Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, Illinois Institute of Technology
Is a possible activity-theory based critique of WYSIWYG digital production that WYSIWYG takes what, at the code level, would be actions and moves them down, outside of a human agent, to the level of operations? And that making so many actions (e.g., bolding text) into operations shared across, say, a Web editor and a Word processor, clouds the entire idea of the activity of digital production?
I’m an assistant professor of technical communication at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL. I completed my PhD in rhetoric and composition at Purdue University in 2007.
This fall, I am teaching graduate seminars in Information Structure and Retrieval, and Open Source in Technical Communication.
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