Category: Technical Communication journal

Sep 27

Call for Proposals, Special Issue of Technical Communication: Transmedia, Participatory Culture, and Digital Creation

In recent years, digital creation has become a more participatory process. As media companies struggle to maintain control over their own products, consumers continually demand more access to the creative process and more input on the final results. While this may seem on the surface to be a simple matter of intellectual property, a closer examination of trends reveals that both consumers and media companies have much to gain (and lose) from this debate.

May 15

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Technical Communication (November 2018)

The push towards the democratization of countries, particularly when technologies influence electoral outcomes, must be properly scrutinized by technical communicators in a nonpartisan and rigorous manner. Several electoral events and activities, both within and outside the US, provide some grounds for technical communicators to contribute to conversations about what it means to organize clean, fair, credible, and incontrovertible elections in a technologically-driven era. Increasingly, electoral technologies have become scarily vulnerable to breakdown, malfunction, and hacking, raising several implications about electoral integrity.

Mar 02

2017 May Special Issue of Technical Communication: Globalizing/Localizing User Experience

The 2017 May issue of Technical Communication focuses on the theme of “Globalizing/Localizing User Experience: Strategies, Practices, and Techniques for Culturally Sensitive Design.” This special issue, guest edited by Guiseppe Getto of East Carolina University and Huatong Sun of University of Washington Tacoma, includes five articles that will change the way you think about the teaching and practice of the field.