The IA Job Title

I had to read this article for another class (I love cross-course learning!), and I thought it was relative to the conversations we had in class right before Spring Break about the job title "Information Architect." The article is "What do We Manage? A Survey of the Management Portfolios of Large Technical Communication Groups." (Technical Communication, Vol. 51, No. 1, February 2004)

The authors report that 27% of the organizations in their survey use IA or information designer as a job title, but it is important to note that the survey included only tech comm groups with 20 or more staff. New research may show different results!