Dr. Kirk St. Amant, a professor of technical communication at Louisiana Technical University, visited our campus in April as a guest speaker to the Texts and Technology Doctoral Program. Below is an excerpt from the interview on Dr. St. Amant’s perspectives of technical communication for the future:<\/p>\n
“Understanding how technology consumers access, use, and transform information, via the
\nexchange economy described earlier, is an essential aspect of technical communication today, and is
\nguided by script theory. Technical communicators can develop better information, interactions, and
\nusability by working with and learning local and cultural information consumption scripts. Dr. St.Amant
\npredicts technical communicators and academics in technical communication will work in increasingly
\nglobalized and interdisciplinary contexts (international health and community outreach for example).
\nScript theory and critical literacies offer useful theoretical approaches for technical communicators to
\nbridge changing digital, cultural, interdisciplinary, and contextual information environments in the 21st
\ncentury and beyond.”<\/p>\n