Technical Communication Quarterly Apr 2017

From Deliberation to Responsibility: Ethics, Invention, and Bonhoeffer in Technical Communication

Matthew Boedy University of North Georgia

Abstract

To make technical communication scholarship more reflective of the complexity of work done by such communicators, a new concept that marries recent parallel turns to ethics and invention is needed. German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a stranger to the field, offers such a concept: responsibility. It covers more explanatory ground than the most cited of ethical concepts, deliberation, and most importantly, centers ethics and invention squarely within the technical communicator’s relationship to language.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2017-04-03
DOI
10.1080/10572252.2017.1287309
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