Living Visual-voice as a Community-based Social Justice Research Method in Technical and Professional Communication

Swacha, Kathryn Yankura

doi:10.1080/10572252.2021.1906451

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“…Others have argued that visual tools are especially useful for preparing students to engage in complex environments; data visualizations (Wolfe, 2015), maps (Eichberger, 2019), and diagrams (Desnoyers, 2011) can enhance an audience's understanding of a complicated scenario. Photos can be an especially effective tool for documenting places and inhabitants’ perceptions of place (see Cannuscio et al, 2009; Greene et al, 2018; Swacha, 2021). Further, the act of photography is an especially powerful approach to documenting situational factors because it “provides artifacts for rhetorical work” (Sullivan, 2017, p. 94) that prepares TPC students for their future roles.…”

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Tuning to Place: Using Photos to Better Understand Problems in Technical Communication Classes

Carlson

Overmyer

2023

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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This article highlights the role of place in understanding problems, specifically within community-engaged projects in upper-level technical and professional communication courses. Drawing on a year-long participant-generated imagery study with students, instructors, and community partners, the authors argue that photographic research is effective in helping participants and researchers tune to place. Taking photos offers opportunities for documentation, individual interpretation, and collaborative reflection, resulting in a deeper, more nuanced sense of place. Ultimately, this article demonstrates how a greater awareness of place, cultivated through reflecting on visual evidence, enhances engagement projects and helps technical communicators address complex problems.

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Tuning to Place: Using Photos to Better Understand Problems in Technical Communication Classes

Carlson

Overmyer

2023

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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The Coping with COVID Project: Participatory Public Health Communication

Swacha

2023

Commun. Des. Q. Rev

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This paper reports on The Coping with COVID Project, a qualitative study and public-facing platform that invited participants to share their experiences, via stories and images, with navigating COVID-related public health guidelines. The study revealed daily activities during the pandemic summarized in three themes: lived 'compliance;' emplaced, storied negotiations; and affective, embodied efforts. In light of such findings, this article outlines recommendations for a participatory, actionable story and visual-driven approach to public health communication that recognizes the various contexts---e.g., physical, material, affective, structural---which impact how such communication is interpreted and acted upon by people in their daily lives. A heuristic is included for communicators, researchers, and community members to use in enacting this approach.

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Multimodal Research During COVID-19: Socially Just Decision Points in the Evaluation of a Foster Care Program for Youth at Risk of Trafficking

Dura,

Villa

2023

Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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Living Visual-voice as a Community-based Social Justice Research Method in Technical and Professional Communication

Cited by 3 publications

References 56 publications

Tuning to Place: Using Photos to Better Understand Problems in Technical Communication Classes

Tuning to Place: Using Photos to Better Understand Problems in Technical Communication Classes

The Coping with COVID Project: Participatory Public Health Communication

Multimodal Research During COVID-19: Socially Just Decision Points in the Evaluation of a Foster Care Program for Youth at Risk of Trafficking

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