9. Remixing/Remediating a Scholarly Conversation for Your Community

Throughout this text, we have asked you to think critically about writing in academia and how its norms, as the Transformative Research Toolkit tells us, have been inherited from the white, cis-male, Euro-American-centric academic culture. We have also encouraged you to blend community-based and cultural systems of knowledge into your research, challenging these norms to make your academic research more engaged, transparent, and grounded in an ethos of solidarity—a transformative research process. For the final step of your research, we want you to remix and share the research project you’ve completed with the larger community. You’ll notice that the work you do in this module connects to things we covered in Module 4 [Chapter], so we recommend reviewing that material before you get started. The new opportunity you have here is to observe the effects of this transformation from one modality to another as your research paper becomes…something else!

What Are We Doing in This Module?

In this module, we will be transforming your research paper into something new, drawing on the affordances of multimodality to reach a more expansive, less traditionally “academic” audience.

How Will We Do It?

This module will outline different forms of remediation you might choose from. Then, we’ll ask you to think about your audience and how best to communicate your findings to them.

Why Does It Matter?

Transformative research is an iterative process. By engaging with your community through your research, you are inviting an alternating back-and-forth between action and reflection. One way to think about a powerful research process is to picture a spiral that starts at the individual level, then goes to the level of the team, then the network of people the team is connected to, and then to the whole city or the population that the team is focused on learning about. At each of these levels, a cycle of listening and expression takes place. At each stage, we collect new information and expand the strength of our analysis to facilitate collective, beneficial action.

Module Goal and Learning Outcomes

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Remix your research article into a new modality strategically, bearing in mind the concepts of community, public, non-academic audience, and purpose