Communication Design Quarterly May 2019

Maps, silence, and Standing Rock

Ryan Eichberger

Abstract

In 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe founded the Sacred Stone Camp to protest Dakota Access Pipeline construction. The ensuing conflict was constructed both physically and digitally --- especially through maps. These maps made strategic inclusions and exclusions, which in turn offered differing concepts of civic, national, and historical identity. In this study, I trace some of these stories, inviting technical and professional communicators to rethink how they visualize systemic issues involving human and nonhuman ecologies. Finally, I suggest the idea of a 'folded rhetoric' to describe a strategic, ethical goal for technical communication in the age of environmental crisis.

Journal
Communication Design Quarterly
Published
2019-05-10
DOI
10.1145/3331558.3331560
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Topics
technical communication race and writing

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