Technical Communication Quarterly Jan 2020

The Activist Syllabus as Technical Communication and the Technical Communicator as Curator of Public Intellectualism

Kristin Marie Bivens City Colleges of Chicago ; Kirsti Cole Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System ; Leah Heilig Texas Tech University

Abstract

Recently, educators have created crowdsourced syllabi using social media. Activist syllabi are digitally circulated public collections of knowledge and knowledge-making about events and social movements. As technical communicators, we can function as curators of public intellectualism by providing accessibility and usability guidance for these activist syllabi in collaboration with activist syllabi creators. In turn, technical communicators can work with syllabi creators as a coalitional social justice strategy to enhance the circulation of these activist syllabi.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
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2020-01-02
DOI
10.1080/10572252.2019.1635211
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