOC 2024 Conference
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Snow days should be snow days, not e-learning days. Syllabi should be appropriately padded to account for acts of God. I said what I said!
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In church choir Sunday, we sang a contralto aria and the director kept trying to make us sound more forceful. "Put on your cast-iron bra and horns," he said. "Louder! Try to scare the children!" This is the energy that I will carry with me this week; I will not be taking questions at this time.
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Heard a girl and her mom talking about Judith Butler as they got pedicures at the nail salon this afternoon. That’s a first!
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It’s the Year of Our Lord, 2025. Why isn’t there a website where we can input an address and see the impact for critical infrastructure related items such as boil water advisories???
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Having driven from Midtown to Decatur this morning and then cleared my boyfriend’s driveway with a *steel garden shovel*, I can now confidently say that Atlantans indeed do not know what to do with snow.
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Bradley Dilger @cbdilger.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
SIGDOC Student Research Competition for 2025 is ready for your submissions: gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We are trying a two-stage process this year, with deadlines Feb 1 and Apr 30. See the CFP linked in the Qualtrics for details. Questions? Talk to me or @argella.bsky.social.
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ACM SIGDOC 2025 SRC Submissions
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) invites undergraduate and graduate students to submit a proposal to this year’s Student Res...
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Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
SIGDOC Student Research Competition for 2025 is ready for your submissions: gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... There is a two-stage process this year: deadlines Feb 1 and Apr 30. See the CFP linked in the Qualtrics for details. Questions? Talk to @cbdilger.bsky.social or @argella.bsky.social.
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Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Dr. Mason Pellegrini, Paul Thompson Hunter, and Adrianna Deptula, are one of the two Career Advancement Research Grant winners for their research project titled, "Expert Audience Strategies for Distinguishing between Human- and AI-generated Student Writing: A Mixed-Methods Research Project." 1/2
professionally dressed young man wearing glasses
A headshot of a 30-year-old man wearing glasses with dark frames, a navy blazer, a light pink dress shirt, and a pastel plaid tie. The man has neatly combed back hair, a neutral expression, and is seated against a background of wooden paneling.Headshot of Adrianna Deptula from the shoulders up smiling in a sweater and blazer.
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I was today years old when I learned that, in “Pump Up The Jam,” Technotronic is in fact not singing “get your booty on the bus tonight.” It’s “get your booty on the *floor* tonight.” How is this even possible? My whole life has been a lie.
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Georgia Tech's Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation has an awesome assistive technology gift guide for this holiday season! Learn about assistive gifts for gamers, gardeners, techies, and chefs. cidi.gatech.edu/feature/assi...
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The Assistive Technology Gift Guide | Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation
Assistive technology (AT), in the simplest terms, is any object that helps a person with a disability live their lives the way they want to live them. At the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation, we help people find the right AT and research ways to measure its effectiveness.
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Anybody teach a unit on crisis communication and willing to share their materials with me? Bonus points if you do so through a case study or simulation.
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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Feeling inspired by the multimodal design work my colleague @argella.bsky.social has led her students in creating with local non-profits and startups. "Content strategy" is not just corporate speak! Makes me want to keep revising my own film festival website assignment.
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Happy anniversary to one of the most singular and bizarre experiences of my life: being a balloon handler for the inaugural flight of Monkey D. Luffy in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Allegra wears a red jumpsuit and yellow cap, grinning as she stands in front of the Monkey D. Luffy balloon, kept from flying away under a netAllegra is seen on a grainy television feed from above in a sea of balloon handlers Screenshot of a tweet of the Luffy balloon after its hat popped, giving it a bucket hat appearance, next to a cartoon drawing of Luffy with a bucket hat holding fishing reels
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Anyone know of existing literature on student clubs or organizations that teach undergrads programming languages, UX prototyping and design, app development, etc.?
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
So she emails on, messages against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the inbox
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Bradley Dilger @cbdilger.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
Update on #SIGDOC24 Student Research Competition: 17 submissions accepted! Want to offer feedback on extended abstracts? Let @argella.bsky.social and me know: purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (XAs are 1,300± words. We deliver Jun 24; you return feedback Jul 10.)
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SIGDOC SRC 2024: Extended Abstract Feedback Interest Form
Can you provide feedback on extended abstracts for SIGDOC SRC 2024? Great!
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
This is the final call for registrations for the 2024 GRN. If you have an idea that you need to workshop, a dissertation chapter, prospectus, or article, we encourage you to register. There will also be an alt/academic job market preparation workshop on Friday, June 14. forms.gle/nkjbx4Vjxwod...
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Submit Your Graduate Research Network Proposal
We are now accepting submissions for the 2024 Virtual Graduate Research Network. For more information about the Graduate Research Network, visit our Web site at http://www.gradresearchnetwork.org or e...
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
Decisions for ACM SIGDOC Student Research Competition submissions are out! If you sent a proposal and didn’t get an email about its status, email @cbdilger.bsky.social and I and we can resend our message. Extended abstract drafts are due June 21 if you’d like to be published in the proceedings.
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Bradley Dilger @cbdilger.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
Got some time this week to review SIGDOC SRC 2024 submissions? Share that with @argella.bsky.social and me! purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please note — I do mean THIS WEEK — as with all things SIGDOC, we have to move quickly. We need your (short, kind) reviews by 5/28.
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SIGDOC SRC 2024: Reviewer Interest Form
Can you review proposals for SIGDOC SRC 2024? Great!
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Dr. Allegra Smith @argella.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
No, *you’re* finishing your IEEE-ProComm paper at the airport bar hours before the deadline!
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