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Disaster Documentation: The Impact Of Oregon’S Evolving Damage Assessment Methodology For Emergency Declarations, Henry Covey
Disaster Documentation: The Impact Of Oregon’S Evolving Damage Assessment Methodology For Emergency Declarations, Henry Covey
English Faculty Publications and Presentations
This experience report focuses on the impact of Oregon’s evolving methodology for documenting and publishing data and information about damage from natural disasters and other emergencies. In tracing public damage assessment genre sets through organizational levels and user groups, the report (a) outlines the current processes by which data and information are generated and transferred and (b) connects the potential future damage assessment methodology to a larger paradigm shift in the state’s broader data-sharing approach.
The Infrastructural Function: A Relational Theory Of Infrastructure For Writing Studies, Sarah Read
The Infrastructural Function: A Relational Theory Of Infrastructure For Writing Studies, Sarah Read
English Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article theorizes the term infrastructure as a framework for articulating how writing products, activities, and processes underwrite organizational life in technical organizations. While this term has appeared broadly in writing studies scholarship, it has not been systematically theorized there as it has been in other fields such as economics, computing, and information science. This article argues for a four-part framework that incorporates and builds on Star and Ruhleder’s relational theory of infrastructure. Fieldwork from a federally funded supercomputing center for scientific research operationalizes the theory for its contributions to writing studies scholarship and its applications for industry and writing …