Local Knowledge as Illiterate Rhetoric: An Antenarrative Approach to Enacting Socially Just Technical Communication

Autor/in	Dorpenyo, Isidore K.
Titel	Local Knowledge as Illiterate Rhetoric: An Antenarrative Approach to Enacting Socially Just Technical Communication
Quelle	In: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 52 (2022) 3, S.291-315 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dorpenyo, Isidore K.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2816
DOI	10.1177/00472816211030199
Schlagwörter	Elections; Technical Writing; Communications; Technology; Power Structure; Human Body; Identification; Technological Advancement; Biology; Information Technology; Measurement Techniques; Social Justice; Indigenous Knowledge; Language Usage; Department Heads; Professional Personnel; Content Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Election; Wahl; Technical documentation; Technische Dokumentation; Nachrichtenwesen; Technologie; Menschlicher Körper; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Technological development; Technologische Entwicklung; Biologie; Informationstechnologie; Messtechnik; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Sprachgebrauch; Personalbestand; Inhaltsanalyse
Abstract	In this article, I focus on two competing technical communication discourses used to represent the biometric technology Ghana adopted in 2012 and subsequent elections to demonstrate how communication about technology could potentially marginalize local, nondominant knowledge systems whereas it privileges global, dominant knowledge systems. Representation of the biometric technology, therefore, reflects ways that technical communication can become complicit in silencing, excluding, and marginalizing local voices. I call attention to how communication that focuses on dominant narratives obscures and delegitimizes the knowledge of disenfranchised and less privileged groups. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01