Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work: Theories, Methodologies, and Pedagogies

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Walton (editor), Godwin Y Agboka (editor)

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work provides action-focused resources and tools--heuristics, methodologies, and theories--for scholars to enact social justice. These resources support the work of scholars and practitioners in conducting research and teaching classes in socially just ways. Each chapter identifies a tool, highlights its relevance to technical communication, and explains how and why it can prepare technical communication scholars for socially just work.

For the field of technical and professional communication to maintain its commitment to this work, how social justice intersects with inclusivity through UX, technological, civic, and legal literacies, as well as through community engagement, must be acknowledged. Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work will be of significance to established scholar-teachers and graduate students, as well as to newcomers to the field.

Contributors: Kehinde Alonge, Alison Cardinal, Erin Brock Carlson, Oriana Gilson, Laura Gonzales, Keith Grant-Davie, Angela Haas, Mark Hannah, Kimberly Harper, Sarah Beth Hopton, Natasha Jones, Isidore Kafui Dorpenyo, Liz Lane, Emily Legg, Nicole Lowman, Kristen Moore, Emma Rose, Fernando Sanchez, Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Adam Strantz, Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Josephine Walwema, Miriam Williams, Han Yu

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond Ideology and Theory: Applied Approaches to Social Justice | Rebecca Walton and Godwin Y. Agboka
Section I: Centering Marginality in Professional Practice
1. Narratives from the Margins: Centering Women of Color in Technical Communication | Laura Gonzales, Josephine Walwema, Natasha N. Jones, Han Yu, and Miriam F. Williams
2. Iñupiat Iḷitqusiat: An Indigenist Ethics Approach for Working with Marginalized Knowledges in Technical Communication | Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq
3. “I’m surprised that this hasn’t happened before”: An Indigenous Examination of UXD Failure during the Hawai‘i Missile False Alarm | Emily Legg and Adam Strantz
Section II: Conducting Collaborative Research
4. Purpose and Participation: Heuristics for Planning, Implementing, and Reflecting on Social Justice Work | Emma J. Rose and Alison Cardinal
5. Visual Participatory Action Research Methods: Presenting Nuanced, Co-Created Accounts of Public Problems | Erin Brock Carlson
6. Legal Resource Mapping as a Methodology for Social Justice Research and Engagement | Mark A. Hannah, Kristen R. Moore, Nicole Lowman, and Kehinde Alonge
Section III: Teaching Critical Analysis
7. Social Activism in 280 Characters or Less: How to Incorporate Critical Analysis of Online Activism into TPC Curriculum | Kimberly Harper
8. The Tarot of Tech: Foretelling the Social Justice Impacts of Our Designs | Sarah Beth Hopton
9. An Intersectional Feminist Rhetorical Pedagogy in the Technical Communication Classroom | Oriana A. Gilson
Section IV: Teaching Critical Advocacy
10. Election Technologies as a Tool for Cultivating Civic Literacies in Technical Communication: A Case of the Redistricting Game | Fernando Sánchez, Isidore Dorpenyo, and Jennifer Sano-Franchini
11. Plotting an Interstitial Design Process: Design Thinking and Social Design Processes as Framework for Addressing Social Justice Issues in TPC Classrooms | Liz Lane
12. Kategorias and Apologias as Heuristics for Social Justice Advocacy | Keith Grant-Davie
Afterword: Equipping for Action: Suggestions for Using This Book | Rebecca Walton and Godwin Y. Agboka
About the Authors
Index