[ATTW-L] #CFP SIGDOC 2024 EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, ONGOING CHALLENGES

[Morgan Banville]

Hello SIGDOC Community,

We are excited to announce that the 2024 SIGDOC CFP and Conference Website
is now available! Proposers can choose from 6 different submission types
for this year's conference in Arlington, VA from October 20-22, 2024:
Research Papers, Industry Insights, Experience Reports, Posters, Panel
Sessions, and Workshops. For more information please visit:
https://sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2024/

This year's conference theme is titled: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, ONGOING
CHALLENGES. *Proposals are due by February 26.*

Emerging technologies promise to disrupt the way we create and interact
with information. Yet, communication design has always been a dynamic,
rapidly evolving field—has nothing changed or is nothing the same? Amidst
the hype and rapid change, we invite researchers and practitioners to
consider emerging technologies alongside ongoing challenges.

In recent years, technical communication scholars and practitioners are
increasingly engaging with augmented and virtual reality, augmentation
technologies, and now generative AI. These technologies, for better or
worse, are increasingly integrated into our toolsets, including but not
limited to content management systems, graphic design software, learning
management systems, and research software. These emerging tools and
technologies promise to make us more efficient and connected, but at what
cost? Will automation devalue the human in human-computer interaction? What
are the environmental, economic, legal, and social implications of
widespread adoption?

Amidst all the hype and change, how do we sustain our profession and our
commitments to ongoing challenges? How do we continue to center questions
of social justice, access, power, environmental justice, economic
precarity, sustainability (of profession, practices, commitments), and
disordered information environments (disinformation, misinformation, trust
in experts and institutions). How does this work intersect with emerging
questions of data provenance, data dignity, intellectual property, and
information security?

While emerging technologies present various challenges, we must not lose
sight of the new opportunities they afford us. We invite participants to
consider how these technologies present opportunities in all areas of their
work, including research, teaching, and industry practice.

*GUIDING QUESTIONS *
As you write your proposals, we invite you to consider the following
questions. We include additional questions in the full CFP on the
conference website. The question list is not exhaustive and we invite
submissions that do not adhere to the conference theme, or that extend
beyond these questions. We also welcome submissions that are rooted in
neighboring disciplines, such as software development and computer science,
healthcare, social work, crisis communication, digital humanities, rhetoric
of science & technology, and beyond.
• How are emerging technologies opening up new sites of or approaches to
communication design and research?
• How do we (and how should we) engage with emerging technologies in our
teaching, research, community, and industry practices?
• What frameworks can help us better understand and work with emerging
technologies?
• What opportunities do emerging technologies open up for communication
design? For teachers and researchers? For technical communicators, content
strategists, and other practitioners?
• What is new or different about emerging technologies? What additional
considerations should we give to studying and using emerging technologies?
• What strategies should we employ when studying constantly changing and
evolving technologies?
• What is the role of emerging technologies in fostering
coalitions/collaborations among community, industry, and academia?
• What literacies are needed to engage technologies responsibly and
effectively?

Submit Proposals easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigdoc24
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