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: Hardback
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 strong focus on promoting social justice. In addition to offering a series of insightful chapters on contemporary risk communication issues, this volume provides a diverse range 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 delves into chapters that forefront embodiment in risk communication, highlighting the intricate cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response, and decision-making, as well as the ongoing iterations of educational efforts and recovery aimed at enhancing adaptive capacity. Furthermore, this work addresses critical challenges such as overcoming perceptual difficulties, memory lapses, definitional differences, access issues, and pedagogical problems in communicating risks to diverse publics.

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 approach, this collection empowers individuals and communities to navigate the complexities of environmental risk and make informed decisions for a more equitable and sustainable future.

Weight: 748g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032210582