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International Professional Communication Conference
Opening the Information Economy
SPRING 2008
Volume 18, Issue 1
Conferences
The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing 10th Annual Conference
International Professional Communication Conference
Opening the Information Economy
Council on Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference
Announcements
Call for Items for a CPTSC History Project
Call for Nominations for NCTE Technical and Scientific Communication Awards
Invitation to the Research Exchange, an Online Resource for Writing Studies
CFPs
Call for Abstracts: Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse
Call for Proposals: Technical Communication Quarterly
Special Issue Topics and Guidelines
July 13-16, 2008
Montreal , Canada
We are all a part of the information economy, and by participating in it, we both shape and are shaped by the information economy and its practices. As communication is at the heart of success within this economy, the conference will explore certain communication-based aspects of the information economy. These aspects include:
- Information design, usability, and accessibility
- Virtual teams, online collaboration, and distributed models of work
- Cross-cultural communication, globalization, outsourcing, translation, and localization
- Legal policies and social issues related to the information economy
- Media selection and multimodality
- The role of and perspectives on teaching and training within the information economy
- Content management, open source software, single sourcing, and XML
- Establishing and assessing the value of knowledge work and knowledge products
IPCC 2008 will be held on the campus of Concordia University in downtown Montreal , Canada .
The July timing of the event is scheduled to coincide with one or more of the numerous international festivals that take place in Montreal during the summer.
For information about hotels and entertainment, visit http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pcs/?q=node/33