Disambiguating Uptake: Toward a Tactical Research Agenda on Citizens’ Writing

Dryer, Dylan B.

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“…As researchers of technical communication, our positionalities as a Chinese speaker and a U.S. citizen propelled us to present this research from our unique perspectives to contribute to the scholarly conversations on social justice and technical communication in transcultural contexts, and to amplify the work of Chinese-speaking civic communicators. Echoing Dryer's [37] call for the importance of researching citizens' writing, we bring forth a new methodological framework that is social justice-oriented and critically contextualized, aimed to analyze civic and public technical communication in transcultural contexts. This methodological framework asks researchers to consider the oppressive practices in risk communication across shifting ethnoscape, financescape, mediascape, technoscape, and ideoscape in transcultural contexts and to identify key civic players whose activism recognizes, revels, and rejects injustices and replace oppressive practices with intersectional, coalitional practices.…”

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Citizen Technical Communicators

Chen

Bergholm

2020

Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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During the outbreak of COVID-19 in China and the Wuhan lockdown, Chinese-speaking volunteers from across the world offered a genre ecology to provide accurate technical information and useful resources to inform people; to emphasize the lived experiences of those impacted by the virus; and to coordinate online and offline actions to bring resources and support to those impacted by the pandemic directly and indirectly, using social media platforms. Facing barriers of systemic oppression caused by government information control, transnational political tensions, and racial and ethnic discriminations, these civic technical communicators acted as forces of resistance to enact social justice-oriented technical communication. In this article, we propose a social justice-oriented, critically contextualized methodology to analyze such transcultural communications and perform a rhetorical genre analysis of example genres. We argue that these citizen communicators were transparent about their positionality and aware of their privileges when facilitating crisis communication and disaster relief in order to empower those marginalized in the dominant discourse and oppressed by official relief measures. We offer implications on critical practices for researchers, practitioners, and teachers of technical communication for engaging with social justice in transcultural crisis communication. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); • Information systems → World Wide Web; Web applications; Social networks.

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Citizen Technical Communicators

Chen

Bergholm

2020

Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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“…Uptake here refers to one text anticipating a response in a separate text (Freadman, 2002). It also involves both ideas and parts of a text from one genre-an uptake artifact, like the boundary-oriented advisory reports produced by the CCA-being used in another genre (Dryer, 2016).…”

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The Discursive Boundary Work of Recontextualizing Science for Policy: Opening the Black Box of an Organization’s Genre System and Intermediary Genre Sets

Falconer

2024

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Governments the world over require scientific knowledge to inform policy makers’ decision-making processes. The recontextualization of this information for nonscientific audiences has received much attention, though it has primarily focused on publicly available texts. Little is known about the discursive nature of how science is transformed and repurposed and the confidential writing performed by boundary organizations that are working between science and policy. This ethnographic study explores the collaborative discursive activity involved in efforts by a boundary organization—the Council of Canadian Academies—to recontextualize science for policy makers. The analysis opens the discursive black box of the genre system and intermediary genre sets involved in one project, which led to the publication and distribution of the boundary object of an advisory report, Older Canadians on the Move. I claim that the discursive boundary work involves a complex genre system containing several sequential genred activities through which science is transformed and a boundary object created.

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“…Retomando as categorias deDryer (2016), os dados aqui examinados e discutidos, tanto oriundos dos textos (artefatos de apreensão) como dos questionários (indicadores das percepções dos mestrandos sobre as affordances de apreensão do TCF na relação com as DMA), evidenciam que o processo de uptake vem ocorrendo com sucesso no sentido de confi rmar os objetivos e a proposta do Programa. Ao colocar em cena (realização de apreensão) sua compreensão de como o TCF deve ser construído (captura de apreensão), os mestrandos revelam ainda os resíduos de apreensão oriundos de uma memória socialmente estabelecida sobre o que é e como se constitui uma dissertação de mestrado.…”

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Apreensão e Emergência de Gêneros Acadêmicos: o trabalho final do PROFLETRAS

Bezerra

Pereira

2020

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RESUMO A relação entre os gêneros em sistemas de atividades é uma premissa das teorias de gênero de base retórica e sociológica. Neste trabalho, sob a orientação dos Estudos Retóricos de Gênero, adota-se o conceito de apreensão (uptake) como categoria para a investigação da emergência do Trabalho de Conclusão Final (TCF) do PROFLETRAS na relação com os gêneros que lhe antecedem. Com o objetivo de explorar o processo de uptake envolvido na construção do TCF, examinam-se, no estudo, tanto a organização estrutural dos primeiros trabalhos produzidos no Programa, à luz de gêneros antecedentes como a dissertação de mestrado acadêmica e diretrizes institucionais que orientaram sua produção, como a percepção de egressos sobre o desafio de escrever no gênero. Os resultados sugerem a emergência de um novo gênero acadêmico associado, porém não idêntico, à dissertação de mestrado tradicional.

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Disambiguating Uptake: Toward a Tactical Research Agenda on Citizens’ Writing

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The Discursive Boundary Work of Recontextualizing Science for Policy: Opening the Black Box of an Organization’s Genre System and Intermediary Genre Sets

Apreensão e Emergência de Gêneros Acadêmicos: o trabalho final do PROFLETRAS

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