Making a Case for Political Technical Communication (Pxtc)

On the Current Moment in AI: Introduction to Special Issue on Effects of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Technical Communication Pedagogy, Practice, and Research, Part 1

“…These 15 articles of the special issue are but a start to research that TPC scholars should undertake. In addition to more research in all the areas discussed in these articles, we need to consider areas that include practitioner activities: workflows (including teamwork and collaboration), types of projects undertaken, user experience work, efficiencies and inefficiencies online class practices labor concerns in TPC organizations: hiring and firing patterns, rules or policies for AI tool use, implementation processes, and effects on bottom line labor concerns of independent freelancers, consultants, entrepreneurs, and solopreneurs: workflows, types of projects undertaken, experience of hiring and firing patterns, efficiencies or inefficiencies, short-term versus long-term career planning research in TPC: workflows, methods, types of projects undertaken, rules for AI tool use in research administration in TPC: tool use, decision-making processes, scholar–administrator relations policy or rules in TPC: local, regional, federal Black rhetorics (e.g., Byrd, 2022, 2023) queer rhetorics (e.g., Cox, 2019) Latinx rhetorics (e.g., Gonzales & Turner, 2017) critical making (e.g., Faris & Holmes, 2022) user-centered design (Campbell & Katan, 2022) rhetorical genre studies (Cheek, 2023) activity theory (Karanasios et al, 2021)—and more The “and more” is expansive; in an era in which the world of work is rapidly transforming, all angles should be considered and developed.…”