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Assistant Professor Rebekka Andersen receives Hellman Fellowship
Rebekka Andersen, UWP Assistant Professor was awarded one of 15 UC Davis Hellman Fellowships in recognition of her “potential for great distinction” in her research, which focuses on paradigmatic changes in the production of technical communications. Desktop publishing of complete documents designed for specific contexts, which has been the norm, is giving way to the generation of stand-alone content components (such as a procedure or product description) that are not limited to any one purpose, technology, or output. This new way of creating, managing, and delivering content is called component content management, or CCM. It requires organizations to overhaul the information development and management processes on which they have long relied. With the support of the Hellman Fellowship, Andersen proposes to examine, through interviews and on-site data collection, how practitioners are approaching CCM. Andersen is the first in her field to conduct research of this kind; the investigations supported by the fellowship will complete the work she began in her award-winning dissertation, “The Diffusion of Content Management Technologies in Technical Communication Work Groups: A Qualitative Study on the Activity of Technology Transfer.”