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This collection explores why engineering communication constitutes
sociotechnical communication. Sociotechnical communication
acknowledges that engineering communication occurs not in a vacuum
but shapes and is shaped by multiple social forces. Through diverse
research cases, the authors show how sociotechnical communication
disrupts common myths in engineering communication: the myth that
communication can be purely technical and neutral, and that data
speak for themselves. The book highlights these myths, considering
first how styles, types, and means of sociotechnical communication
played pivotal-and differing-roles in the evolution of wind power
technology in Denmark and Germany. The role of myth in engineering
blogs is also examined, wherein the effect of engineers maintaining
"objective" or "neutral" personae, accentuating technical facts
over their social relevance, and eschewing controversy, is to
decrease public interest in engineering issues. We see the myths
emerge again via product development engineers, whose narrow
technical roles constrain their identities and may contribute to
constraining their design innovation capacities, in contrast to
more holistic, flexible spaces that foster innovation. The myths
are also apparent in attempts to facilitate engineering
collaboration and knowledge transfer among engineers by bridging
the gap between the Millennial-Baby Boomer generational divide.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Engineering Studies.
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