Dr. Ryan Weber Associate Professor, Director of Business & Technical Writing, English Contact 1310 Ben Graves DriveMorton HallRoom 261Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.2347ryan.weber@uah.edu Biography Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., English, Purdue University, 2009 M.A., English, Purdue University, 2005 B.A., English, Pepperdine, 2002 Expertise Business and Technical Writing NASA and Science Communication Social Media Entrepreneurship Public Rhetoric Irony Recent Publications Lanius, Candice, weber, Ryan, and William I MacKenzie Jr. "Use of bot and content flags to limit the spread of misinformation among social networks: a behavior and attitude survey." Social Network Analysis and Mining, 11, (2021). Lanius, Candice, Weber, Ryan, Spiegle, Jackie, Robinson, Joy, and Robin Potts. "Drawing on Personas: How User Personas Affect Creativity." Technical Communication, 67.4, (2020):49-71 "The News from Mars." Technical Communication Quarterly, 29.2 (2020): 135-53. Robinson, Joy, Lanius, Candice, and Ryan Weber. "The Past, Present, and Future of UX Empirical Research." Communication Design Quarterly, 5.3 (2017): 10-22. Spartz, John and Ryan Weber. "User Experience as a Driver of Entrepreneurial Innovation." Proceedings of the IEEE Professional Communication Conference. IEEE Internationa. 2016 Soderlund, Lars, John Spartz, and Ryan Weber. "Taken Under Advisement: Perspectives on Advisory Boards from across Technical Communication." IEEE: Transactions on Professional Communication, 60.1 (2017): 76-96. "Stasis in Space! Viewing Definitional Conflicts Surrounding the James Webb Space Telescope Funding Debate." Technical Communication Quarterly, 25.2 (2016): 87-103. Spartz, John M. and Ryan Weber. "Writing Entrepreneurs: A Survey of Attitudes, Habits, Skills, and Genres." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 29.4 (2015): 428-455. Spartz, John M. and Ryan Weber. "A Technical Communication Venture in Building Academic-Entrepreneur Relations and Partnerships." Academy-Industry Relationships and Partnerships: Perspectives for Technical Communicators. Eds. Tracy Bridgeford and Kirk St. Amant. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press, 2015. 31-54