[ATTW-L] Book launch - Augmentation Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Technical Communication

[Ann Hill Duin]

Hi everyone,

We’re excited to announce that our book, Augmentation Technologies and
Artificial Intelligence in Technical Communication: Designing Ethical
Futures
<https://www.routledge.com/Augmentation-Technologies-and-Artificial-Intelligence-in-Technical-Communication/Duin-Pedersen/p/book/9781032263755>(Routledge,
2023) is available (June 1st)!  This book is part of the ATTW Series in
Technical and Professional Communication.
<https://www.routledge.com/ATTW-Series-in-Technical-and-Professional-Communication/book-series/ATTW>


We thank all those who have helped us along this journey.

Please see the attached flier for a 20% discount (use code AFL02).

Use this book to interrogate challenges and opportunities of human
augmentation and AI technology, build technical and professional
communication capacity to articulate its benefits and risks, and provide
direction for future practice and collaboration.

Section One - Understand (rhetorics of) Augmentation Technologies

1 Augmentation Technologies and AI – An Ethical Design Futures Framework

2 Dimensions, Scope, and Classification for Augmentation Technologies

3 Agency, Affordances, and Enculturation of Augmentation Technologies



Section Two - Build Literacies

4 Competencies, Design Considerations, and New Roles for Work with
Augmentation Technologies and AI

5 Socio-ethical Consequences and Design Futures



Section Three - Design Ethical Futures

6 Pedagogical Direction for Cultivating Augmentation Technology and AI
Literacies

7 Professional Direction for Human-AI Interaction

8 Strategic and Tactical Approaches to Designing Ethical Futures for
Augmentation Technologies and AI

Reviews –

“With co-authors Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen we have marvelous guides
who direct us through a bewildering array of developments and provide
heuristic frames and ethical lenses for helping technical and professional
communicators enter the rapidly changing landscape of human-machine
interaction and collaboration.”  Heidi A. McKee & James E. Porter, Miami
University, USA

“This book is a must-read for every technical communication professional
who works with or communicates about augmentation technologies and
artificial intelligence.”  Saul Carliner, Concordia University, Canada

“This is an essential resource…[including] ethical elements that are
critical to human rights, accountability, security, safety, transparency,
and explainability.”  Pam Estes Brewer, Mercer University, USA

We look forward to visiting and collaborating!

Please see the Digital Life Institute’s <https://www.digitallife.org/>
Research Cluster on Building Digital Literacy
<https://www.digitallife.org/research-clusters/cluster/building-digital-literacy/>,
and feel free to contact us (ahduin at umn.edu, Isabel.pedersen at ontariotechu.ca
).

Best regards,

Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen

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Ann Hill Duin, PhD
Professor, Writing Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts (CLA)
<https://cla.umn.edu/writing-studies/news-events/press-release/professor-ann-hill-duin-receives-2018-2019-award-outstanding-contributions-graduate-and-professional>
Graduate-Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor
<https://www.umnalumni.org/s/1867/18/interior-wide.aspx?sid=1867&gid=2&pgid=1147>
https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/ahduin
University of Minnesota
Contributor and Acquisitions Editor, Fabric of Digital Life
<https://fabricofdigitallife.com/>
International Lead, Building Digital Literacy
<https://www.digitallife.org/research-clusters/cluster/building-digital-literacy/>,
Digital Life Institute <https://www.digitallife.org/>
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