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March 22, 2020 Caption every screen.Visual Design
March 20, 2020 Positioning and styling captions when speakers overlap and interrupt each otherVisual Design
February 6, 2019 Published: Special issue on disability and technical communicationAccessibility Publishing Visual Design
February 6, 2019 My interview with KairosCastPodcasting Publishing
August 17, 2018 Published: Designing Captions — A new article on enhanced captioningPublishing Visual Design Accessibility
August 6, 2016 Cripping closed captioning: Experiments with type, icons, and dynamic effectsPublishing Visual Design
April 14, 2016 Chirp! Captioning BB-8 inData Mining Non-Speech
January 7, 2016 Do sirens always wail?Data Mining Non-Speech
December 18, 2015 When a yellow subtitle meets a character fromVisual Design Stats
October 18, 2015 Tracking sonic timelines in closed captioningNon-Speech
October 9, 2015 Closed captions as identity markers (leitmotifs)Non-Speech
October 8, 2015 Subtitles as visual artVisual Design
October 7, 2015 Reading Sounds: A new book and website on closed captioningPublishing
May 9, 2012 “The main factor that drives captioning quality is what clients are willing to pay for it.”Visual Design
March 31, 2012 Drunk speech but sober captions: How manner captions do the heavy liftingManner Non-Speech
March 6, 2012 The power of dots and dashes to tell the futureTiming
February 24, 2012 Humanizing nameless speakersSpeaker IDs Timing
January 13, 2012 “That whole thing’s your name?” Captioning names in
January 6, 2012 “Subtitles I like to ride on”: When medium awareness extends to subtitlesVisual Design Hearing Non-Speech
November 4, 2011 Captioned hypnosisNon-Speech
October 28, 2011 Closed captioners don’t caption sounds.Non-Speech Timing
September 16, 2011 Busy signal or engaged tone? Captions, language variety, and localized accessibilityDefinitions Non-Speech
August 4, 2011 Captioned silence?Definitions Humor Non-Speech
July 14, 2011 Genre-defining sounds, even when they lie to usMusic Visual Design Definitions
July 4, 2011 In a manner of speakingManner Non-Speech
July 2, 2011 Logocentrism: The tendency to privilege speech over non-speech in closed captioningMusic Non-Speech Definitions
May 1, 2011 Captioning the faintest sounds when they’re part of a repetitive seriesNon-Speech Data Mining
April 14, 2011 Captioned puns and wordplayHumor
March 16, 2011 Captioned irony: How captions manipulate narrative time and viewers’ knowledgeNon-Speech Speaker IDs
February 27, 2011 Iambic pentameter captions?Visual Design Non-Speech
February 26, 2011 [Groan] or Ahh? Series awareness and alternative captionsHumor Non-Speech
February 10, 2011 Sonic allusions and cultural literacy for captionersNon-Speech Humor
February 4, 2011 The running gag principle: Caption the series, not the episodeMusic Non-Speech Speaker IDs
January 30, 2011 Zoom Zoom: Selling caption spaceHumor Non-Speech Definitions
January 22, 2011 Captioning 101: When music lyrics trigger an explosion, you just might want to caption them.Music Visual Design
January 2, 2011 Stylistic standards for closed captioning and data miningData Mining Non-Speech Visual Design
December 19, 2010 Why that zombie is really moaning (and not groaning)Non-Speech
November 12, 2010 If it weren’t for Speaker IDs, I’d have no idea what’s going onNon-Speech Speaker IDs
November 6, 2010 How many TV commercials are closed captioned?Legal Stats
October 5, 2010 Dialogue that wasn’t intended to be readHumor
October 1, 2010 What the speaker really says doesn’t matter?Visual Design
May 2, 2010 Captioned thematics: How captions make interpretative patterns visibleNon-Speech
January 11, 2010 Captioning the backchannel: How captions clarify and equalize soundsNon-Speech Speaker IDs
November 21, 2009 Overcaptioning: Which sounds are significant?Non-Speech Speaker IDs
September 26, 2009 Twilight: Captioning the “gaspiest” movie everNon-Speech Speaker IDs
August 23, 2009 Prematurely revealing the natives as cannibals in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s ChestTiming Data Mining Non-Speech
August 17, 2009 Caption watch: Hulu.comStats Visual Design
August 15, 2009 Exploring Twilight and music lyrics through closed captionsMusic Visual Design
August 14, 2009 If movie characters could read closed captions, they’d glimpse the futureSpeaker IDs Timing
August 12, 2009 How captions tell the futureTiming Non-Speech Speaker IDs
August 11, 2009 Whispers and other sounds you were never meant to hearHearing Non-Speech Publishing Visual Design
June 4, 2008 Podcasting and embodimentPodcasting Publishing