Pick Yourself Up By Your Broadband: Access, the Digital Divide, and Migrant Workers

<p>This dissertation proposes a process called <em>pizarron borrado: </em>reorienting “failure” as a productive part of the research process. Using the backdrop of research on migrant workers’ technological access, I argue that classrooms can become much more accessible by moving from failure and looking at points where writing and research have moved in unexpected ways. As scholars such as Grabill have pointed out, access to computers and the Internet is an issue of public policy, and technical communicators are strategically positioned to contribute to, “policy making, research, and teaching” in ways that can help expand these services to underserved and underrepresented populations (1998). And as the process for applying to even low-wage jobs becomes increasingly digitized, I argue that our role as scholars and educators is to both prepare and advocate for these “invisible populations” that will increasingly rely on open or public access to these technologies in and outside of the classroom.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

2016

Author dc:creator

• Reynoso, Enrique, Jr.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Samantha Blackmon
• Thomas Rickert
• Michael Salvo
• Patricia Sullivan

• Technical Communication
• Language literature and linguistics
• Communication and the arts
• Access
• Broadband
• Digital
• Divide
• Migrant
• Pick
• Workers
• Rhetoric

Repository record dc:identifier

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/837

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-2029