文化与传播Pub Date : 1999-09-07DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.1999.799129
H. E. McNay
{"title":"Improvising Cyberlaw-intellectual property on the Internet","authors":"H. E. McNay","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1999.799129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1999.799129","url":null,"abstract":"In April 1998, the US Department of Commerce announced that the traffic on the Internet doubling every 100 days. No-one can deny that the Internet has changed the world, especially the business world. Every business wants to have a presence on the World Wide Web, which has the potential to increase profits, but also has the potential to expose them to a whole new world of legal hazards. Today's business person has to be mindful of these hazards, such as each nation's distinct intellectual property laws in a global market, and the new issues of 'Cyberlaw' such as linking, framing and meta-tags. These issues are too important and the consequences too enormous to be overlooked by today's business communicators. There is a movement toward global property laws on the Internet. In the meantime, the laws of the Internet are being created by courts around the world. Since there is no case law or historical basis for any of these issues, Cyberlaw is being pieced together by judges and governments by stretching and interpreting existing law for this strange new world, and this world is smaller than ever before. We all must respect others' properties and, at the same time, be willing to share our properties to advance the creative development of online ideas.","PeriodicalId":70843,"journal":{"name":"文化与传播","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77501071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
文化与传播Pub Date : 1999-09-07DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.1999.799139
M. Al-Unaidi
{"title":"Intertech-an engineering, technology, and education exchange across the western hemisphere","authors":"M. Al-Unaidi","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1999.799139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1999.799139","url":null,"abstract":"In 1989, the idea of Intertech (the Inter-American Council on Engineering and Technology Education) was born of conversations at an American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, among a couple of US faculty and a Mexican university engineering dean. Their grand vision of Intertech settled into a first meeting in 1990, and has continued biannually throughout the decade. This paper traces the highs and lows of the dream: to foster relationships among engineering and technology educators and their institutions throughout the western hemisphere in order to improve the exchange of technology and encourage an international perspective. Challenges of Intertech's fledgling organization, fragile resources and communication struggles are laid out to develop a case study of this pan-American initiative. The author discusses whether its first decade reveals unattainable objectives or whether it suggests the groundwork for a 21st Century success.","PeriodicalId":70843,"journal":{"name":"文化与传播","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89837046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
文化与传播Pub Date : 1999-09-07DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.1999.799150
P. Sawyer
{"title":"Views from out there: technical writing and cyberspace","authors":"P. Sawyer","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1999.799150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1999.799150","url":null,"abstract":"For many instructors, when technical communication and distance education are mentioned, the next logical step is into cyberspace. Certainly cyberspace seems to be the promised land-students are able to work at their own pace, on their own schedule and then send the finished projects to the professor for comments and grading. Moving technical communication into cyberspace appeals to many people on many levels, but is it the answer it appears to be? As more and more classes move online, the use of cyberspace as a teaching medium needs to be further investigated. Specifically, what can a professor expect to encounter when she moves her class online? Using his own personal experiences instructing in cyberspace, as well as the commentary of his students, the author offers some insight on one of the main problems of instruction in cyberspace, the crippling dependence that students have on the printer.","PeriodicalId":70843,"journal":{"name":"文化与传播","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84178254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
文化与传播Pub Date : 1999-09-07DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.1999.799121
E. Clark
{"title":"Producing multilingual online documentation using contract developers","authors":"E. Clark","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1999.799121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1999.799121","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes issues involved in localizing product documentation for international audiences. As hardware manufacturers and software developers in the large economies seek new markets in emerging economies, localization of products and their documentation has become a necessity to reach those new markets. The author explains the cultural considerations involved in reaching international audiences. He specifically illustrates how two countries like the United States and Mexico-which share history, geographical proximity, and close economic ties, can still be so different in terms of culture. The understanding of the culture and regulatory issues is of utmost important to market a product successfully in international markets. Reaching the international audience via properly localized product documentation is a condition for this success.","PeriodicalId":70843,"journal":{"name":"文化与传播","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88849644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
文化与传播Pub Date : 1999-09-07DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.1999.799109
J. Watt, M. Lynch
