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CFP Technical Communication and Culture
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call for papers

Technical Communication and Culture
February 8-11, 2006
Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque

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.

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


Lacy Landrum
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078

Email: lacylandrum@yahoo.com

Visit the website at http://swtexaspca.org