Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs

Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs
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Friday, December 30, 2016

Features of Fascism

From Giroux, "Against the New Authoritarianism" p. 35
"Fascism exalts the nation or race -- or some purified form of national identity -- over the individual, supports centralized dictatorial power, demands blind obedience from the masses, and promotes a top-down revolution."

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Four-Step Model for finding mentors


Great Mentoring in Graduate School:
A QUICK START GUIDE FOR PROTÉGÉS
Laura Gail Lunsford, PhD & Vicki L. Baker, PhD


Four-Step Model for finding mentors
Step 1 – What is/are my professional goal(s)?
You chose to attend graduate school for a reason. Be clear with yourself and the members of your developmental network about what those reasons are. In the process, work with your mentors/developers to establish short-term goals and activities that will support your long term goals. We strongly encourage you to be aspirational in the process – where do you see yourself (or where would you like to be) in 10 or 15 years? Work backwards from that “end point” to identify the professional and personal experiences that will get you there.
Step 2 – Identify exemplars in the field.
An important way of learning is through observation and second-hand accounts of others’ successes and failures. Identify the advanced graduate student(s) and the early career practitioner or faculty member who is viewed as a “rising star” in your field of interest. Ask to meet with him/her to learn about their experience, the steps taken to get to that position professionally and personally, and ask for advice. If you are lucky, one or more of these individuals will be a member in your developmental network. If not, you still have the power to seek these individuals out and pick their brain about how to get where you want to be. Be sure to come prepared to such a meeting – have questions prepared ahead of time, be sure to inform the individual of your intent in meeting with him/her (perhaps even share the questions ahead of time to be as efficient as possible), and create an action plan based on what you learn from that meeting.
Step 3 – Ask for help.
Through our own work with students, we have come to find that graduate students are afraid to ask for help. They think they should already know the answer or are afraid of looking incompetent if they ask for help. This could not be further from the truth. Faculty members are interested in supporting you, especially the faculty members in your developmental network. They are happy to write a letter of recommendation, they are happy to let you observe their teaching and interaction with students, they are happy to introduce you at networking events, and they are happy to review job packets and job talks. They are also happy to speak honestly about the opportunities and challenges associated with your intended career. Remember, however, that it may be unreasonable to expect one
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faculty member to do all of the items described above. You should be able to locate mentors in your network who can cover most, if not all, of these activities. We can’t say it any other way – LEARN from them and ASK QUESTIONS. Be in charge of your development and let the important individuals in your life participate in that process – they are happy to do so.
Step 4 – Don’t be afraid to fail.
Failure is part of development. If you are in graduate school, you were likely successful in college to get to this position. Perhaps the approach and work ethic you displayed in college was adequate to get you where you wanted to be. However, that can change in graduate school. You will be pushed in ways you have not been prior to that point. Faculty members and program/departmental staff will have high expectations of you, and there will be periods of self-doubt, isolation, and fear. That is normal. Everyone in graduate school has these feelings. It’s ok. In times of failure, comes increased learning, clarity, and confidence (though it might not feel that way in the moment). Use these moments to engage in self-reflection, to revisit the goals you developed in step 1, and rely on your developers/mentors to help guide you through. 

Monday, December 26, 2016

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly - Volume: 79, Number: 4 (December 2016)

Editorial
Global English and Multilingual Writers in the Workplace
Melinda Knight
Articles
Grammatical Versus Pragmatic Error
Joanna Wolfe, Nisha Shanmugaraj, Jaclyn Sipe
Developing Communication Management Skills
Dale Cyphert, Elena Nefedova Dodge, Leslie K. Duclos (Wilson)
Graduate Employability and Communication Competence
Trish L. Clokie, Elna Fourie
Invisible Transfer
Danica L. Schieber
Workplace Simulation
Norhayati Ismail, Chitra Sabapathy
Book Reviews
Book Review: The leader’s guide to speaking with presence: How to project confidence, conviction, and authority by Baldoni, J.
Lenny GrantBook Review EditorCourtney J. Powers
Book Review: The other kind of funnies: Comics in technical communication by Yu, H.
Molly J. Scanlon
Book Review: Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future by Vielmetter, G., & Sell, Y.
Katherine Hampsten, Daniel Cedillo

*Deep Think Tank CFP: Feminisms, Activism, and Community Writing*

*Second Biennial Conference on Community Writing*
October 2017 (after Feminisms and Rhetoric)
?Participants in this Deep Think Tank will explore the scope of current
feminist work in community writing, starting with the following question: *How
do our commitments to feminisms, understood as evolving and variously
situated socio-political movements for women's rights and intersectional
gender justice, inform our community writing practices*?

