Title

Tracking rapid HIV testing through the cultural circuit - Implications for technical communication

Authors

Authors

J. B. Scott

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Bus. Tech. Commun.

Keywords

cultural circuit; critique; circulation; ethics; usability; technical; communication; CRITIQUE; Business; Communication

Abstract

The cultural studies model of the cultural circuit can help students track the larger circulation and transformation of technical communication in order to ethically critique and respond to it. Applying the model to specific cases of technology and its accompanying documentation (in this case the OraQuick rapid HIV test) can illustrate for students the ethical necessity of extending the usual focus on production to distribution, marketing, interpretation, and use. Students can then channel this awareness to their own writing projects, taking action to ensure that these projects are responsive and empowering to those whom they affect.

Journal Title

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volume

18

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

198

Last Page

219

WOS Identifier

WOS:000220363700003

ISSN

1050-6519

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