Communication Design Quarterly May 2019 Open Access

Guest editor's introduction: the revenge of Plato's pigs

Sarah Beth Hopton Appalachian State University

Abstract

Dear Reader, You've probably heard the story of the city of pigs before, that lovely allegory in Book II of the Republic , where Socrates attempts to prove that justice is not only desirable, but belongs to the highest class of desirable things: those desired for their own sake and consequence. But this is an important story to retell, as it frames the consequence of the scholarship contained in this issue on environmental justice and technical communication in a way that perhaps few other stories can.

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Communication Design Quarterly
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2019-05-10
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10.1145/3331558.3331559
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