Technical Communication Quarterly Oct 2021

Living Visual-voice as a Community-based Social Justice Research Method in Technical and Professional Communication

Kathryn Yankura Swacha University of Maine

Abstract

Image-based methods hold promise for reaching community-based, social justice goals in TPC. As a research example illustrates, however, participants can mold such methods in ways not anticipated by typical protocols that emphasize pre-prepared photos and public activism. By reflexively analyzing how participants shaped an image-based study through an embodied posthumanist lens, I propose a more inclusive “living visual-voice” model useful for TPC projects aiming to affect social change, increase participant/community involvement, and study material-discursive-embodied interactions.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2021-10-02
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10.1080/10572252.2021.1906451
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