Title :
Shaping knowledge for graying audiences: where are the technical communicators?
Author :
Lippincott, Gail
Author_Institution :
North Texas Univ., Denton, TX, USA
Abstract :
Populations worldwide are aging at a dramatic rate, and researchers in many disciplines are studying the effects of aging. Technical communicators, however, do not seem aware of these important trends. This article suggests that we need to incorporate interdisciplinary research on aging into our practice and teaching. The first step is to operationalize the demographic of age as a complex variable in our audience analysis. Then we need to conduct and publish our own research on the communication and documentation needs of older adults.
Keywords :
demography; gender issues; professional communication; socio-economic effects; aging effects; audience analysis; communication needs; demography; documentation needs; interdisciplinary research; knowledge shaping; older adults; technical communicators; Aging; Cultural differences; Demography; Documentation; Education; Global communication; Internet; Senior citizens; Shape; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 2003. IPCC 2003. Proceedings. IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7949-7
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.2003.1245475
