Expanding the Triptych - PECE as Communication

Interviewees were drawn to PECE for its potential to convey research in creative, media-rich ways. Following their belief in the power and importance of textual performance, people see PECE as providing avenues to share ideas and research results beyond academic prose in a monograph or article format. The different affordances of PECE’s digital spaces allow for curation and presentation of artifacts, data, and others’ work with varying degrees of intervention from the researcher. 

PECE allows for students and new scholars to gain the motivating and validating experience of publishing their work to a public audience. Students feel their work matters; in fact, their class projects are available online to contribute knowledge and insights if others are interested.

Interviewees used PECE as an opportunity to open students to outputs beyond term papers. Students learn new skills to communicate research through PECE. 

By providing a common space where sharing data and collaboratively analyzing is possible, PECE facilitates communication across different disciplines and undergirds communities of diverse collaborating scholars. Data in varying states of being “raw” and cooked are communicated across disciplines and to new audiences.