Technical communication practices in the collaborative mediascape

Communication Design Quarterly Mar 2017

Technical communication practices in the collaborative mediascape

Jonas Löwgren

Abstract

Professional practices in technical communication are increasingly being challenged by the emergence of collaborative media that enable users to access technical information created by non-professionals. At the same time, these technologies also allow technical communicators to provide a continually expanding audience with knowledge and skills needed now more than ever. Through a co-design case study, researchers developed a new and innovative platform for producing and distributing technical information including user-generated content. Moreover, the events of the case included market strategies in which a professional organization moved from a reactive to a more proactive position on collaborative media. In so doing, they outlined a set of new professional roles for technical communicators including editors, curators, facilitators, and community managers.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2017-03-27
DOI: 10.1145/3071078.3071082
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Topics: qualitative research multimodality technical communication

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