Tracking Rapid HIV Testing Through the Cultural Circuit

Abstract

The cultural studies model of the cultural circuit can help students track the larger circulation and transformation of technical communication in order to ethically critique and respond to it. Applying the model to specific cases of technology and its accompanying documentation (in this case the OraQuick rapid HIV test) can illustrate for students the ethical necessity of extending the usual focus on production to distribution, marketing, interpretation, and use. Students can then channel this awareness to their own writing projects, taking action to ensure that these projects are responsive and empowering to those whom they affect.

Working Closets: Mapping Queer Professional Discourses and Why Professional Communication Studies Need Queer Rhetorics

“…Throughout the 2000s, we are seeing a cultural turn in professional communication, with studies addressing social justice, access, and marginalized and erased bodies in professional spaces (Agboka, 2013; Evia & Patriarca, 2012; Grabill & Simmons, 1998; Haas, 2012; Hart, Scott, Longo, & Wills, 2006; Moeller, 2015; Palmeri, 2006; Pimentel & Balzhiser, 2012; Scott, 2003, 2004; Sun, 2006; Williams, 2012). Many have begun to address issues of access, power, and agency in our classrooms and workplaces, but conversations have been slower to name and include LGBT and queer communities.…”