{"title":"Using the Internet for audience and customer research","authors":"J. Watt, M. Lynch","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1999.799109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1999.799109","url":null,"abstract":"Using the Internet as a medium for collecting communication research data can save time and money. Both synchronous and asynchronous data can be collected for research designs that call for either questionnaire or transcript data collection. Cost curves for Internet-based and traditional methods of data collection show that the Internet methods are significantly cheaper. Online research methods for a geographically-defined population are best seen as a supplement to traditional methods, as Internet users are still quite different from the general population, but for populations defined by demographics or by Internet use itself, the Internet can be an excellent medium for research. Analysis of actual studies indicates that Internet respondent cooperation rates are similar to telephone interviewing rates. Cooperation rates are influenced by the respondents' involvement with the research topic, incentives, recruitment techniques, required technology and ease-of-use of the research instruments. Internet-based research techniques have a learning curve that requires an investment by organizations conducting many research studies, suggesting that infrequent users of online research may benefit from contracting projects to Internet research suppliers.","PeriodicalId":70843,"journal":{"name":"文化与传播","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86589088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
文化与传播Pub Date : 1999-09-07DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.1999.799099
R. Munger
{"title":"Lights, sirens, and computers: how pen-based computing is changing the way emergency care is conducted and communicated","authors":"R. Munger","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1999.799099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1999.799099","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile electronic data collection devices have changed the way emergency medical service (EMS) professionals care for patients and document their actions. In response to problems with paper-based documentation, many EMS agencies have increased the level of patient care they deliver while increasing revenues by using pen-based computers. Using pen-based computers in the field, EMS personnel document care, assess patient records, review treatment protocols, connect to diagnostic equipment, and link to a wide-area communication network. Using such technology, EMS is also in the process of creating uniform databases ideal for researching prehospital care practices and patient outcomes. Going paperless, thus, has enabled the EMS profession to gain recognition and autonomy on a par with other health care professions.","PeriodicalId":70843,"journal":{"name":"文化与传播","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76888747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
文化与传播Pub Date : 1999-09-07DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.1999.799114
L. Allen, D. Voss
{"title":"Use your fog lights: ten values for technical communicators","authors":"L. Allen, D. Voss","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1999.799114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1999.799114","url":null,"abstract":"Ten values that can be applied to technical communication are: honesty; legality; privacy; quality; teamwork; loyalty and fairness (avoiding conflict of interest); cultural sensitivity; social responsibility; professional development; and advancing the profession. The article provides an operational definition of each value and a capsule-size real-world scenario that spotlights the value in an imbroglio of ethical conflict.","PeriodicalId":70843,"journal":{"name":"文化与传播","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74068388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
文化与传播Pub Date : 1999-09-07DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.1999.799149
J. Gibson, C. W. Blackwell
{"title":"Making a successful transition to the online classroom: a faculty perspective","authors":"J. Gibson, C. W. Blackwell","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1999.799149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1999.799149","url":null,"abstract":"The authors summarize their personal experience with undergraduate and graduate Web based online programs to suggest guidelines for faculty considering entering the online environment. These guidelines include learning the technology and how to control it; reconceptualizing the course from a teacher-centered to a learning-centered experience; deciding on the right degree of informality; structuring assignments which will work best; concentrating on how to get students to participate; factoring in community-building components; increasing emphasis on student participation; and anticipating testing challenges.","PeriodicalId":70843,"journal":{"name":"文化与传播","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80785186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
文化与传播Pub Date : 1999-09-07DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.1999.799125
M. Reiff
{"title":"Teaching multiple audiences from a distance","authors":"M. Reiff","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1999.799125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1999.799125","url":null,"abstract":"Technical communicators commonly distinguish between the audience of academic writing-where students write to an audience of one (the teacher)-and the more complex and multilayered communication that goes on between technical writers and their multiple audiences in professional organizations. Distance education (through the use of multiple technologies such as e-mail, discussion lists, electronic bulletin boards, Internet chat rooms, etc.) can expand students' opportunities to interact with multiple readers-specialized discussion groups, external experts, professional communicators and business professionals, in addition to a diverse range of class participants. Furthermore, distance learning enables students to participate in the class while in the context of their homes or workplaces, allowing them to transcend the classroom context and bringing them into unmediated contact with primary audiences for their writing as well as external audiences.","PeriodicalId":70843,"journal":{"name":"文化与传播","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82067666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}