Promoting Urban Social Justice through Engaged Communication Scholarship

Storytelling Networks that Build Community Power: Urban Equity Advocacy From a Communication Infrastructure Lens

“…Second, this study’s CIT focus presents a communicative roadmap for organizers that can be used in organizing workshops concerned with engaging multiple actors of a community communication infrastructure toward social change goals. Previous CIT studies have worked with organizers to flesh out community engagement strategies that think more systematically about accessing storytelling actors within their community’s communication infrastructure (Broad, et al, 2013; Stokes, et al, 2015; Villanueva, 2021). This current work highlights the value of a multi-actor communication strategy from the eyes of organizers themselves and can be shared with other organizers who desire grounded studies based on organizer testimonies.…”

“…This work also further moves CIT into current scholarship that calls for communication as a field to theorize, research, and engage topics of social justice activism. Communication scholars have increasingly called for the field to apply research to the most marginalized groups within society and in turn promote social justice activism that can deliver pathways toward a common good (Carragee & Frey, 2016; Parker, 2020; Villanueva, 2021; Waisbord, 2019). Previous CIT research has produced a critical mass of studies that are community-centered and have showed how community action can be facilitated.…”