Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Jul 2026

Making Information Sensible: Reconsidering Aesthetics in Scientific and Technical Communication

Scott Weedon Texas Tech University ; Jamie Littlefield

Abstract

As generative AI systems saturate our digital spaces with an unprecedented volume of content, aesthetics (features that elicit human cognitive and sensory responses) and taste (human discernment about the quality and desirability of those features) have drawn renewed cultural attention. For researchers in scientific and technical communication (STC), this resurgence of interest might be viewed as an invitation to revisit the aesthetic as central to the ways that technical artifacts make meaning and produce subjects.

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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
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2026-07-29
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10.1177/00472816261471754
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