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recent scholarship and organizational communication, technical communicators
and businesses come across issues that deal with the idea of glocalization. Glocalization is the
adaptation of a product or service specifically to each locality or culture in
which it is sold. However, glocalization purely as a marketing concept is
outdated in the realm of technical and organizational communication. In order
to expand the concept of glocalization in technical communication scholars have
to consider cultural difference and ethics when designing brands and visuals
glocally. Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions and Appadurai's flexible scapes
to define culture, the ethics of visual design and pedagogy, and a case study
of glocal branding, the intercultural and glocal can be brought together to
produce a more culturally sensitive technical communication scholar and
professional.
As a reader, I really appreciate the thesis you have established because it allows me to see all your main points and predict the organization of your argument. If I read it correctly, this is basically what I'm getting from your introduction: the problem is that glocalization isn't enough anymore and technical communicators can contribute to improving it by combing [three main points].
ReplyDeleteI think that it is a decently narrow argument that you could reasonably argue in an article length paper. I don't know if you ran into this issue while writing, but, as a reader, I'm not sure I see the connection of pedagogy to the issue at large. Maybe that point is taking you astray a bit? But as I haven't read your paper, I can't fairly speak to that.
How might you narrow and focus?
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