Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Problems and Solutions Toward Social Sustainability

This collection emphasizes the importance of improved technical communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk that promotes social justice. It offers a diverse look at methodological practices for addressing embodied aspects of crisis and risk, including UX, storytelling, and dynamic text, and highlights the cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response, and decision-making. It also addresses perceptual difficulties, memory lapses, definitional differences, access issues, and pedagogical problems in the communication of risks to diverse publics.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 290 pages
Publication date: 04 March 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive collection aims to enhance public technical communication by fostering an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk, with a focus on promoting social justice. In addition to offering a series of chapters that delve into contemporary challenges in risk communication, this volume provides a diverse exploration of methodological practices for students, researchers, and practitioners seeking to address the embodied aspects of crisis and risk, incorporating user experience (UX), storytelling, and dynamic text. It includes chapters that forefront embodiment in risk communication, highlighting the intricate cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response, and decision-making, as well as ongoing iterations of educational efforts and recovery, aimed at enhancing adaptive capacity as a whole. Furthermore, this work addresses critical challenges in communicating risks to diverse publics, including overcoming perceptual difficulties, memory lapses, definitional differences, access issues, and pedagogical problems.

This collection is of paramount importance for scholars and serves as an invaluable supplemental text or casebook for courses in technical communication, environmental communication, risk and crisis communication, science communication, and public health. By embracing an embodied and situated perspective, this collection strives to empower individuals and communities to navigate the complexities of environmental risk and make informed decisions for a more just and sustainable future.

Weight: 590g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032155494