I wanted to invite everyone to consider submitting a proposal for a special issue of /Technical Communication Quarterly/, entitled "New technological spaces: Mastering the litercies of thinking and doing across multiple modalities."

Here is a snippet from the cfp: "Just as physical spaces support and shape social interaction, hybrid physical/information, and virtual spaces do so also. We draw on this information to create texts that mediate locally-meaningful activities. Often, the texts are narrative-like in their construction, threading fragments of information together to tell a story about an object of work and to script the identities and relationships of the human and non-human agents whose interactions are coordinated around that object of work. However, the information for constructing these narratives is available in different modal forms, each imbued with different potentials to communicate and to persuade. Thus, participants in those spaces must adapt existing and acquire new literate skills to engage in the activities those spaces support. These literacies and the settings where they are developed are the subjects of this special issue."

The full cfp is a little long for single blog entry. So, I will direct you to a full version (in PDF or DOC format) at http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jswarts/#research .

500-1000 word proposals are due by 12/14/07, so you have a little bit of time to pull something together. Send your proposals and any email inquiries to Jason Swarts (Jason_Swarts@ncsu.edu) and Loel Kim (loelkim@memphis.edu). Good luck.