E - Journal

The Future of Technical Communication: Introduction to This Special Issue

Albers, Michael J. Technical Communication; Washington Vol. 52, Iss. 3,
(Aug 2005): 267-272.

Abstract :
Yet in our department meetings and, judging from discussions on the Association of Teachers of
Technical Writing discussion list, in all technical communication departments, there is a strong
resistance to teaching tools. Because the tools change so rapidly, the practicality of teaching specific
tools is suspect (Kastman Breuch 2002; Selber 1994; Selling 2002). Because space constraints
prohibited publication of all of the deserving articles proposed, a second issue focused on academic
issues, scheduled for August 2006, was spun off, with Carol Barnum as the guest editor. The future of
technical communication I am willing to claim that many of our current writing processes using new
technologies are not unlike the early online writing days when we clung to the book model and
created pages that users needed to click through one at a time and that contained navigation cues such
as "3 of 5." The purpose of this special issue is to step back from a close examination of any particular
technology or job description, and instead to examine how they will affect the development of
technical communication as a discipline.

Introduction to the History of Communication: Evolutions & Revolutions/Journalism Today: A

Themed History
Jackson-Brown, Grace. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator; Thousand
Oaks Vol. 67, Iss. 2, (Jun 2012): 188-193.

Abstract :
According to this nineteenth-century version of a global trade agreement, Havas reported from the
French empire and South America, Reuter exclusively from the British Empire with the right to
develop further in the Far East, while Wolffcovered the territories of Central Europe, Scandinavia,
and Russia. According to Chapman and Nuttall, British local newspapers, including weeklies, have
shown resilience despite circulation declines and competition from the Internet (this also is true in the
United States, where local newspapers account for more than 90 percent of all dailies).

Introduction: Communication and Health Care Disparities

Perloff, Richard M. The American Behavioral Scientist; Thousand Oaks Vol. 49, Iss. 6, (Feb 2006):
755-759. DOI:10.1177/0002764205283799

Abstract:

There are striking racial and class-based disparities in health care. Racial and ethnic inequalities
remain when socioeconomic factors are parceled out. Such inequities are profoundly disturbing in the
United States, given the nation's philosophical commitment to equality. Communication can play an
important part in reducing health care inequities. This introductory article discusses contributions
communication can make, briefly summarizes the cross-disciplinary articles in this issue, and
describes challenges that lie ahead. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
 Introduction: Technical communication in cyberspace
Gurak, Laura J; Silker, Christine M. Technical Communication; Washington Vol. 43, Iss. 4, (Nov
1996): 330-331.

Abstract :

Research, teaching and practice in technical communication have certainly not been immune to the
recent popularity of the Internet. Technical communicators have always used new communication
technologies to enhance their work.

Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders, 5th Edition

Beaverton Vol. 3, Iss. 15, Beaverton: Ringgold Inc. (Apr 13, 2016)

Abstract:

Along with a less formal writing style, this edition has fewer chapters; updated and reorganized
chapters; revised chapters on the profession; new sections on assessment for voice and adult
neurogenic disorder; updated, expanded, and new sections on diversity and multicultural issues;
discussion of the impact of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition,
with expanded information on the communication needs of individuals with autism spectrum disorder;
description of evidence-based practices; updated graphics; current technologies and methodologies;
and reorganized sections. (© Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)

Review: The ARRL Introduction to Emergency Communication Course

Palm, Rick. QST; Newington Vol. 101, Iss. 6, (Jun 2017se): 85-86.

Abstract :

Having taken many of the excellent FEMA independent study (IS) online courses through
https://training.fema.gov/is/, as well as the US Department of Homeland Security's Office of
Emergency Communications Auxiliary Communications (AUXCOMM) classroom course,11 wanted
to take ARRL's course for two reasons - to gain more knowledge for myself and to share my
experience with readers and potential students. The principal differences between FEMA courses and
the ARRL course are that the FEMA courses focus on the Incident Command System (ICS) - the
government's template for emergency management in this country - and its emergency support
functions, while the ARRL course is concentrated on teaching public service-oriented radio amateurs
basic operating practices for emergency, disaster response, and public event communications
activations and deployments. Palmer has taken every emergency/disaster response communications
course that ARRL has offered over the years and has also taken the DHS/OEC AUXCOMM course,
the All Hazards Communications Technician (COMT), and All Hazards Communications Leader
(COML) courses given by the Department of Homeland Security. Prerequisites Before beginning the
course, students must complete the FEMA online IS courses - ICS-100 (Introduction to the Incident
Command System) and IS-700 (National Incident Management System) at https://training.fema.gov/
IS/NIMS.asp.
 E – BOOK
Introduction: Communication and the World of Work
Thomas Klikauer

