On Edge: A Techné of Marginality

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dc.access.optionOpen Access
dc.contributor.advisorSharer, Wendy B
dc.contributor.authorShelton, Cecilia D.
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-21T14:34:14Z
dc.date.available2020-08-01T08:01:53Z
dc.date.created2019-08
dc.date.issued2019-07-24
dc.date.submittedAugust 2019
dc.date.updated2019-08-19T17:38:52Z
dc.degree.departmentEnglish
dc.degree.disciplinePHD-Rhetoric, Writ, Prof Comm
dc.degree.grantorEast Carolina University
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePh.D.
dc.description.abstractTechnical and professional communication has traditionally been rooted in the white, Western, hetero-patriarchal rhetorical tradition and bound by rigid notions of objectivity and neutrality that exclude historically marginalized and structurally oppressed communities. Using a multi-method analysis of #BlackLivesMatter Twitter activism, this study disrupts that tradition in two ways: 1) it foregrounds Black lived experience as the knowledge base for specialized expertise in navigating oppressive social structures and 2) it highlights skilled, persuasive communication tactics designed to resist those structures. The study concludes by producing a new analytical framework, A Techné of Marginality, which embraces Black subjectivities, values a critical understanding of our marginality, and identifies social justice activism as a kind of technical communication. In a kairotic moment when Black Feminist thinking and activism explicitly inform a broad swath of social justice work, A Techné of Marginality positions technical and professional communication theorists and practitioners to recognize the ways in which Black communities, and particularly Black women, have always, already done the unpaid labor that builds the communication infrastructures for equity, inclusion, and freedom.
dc.embargo.lift2020-08-01
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10342/7433
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEast Carolina University
dc.subjecttechnical communication
dc.subjectBlack rhetorics
dc.subjectcultural rhetorics
dc.subjectsocial movements
dc.subject.lcshInternet and activism
dc.subject.lcshSocial justice
dc.subject.lcshBlack lives matter movement
dc.subject.lcshTwitter
dc.subject.lcshAfrican American feminists
dc.titleOn Edge: A Techné of Marginality
dc.typeDoctoral Dissertation
dc.type.materialtext

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