Writing infrastructure with the fabric of digital life platform

Authors

Katlynne Davis
Danielle Mollie Stambler
Jessica Lynn Campbell
Daniel L. Hocutt, University of RichmondFollow
Ann Hill Duin
Isabel Pedersen

DOI

10.1145/3507857.3507862

Abstract

Teaching writing involves helping students develop as critical communicators who use writing to question often-unseen systems of power enabled by infrastructures, including digital spaces and technologies. This article uses Walton, Moore, and Jones' (2019) 3Ps Framework---positionality, privilege, and power---to explore how, through assignments we developed incorporating the Fabric of Digital Life digital archive, instructors can make visible to students the invisible layers of infrastructure. Using the 3Ps framework, we illustrate how our pedagogical approach encourages students to use writing to interrogate digital infrastructure and the ways it is entangled with positionality, privilege, and power.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-3-2022

Publisher Statement

© 2022 Communication Design Quarterly

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Recommended Citation

Davis, K., Stambler, D. M., Campbell, J. L., Hocutt, D. L., Duin, A. H., & Pedersen, I. (2022). Writing infrastructure with the fabric of digital life platform. Communication Design Quarterly, 10(2), 44–56. https://doi.org/10.1145/3507857.3507862