Dr. Tim Amidon is a digital rhetorician who holds an appointment in English and the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health in the Colorado School of Public Health at CSU. His research explores the interrelationships of technology, workplace literacy, rhetorics of health and safety, as well as data ownership and human agency. He's currently working on a NSF funded team science project to design a physiological monitoring wearable for use in the fire service. His scholarship has appeared in Communication Design Quarterly, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Hybrid Pedagogy, conference proceedings and a number of edited collections.
Areas of Expertise
- Digital rhetoric and design
- Rhetorics of health and medicine
- Internet of things
- Workplace literacy
- Risk communication
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- NREMT, National Medical Education Training Center, 2020
- PhD, English with a specialization rhetoric and composition, University of Rhode Island, 2014
- MA, English, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, 2007
- Dual BA, English and Political Science, University of Rhode Island, 2002
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Affiliations
- Section Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
- Member, Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication
- Member, Association of Teacher's of Technical Writing
- Member, National Council of Teachers of English
- Member, Conference on College Composition and Communication
Courses
- E603 Critical Digital Rhetoric
- E637 Histories of Writing
- CO402 Principles of Digital Rhetoric and Design
- CO301c Writing in the Social Sciences.
Research
- National Science Foundation, Affordable remote cardiac monitoring device for improved firefighter safety outcomes. 2017-2020. Role: co-PI
- Center for Health, Work, and Environment, a NIOSH Center of Excellence for Total Worker Health, Evaluating firefighters’ baseline cardiovascular health with the AvidCor app. 2017. Role: PI
Publications and Presentations
- Amidon, Timothy R. (2020). Brightness behind the eyes: Rendering firefighters' tacit literacies visible. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 25(1). Retrieved August 5, 2020, from http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/25.1/inventio/amidon/index.html
- Simmons, W.M., & Amidon, T.R. (2019). Negotiating research stance: An ecology of tensions in the design and practice of community-engaged research. In SIGDOC’19: The 37th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication Proceedings. Portland, OR: ACM. Retrieved from https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3328020.3353955
- Amidon, T.R., & Lipsey, T. (2018). Blue-collars/tough designs: UX within fire service occupational safety and health programs. In M.A. Wang (Ed.) Design, User Experience, and Usability: Users Contexts and Case Studies (pp. 573-588). DUXU 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10920. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-91806-8_45
- Amidon, T.R., Williams, E., Lipsey, T., Callahan, R., Nuckols, G., & Rice, S. (2017). Sensors and gizmos and data, oh my: Informating firefighters’ protective personal equipment. Communication Design Quarterly, 5(4), 15-30. https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10059804
- Amidon, T.R. (2016). (dis)Owning Tech: Ensuring value and agency at the moment of interface. Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Learning, Teaching, and Technology. Retrieved from http:// www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/disowning-tech-ensuring-value-agency-moment-interface/