Abstract :

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen is the start of one the foremost
books on communication. In George Orwell’s 1984, communication in a future society is reduced to a
tool that corrupts our thoughts while BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU and the thought police is
looking for thought crimes.5 Orwell has provided one of the most powerful images of where society
can go when human communication is deliberately distorted, corrupted, abused, and misused. Even
though the year 1984 has long since passed, present society, work, and communication have
obviously not yet reached an Orwellian stage. However his apocalyptic scenario remains with us.
Undoubtedly, Orwell emphasised the importance of communication in shaping our society, our
thinking, and how damaging the misuse of communication can be as it reaches into the heart of our
society. As much as in 1948 when Orwell wrote 1984, today, and in a hopefully non-Orwellian future,
almost all societies and their accompanying work arrangements exist through communication. Ever
since modern mass production ended feudalist peasant life some time between the mid-18th and the
early 20th century, demands on communication at work have been on the increase. The way we work
is continuously being reshaped and with it the demands on communication. With the continuous rise
of modern post-industrial work arrangements, communication has become an ever more important
aspect of our present and future working and social lives.

Introduction: The Emergence of Networked Public Communication

Wei He

Abstract :

The penetration of information communication technology in contemporary China has entered into a
high-speed growth period. Mass communication is gradually networked. The rising networked public
communication competes against and cooperates with the mass communication, jointly constitute a
new information communication paradigm, known as “networked communication”
dominating the media system in the network society. This chapter defines and differentiates the three
new concepts: networked user, networked public, and networked public communication, clarifying
their relations with other academic concepts. Then, the chapter explains the theoretical orientation
and methodology of the research and briefly reviews the existing researches in related fields around
the globe.

Introduction: Forget Everything You Learned About Communication at Work

Jesse Sostrin

Abstract :

Almost four hundred years ago the seminal philosophers John Locke and David Hume implicitly
defined “communication” as a tool for the transmission of pure ideas, meaning ideas themselves are
what matter, not the way they are expressed and exchanged. This perspective not only took hold, but
it has survived until this day as the dominant way of defining communication. Now known as the
transmission model,1 this approach to communication is the foundation of many academic courses in
communication theory and practice, and it is embedded in most business literature and education
programs that address subjects related to workplace communication, organization behavior and
culture, leadership, conflict resolution, and more.

Introduction: Science Communication as Culture

Sarah R. Davies
Maja Horst

Abstract :

Science communication is important in modern knowledge societies. Many societies around the world
now expect scientific knowledge and technological development to be at the core of economic growth
and welfare and hope that science will find solutions to challenges such as climate change and
scarcity of energy, food, and water. Such expectations imply that science communication is
significant in at least three ways.

Introduction: Communication in Management, Work and Society

Thomas Klikauer

Abstract :

Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was
needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. Reality control, they called it…1
These are the words of George Orwell in his masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. While management
might appear as everlasting — and therefore give the impression it is unending — the dominant
managerially guided discourse by and about management itself is shaping not only our memories
about management but also how we perceive it. Very much like any other aspect in our socially
constructed and socially communicated world the current perception of the world of management and
work has been able to establish what Orwell called reality control, a viewpoint that makes us see
management very much from a somewhat limited range of perspectives. Similar to Orwell’s Big
Brother on the one hand and his hero Winston Smith on the other, these perspectives have always
carried different values because they are connected to a human subject — a person — rather than an
object. Ever since the philosophical subject—object debate had started in the ancient world of Greece
two millenniums ago, the split between subject and subjectivity as well as object and objectivity has
fascinated human thinking. With the rise of modernity and Enlightenment the proponents of pure
scientific objectivity and pure reason have sought to separate human knowledge from our social
existence.