Deep Think Tank featured speakers will be individuals, pairs, or trios of
collaborators with established community writing projects, programs, or
curricula. Speakers will discuss their own efforts, and they will lead
breakout discussions that help conceptually map feminist work in the
emerging subfield of community writing.

*Apply to be a featured speaker: *Colleagues including faculty of all
designations, administrators, staff, students (graduate and undergraduate),
independent scholars, and community practitioners are welcome to apply via
this link: https://goo.gl/forms/F0kfIB0laBMub6eq1. Please send question to
DTT facilitator Jenn Fishman (jennfishman.phd@gmail.com) or Conference
Chair Veronica House (veronica.house@colorado.com).

The application deadline is Monday, January 30th. Notifications will be
made the week of February 6th. The conference itself will take place in
October 2017, sometime after Feminisms and Rhetorics
<http://femrhet2017.cwshrc.org/>.
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Saturday, December 24, 2016

Journal of Business and Technical Communication - Volume: 31, Number: 1 (January 2017)


Articles

The Technical Communicator as (Post-Postmodern) Discourse Worker
Greg Wilson, Rachel WolfordAuthor Biographies
Greg Wilson is an assistant professor in technical communication and rhetoric at Texas Tech University. He teaches courses in technical communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, and the rhetoric of science. He researches agency, technology, and culture.

Rachel Wolford is an assistant professor in technical communication and rhetoric at Texas Tech University. She teaches courses in technical communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, and digital rhetoric. Her research centers on advocacy of women in rural environments and posthuman and ethnographic material rhetorics.

Assessing Attitudes Toward Content and Design in Alibaba’s Dry Goods Business Infographics
Yuejiao ZhangAuthor Biography
Yuejiao Zhang is an assistant professor of technical and professional communication at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests include professional communication through visuals, the history of technical communication, and creativity in technical communication. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in technical writing, information design, and visual rhetoric.

Theorizing the Value of English Proficiency in Cross-Cultural Rhetorics of Health and Medicine
Amy Koerber, Hilary GrahamAuthor Biographies
Amy Koerber is a professor in Communication Studies, College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. Her book Breast or Bottle: Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice received the 2015 CCCC award for Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication.

Hilary Graham is a doctoral student in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include professional scientific and medical communication, with a specific emphasis on the rhetorical practices of scientists who are nonnative speakers of English.

Rhetorical Move Structure in High-Tech Marketing White Papers
Kim Sydow Campbell, Jefrey S. NaidooAuthor Biographies
Kim Sydow Campbell completed the research reported here while on the faculty of the Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama. She is now a professor and chair of technical communication at the University of North Texas. She served as editor of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication for 10 years.

Jefrey S. Naidoo is an assistant professor of management communication in the Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama, where he coordinates the communication course that serves 2,000 business undergraduates per year. He is a former management consultant and project manager.

Book Reviews

Book Review: Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic: Transcultural Communication About SARS
Kathryn Yankura Swacha, Daniel Liddle, Christa TestonBook Review Editor
Book Review: Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy
Brigitte Mussack, Christa TestonBook Review Editor

Science, Technology, & Human Values - Volume: 42, Number: 1 (January 2017)



Articles

An “Ethical Moment” in Data Sharing
Catherine HeeneyAuthor Biography
Catherine Heeney is a research fellow based at the Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies at Edinburgh. She has previously worked at the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford and the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish Research Council in Madrid. She has a long-term interest in issues of ethics related to the development of technology and arising from scientific practices, particularly those relating to the creation and use of large data sets.

Peer Review and Scholarly Originality
Kyle Siler, David StrangAuthor Biographies
Kyle Siler is a postdoctoral fellow in the publishing program at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on risks and rewards associated with innovation in competitive fields. His most recent work, “Measuring the Effectiveness in Scientific Gatekeeping,” was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

David Strang is a professor of sociology at Cornell University. His research focuses on the diffusion of innovations in the business, political, and scientific worlds. He is the author of Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank (Princeton, 2010).

Concretizing Simondon and Constructivism
Andrew Lewis FeenbergAuthor Biography
Andrew Lewis Feenberg is Canada Research chair in philosophy of technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, and Directeur de Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie. His recent books include Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity (MIT Press) and The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School (Verso).

