Technical Standards and a Theory of Writing as Infrastructure

IF 1.9 1区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Written Communication Pub Date : 2020-05-15 DOI:10.1177/0741088320916553

J. Frith

引用次数: 18

Abstract

Infrastructures support and shape our social world, but they do so in often invisible ways. In few cases is that truer than with various documents that serve infrastructural functions. This article takes one type of those documents—technical standards—and uses analysis of one specific standard to develop theory related to the infrastructural function of writing. The author specifically analyzes one of the major infrastructures of the Internet of Things—the 126-page Tag Data Standard (TDS)—to show how rethinking writing as infrastructure can be valuable for multiple conversations occurring with writing studies, including research on material rhetoric, research that expands the scope of what should be studied as writing, and research in writing studies that links with emerging fields. The author concludes by developing a model for future research on the infrastructural functions of writing.

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技术标准与写作基础理论

基础设施支持和塑造我们的社会世界，但它们往往是以无形的方式实现的。在少数情况下，这比服务于基础设施功能的各种文件更真实。本文采用了其中一种类型的文件——技术标准——并利用对一种特定标准的分析来发展与写作的基础功能相关的理论。作者特别分析了物联网的一个主要基础设施——126页的标签数据标准（TDS），以表明重新思考写作作为基础设施对写作研究中的多次对话是有价值的，包括对材料修辞的研究，扩大写作研究范围的研究，以及与新兴领域相联系的写作研究。最后，作者为未来研究写作的基础功能建立了一个模型。

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Written Communication COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

15.80%

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期刊介绍： Written Communication is an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes theory and research in writing from fields including anthropology, English, education, history, journalism, linguistics, psychology, and rhetoric. Among topics of interest are the nature of writing ability; the assessment of writing; the impact of technology on writing (and the impact of writing on technology); the social and political consequences of writing and writing instruction; nonacademic writing; literacy (including workplace and emergent literacy and the effects of classroom processes on literacy development); the social construction of knowledge; the nature of writing in disciplinary and professional domains.