TY - GEN
T1 - Participatory Coalition Building
T2 - 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021
AU - Cagle, Lauren
AU - Eble, Michelle
AU - Johnson, Meredith
AU - Johnson, Nathan R.
AU - Lane, Liz
AU - McKoy, Temptaous
AU - Moore, Kristen R.
AU - Reynoso, Enrique
AU - Rose, Emma
AU - Patterson, Gpat
AU - Sanchez, Fernando
AU - Simmons, Michele
AU - Stone, Erica
AU - Chew Kit Tham, Jason
AU - Walton, Rebecca
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/10/12
Y1 - 2021/10/12
N2 - This experience report documents the impetus for, process, and result of a coalition of technical and professional communication (TPC) scholars who crafted an anti-racist scholarly reviewing heuristic for editors, reviewers, and authors. In Summer 2020, a coalition of scholars met to respond to calls from Women of Color leaders in the field of TPC for anti-racist action. The coalition engaged in an extended Futures Workshop, a participatory design activity that guided imaginative brainstorming and problem solving which culminated in the development of the heuristic. The heuristic was reviewed by many scholars and iteratively revised before being shared publicly in Spring 2021 on social media platforms, via national listservs, and by professional organizations. This report recounts the specific participatory design practices and activities the coalition employed to create a living and open document that can guide a variety of actors to examine their own practices, with the ultimate goals of intervening in and interrupting bias in reviewing practices. This report demonstrates how enacting participatory values and working in broad coalitions can further anti-racist efforts and generate more inclusive practices and norms for the field of TPC.
AB - This experience report documents the impetus for, process, and result of a coalition of technical and professional communication (TPC) scholars who crafted an anti-racist scholarly reviewing heuristic for editors, reviewers, and authors. In Summer 2020, a coalition of scholars met to respond to calls from Women of Color leaders in the field of TPC for anti-racist action. The coalition engaged in an extended Futures Workshop, a participatory design activity that guided imaginative brainstorming and problem solving which culminated in the development of the heuristic. The heuristic was reviewed by many scholars and iteratively revised before being shared publicly in Spring 2021 on social media platforms, via national listservs, and by professional organizations. This report recounts the specific participatory design practices and activities the coalition employed to create a living and open document that can guide a variety of actors to examine their own practices, with the ultimate goals of intervening in and interrupting bias in reviewing practices. This report demonstrates how enacting participatory values and working in broad coalitions can further anti-racist efforts and generate more inclusive practices and norms for the field of TPC.
KW - Anti-racism
KW - coalition building
KW - participatory design
KW - scholarly reviewing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118173285&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3472714.3473654
DO - 10.1145/3472714.3473654
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118173285
T3 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication: Building Coalitions. Worldwide, SIGDOC 2021
SP - 281
EP - 288
BT - Proceedings of the 39th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 12 October 2021 through 14 October 2021
ER -