Molecular Detector (Non)Technology in Mexico
Luis Reyes-GalindoAuthor Biography
Luis Reyes-Galindo is a British Academy Postdoctoral fellow at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences. His research topics include Open Access and the arXiv, science communication, and Latin American STS perspectives.

Impact of Alumni Connections on Peer Review Ratings and Selection Success Rate in National Research
Duckhee Jang, Soogwan Doh, Gil-Mo Kang, Dong-Seong HanAuthor Biographies
Duckhee Jang is a senior research scientist in the Ocean Policy Institute at the Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), South Korea. His research areas include innovation, marine policy, and local finance.

Soogwan Doh is an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration at the Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea. His research areas include social capital, innovation, R&D policy, entrepreneurship, and regional economic growth.

Gil-Mo Kang is a principal research scientist in the Ocean Policy Institute at the Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), South Korea. His research areas include innovation, marine policy, and ocean industry.

Dong-Seong Han is a principal researcher in the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), South Korea. His research areas include innovation, R&D policy, and university–industry–government linkages.

The Troubling Logic of Inclusivity in Environmental Consultations
Robin S. GregoryAuthor Biography
Robin S. Gregory is a policy and decision analyst who works on problems of environmental and risk management, value elicitation, and negotiated decision making. He has published extensively on the subject of informing environmental policy choices. Robin is a Senior Researcher with Decision Research.

Of Defunct Satellites and Other Space Debris
Katarina DamjanovAuthor Biography
Katarina Damjanov completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and she is currently a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. Her research interests revolve around considerations of the material and social dimensions of technological progress on and off the Earth. Some of her recent work features in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Leonardo, M/C Journal, and Fibreculture (forthcoming).

International Journal of Business Communication - Volume: 54, Number: 1 (January 2017)

Introduction

Leadership Communication
Jacqueline Mayfield, Milton Mayfield

Articles

Communication
Brent D. Ruben, Ralph A. Gigliotti
Leading by Tweeting
Jefrey Naidoo, Ronald Dulek
Senders’ Bias
Katsuhiko Shimizu
Communication
William T. Holmes, Michele A. Parker
Leadership Construction in Intra-Asian English as Lingua Franca Decision-Making Meetings
Bertha Du-Babcock, Hiromasa Tanaka
Book Review

Book Review: Managerial Communication for the Arabian Gulf by V. Goby, C. Nickerson, & C. Rapanta
Stephen Bremner

Media, Culture & Society - Volume: 39, Number: 1 (January 2017)

Table of Contents Alert
Editorial

The media and the military: editorial
John Corner, Katy Parry
Special issue: The Media and the Military

Mare Nostrum: the visual politics of a military-humanitarian operation in the Mediterranean Sea
Pierluigi Musarò
‘When he’s in Afghanistan it’s like our world/his world’: mediating military experience
Katy Parry, Nancy Thumim
Bare Strength: representing veterans of the desert wars in US media
Jenna Pitchford-Hyde
Gendering the authenticity of the military experience: male audience responses to the Korean reality show Real Men
Woori Han, Claire Shinhea Lee, Ji Hoon Park
‘This is our Call of Duty’: hegemony, history and resistant videogames in the Middle East
Dima Saber, Nick Webber
Imagining an emotional nation: the print media and Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand
Alex McConville, Tim McCreanor, Margaret Wetherell, Helen Moewaka Barnes
Targeted killing and pattern-of-life analysis: weaponised media
Nina Franz
Crosscurrents

Co-opting feminism: media discourses on political women and the definition of a (new) feminist identity
Jaime Loke, Ingrid Bachmann, Dustin Harp
Book Reviews

Book Review: Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age
Rikke Bjerg Jensen
Book Review: Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border
Alexander L Fattal
Book Review: Surveillance after Snowden
Doug Specht

Philosophy & Social Criticism - Volume: 43, Number: 1 (January 2017)

Articles

Feminism and rethinking our models of the self
Johanna Meehan
Political liberalism and religious claims
Kristina Stoeckl
Dignity as non-discrimination
Wairimu Njoya
‘You be my body for me’
Catherine Kellogg
To what question is the Badiouan notion of the subject an answer? On the dialectical elaboration of the concept in his early work

CFP Journal Special Issue: Cyber Autoethnography, Cyber Culture, and Cyber Identities


Editor: Dr. Ahmet Atay (College of Wooster)

Special Issue: Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

Traditionally, most autoethnograhic research dealt with cultural experiences that are bounded by the idea of relational aspects of our communication and by our presentations and performances of identities in physical and cultural contexts. Hence, this research has focused on the physical dimensions of human experiences, such as coming out (Adams, 2011), bulimia and body (Tilmann, 1996), face-to-face interactions, family relationships (Poulos, 2012), disability (Lindemann, 2010), and home and identity (Chawla, 2014). However, not many autoethnographies have focused on human experiences in cyber spaces. Similarly, scholars working on autoethnographic research have widely ignored human experiences and cultural identities within mediated cultures as well as in digital and cyber spaces.

