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Exploring the intersection of design research and community engagement, this book
highlights the ways in which design and design theories can be used to address social justice issues and promote positive change in communities. It will appeal to students in the field of Technical and Professional Communication and more.
List of contents
Editors' Introduction: Social Justice and Multimodal Design in Ethical Community Engagement
Part I Theories and Ethics in Designing for Social Justice 1. Community-Led Design: Building Frameworks for Equity and Justice 2. Deploying Design Justice in Environmental Injustice Settings 3. Trust, Understand, Act: Using Visual Place-Based Research Methods to More Deeply Understand Community Perspectives 4. Eating to Heal: Using Design Thinking to Reconceptualize a Community-Engaged Project for Health Justice 5. Designing Ethical Constraints to Enable Flourishing in an Online Community 6. Incorporating Community Knowledge in Design: A Reflective Account of Designing Technology with Justice
Part II Community-Engaged Design Efforts in Action 7. Beyond "Maintaining Status": A Call for Distributed Responsibility in the Professionalization of International Graduate Scholars 8. What We Came Here For: Students Learning Local Civil Rights Rhetorics as Part of Kennesaw State University's Primary Source Initiative, the #ATLStudentMovement Project 9. "Nothing about Us without Us": Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM) and the Challenge of Designing Activism for People with ME and Long Covid 10. Resisting the Datafication of Injustice Through Collaborative Design and Translation in a Local Museum Exhibit 11. Revitalizing Endangered Languages Through Community-Led Design: The Wikitongues Approach to Preserving Linguistic Diversity and Cultural Heritage 12. Contemporary Chinese Grassroots Activism for Social Justice: The Chained Woman's Case
Part III Pedagogical Exemplars of Multimodal Design for Social Justice 13. A Kairotic Approach to Teaching Online Asynchronous Community-Engaged Technical Communication Courses 14. Designing with Care: A Cultural Rhetorics Praxis of Care for Digital Storytelling Projects About Reproductive Justice 15. A Pedagogy of Ethical Engagement: Preparing Students for Technical Communication in Communities 16. Inviting Disability into the TPC Classroom Through Service Learning 17. Pedagogical Approaches to Normalize Inclusive Design Editors' Outro: Opportunities and Challenges of Multimodal Community Engagement for Social Justice Appendix: Sample Course Syllabus
About the author
Jialei Jiang is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Composition in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Jason C. K. Tham is Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric and Assistant Chair of the English Department at Texas Tech University, USA. His recent works include
UX Writing (Routledge, 2023),
Designing Technical and Professional Communication (Routledge, 2021), and
Design Thinking in Technical Communication (Routledge, 2021).
