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Tracking Rapid HIV Testing Through the Cultural Circuit

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: The cultural studies model of the cultural circuit can help students track the larger circulation and transformation of technical communication in order to ethically critique and respond to it. Applying the model to specific cases of technology and its accompanying documentation (in this case the OraQuick rapid HIV test) can illustrate for students the ethical necessity of extending the usual focus on production to distribution, marketing, interpretation, and use. Students can then channel this awareness to their own writing projects, taking action to ensure that these projects are responsive and empowering to those whom they affect.

Source: Journal of Business and Technical Communication

DOI: 10.1177/1050651903260836

Author: J. Blake Scott

Institution: University of Central Florida

Language: English

Topic: Communication Studies and Media

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2167350879

FWCI: 1.799

Cites: 29

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10