Who the hell is going to write this useless shit?
--If you're a real tech writer, you're making big bucks and have no time for this shit.
--If you're an academic, you have no fucking clue about what tech writing is and how it gets done.
Joanna
Carrol Cox wrote:
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> Subject: TCQ CFP: Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication
> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:06:48 -0600
> From: Cheryl Ball <cball at ilstu.edu>
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> Some may be interested in this CFP.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Andrew Mara <Andrew.Mara at ndsu.edu>
> Date: January 15, 2008 10:12:57 AM CST
> To: "Association of Teachers of Technical Writing" <attw-
> l at lyris.ttu.edu>
> Subject: [attw-l] TCQ CFP: Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical
> Communication
> Reply-To: "Association of Teachers of Technical Writing"
> <attw-l at lyris.ttu.edu>
>
> Please see the attached and following CFP for a special issue of
> Technical Communication Quarterly on Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical
> Communication. In addition to article proposals we are also looking for
> micro- ethnographies. If you have any questions about this call you
> would like to ask in person, I will be at both the ATTW conference and
> the Cs.
>
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Mara, PhD English Department North Dakota State University
>
> Call for Proposals:
>
> Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly (Winter 2010)
>
> Posthuman Rhetorics and Technical Communication
>
> Guest editors: Andrew Mara, North Dakota State University, and Byron
> Hawk, George Mason University
>
> According to N. Katherine Hayles, we have always been posthuman. Ever
> since the first social organization, the first use of fire, and the
> first development of language, humans have lived in and with systems.
> Even before its emergence as an academic field, professional and
> technical writers had been writing and living in organizational systems.
> Even when the profession is imagined as an isolated endeavor or
> end-of-the-process set of tasks, technical writers still must operate in
> larger, complex rhetorical situations. Many theorists have been trying
> to come to grips with this kind of situatedness from Michel Foucault's
> attempts to develop an archeological method to understand the human
> sciences to Bruno Latour's development of actor-network-theory to
> understand science's place within a complex social order. Professional
> and technical communication's emergence as a discipline has been marked
> by similar attempts to identify and articulate these systems
> perspectives. From Carolyn Miller's "Genre as Social Action" to Clay
> Spinuzzi's Tracing Genres through Organizations, the field has been
> trying to come to grips with the complex, and increasingly automated,
> systems a writer, text, and reader encounter, affect, and live in.
>
> This special issue looks to extend the position that professional and
> technical communication has always been posthuman. By acknowledging
> this, we hope to open possibilities for thinking about rhetorical action
> in organizational, institutional, and technological contexts. As
> organizations become more complex, technologies more pervasive, and
> rhetorical intent more diverse, technical communicators need to develop
> multiple approaches to mapping and acting within these complex
> rhetorical situations. Philosophical, ethnographic, technological, or
> qualitative methods can all contribute to a larger understanding of the
> ways documents, technologies, and human actions affect/are affected by
> these larger distributed environments. Articulation theory in cultural
> studies, actor-network-theory in the sociology of science, GPS or data
> visualization in technical communication, and organizational theories in
> management are all posthuman rhetorics that enhance our understanding of
> the contexts in which writers think and act.
>
> We invite article-length studies that theorize and demonstrate
> connections between posthuman perspectives and the kinds of rhetorical
> problems that are central to professional and technical communication:
>
> developing and negotiating workplace identities,
> mapping organizational situatedness,
> navigating human-computer interaction,
> deploying new media in workplace contexts,
> understanding the multiple effects of texts,
> transitioning among complex contexts,
> affecting change in organizational cultures.
>
> We are also interested in short microethnographies, articulations, or
> descriptions from a variety of methodological traditions that situate
> professional and technical writers in complex contexts and model how to
> respond rhetorically to those contexts.
>
> Submissions can address the philosophical, workplace, or pedagogical
> dimensions of posthuman changes in technical communication’s scholarly
> approaches. Methods may be quantitative, qualitative, or some
> combination of both and explore professional, academic, or hybrid
> concerns.
>
>
> SUBMISSION INFORMATION
> Send inquiries, proposals, or completed manuscripts as .rtf or .doc
> attachments to the guest editors: Andrew Mara (Andrew.Mara at ndsu.edu) or
> Byron Hawk (bhawk at gmu.edu). Proposals are due by July 17, 2008. For
> accepted proposals, first-draft manuscripts will be due September 25,
> 2008, and finished manuscripts March 12, 2009, for publication in Winter
> 2010. Please contact us as soon as possible if you would like to serve
> as a reviewer for this issue.
>
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> Dr. Cheryl E. Ball ~ http://www.ceball.com Assistant Professor of New
> Media Studies English Department ~ Illinois State University
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