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- Title
Electronic Editing in Technical Communication: A Model of User-centered Technology Adoption.
- Authors
Dayton, David
- Abstract
The article investigates electronic editing in technical communication. In the first edition of the book "Diffusion of Innovations" Everett M. Rogers presented a general theory to explain typical patterns of innovation adoption or rejection that researchers in multiple disciplines had documented across many sociological contexts. Innovation-decision process primarily involves communication and the flow of information. Rogers' innovation-decision process provides a general model of the persuasion process people undergo when they decide whether to adopt an innovation. The history of electronic editing at Cadmus Professional Communications fits the innovation-decision process. In sum, the first trial of e-editing at Highend Hardware did not produce a favorable cost-benefit picture for the technical publications group. For all the categories of complaints about editing on screen, perceived ease-of-use issues can blend with perceived compatibility issues. Thus, the diffusion of electronic editing in technical communication has advanced mainly by reinvention, gradually, erratically as authors and editors adapt their software tools to the task of marking edits and inserting queries in electronic texts or avoid the perceived problems with on-screen markup by using paper for that task.
- Subjects
EDITING; COMMUNICATION of technical information; DIFFUSION of Innovations (Book); ROGERS, Everett M.; DECISION making; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
- Publication
Technical Communication, 2004, Vol 51, Issue 2, p207
- ISSN
0049-3155
- Publication type
Article