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We agree with [24] that social justice and ethics are not interchangeable and that we must challenge any impoverished conceptions of ethics inside and outside of TPC. An Overview of This Issue Johanna Phelps's "Concomitant Ethics: Institutional Review Boards and Technical and Professional Communication's Social Justice Turn" places normative ethics in specific dialogue with social justice and research with participants in TPC. In the 21st century, the field of technical and professional communication (TPC) is clearly feeling the impact of the turn toward social justice. Indeed, we appreciate social justice's focus on action as a pressing need for 21st-century ethics, but we also highlight the need to see that all ethics lead toward action or result from actions and that social justice rhetorics can benefit from better articulating and understanding the ethical frameworks that they use in order to identify how to build a better world. [Extracted from the article]

This article examines a targeted drought awareness campaign by the city of Cape Town in South Africa to prevent a looming water crisis dubbed Day Zero. Using rhetorical criticism and commonplaces, the article analyzes the design and (rhetorical)circulation of artifacts that heightened public awareness of the crisis, helped shape the public mindset, and galvanized collective action to prevent Day Zero. For one city in Africa to avert a water crisis through a rhetorically orchestrated set of technological, scientific, and civic interventions is significant for (among others) technical communicators who need to know not simply that it was done, but how rhetoric helped avert Day Zero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Upon declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) orchestrated a global risk-communication outreach. The WHO's objective was to persuade the public to upend and alter their lives so as to contain the disease and minimize its spread and infection. The WHO found a simple and efficient medium to communicate glocally through the social media application WhatsApp, through which individuals could access information without gatekeeping by governments and local agencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]