Some of the recent scholarship in popular culture and cultural studies aims to bridge the gap between autoethnography and mediated representations, for example, Boylorn’s (2008) work on representation of Black women on reality television. Furthermore, the entire issue of Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, “Iconography of the West: Autoethnographic Representations of the West(erns)” examined the notion of representation through an autoethnographic lens. In addition to media representations, some scholars, such as Lavery (2007), Monaco (2010), and Sturm (2015), studied different aspects of television and popular culture fandom. Recently, Manning and Adams (2015) co-edited a special issue of Popular Culture Studies Journal, focused on the usage of autoethnography in popular culture scholarship

By building on the previous scholarship that discusses the link between media and popular culture and autoethnography, the purpose of this special issue is to focus on the idea of cyber or digital autoethnography. Building on Gajjala’s work (2002, 2004, 2006) and work such as that of Terri Senft (2008) as well as on work by anthropologists such as Tom Boellstorf (2012), we argue that because of increased digitalization of everyday life, our identities and realities are becoming increasingly mediated and digitalized. Hence, our identities are patched together and they are the mixture of (cyber)experiences, (cyber)stories and (cyber/mediated) representations. In order to study our lived experiences within a culture, which is heavily digitalized, we need to develop a methodology that would allow such experiences to be studied. In this special issue, our goal is to develop the theoretical framework of cyber autoethnography and also present cyber autoethnographic writing that br!
 eaks the boundaries of traditional, physical-based, space-bound autoethnographies.

In this special issue, our goal is to develop the theoretical framework of cyber autoethnography and also present cyber autoethnographic writing that breaks the boundaries of traditional, physical-based, space-bound autoethnographies.

We welcome autoethnographic manuscripts that engage (but are not limited to) the following domains of issues and experience:

1-Theorizing cyber autoethnography

2-Cyber identities and autoethnography

3-Cyborgs

4-Digial homes

5-Cyber autoethnography and cyber culture

6-Cyber cosmopolitanism

Abstracts are due by January 25, 2017, with a word length of no more than 500 words. Full- length manuscripts are due on August 25, 2017, with a word length of no more than 6,000 words including references, endnotes, and so forth. Abstracts should emailed as Word documents to Ahmet Atay (aatay@wooster.edu) for an initial review.

*Work Cited*

Adams, Tony E. Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same-Sex Attraction. New York:Left Coast Press. 2011. Print.

Boellstorf, Tom., Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, and T. L. Taylor. Ethnography and VirtualWorlds: A handbook of Method. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2012. Print.

Boylorn, Robin M. “As Seen on TV: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Race and Reality Television. Critical Studies in Media Communication 25.4 (2008): 413-433. Print.

Gajjala, Radhika. An Interrupted Postcolonial/Feminist Cyberethnography: Complicity and Resistance in the “Cyberfield.” Feminist Media Studies, 2(2), (202): 177-193. Print.

Gajjala, Radhika. (2004). “Negotiating cyberspace/negotiating RI.” In Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, edited by Alberto Gonzales, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, 82-91. Los Angeles: Roxbury. 2004. Print.

Gajjala, Radhika. (2006). “Cyberethnography: Reading South Asian digital diaspora.” In Native on the net: Indigenous and diasporic peoples in the virtual age, edited by Kyra Landzelius, 272-291. London: Routledge, 2006. Print.

Lavery, David. “The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears.” Flow 5.9 (2007). Web.

Lindemann, Kurt. Cleaning Up my (Father’s) Mess: Narrative Containments of “Leaky”Masculinities. Qualitative Inquiry 16, (2010): 29-38. Print.

Manning, Jimmie. & Tony E. Adams, T. E. (eds). Connecting the personal and the popular:Autoethnography and popular culture. The Popular Culture Journal, 3 (2015). [Special issue on popular culture and autoethnography.]

Monaco, Jeanette. “Memory Work, Autoethnography, and the Construction of a Fan-Ethnography.” Participations 7.1 (2010). Web.

Poulos, Christopher. Stumbling into Relating: Writing a Relationship with My Father.Qualitative Inquiry 18(2) (2012): 197-202. Print.

