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Blog Post 2 | Tentative Sources

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 After days of contemplation, I have narrowed my research question to The Ethics of Advocating for Social Change in Corporations: Sealaska. I am interested in investigating how a for-profit organization can ethically advocate for the Southeast tribes of Alaska and facilitate social change while maintaining its status as a business. I wanted to look into how they are communicating with their shareholders, and how they can rally their following through newsletters and social media. I am still looking through the site and at the sources to see if that gives me a clearer line of sight for this project, as I feel like this is still a messy topic.  Tentative Sources: Dragga, S. (1997). A question of ethics: Lessons from technical communicators on the job: TCQ.  Technical Communication Quarterly,  6 (2), 161. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/question-ethics-lessons-technical-communicators/docview/215439738/se-2 Guo, C., & Saxton, G. D. (2013). Tweeting Social...
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Blog Post 1 | Topic Interest

 I spent the past two semesters in and out of class working on an article about online cookies, and since that has been submitted, I decided to shift my attention to something that has more meaning to me. I am a Tsimshian Indian from Alaska, and a big part of that is the regional Alaska Native Corporation: Sealaska. Giving something back to a corporation that was put in place to serve the communities, heritage, and land significant to Natives in Southeast Alaska would make the blood ties feel stronger and fulfilling. The only problem is that I can fill the different roles they need, but finding a research method is tricky. Like everyone in this class, I want to research ethically. So, finding a goal that serves an ethical advocacy position is difficult.  What I know without a doubt: I want to research Sealaska. I have interests in communication, discourse, advocacy, collaboration, user experience, and design. What I don't know: how to pinpoint a research goal or question withi...
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