Found Things: Genre, Narrative, and Identification in a Networked Activist Organization

ABSTRACT

This article examines the inter-relational role of genre and narrative in a social justice organization. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this test presents a process-centered approach using genre ecology modeling and narrative maps. This approach can help scholars understand how genre and narrative dialectically promote collaboration and coordination while simultaneously promoting the process of consubstantiality and rhetorical identification in networked organizations.

KEYWORDS:

• Genre ecology modeling (GEM)
• narrative
• narrative mapping
• genre
• identification
• social justice
• ethnography

Notes

1. At the time of my observations, the IPNW had put forth a compensation bill focused on the state providing compensation for exonerated individuals. In early 2012, the compensation bill was being sponsored by a democratic Washington State representative. According to the proposed bill, the convicting county could be required to pay compensation in the amount of up to $50,000 for each year that the individual spent in prison. In death penalty cases, the county would pay an additional $50,000.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Natasha N. Jones

Natasha N. Jones’s research interests include activism, social justice, narrative, and rhetoric in technical communication and technical communication pedagogy. Her work has been published in Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization. She is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric and also the winner of the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication Award. She currently serves at the chair for the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) Diversity Committee.