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Understanding why gas prices rise, filtering FEMA messages, reading new genome maps, and following sports blogs are just some of our encounters with technical information in recent days. How much of that information is communication? How does technology modify the information?
Share your ideas and join us for the 27th meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
February 8-11, 2006
Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque
Please send a 200-word proposal by November 15, 2005 to Lacy Landrum at lacylandrum@yahoo.com
Proposals for papers and panels on the intersection of technical communication and culture are welcome in areas such as the following:
--Ideology and ethics: who encodes these methods? who decodes them?
--Pedagogical implications: how do we “teach” new methods and genres, or how do we apply older methods to current trends?
--Collaboration, structure, and culture: how does the workplace affect these?
--Philosophies and research methods: could IM be our newest tool for research?
--Visual theory, design, usability, especially of online environments
--Genres: websites, reports, television news and programs, manuals, forms, flyers
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