Augmentation Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Technical Communication

This book enables readers to interrogate the technical, rhetorical, theoretical, and socio-ethical challenges and opportunities involved in the development and adoption of augmentation technologies and artificial intelligence.

Ann Hill Duin is Professor in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota. Isabel Pedersen is Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University.

Section 1: Understand (rhetorics of) Augmentation Technologies 1. Augmentation Technologies and AI - An Ethical Design Futures Framework 2. Dimensions, Scope, and Classification for Augmentation Technologies 3. Agency, Affordances, and Enculturation of Augmentation Technologies Section 2: Build Literacies 4. Competencies, Design Considerations, and New Roles for Work with Augmentation Technologies and AI 5. Socio-ethical Consequences and Design Futures Section 3: Design Ethical Futures 6. Pedagogical Direction for Cultivating Augmentation Technology and AI Literacies 7. Professional Direction for Human-AI Interaction 8. Strategic and Tactical Approaches to Designing Ethical Futures for Augmentation Technologies and AI