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SIGDOC Newsletter
June 2006
:: Volume 7, Number 2
Our Members
Notes from the Chair
Dear SIGDOC Member,
I hope that you are keeping an eye on the SIGDOC 2006 Conference Website
(http://www.sigdoc2006.org) and that you have noted some of the hard
work that the General Chair, Shihong Huang, Program Chairs, Rob Pierce
and John Stamey, and Local Arrangements Chair, Steve Sheel, have already
accomplished on behalf of the October 18-20, 2006 Conference. The Program
Committee for the conference, which will be reviewing incoming paper
proposals, lists an impressive 29 members -- seventeen from the USA,
three from Canada, four from the UK, four from Europe, and 1 from South
America. Nine of the program committee members are from industry and
twenty from the academy.
For those of you already planning to attend the conference, now is also
a good time to consider the Association for Computing Machinery's Member-Get-A-Member
Drive program (http://campus.acm.org/public/mgm).
Simply share the benefits of your professional affiliation with a colleague
or friend, complete
the Member-Get-A-Member referral form (http://campus.acm.org/public/mgm/subpages/referral-form.cfm),
and they get a special introductory membership price for joining the
organization. Gifts and a bunch of additional toys are your reward and,
of course, the personal satisfaction in knowing that you've contributed
to the professional organizational cosmos (I've got dibs on the iPod).
Also, we are still investigating the status of the Journal of Computer
Documentation, which is on temporary hiatus. In the meantime, for those
of you thirsting for peer-reviewed journals related to communication
and information design, I offer the following list of 20 interesting
journals:
- Argumentation (theoretical): Articles on everything from Chomsky,
Aristotle, Postmodernism.
- Business Communication Quarterly (instructional): Articles on
business writing, alternative technologies (e.g., blogs), and visual
design.
- Canadian Journal of Communication (theoretical): Articles on time,
space, writing, on media, art, fiction, and culture.
- College Composition and Communication (theoretical; instructional):
Articles on literacy, pedagogy, alternative genres.
- Computers and Composition (instructional): Articles on writing
in digital contexts, knowledge in the classroom, diversity in technology
issues.
- Human Communication Research (empirical): Articles on media attention,
social interaction in virtual environments, organizational socialization.
- IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (theoretical):
Articles on engineering writing, teamwork, research methods.
- Information and Management (empirical): Articles on data warehousing,
e-learning, research methods.
- Information Design Journal (theoretical;
empirical): Articles on history of design, text analysis, online reading
and writing.
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (theoretical):
Articles on electronic networks, globalization, Internet research,
e-commerce.
- Journal of Design Communication (theoretical): Articles on design,
teaming, text design, color.
- Journal of Digital Information (theoretical;
empirical): Articles on modeling, metadata, e-education, hypertext,
social computing.
- Journal of the American Society of Information Science (empirical): Articles on library and information science, Web design
and evaluation.
- Journal of Visual Literacy (theoretical): Articles
on learning with visuals, symbol interpretation, sound, color, perception.
- Language, Learning & Technology (theoretical): Articles on networked
classrooms, multimedia, language teaching.
- Technical Communication (theoretical; practical): Articles on reading, writing in technical
and business settings, new media and design.
- Technical Communication
Quarterly (theoretical): teaching technical communication, usability,
hypertext design.
- Technology in Society (theoretical): Articles
on social and cultural influence of technology, globalization, science.
- Visual Communication (empirical): Articles on visual objects, photographs,
design, new and old media.
- Written Communication (theoretical; instructional):
Articles on academic and nonacademic discourse, disciplinary formation,
genre,
writing,
reading.
Of course my list of journals is by no means exhaustive, but it represents
a nice start for those of you desperate for good summer reading!
Best,
Brad Mehlenbacher
Associate Professor, Training and Development (ACCE),
Adjunct/Associate Professor, Ergonomics (PSYCH),
and Affiliated Faculty, PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7801
919.515.6242 (ph)
chair_sigdoc@acm.org (e-mail)
www4.ncsu.edu/~brad_m (url)
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Our Members :: Notes from the SIGDOC 2006
General Chair, Shihong Huang
The 24th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC
2006) is progressing steadily on its way to the full conference which
will be held in October 18 -20, 2006, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
First of all, thanks to the hard work of our two dedicated program
chairs, Rob Pierce from IBM and John Stamey from Coastal Carolina
University, the preparations of the conference (from solicitation of
technical papers and workshop proposals to local arrangements) have
been making steady progress and going well, according to the schedule.
I would
also like to thank our Program Committee members who agreed to serve
on SIGDOC 2006 program committee. With all your support, I believe
SIGDOC 2006 will be another great event of SIGDOC.
I would like to take this opportunity to offer you a glimpse of the
current status of the organization of SIGDOC 2006.
The organization
committee of SIGDOC 2006 wasted no time in distributing the SIGDOC
2006 CFP. From SIGDOC 2005 in Coventry to the mailing
lists of both computer science and technical communication communities,
SIGDOC 2006 CPF has reached our vast audience. The deadline of paper
submission
was June 15, 2006. Until now, we have received a good number of
submissions from both academia and industry of technical papers and workshop
proposals. The next immediate task is paper reviews. The paper reviews
are critical
to the quality of the proceedings and the success of the conference.
The organizing committee would like to ask PC members to return
their
reviews on time.
Thanks to the hard work of John Stamey and the generous support from
Coastal Carolina University, SIGDOC 2006 will be held on the Coastal
Carolina University campus. We are expecting good local arrangements
during the events of the conference, including receptions and banquets,
etc. Stay tuned for the final update of the advance program, which
will be posted to the conference Web site.
The conference web site (http://www.sigdoc2006.org)
is the window of the conference. Please visit it often as new updates
about the conference
will be posted there. If you have any concerns and suggestions, please
don’t
hesitate to contact the program chairs or me. I’m looking forward
to the great event and to meeting you all in Myrtle Beach!
Shihong Huang
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
General Chair, SIGDOC 2006
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