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Re: Resolved: Technical communicators can create information
Subject:Re: Resolved: Technical communicators can create information From:Steven Jong <stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net> To:Milan DavidoviÄ <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:47:58 -0400
I don't use those terms, but if I understand them correctly, I believe I'm talking about that which is signified.
On Jun 12, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Milan DavidoviÄ wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Steven Jong <stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
>> If I am correctly paraphrasing the reader's opinion, a technical communicator can collect information ("here's what folks say"), and curate information ("here's what the SMEs say"), but not CREATE information. I disagree. What do you think?
>
> Do you think that "information" consists only of that which is
> signified? The signifiers that are used? Both?
>
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