{"id":621,"date":"2020-10-14T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/?page_id=621"},"modified":"2020-10-14T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:30:00","slug":"community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/plenary-session\/community\/","title":{"rendered":"Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Katherine Swacha, University of Maine<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Opening Remarks<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Synthesis from Breakout and Discussion<\/h3>\n<h6>Running definition<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Consider how stories play into the notion of community. There can be slow reach outs to form community bonds that allow for those in the field to really listen to a community\u2019s needs, concerns, and knowledges. Rhetorical listening makes for ways to better define what the community is that you are a part of and how you can help the community figure out what the community needs from you and for themselves. Putting community based knowledge(s), and academic knowledge into conversation can be a slow form of community outreach and most advocated for RHM scholarship with methodologies like community based participatory research, CBPR, participatory action, research and critical action research, and others. Making sure to consider how these communities are working in the ways they know how to and must (i.e. in times like right now with COVID)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><strong>Takeaways<\/strong><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Some of the tenets of community research practices should be: commitment to reciprocity, dialogue, community-based expertise, relationship building, and scholarly rigor.<\/li>\n<li>It matters how we talk about communities and how they work, so how do we do this and need to think about it.<\/li>\n<li>Although a takeaway as well as a question, how do we define our role and its importance to our communities and work?<\/li>\n<li>The scholars might not identify as a community based scholar, but they&#8217;re doing work that&#8217;s impactful for certain populations and certain communities so defining the work one does with the community is a key.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6><strong>Future Considerations<\/strong><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>How do we even define what community is?\n<ul>\n<li>Who defines it and how it functions?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How do we define a community to the other communities we are either studying or working with?<\/li>\n<li>Where are our priorities as community-engaged RHM scholars? How do we each self-describe our role as RHM scholars when going on in the community?\n<ul>\n<li>A liaison?<\/li>\n<li>An advocate?<\/li>\n<li>As a listener?<\/li>\n<li>As someone who studies Communication?<\/li>\n<li>A qualitative researcher?<\/li>\n<li>A data analyst?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How do we define ourselves as an RHM community to other fields?<\/li>\n<li>How do we define vulnerability?\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s shifting right now with COVID.<\/li>\n<li>How do we define this now and what is the impact?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We say that we value community based knowledge and expertise in the academy and we say this again in community based research methods, but do we truly enact that commitment, not only in our research and teaching, but also in how we structure our programs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Swacha, University of Maine Opening Remarks &nbsp; &nbsp; Synthesis from Breakout and Discussion Running definition Consider how stories play into the notion of community. There can be slow reach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/plenary-session\/community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Community<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-621","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621\/revisions\/653"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}