The Communication Circle: Theory

Theory
Personalizing Content	You and Me: Making Technical Communication Personal. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference. Arlington, VA: Society for Technical Communication. 2001. The Dangers of Personalization. Region 5 Conference, Society for Technical Communication, Houston, October 12, 2001. Tools for Creating and Managing Personalized Content, in Organizing Information for the Web, University of California, Santa Cruz, August 5, 2001. An Audience of One. IPCC 2001 Conference. Santa Fe, NM, October 25, 2001. A Rhetoric of Objects. Association of Computing Machinery, SIGDOC 2001. Santa Fe, NM, October, 2001.
Complexity Theory and the Web	Complexity Theory as a Way of Understanding our Role in the World-Wide Web. Proceedings of the 45^th Annual Conference. Arlington, VA: Society for Technical Communication. 1998. 207-209. Using Complexity Theory to Understand What’s Happening to Technical Communication. IPCC 97 Proceedings, October 22-25, 1997, Salt Lake City, Utah. IEEE Professional Communication Society. 17-27. Structuring Complex Interactive Documents. Introduction to a special issue (same title) of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. July 1997. 69-77.
Object-Oriented Databases	Adding Semantics to SGML Databases. With Mazumdar, Bao, and Yuan. Presented at Electronic Publishing ’98 Conference, Saint Malo, France (April 1-4, 1998), and included in the proceedings volume, in Hersch, R., Andre, J., & Brown, H. (Eds.), Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography, Vol. 1375 in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998. 563-574.
Electronic Outlining	Electronic Outlining as a Tool for Making Writing Visible. Computers and Composition. December 1997. 409-427. How Electronic Outlining Can Help You Create Online Materials. Conference Proceedings, 15^th Annual International Conference on Computer Documentation, October 19-22, 1997, Salt Lake City, Utah. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Special Interest Group on Systems Documentation (SIGDOC). 211-221.
Technical Communication	So you've just been assigned to write a manual, or an online help system? Read How to Communicate Technical Information. Here's the inside dope on how to schedule, budget, design, and create documentation for users, based on our extensive experience in the industry. Co-authored with Henry Korman. Benjamin/Cummings, 1993. Modeling Information in Electronic Space, a special issue of Technical Communication, edited by Jonathan, February 2001, from the Society for Technical Communication.
Video & TV	Articles on video art and television. Also: Video Visions, and The Best Thing on TV: Commercials.


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