Exigencies, Ecologies, and Internet Street Science: Genre Emergence in the Context of Fukushima Radiation-Risk Discourse

Rea, J. G.; Riedlinger, Michelle

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“…They formed a genre ecology: "an interrelated group of genres (artifact types and the interpretive habits that have developed around them) used to jointly mediate the activities that allow people to accomplish complex objectives" [21, p. 172]. Like Rea and Riedlinger's analysis of genre emergence in risk discourse showed, the limits of official discourse could lead to an "ecological exigence" which called for a different kind of discursive public through epistemic activities by citizens [22]. This ecology of genres responded to the ecology of exigences during this outbreak across the faces of oppression.…”

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Citizen Technical Communicators

Chen

Bergholm

2020

Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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During the outbreak of COVID-19 in China and the Wuhan lockdown, Chinese-speaking volunteers from across the world offered a genre ecology to provide accurate technical information and useful resources to inform people; to emphasize the lived experiences of those impacted by the virus; and to coordinate online and offline actions to bring resources and support to those impacted by the pandemic directly and indirectly, using social media platforms. Facing barriers of systemic oppression caused by government information control, transnational political tensions, and racial and ethnic discriminations, these civic technical communicators acted as forces of resistance to enact social justice-oriented technical communication. In this article, we propose a social justice-oriented, critically contextualized methodology to analyze such transcultural communications and perform a rhetorical genre analysis of example genres. We argue that these citizen communicators were transparent about their positionality and aware of their privileges when facilitating crisis communication and disaster relief in order to empower those marginalized in the dominant discourse and oppressed by official relief measures. We offer implications on critical practices for researchers, practitioners, and teachers of technical communication for engaging with social justice in transcultural crisis communication. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); • Information systems → World Wide Web; Web applications; Social networks.

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Citizen Technical Communicators

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Bergholm

2020

Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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“…In the past decade there has been a growing interest in this type of blogging, as reflected by research on the function of blogs in the context of science communication, and on the motivations of academics for engaging in blogging about research (see Batts et al, 2008; Kjellberg, 2010; Luzón, 2013; Mahrt & Puschmann, 2014). In line with the current interest in citizen science and the role of genres (and in particular digital genres) in the performance of public actions (see Kelly & Maddalena, 2016; Rea & Riedlinger, 2016), recent research has also analyzed how science blogs make scientific knowledge available to different publics, facilitate discursive interaction with interested citizens, and contribute to the public understanding of science (see Luzón, 2013; Smart, 2016). Some studies have also examined blogs as part of practices of the communities within which they are enacted.…”

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Connecting Genres and Languages in Online Scholarly Communication: An Analysis of Research Group Blogs

Luzón

2017

Written Communication

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Blogs provide an open space for scholars to share information, communicate about their research, and reach a diversified audience. Posts in academic blogs are usually hybrid texts where various genres are connected and recontextualized; yet little research has examined how these genres function together to support scholars' activity. The purpose of this article is to analyze how the affordances of new media enable the integration of different genres and different languages in research group blogs written by multilingual scholars and to explore how various genres are coordinated in these blogs to accomplish specific tasks. The study reported in this article shows that the functionalities of the digital medium allow research groups to incorporate myriad genres into their genre ecology and interconnect these genres in opportunistic ways to accomplish complex objectives: specifically, to publicize the group's research and activities, make the work of the group members available to the disciplinary community, strengthen social links within their community and connect with the interested public, and raise social awareness. Findings from this study provide insights into the ways in

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“Where Do Genres Come From?”

Miller

2016

Emerging Genres in New Media Environments

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Exigencies, Ecologies, and Internet Street Science: Genre Emergence in the Context of Fukushima Radiation-Risk Discourse

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Connecting Genres and Languages in Online Scholarly Communication: An Analysis of Research Group Blogs

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