VI. Findings
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Based on my data collected from digital autoethnographic recordings, I suggest that “people” exert six major types of influences on webtext invention: Motivate, Halt, Give, Inform, Suggest, and Re-Envision. Additionally, they exert these influences on webtext design in five main capacities: as editors, collaborators, consultants, colleagues, and students, with differing degrees of impact on the invention process based on the differing nuances of their roles.
Figures 15-16 identify the icon-codes, and Tables 10-11 define these codes. Figures 17, 19, and 21 display the triads in table form to compare patterns in relationship across people, pieces, and influences across autoethnographic, published, and interview narratives. Figures 18, 20, and 22 count the number of influences appearing in each narrative set.
Figure 15: Types of People-Based Influences
Table 10: Definitions of People-Based Influences
| People-Based Influence | Definition |
|---|---|
| Motivate | providing motivation to bring the pieces together |
| Halt | halting the arrangement of pieces in favor of another course of action |
| Give | providing new pieces to bring into the invention process |
| Inform | bringing new knowledge to bear on the project’s current pieces |
| Suggest | suggesting new relationships among pieces already present within the design |
| Re-Envision | calling for a new configuration of pieces |
Table 16: Types of People
Table 11: Definitions of People
| People | Definition |
|---|---|
| Editor | anyone serving in an official capacity as a member of a professionally recognized disciplinary publication venue, such as a journal or a press |
| Collaborator | demonstrate an ongoing commitment to the project’s development, a deliberate material contribution to some aspect of the project’s total components, and a mutual sense of reciprocity with the other collaborators |
| Consultant | individuals whose help is sought out to solve a specific problem in the composing and design process based on their particular technical skills or expertise |
| Colleague | individuals from the professional/disciplinary community who offer insight or feedback briefly on the project’s intellectual scope |
| Student | individual under the composer's instruction in an official capacity |
Figure 17: People, Pieces, and Influences in Autoethnographic Narratives
Figure 18: Autoethnographic Narrative People Totals
Figure 19: People, Pieces, and Influences in Published Narratives
Figure 20: Published Narrative People Totals
Figure 21: People, Pieces, and Influences in Interview Narratives
Figure 22: Interview Narrative People Totals
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