Title
Tweeting An Ethos: Emergency Messaging, Social Media, And Teaching Technical Communication
Keywords
emergency communication; ethos; Hurricane Irene; social media; Twitter
Abstract
The expanding use of social media such as Twitter has raised the stakes for teaching our students about individual and organizational ethoi. This article considers the role of organizations' Twitter feeds during emergency situations, particularly Hurricane Irene in 2011, to argue for a pedagogical model for helping students collaboratively code tweets to assess their rhetorical effects and to improve their own awareness and use of microblogging as a communication tool. © 2014 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Publication Title
Technical Communication Quarterly
Volume
23
Issue
1
Number of Pages
35-54
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2014.850853
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84890758690 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84890758690
STARS Citation
Bowdon, Melody A., "Tweeting An Ethos: Emergency Messaging, Social Media, And Teaching Technical Communication" (2014). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 9754.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/9754