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Delves into how individuals tactically exist within communicative systems, carving out spaces for themselves in places they don't necessarily fit. In 1984, Michel de Certeau described the terms "strategies" as how institutions communicate their wants/demands/desires and "tactics" as how individuals navigate these potentially hostile, unwelcoming systems. A little over two decades later, Miles A. Kimball solidified the idea of tactical technical communication, laying the foundations for a new area of inquiry and scholarship. Today, many academics and researchers have imbued the concept of tactical technical communication with their own ideas and perspectives. This essay collection spotlights a meaningful diversity of tactical technical communication scholarship, exploring topics like the feminist punk magazine BIKINI KILL, the phenomenon of copwatching, the usage of fictional narratives in technical writing courses, and the challenges of LBGTQ+ visibility in local libraries. In many ways, the contributors are partaking in their own forms of tactical communication as they carve out spaces for themselves and their ideas within the academic discourse.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Miles A. Kimball, Hilary A. Sarat-St. Peter, and Hayley McCullough Part 1: Reimagining Institutions 1. In-Plain-Sight Tactics: One-to-One Advocacy in the Workplace Jessica McCaughey and Brian Fitzpatrick 2. LGBTQ+ Programming at the Local Library: Tactical Technical Communication as a Way of Addressing Gaps in Community Resources and Representation Dannea Nelson and Emily January 3. Exposing the "Actively Enforced" Policy: Tactical Technical Disruptake for Rhetorical Deinstitutionalization Walker P. Smith 4. #WearAMaskNY Public Service Announcements: Tactical Technical Communication During a Global Pandemic Shannon N. Sarantakos and Sara C. Doan 5. Grassroots Activism and Tactical Communities: Examining the Poor People's Corporation in Mississippi in the 1960s and 1970s Don Unger 6. The Streets Have Eyes: "Copwatching" as Tactical Citizen Engagement with Police Policy Michael Knievel 7. Tactical Tech Comm and Failures in Crowdsourcing Mass Production John T. Sherrill 8. Tactical User Research: How UX Can (Re)Shape Organizations Guiseppe Getto 9. The Motivations of the Marginalized: Identifying and Navigating Hegemonic Factors in Petroleum Risk Communication Joseph E. Williams Part 2: Transforming Society 10. Engaging Eurocentric Legacies in de Certeau's Thinking Through a Self-Reflection on "Queering Tactical Technical Communication" Avery Edenfield and Steve Holmes 11. DIY Instructions in BIKINI KILL: A Feminist Historiographical Approach to Tactical Technical Communication John L. Seabloom-Dunne 12. Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Case for Metical Technical Communication Kevin Van Winkle 13. Armed Propaganda and the Ethics of Horrorism: Tactical Communiques from the Weather Underground Brad Lucas 14. Hospitality at the End of the World: An Ideological Rhetorical Criticism of Tactical Technical Communication in The Prepper Journal Ryan Cheek 15. Marx in the Digital Age: The Critical Role of Tactical Technical Communication in Contemporary Humanism Sandy Brack 16. The Narrative Construction of Social Justice in Technical Communication Pedagogy Tracy Bridgeford 17. Finding Agency Through Tactical Technical Communication: Privacy and Data Surveillance Sarah Young and Jason Pridmore Contributors Index

About the Author :
Hayley McCullough is Assistant Professor of Technical Communication and Digital Media at New Mexico Tech. Hilary A. Sarat-St. Peter is Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Columbia College in Chicago. Miles A. Kimball is a recently retired Professor from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the coauthor, with Derek G. Ross, of Document Design, Second Edition: From Process to Product in Professional Communication, also published by SUNY Press.

Review :
"This book offers many thoughtful illustrations of the value of tactical technical communication. I can see using this book in undergraduate and graduate technical communication courses." — Derek Van Ittersum, coauthor of Writing Workflows: Beyond Word Processing "Tactical Approaches to Technical Communication is long overdue. It's great to see such a wide array of tactical technical communication perspectives on display here." — Derek M. Sparby, author of Memetic Rhetorics: Toward a Toolkit for Ethical Meming


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798855802054
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 324
  • Series Title: SUNY series, Studies in Technical Communication
  • Sub Title: Reimagining Institutions, Transforming Society
  • ISBN-10: 8855802054
  • Publisher Date: 02 Dec 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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