{"id":20041,"date":"2022-07-08T00:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T04:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=20041"},"modified":"2022-07-08T00:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T04:12:21","slug":"community-action-assignments-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/08\/community-action-assignments-project-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Action Assignments Project, #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 233px;\" class=\"alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-07-025256.png?resize=233%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cover of the ATTW 2022 Conference Program showing large bands of black, green, and pink with the text 24th Annual Conference, 2022 ATTW, Taking Action, Reimagining Just Futures in Technical Communication\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-07-025256.png?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-07-025256.png?w=273&amp;ssl=1 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><figcaption style=\"font-size: 9px;line-height: 12px;text-align: right;\">Cover page of the<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/attw22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ATTW 2022 Conference Program<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More things to record and think about for the collection I mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/06\/community-action-assignments-project-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my previous post<\/a>. I  described the advice I gathered from the works-in-progress session during the ATTW Conference in my previous post. It wasn\u2019t the only session that seemed perfectly aligned with the issues that I have been exploring however.\n     <\/p>\n<h4>Featured Workshop 3<\/h4>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luciadura\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luc\u00eda Dur\u00e1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billhd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Hart-Davidson<\/a>\u2019s featured workshop focused on \u201cPreparing Larger-scale Grant Proposals through an Equity Lens.\u201d I\u2019m not applying for a grant (If only. Wouldn\u2019t it be grand to have a grant to pay for writing time?). That said, their heuristic for \u201ccreating an idea others will invest in\u201d gave me these questions that I need to spend some time with before I fully commit to whatever it is I\u2019m trying to write:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why this project?<\/li>\n<li>Why us [or me, in my case]? Why now?<\/li>\n<li>What will we [I] do?<\/li>\n<li>What results can we expect?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don\u2019t have the answers written out. I have an idea of the answers, but it&#8217;s not concrete. I am convinced however that I need to have solid answers if I\u2019m going to get this project done.<\/p>\n<h4>Session E.2<\/h4>\n<p>Wesley Mathis, ryan moeller,  and Hannah Stevens presented \u201cEnacting Social Justice in Technical Editing.\u201d I gained some useful resources from the session, including <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3aj7pIW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Subversive Copy Editor<\/em><\/a> (2016) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/consciousstyleguide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conscious Style Guide<\/a>. I care very much about how the issues I plan to discuss are languaged. Words matter. It occurred to me during the session that style guides themselves should probably be folded into the collection of assignments I am dreaming about. <\/p>\n<p>At one point during the session, I stated that we need to \u201cstop talking about it as a style guide and start thinking about it as a descriptive discussion of how and what we value when we talk about people and issues.\u201d The idea is that style guides are prescriptive systems, editor and publisher centered. My idea was to draw on the  prescriptive\/descriptive understanding of grammar. There\u2019s more to figure out, and I\u2019m glad I attended both Part 1 &amp; 2 of the session.<\/p>\n<h4>Featured Workshop 5<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lndgrn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Lindgren<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuccilliMa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marissa Buccilli<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamaicafive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amilia Evans<\/a> shared the analytical model behind their \u201cSocially Just Content Strategy.\u201d They are working with  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/canaitch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq<\/a> on rematriation of Inuit knowledges (and there&#8217;s lots more on what goes into this work, but I stupidly did not write down enough notes on it). <\/p>\n<p>What stuck with me was their system of <em>landscape analysis<\/em>, which  considers how\/if website design fit with the needs and ways of thinking and knowing of the readers the site. They use a three-part metric that examines (1) accessibility, (2) positionality, and (3) overall impressions. In small groups, we practiced using the analysis on the <a href=\"https:\/\/passamaquoddypeople.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Passamaquoddy People: At Home on the Ocean and Lakes website<\/a>. We worked through the site and considered how Passamaquoddy people would use the site, recording information in a spreadsheet. <\/p>\n<p>As I considered the pages, I realized that this analysis strategy belonged in the community action work. Likely not in the exact form as Lindren, Buccilli, and Evans use it, yet students would very much need to consider the existing resources that a community has through the lens of that community. Further, the resources that they might make for the community must attend to the same issues. If the community action materials students create do not it the ways of thinking, knowing, and acting, they will be useless to that community\u2014regardless of whether they are on point for the mission and message of the community.<\/p>\n<h4>Session G3<\/h4>\n<p>Erika Sparby&#8217;s session on \u201cTactical Meming\u201d gave me the language for adding memes to the collection of community action assignments. I knew that they could fit, but before this session, I would have had trouble explaining the rhetorical and pedagogical reasons. In tactical meming, the images serve to make critical comments on situations and values that matter to a community. Further they can provide advice and resources to a community (such as handwashing memes at the beginning of the COVID pandemic). It\u2019s a perfect piece to include in the collection.<\/p>\n<h4>Session J2<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bronosaurus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Megan Bronson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sunkesharee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sweta Baniya<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LizaPotts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liza Potts<\/a> demonstrated a method for analyzing the rhetorical situation for disasters in their session \u201cCollaborative Strategies for Networks for Collective Action Disasters.\u201d  Using examples from Potts\u2019 2014 <em>Social Media in Disaster Response<\/em> the three led attendees through the analysis of a disaster, asking that we identify \u201cthe people, places, technologies, organizations, groups, etc. that responded to, were affected by, or are somehow involved in a given disaster. Folks might refer to them as actors, change agents, chaos agents, participants, etc.\u201d The group I was in focused on the BP Oil Spill Deepwater Horizon, creating this map:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bpoilspill.png?resize=582%2C334&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Participant Map for the BP Oil Spill which includes the BP company, oil workers, protesters, oil costs, beach goers, animals, the oil righ, people buying gas and automobiles, boaters (including fisheries), and the legal system.\" width=\"582\" height=\"334\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bpoilspill.png?w=582&amp;ssl=1 582w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/bpoilspill.png?resize=300%2C172&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This additional way of mapping the communication related to an event can fold into the communication action projects as well. Whether looking at an event that has happened or planning one, writers need to think through how all these participants impact the messages, the medium, and the messengers. The visual aspect of the analysis seems likely to appeal to students, even if the maps are only used to make behind-the-scenes decisions about the projects.<\/p>\n<h4>Up next . . . <\/h4>\n<p>That\u2019s all the notes I have from the conference. My next posts need to examine notes on the technology that might work for the collection and the resources that I have found in my brief research. I\u2019m still trying to hammer down what this thing is, if it even is. That is coming soon as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover page of the ATTW 2022 Conference Program. More things to record and think about for the collection I mentioned in my previous post. I described the advice I gathered from the works-in-progress session during the ATTW Conference in my previous post. 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