[ATTW-L] New CDQ Article on the Cultural and Material Agency of Technical Documentation

[Luke Thominet]

Dear Colleagues,

CDQ has a new Online First article: "Along the Cow Path: Technical Communication Within a Jewish Cemetery<http://sigdoc.acm.org/along-the-cow-path-technical-communication-within-a-jewish-cemetery/>," by Alexander Slotkin

Here is the abstract for the article: Technical communication and user experience studies traditionally uphold Western onto-epistemological distinctions between technical users and objects. Recent calls for the inclusion of cultural approaches to technical communication, however, have asked scholars to consider the influence cultural knowledge has on communication design. This article takes up these calls by reading technical documentation through new materialist and Indigenous ways of knowing. Using a prominent Jewish cemetery in Gainesville, Florida as a case study, this article treats technical artifacts and subjects as co-constitutive, arguing for the cultural and material agency of technical documentation design in mediating and shaping user experience.

We invite you to contribute to the conversation. Communication Design Quarterly strives to be a place open to all types of research and writing as it relates to communication design, and we welcome non-traditional work and work by emerging scholars. We also know that many of our number work outside of academia, and welcome experience reports that summarize important technologies, techniques, methods, pedagogies, or product processes. We are also interested in proposals for guest editing special issues.

If you are interested in learning more about CDQ, we recently compiled an abstract showcase<http://sigdoc.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/October_2020_CDQ_Zine.pdf> of our recent articles. And if you have something that would be a good fit for Communication Design Quarterly, please review our article guidelines<http://sigdoc.acm.org/publication/communication-design-quarterly-review/> and direct inquiries or submissions to our Editor in Chief, Dr. Derek G. Ross, at derek.ross at auburn.edu<mailto:derek.ross at auburn.edu>.

Best,
Luke Thominet, PhD
Communications Manager
SIGDOC
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