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The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine welcomes proposals for the ARSTM@RSA 2024 Preconference. <span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Abstracts
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The ARSTM@RSA 2024 Preconference theme "Fail/Safe,” borrows from the scientific, technical, and medical perspectives
and histories, which constitute a common ground or topos of concern illustrated by Rocky Flats contaminated nuclear weapons complex and invites inquiries into how rhetorics of science, technology, and medicine figure in both our sociotechnical failures (e.g.,
Covid, mis- and dis-information, the Anthropocene), our current programs and infrastructures for safety (e.g., access to and within technologies, information literacy, cultural safety), and how civic deliberation might act as a kind of fail/safe against technofuturist
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The theme has natural intersections with technical writing scholarship, research, and teaching. It spotlights important
aspects of communicating technical subject matter, making ethical communication decisions, and expanding philosophy and theory of technical and scientific communication. For more information, visit
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