Contested sites of health risks

Communication Design Quarterly Feb 2018

Kristen R. Moore ; Natasha Jones ; Bailey S. Cundiff ; Leah Heilig

Abstract

Employing Royster and Kirsch's (2012) concept of critical imagination, the authors imagine strategies communication designers might use to intervene in and disrupt racial injustice and oppression. Using activity trackers as technologies that communicate data about health and death, the authors retell and re-envision the case of Eric Garner, a victim of police brutality, and argue that data from activity trackers can potentially be used to reframe narratives about public health and policing. Further, through an examination of the rhetorical frames of dehumanization, disbelief, and dissociation, the authors assert that activity trackers, as communicative agents, may become transformative wearable devices that are developed and deployed with socially just communication design in mind.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2018-02-16
DOI: 10.1145/3188387.3188392
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Topics: multimodality multilingual writers

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