Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication

Rhetorical Narratives of Black Entrepreneurs

“…Moreover, this study presents scholarship that examines the implication of race in explicit ways, moving away from studies that are broadly defined as diverse but that do not acknowledge race as an important yet understudied subject in our field. In this way, this study answers the call of scholars such as Williams and Pimentel (2014) and Haas (2012) who argue that our field needs to seriously consider how race and ethnicity pertain to our understanding, research, and teaching of texts and communication.…”

Resisting Surveillance: Responding to Wearable Device Privacy Policies

“…Recent Black cultural studies, for example, turn to locating resistive tactics such as, "the quiet, the intimate, and opacity as part of a broader effort to shield blackness from hypervisibility and surveillance" [51]. Twenty-first century scholarship on digital cultures has often focused on how the promises of disembodiment were never met by networked digital spaces, while more recent work has looked specifically at how coding, algorithms, and other "invisible" parts of the Internet work to maintain racial, sexual, gender, and class-based inequalities, as well as promote acts of hate and violence [55,56]. Haas [57] highlights the interface as a possible means through disrupting and fostering power structures since, "digital rhetoric requires a negotiation-an interfacing-between bodies, identities, rhetoric, and technology."…”

“…Marginalized peoples are asked to look deeper into "risks" and to be ever-cautious of new ways corporations' practices and policies are further promoting social division [6]. In order to facilitate effective communication in risk environments [58] such as that of social media, technical communicators and social media users alike may consider the perception that bodymonitoring technologies simultaneously build and break access, as well as foster and disrupt established power structures [56,59,60].…”

Unsettling Start-Up Ecosystems: Geographies, Mobilities, and Transnational Literacies in the Palestinian Start-Up Ecosystem

“…These moves dovetail with TPC’s social justice turn (Walton et al, 2019) and its attendant focus on issues of power, privilege, and positionality. Central to these studies is a shift toward critical, cultural, and decolonial frameworks (Agboka, 2014; Ding & Savage, 2013; Haas, 2012; Savage & Agboka, 2015; Scott & Longo, 2006; Sun, 2020; Williams & Pimentel, 2014) that attend to literacy practices in business and industry, nongovernmental organizations, nonprofits, communities, and other digital and physical spaces. Yet despite a growing body of literature in this area, more limited attention has been given to the ways that these issues intersect with the innovation economy or global start-up ecosystems.…”