Journal of Business and Technical Communication Jul 2012

Race, Rhetoric, and Technology

Angela M. Haas Illinois State University

Abstract

This article engages disciplinary (and interdisciplinary) conversations at the intersections of race, rhetoric, technology, and technical communication and offers a case study of curriculum development that supports disciplinary inquiry at these complex interstices. Specifically, informed by a decolonial framework, this article discusses the status of cultural and critical race studies in technical communication scholarship; tentative definitions of race, rhetoric, and technology; the cultural usability research conducted and located accountability in the process of designing a graduate course that studies rhetorics of race and technology; and the implications of this inquiry for the discipline, field, and practices of technical communication.

Journal
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published
2012-07-01
DOI
10.1177/1050651912439539
Open Access
Closed
Topics
qualitative research multimodality technical communication race and writing

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