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This discussion emphasizes the role of aesthetics in shaping meaning in technical communication, suggesting an important cultural shift.
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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