Digital Literacy for Technical Communication: 21st Century Theory and Practice

by Spilka; Rachel

• ISBN13: 9780805852738
• ISBN10: 0805852735
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Digital Literacy for Technical Communication is designed to help technical communicators make better sense of technology's impact on their work, so they can identify new ways to adapt, adjust, and evolve, fulfilling their own professional potential. This collection is comprised of three sections, each designed to explore answers to these questions:

Author Biography

Rachel Spilka is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her current research interests are in re-examining audience and defining, from the perspective of students, promising strategies for achieving greater diversity in academic programs in the field. Over the past thirty years, she has interspersed academic positions with work in industry, including serving as manager of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) Research Grants Committee and Ken Rainey Excellence in Research Award Committee. Her previous edited volumes Writing in the Workplace: New Research Perspectives (Southern Illinois University Press, 1993) and, with Barbara Mirel, Reshaping Technical Communication: New Directions for the 21st Century (Eribaum, 2003) both received the Best Edited Collection Award in Scientific and Technical Communication from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Transformations in Our Work	p. 19
Computers and Technical Communication in the 21st Century	p. 21
The Effects of Digital Literacy on the Nature of Technical Communication Work	p. 51
New Foundational Knowledge For Our Field	p. 83
Shaped and Shaping Tools: The Rhetorical Nature of Technical Communication Technologies	p. 85
Information Design: From Authoring Text to Architecting Virtual Space	p. 103
Content Management: Beyond Single-Sourcing	p. 128
New Directions in Cultural, Cross-Cultural, Audience, and Ethical Perspectives	p. 145
Human + Machine Culture: Where We Work	p. 147
Understanding Digital Literacy Across Cultures	p. 169
Addressing Audiences in a Digital Age	p. 199
Beyond Ethical Frames of Technical Relations: Digital Being in the Workplace World	p. 230
Editor and Contributor Biographies	p. 257
Author Index	p. 262
Subject Index	p. 266
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