Infographics

The IMC issue is centered around an issue with diversity and inclusion and drew upon the statistics to show the audience how it impacts them. The audience in question are law firms and law schools. The infographic represents the issue of black women being underrepresented in the legal profession in how it starts and law school and continues along their careers. This intended to show the audience how serious the issue is and how it relates to them. Although the infographic doesn’t provide a method to solve this, it drew attention to the issue, which may cause the audience to consider some of their practices. The rhetorical context of the IMC issue is that it takes qualitative and quantitative research to gather information on reports that black women have on their experiences in the legal field. This is relative to the research methods of IMC, as it takes black women law student testimony of their experiences, in which was put into the infographic. It also involves principles of Diversity Inc., about how diversity needs to be nurtured, and how organizations can uplift and support diversity initiatives. Insight reflective of these kinds of issues from Diversity Inc. says that “So diversity—or more pointedly the paucity of it—is a vexing issue that cuts across political persuasions; even some of the paragons of progressivism often fail to notice the elephant in these monochromatic rooms. Like an endless loop, these segregated settings reproduce workplaces that reflect homogenous social spheres” (Newkirk, 2020, pp. 32).

 

This artifact in the portfolio was effective in showing that diversity in the workplace is necessary, and that oftentimes it is “swept under the rug” by organizations ignorant to blatant issues like the kinds that black women experience in the legal profession daily. The ethical implications of the product can be that it takes a slightly accusing tone, putting companies or institutions on the spot for the lack of diversity efforts and support for marginalized groups. To ensure that it doesn’t take an accusing tone, quotes from specific research surveys and statistics taken by credible companies are displayed. It also doesn’t show personal opinions. This product is also relevant COM 590 Capstone Learning Outcomes, as it demonstrates the relationship of rhetorical implications and relevance to the IMC topic of diversity and inclusion. IMC artifacts like the book Diversity Inc., are utilized to demonstrate the connection of course material. The ethical implications are stated as above.

The IMC application in question for this infographic concerns communication ethics principles and comparing the elements of each. The elements of each principle compared are as follows: philosophical tradition, philosophers/scholars, and promotion/protection of goods. This aspect of the portfolio takes IMC communication ethics principles and presented them in a readable way to the audience to understand the similarities and differences between the two. The audience for this infographic is IMC master’s students, as it seeks to take information from an IMC artifact and educate peers about why these principles are important in IMC communication ethics. The rhetorical context of this shows in-depth, how both are important to the study of IMC communication ethics, and how to recognize them. The IMC artifact utilized for this infographic is Arnett et. al.’s (2018) Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference to explain where each principle came from and when it is used. It also analyzed the goods that each principle seeks to promote and protect in a communication context or narrative.

 

This dealt directly with communication ethics, and in order to ensure ethical communication to the relevant audience, it was carefully sourced from the reliable text that informs readers about communication ethics literacy in many different contexts. The infographic was carefully researched and pulled direct quotes from the text to demonstrate credibility. In relation to the COM 590 Capstone Learning Outcomes, the rhetorical implications make it clear to the audience that the infographic is clear and easily understood while showing the difference between the two communication ethics principles. The motive was to inform the audience about the principles so it can be recalled and applied to the correct communication context or narrative. IMC principles of communication ethics are clear in the infographic with credible sources to back up information. The IMC artifact analyzed was from the Communication Ethics IMC master’s course, it is the Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference textbook. The ethical dimensions of this product are evident because it discussed direct principles of communication ethics.