ATTW 2008

Rhetorical values and changed realities: Three studies of writing in mediating information spaces

Chair: Michael Salvo, Purdue University

Rhetorical innovation and remixing: The challenge of writing in technologically-mediated spaces
Jason Swarts, North Carolina State University

Leading and browsing in a medical information space: Becoming informed for informed consent
Loel Kim, University of Memphis

Designing SWAP: The role of community values in shaping an information system to support the professional development of teachers
Bill Hart-Davidson, Michigan State University

Aurality and orality: Integrating sound into technical communication

Chair: Jennifer Bowie, Georgia State University

Ear buds, time shifting, and portable Learning: An analysis of podcasting and technical communication

Jennifer L. Bowie, Georgia State University

Web 2.0 aurality: presence and design concepts of sound online,

Brian Snead, Georgia State University

 

Accessible podcasting: College students on the margins in the new media classroom

Sean Zdenek, Texas Tech University

Creating a user-experience through an interpolation research instrument for “giving” websites

Chair: Meredith Zoetewey, University of South Florida
 

Technical communicators are often tasked with building websites and information products which attempt to "hail" or "interpolate" an audience into subject positions that encourage them to donate resources to worthy causes like disaster relief projects for New Orleans or support for our students. While our field has theorized interpolation in proposal writing, and we have an intuitive understanding of it, we have a surprisingly superficial understanding of the mechanisms and techniques information designers can use to interpolate users. Speakers will address 1) Althusser's and Zizek's theories of interpolation; 2) the metrics used to rigorously examine the donor portals found on US News and World Report's top ten public universities' donor sites; 3) how the metrics were specifically applied to the sites to gauge whether the sites successfully create community through interpolation; 4) the socially-sensitive findings pertaining to the sites' verbal and visual content that web designers may consider when building, maintaining, and ultimately improving donors' user-experience.

Alicia Hatter, Clemson University
Tharon Howard, Clemson University
Keith Morton, Clemson University
Randy Nichols, Clemson University
Dan Wu, Clemson University

Connecting internationally: Othering ourselves, localizing through experimentation, and transnational protagoreanism

Chair: Godwin Y. Agboka, Illinois State University
 

Doing business with the ‘other’ through the English language: The challenges in preparing United States native English-speaking students for international technical communication

Michael J.K. Bokor, Illinois State University

Localizing through contigency: Intercultural negotiation and experimentation

Godwin Y. Agboka, Illinois State University

Protagoras in committee: The intercultural contingencies of my locally “pitched” texts

Kyle Mattson, Illinois State University 

Methods and methodologies for emerging research: from the page to the screen

Room: Nottoway B
Chair: Brent Faber, North Carolina State University

Content Analysis: the challenge of inter-rater agreement in textual analysis
Clare Keating, Texas Tech University

Evaluating discourse norms in post-disaster communication: A content analysis approach
JoEllen Kuszmaul, Texas Tech University
Joseph Howe, Texas Tech University

Ethos, pathos, logos, kairos: Rhetorical strategies in digital survey research
Martine Cournat Rife, Michigan State University

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