Toward an Ethical Rhetoric of the Digital Scientific Image: Learning From the Era When Science Met Photoshop

Buehl, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/10572252.2014.914783

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“…7, 285). Changes to the media environments in which visuals are produced and dwell require an attunement to both rhetorical possibilities and ethical positions (Reeves, 2011;Buehl, 2014). As the media environments for production and dissemination change, pedagogical work must be done to discuss not only how we create knowledge through visual forms but also how we do so ethically.…”

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Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet

Mehlenbacher¹

2019

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Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet

Mehlenbacher¹

2019

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“…In such discussions, scholars often describe the skills that technical communicators need and use that discussion of skill set to redefine the social role (i.e., power conferred on technical communicators by others) of the technical communicator. Buehl (2014), Lauer (2013), and Carliner (2001), for example, all focus on the need for technical communicators to communicate visually in addition to arguing that technical communicators see themselves as information designers (see also Davis, 2001; Grice & Krull, 2001; Zimmerman, 2001). Oestreich (2013, November/December) agrees with this approach and cites “information design” as a key skill new technical communicators should have in their “tool box” (p. 12).…”

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Reconsidering Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication

Henning

Bemer

2016

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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This article considers how issues of power and legitimacy in technical communication are connected to clearly defining what a technical communicator does. An articulation of what technical communicators do can grant the field power in presenting a united front to employers with respect to the value technical communicators bring to the workplace. So as to leverage the power and legitimacy associated with articulating what technical communicators do, this article reviews and revises the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)'s definition of technical communicator.To effectively revise the OOH's definition, this article reviews academic and practitioner scholarship in technical communication and the administration of technical and professional writing programs. It demonstrates that concerns about practical skills, conceptual skills, and flexibility are related to legitimacy and power. These concerns can be used as criteria to evaluate and revise the OOH's definition of technical communicator. In closing, the article discusses the benefits associated with the revised definition and how these benefits are related to issues of power and legitimacy in the field.

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“…While digital communication and multimodality tend to be distinctive phenomena, studies of contemporary scientific writing that attend to both continue to be important as we seek to understand their complex relationships (e.g., Alac, 2011;Buehl, 2014Buehl, , 2016Wickman, 2015). The ethnographic study reported in this article combines these two lines of research, examining scientific digital writing through the text trajectory (Lillis & Maybin, 2017) of a scientific manuscript in a biology laboratory over the course of three years.…”

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Compressing, Expanding, and Attending to Scientific Meaning: Writing the Semiotic Hybrid of Science for Professional and Citizen Scientists

Reid

2018

Written Communication

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Drawing on a text-based ethnography of digital writing in a biology laboratory, this article examines the text trajectory of a scientific manuscript and a scientific team's related writing for public audiences, including for citizen scientists. Using data drawn from texts, observations, interviews, and related artifacts, the author examines how scientists conceptualize and adapt their multimodal writing for specialized scientific audiences as well as lay audiences interested in the work of scientific inquiry. Three conceptsmeaning compression, meaning expansion, and meaning attention-were used to analyze the multimodal strategies that scientists employ when composing for different audiences. Findings suggest that while scientists often restrict their writing practices to meaning compression to maintain the values and conventions of scientific genres, they also sometimes deploy a wider range of multimodal strategies when writing for nonspecialist audiences. These findings underscore the complex rhetorical environments scientists navigate and the need to support emerging scientific writers' development as versatile

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Toward an Ethical Rhetoric of the Digital Scientific Image: Learning From the Era When Science Met Photoshop

Cited by 14 publications

References 42 publications

Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet

Science Communication Online: Engaging Experts and Publics on the Internet

Reconsidering Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication

Compressing, Expanding, and Attending to Scientific Meaning: Writing the Semiotic Hybrid of Science for Professional and Citizen Scientists

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