Announcements

Guest editors: Josephine Walwema (Oakland University), Hilary Sarat-St. Peter (Columbia College Chicago), and Felicia Chong (Oakland University)
A smartphone user types “extend smartphone battery life” into a browser search box; the results include a variety of proprietary and user-authored instructions. Medical patients posting in an online …

Ryan Boettger, editor of the IEEE PCS-Wiley Book Series, was recently interviewed in Supply & Chain Demand Executive. He spoke on the challenges of integrating and engaging with Millennials in engineering organizations, nothing that “when Baby Boomers were coming into the workforce, they were told not to …

The editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2017 Rudolph J. Joenk Award for Best Paper in the Transactions is Karen A. Schriver for “Plain Language in the United States Gains Momentum: 1940–2015.”

Dr. Schriver …

The IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication requests proposals for guest editorship and special issue topic for the December 2019 issue.

Anyone may propose a topic and apply for guest editor status. Guest editors need not be members of the IEEE Professional Communication Society.
The proposed guest editor …

The December 2017 special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication on plain language has recently been published online. If you are a paper subscriber, you will receive the issue, printed together with the September issue, during the next month.

 
Volume 60, Number 4, December …

A slate of six candidates for election to the PCS Administrative Committee (AdCom) for 2018–2020 has been announced.

Claas Digmayer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
David Kmiec, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States
Sean Moseley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, United States
Sarah Read, Portland State University, United States
Necia Werner, …

Overview
The ACM Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (ACM SIGDOC) invites you to submit a proposal for a research paper, experience report, interactive poster, panel session, or workshop that examines cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to User Experience and Information/Communication Design.

Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dates: August …

For educators who teach online, a request from Diane Martinez (of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators/GSOLE) to participate in a survey project on student preparedness in relation to online learning experiences.  (Should folks have questions on this survey, please contact Diane directly at dlmartinez@email.wcu.edu)
A …