Communication Design Quarterly Jul 2022 Open Access

Writing infrastructure with the fabric of digital life platform

Katlynne Davis ; Danielle Mollie Stambler Arizona State University ; Jessica Lynn Campbell University of Central Florida ; Daniel L. Hocutt University of Richmond ; Ann Hill Duin University of Minnesota ; Isabel Pedersen University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Abstract

Teaching writing involves helping students develop as critical communicators who use writing to question often-unseen systems of power enabled by infrastructures, including digital spaces and technologies. This article uses Walton, Moore, and Jones' (2019) 3Ps Framework---positionality, privilege, and power---to explore how, through assignments we developed incorporating the Fabric of Digital Life digital archive, instructors can make visible to students the invisible layers of infrastructure. Using the 3Ps framework, we illustrate how our pedagogical approach encourages students to use writing to interrogate digital infrastructure and the ways it is entangled with positionality, privilege, and power.

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Communication Design Quarterly
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2022-07-01
DOI
10.1145/3507857.3507862
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