Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2210198
Dustin W. Edwards, Bridget Gelms, Rich Shivener
ABSTRACT This article offers infrastructural storytelling as a methodological approach attuned to the emplaced dynamics of digital infrastructure. Countering the clean progress narratives of sustainability reports in the technology sector, this approach follows digital infrastructure to two locations: San Francisco, California (Google) and Toronto, Ontario (Digital Realty). Infrastructural storytelling explicates how physical infrastructures produce uneven social, political, and economic realities by investing in some ways of life over others.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2210048
Alexandra Rowe
Critical discursive analyses of geoengineering have gained traction in academia within the past decade, with scholars discussing the rhetorical strategies, think tanks, and persuasive power of geologic alteration as a solution to combat global climate change across various disciplinary journals. As a subdiscipline of the rhetoric of science, geoengineering’s persuasive force comes from naturalization, audience perception, and disciplinary knowledge. In Sikka’s (2012) article, “A critical discourse analysis of geoengineering advocacy,” the author examined additional structures, mainly political and economic, that have contributed to and funded geoengineering efforts, identifying four “discursive frames” of geoengineering: scientific neutrality, technological determinism, philosophical exceptionalism, and the presentation of market-driven solutions. These four frames create the foundation of Pflugfelder’s book, Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis: A Geologic Rhetoric, both in terms of how the author approaches analysis of “geological rhetoric” and also as presentative of the reexamination of ideological structures through a geological lens (p. 18). Pflugfelder’s analysis of climate change ideology takes a similar approach to what has been discussed by ecocritical theorists such as Morton, identifying the entanglement of social, political, economic, and geologic scales that form the rhetoric of the environment. As technical and professional communication (TPC) is not only concerned with scientific discourses but also the ethics of those discourses, continuing research that actively engages with current climate change solutions is imperative. Along with bringing new in-depth theoretical analysis that situates geoengineering within climate change’s discursive techniques, Pflugfelder also collates various analyses that have been separated from each other into one comprehensive text. While the theoretical basis of geoengineering advocacy is discussed throughout, the book also refers to actual geoengineering experiments that are “on the table” such as carbon-dioxide removal (CDR), solar radiation management (SRM), or stratospheric particle injection (SPI) or ones that have already been completed like the open fertilization demonstration in 2002 (p. 3–5; p. 132). Though the primary focus of the book is on geology and human manipulation of the environment, the chapters also address various persuasive methods of climate change, environmental policy, corporate engineering, and the economic and scientific function of carbon dioxide. The concern of the book’s research is temporally significant as it shows the rhetorical relationship between climate change and geoengineering. Though there have been forms of human manipulation on earth systems in the past, the type of geoengineering analyzed in Pflugfelder’s book is in reaction to climate change. For this approach, the author uses an assemblage of analyses, presenting topics of the environmental,
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2210204
Julia Aylin Lehnert, Sarah M. Doody, Justin Steinburg, A. Mehlenbacher
ABSTRACT This paper explores opportunities for intergenerational communication to foster collective climate action and justice. While climate change communication can be framed as a site of intergenerational conflict and blame, we consider how the concept of superordinate identities offers rhetorical possibilities for generational coalition building to ultimately facilitate joint climate action.
{"title":"A Communicational Disconnect: Establishing Superordinate Identities in Climate Communication Through Transgenerational Responsibility","authors":"Julia Aylin Lehnert, Sarah M. Doody, Justin Steinburg, A. Mehlenbacher","doi":"10.1080/10572252.2023.2210204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2023.2210204","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores opportunities for intergenerational communication to foster collective climate action and justice. While climate change communication can be framed as a site of intergenerational conflict and blame, we consider how the concept of superordinate identities offers rhetorical possibilities for generational coalition building to ultimately facilitate joint climate action.","PeriodicalId":45536,"journal":{"name":"Technical Communication Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"303 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48394312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2210171
S. Murray
ABSTRACT This case study explores the rhetorical tactics and strategies of grassroots environmental efforts to oppose the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) in Appalachia. I emphasize the use of epideictic rhetoric by POWHR in their advocacy for climate justice
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Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2210169
Soyeon Lee
ABSTRACT Using data sets from ethnographic research, this article examines how language minorities navigate textual regimes in disaster recovery procedures governed by bureaucratic recovery technologies. To discuss the impacts of Western climate governance regimes and alternative disaster recovery communication, this article traces rhetorical practices of transnational multilingual communities of color around a disaster relief program. I argue that community-engaged translation practices operate as the locus of rhetorical strategies against disaster recovery injustice.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2210166
E. H. Pflugfelder, Olivia Goodfriend, C. Baker
ABSTRACT Knowledge about the use of the term “Indigenous science” (IS) is valuable to technical and scientific communication in the larger goal of exposing colonial, appropriative legacies. Using rhetorical content analysis, we analyze 61 instances of IS in US-based news articles and find that IS is often represented as an ongoing activity, connected to food production, and related to higher education activities. However, IS is rarely defined and Indigenous people are not always cited/quoted.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2204139
Wesley Mathis
ABSTRACT This article examines the role that reformed hiring practices and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the global industry of ecotourism may (or may not) play in bringing multiply marginalized or underrepresented (MMU) voices to the forefront of environmental risk communication and sustainability efforts worldwide. Ultimately, the article argues that ecotourism companies should promote grace-based hiring practices to include marginalized knowledges of threatened ecosystems (places) in a company’s decisions regarding sustainability.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2199791
Patrick Love
The COVID-19 pandemic made nearly every teacher and student online teachers and students in some capacity. This article presents a case study of an experienced, contingent technical and professional communication (TPC) instructor showing how she sets up, presents, and, most importantly, labors in her course for the benefit of her students and herself. This article ends with recommendations for other online TPC teachers and program administrators to support online TPC courses. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Technical Communication Quarterly is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
COVID-19大流行使几乎所有教师和学生都以某种身份在线教师和学生。本文介绍了一位经验丰富的临时技术和专业交流(TPC)讲师的案例研究，展示了她如何设置，呈现，最重要的是，在她的课程中为学生和她自己的利益而努力。本文最后为其他在线TPC教师和项目管理员提供建议，以支持在线TPC课程。技术通讯季刊的版权是Taylor & Francis Ltd的财产，未经版权所有者的明确书面许可，其内容不得复制或通过电子邮件发送到多个网站或发布到listserv。但是，用户可以打印、下载或通过电子邮件发送文章供个人使用。这可以删节。对副本的准确性不作任何保证。用户应参阅原始出版版本的材料的完整。(版权适用于所有人。)
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2194676
Devon Moriarty, A. Mehlenbacher
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Pub Date : 2023-03-24DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2023.2194340
Krista Speicher Sarraf
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