{"title":"Using complexity theory to understand what's happening to technical communication","authors":"Jonathan Price, Nw, Albuquerque","doi":"10.1109/IPCC.1997.637026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As organizations expand the amount of information they expect us to publish on the World-Wide Web, the work-world of technical communicators grows more complicated. Because so many of us are caught up in transforming legacy documents for use on company intranets or extranets, I use the Web as an example of the complexity we face. I borrow some ideas from the work of several complexity theorists to give an intellectual model for grappling with the changes that are taking place around us.","PeriodicalId":255103,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IPCC 97. Communication","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of IPCC 97. Communication","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.1997.637026","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
As organizations expand the amount of information they expect us to publish on the World-Wide Web, the work-world of technical communicators grows more complicated. Because so many of us are caught up in transforming legacy documents for use on company intranets or extranets, I use the Web as an example of the complexity we face. I borrow some ideas from the work of several complexity theorists to give an intellectual model for grappling with the changes that are taking place around us.