[Discussion] CFP: Digital Documentation (12/1/05; collection)

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From: anne rypstat <annerypstat@hotmail.com>

CFP:

Digital Citizenship:  Technology, Documentation, and the Divide

Editors:  Adrienne Lamberti and Anne R. Richards

The practical and ethical responsibilities of professional communicators have
been greatly complicated by the digital divide. Because of the increasing
reliance on new media to convey information previously conveyed in print,
critical inquiry into the accessibility and usability of digital documentation
is needed.

The editors of the anthology Digital Citizenship request abstracts for papers
responding to the following broad questions: How might cultural critique of the
accessibility of new media shape our understanding and teaching of digital
documentation? How can digital documentation be designed to better reflect a
sensitivity to human factors? How are the conceptualization, writing, and
testing activities traditionally associated with print documentation influencing
digital documentation? What are the social consequences of this influence? 
Abstracts should address one of three loose categories:  Constructing the
Profession, Documenting the Organization, and Instructing the Consumer. 
Examples of relevant areas of inquiry follow.

Constructing the Profession. How has the move from print to digital
documentation hindered/promoted professional change? What roles has digital
documentation played in defining the professions/their norms? To what extent
should/does professional documentation reflect access differences among members
and/or potential members?  How has professional outreach been affected by
digital documentation?

Documenting the Organization. To what extent have questions of class, gender,
ability, ethnicity, and/or age influenced analyses of the audiences for digital
documentation within organizations? How have organizations used digital
documentation to integrate across national/ethnic/linguistic boundaries? How
have organizations balanced access concerns against financial incentives to
digitize?

Instructing the Consumer. To what extent have differences between print and
digital document audiences&#65533; reading responses been incorporated into the
construction of usability tests, and how have these differences been
conceptualized and measured?  How should/do professional communicators shape
effective documentation for &#65533;global&#65533; audiences?  How should/does
class,
gender, ability, ethnicity, and/or age shape the teaching and practice of
digital documentation for the marketplace?


The schedule for participating in Digital Citizenship is as follows:

Submission of 500-word abstract	                December 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance		December 15, 2005
Submission of completed chapter		April 15, 2006

Submit abstracts to A. Lamberti by December 1, 2005; email either editor
with queries:

Adrienne Lamberti
lamberti@uni.edu
319-277-2627
Department of English Language and Literature
Professional Writing Program
University of Northern Iowa
119 Baker Hall
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0502

Anne R. Richards
Anne_Richards@kennesaw.edu
678-797-2038
Department of English
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road
Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591


A PDF of this CFP is available at www.uni.edu/~lamberti/DC.



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