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Stacey Pigg, Conference Chair<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Stacey Pigg, NC State University<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Welcome to SIGDOC 2020!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019ve already offered us your time, which we know is a precious gift. Thank you for making space for SIGDOC in your day, and we hope that we can offer you content and interaction that makes your visit worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n

For me, SIGDOC has always stood out as a special place for mentorship and learning. It\u2019s a place where the presentations themselves inspire, but the conversations around them create relationships that ensure conference motivation can move into action in everyday life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, program chairs Daniel and Josie offered an exciting call focused on technology and design and extended their original focus to respond to two crucial exigences: pandemic-related communication and antiracist communication design. Local chairs Chris and Autumn have designed hospitable, Texas-style spaces for interaction for both industry and academic professionals around these themes. Finally, website manager Adam has worked tirelessly to make it all come together, along with Sonia supporting student research, Jordan supporting sponsorship, and Jason supporting our social media presence.<\/span><\/p>\n

We hope you will watch and listen to the excellent presentation and proceedings content that contributors have shared, that you\u2019ll engage with the Student Research Competition content to learn from our field\u2019s emerging scholars, that you\u2019ll leave questions and ideas for presenters in the comments section of their pages, that you\u2019ll participate in our keynote and interactive sessions, and that you\u2019ll check in on our Slack to converse in real-time with us and other attendees. If you have questions or become lost, we hope that you\u2019ll reach out to us in our Slack help-desk so that we can help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, this is not the conference we imagined it would be when we began planning, but we hope that it\u2019s one that offers you the connection, rejuvenation, and inspiration that are SIGDOC traditions. We look forward to learning with you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chris Lam & Autumn Hood, Local Chairs<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Chris Lam, UNT<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Autumn Hood, Sabre<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Greetings from Denton and UNT!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Although we can\u2019t be together in person, we are certainly together in spirit. And although we aren\u2019t able to host the event here at UNT, we\u2019re hosting in spirit! Denton is not your typical city in Texas. Because of the two universities in town, we\u2019re a diverse mix of folks from all walks of life. And we think that this year\u2019s program reflects that. In particular, we have six local DFW UXers and communication professionals speaking at the Ignite talk event on Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks for allowing us the opportunity to \u201chost\u201d this wonderful conference. As they say here in Texas, cheers y\u2019all!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Josie Walwema & Daniel Hocutt, Program Chairs<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Josephine Walwema, University of Washington<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Daniel Hocutt, University of Richmond<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

We welcome you to the virtual 2020 SIGDOC Conference, an event whose format we weren\u2019t quite planning for. In some ways the mundane activities of putting together a conference program and preparing its proceedings ran parallel and adjacent to, rather than within, the context of a world turned upside-down by rage, contagion, and protest. Yet we were deeply embedded and affected by what was happening around us \u2013 lives upended by COVID-19, the brutal murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, the ensuing protests for social justice across our nation and around the world! And yet we quietly yet resolutely carried on with the work of planning the conference, inviting and receiving manuscripts for the proceedings, soliciting reviewers and feedback, and providing guidance on the kind of remote conference presentations we plan for our rescheduled, revamped SIGDOC 2020 conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like each of you, we have our own stories about how this most remarkable and tragic summer made a difference in our lives. That difference extends back to conference preparation. Recognizing that we are not removed from events around us, we\u2019re facilitating topical conversations and inviting you to lead us in sharing how your research agendas are changing in response to two topics: <\/span>pandemic-related communication<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>antiracist and social justice activism<\/span><\/i>. As communication designers and researchers, we\u2019re in a unique position to understand that a pandemic is as much a communication emergency as it is a medical crisis. Similarly, communication is central to facilitating information exchange, mobilization, and coordination in protest movements. From this standpoint, we can influence the way we communicate about the pandemic. Similarly, we have opportunities to engage our communities as never before in acknowledging our country\u2019s racism and in designing research that strives toward antiracist social justice. We\u2019re eager to learn from you, and to share the good work that you\u2019re doing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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