Ethics and the Internet

As the Internet permeates ever more domains of social and political, and even personal, life, and as its technological capabilities expand, the problem of Internet ethics will become ever more central, perhaps even more so than in 'ordinary' life.  The potential for abuse grows with use, as well as with technological power.

Ornatowski, Cezar M. Lore (2002). Articles>Web Design>Ethics

Review: Examining Technology's Wake

Based on world-wide archival research involving more than a hundred researchers, interviews with surviving witnesses, and other sources, the book reconstructs the development and utilization, from the end of the 1890s on, of the Hollerith punch card machine -- the first modern system for rapid processing of data.

Ornatowski, Cezar M. Lore (2002). Articles>Reviews>Technology

What's Civic About Technical Communication? Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of 'Community'    

Although the concept of community has been advanced in technical communication as a moral reference point for civic rhetorical action, this concept is typically used in romantic, redemptive, and essentializing ways. This article argues for a radical and symbolic/rhetorical view of community, regarding it a discursive construct purposefully invoked by technical writers for strategic reasons.

Ornatowski, Cezar M. and Linn K. Bekins. Technical Communication Quarterly (2004). Articles>TC>Community Building>Rhetoric