Author: Rachael Ryerson

Presenters: Dr. Cecilia Shelton (University of Maryland), Dr. Desiree Dighton (East Carolina University), Dr. Ashley Beardsley (Western Illinois University) When we use the term technical and professional communicator, to whom are we referring? According to the Society of Technical Communication, “Technical communicators research and create information about technical processes or products directed to a targeted audience through various forms of media.” Clearly, this definition would include creators working in social media platforms, but can we include race and ethnicity examples of “technical processes and products?”  And if so, does the STC’s definition of a technical communicator already include anyone writing…

Review by Stephanie West-Puckett Read more about session f7 on the C&W conference site. PANELISTS Angela Haas, Illinois State University Emily Legg, Purdue University Gabriela Rios, University of Central Florida (unable to attend) The Politics of Our Intellectual Interfaces: Revisiting the Technological Metaphors We Live and Think With There’s an update available for your operating system, technorhetors, and Angela Haas said you should download it now. Seriously. Working from a decolonial methodological framework (Smith, 1999), Hass argues that the metaphors we use to talk about technorhetorics are fraught with violence and supremacy, and we must first refuse those discourses to interrupt the patriarchy and…