Tillmann-Healy, Lisa M. “A Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness: Reflections on Body, Food, and Bulimia.” In Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing, edited by Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner, 76-108.Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1996.

Senft, Theresa, Camgirls: Celebrity & Community in the Age of Social Networks. Single author. New York: Peter Lang. 2008

Sturm, Damion. “Playing With the Autoethnographical Performing and Re-Presenting the Fan’s Voice.” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 15.3 (2015): 213-223. Print.

Science, Technology and Society - Volume: 21, Number: 3 (November 2016)

Table of Contents Alert
Science, Technology and Society - Volume: 21, Number: 3 (November 2016)
Articles

Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity in South Korea
Jinhyo Joseph Yun
Open Innovation to Business Model
Jinhyo Joseph Yun, Jeongho Yang, Kyungbae Park
The Factors Affecting Basic Research Performance Funded by Government: ‘Creative Research Program’ Case in South Korea
Youngsoo Ryu, Kwangseon Hwang, Sang Ok Choi
Open Innovation Effort, Entrepreneurship Orientation and their Synergies onto Innovation Performance in SMEs of Korea
Jinhyo Joseph Yun, Kyungbae Park, Janghyun Kim, Jeongho Yang
How User Entrepreneurs Succeed: The Role of Entrepreneur’s Caliber and Networking Ability in Korean User Entrepreneurship
Jinhyo Joseph Yun, Kyungbae Park
Learning Organisation Activities and Innovativeness of Tech-based SMEs within Korean Technoparks: The Mediating Role of Learning Transfer
Sanghyun Sung, Jaehoon Rhee, Junghyun Yoon
Exploring Neglected Aspects of Innovation Function: Public Motivation and Non-pecuniary Values
Kwangho Jung, Seung-Hee Lee, Jane E. Workman
The Effect of Regional Innovation Type on the Pursuit of Open Innovation in Korean Firms
Gwang Min Yoo, Sunjoo Kwak
Book Reviews

Book Review: Banu Subramaniam (2014), Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity
Theodore Koditschek
Book Review: Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (2014), Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe

CFP: Gender, Media, and the 2016 US Election


FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES

Commentary and Criticism Call for Papers

17.3 Gender, Media, and the 2016 US Election: National and Global Implications

The central roles of gender and race in the 2016 US election have been undeniable. Aside from Hillary Clinton being the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election, questions of gender and difference along multiple vectors loomed large in other aspects of the political campaigns: the blatant misogyny and white supremacy of Donald Trump and many of his supporters, the stereotyping of immigrant and religious groups, gender-inflected conflicts between Clinton supporters and so-called "Bernie Bros" during the primary season, discourse around "women's issues" such as equal pay and family leave, the roles of high-profile women who worked on the campaigns and served as candidate "surrogates" in the media, and many others. Leading up to the election, and particularly in its aftermath, media platforms have been sites not only for the representation of gender politics but also for the building of community around gender identities and gender issues. In the!
  weeks following the election, hate crimes and harassment in US cities have spiked, with an attendant influx of media coverage; the targets have often been represented as women of color, especially Muslim women. Globally, populist sentiments have also found expression fortifying exclusionary forms of nationalisms, which have serious gendered and raced implications. How do we, as feminist scholars, make sense of the complex political and social issues unleashed by the 2016 US elections, in both national and global contexts?

The co-editors of Feminist Media Studies' Commentary & Criticism section are seeking feminist media analyses of the 2016 US election for an upcoming issue. As the journal's readership is international, we are particularly interested in submissions that speak to the international significance of the US election beyond the borders of the United States.

The Commentary and Criticism section of Feminist Media Studies aims to publish brief (~1000 words), timely responses to current issues in feminist media culture, for an international readership. Submissions may pose a provocation, describe work in progress, or propose areas for future study. We will also consider book and event reviews, as well as contributions that depart from traditional academic formats. We encourage all submissions to strategically mobilize critique to also offer a productive contribution to both feminist politics and media studies. Submissions must go beyond mere description in order to be considered for publication in Commentary and Criticism.

Please submit contributions by 1 February 2017, via email to both Susan Berridge (Susan.Berridge@stir.ac.uk) and Laura Portwood-Stacer (lportwoodstacer@gmail.com). Questions and expressions of interest can also be addressed to Drs. Berridge and Portwood- Stacer in advance of the deadline.

Email submissions directly to both Susan Berridge and Laura Portwood-Stacer, as submissions for Commentary and Criticism will not be correctly processed if submitted through the main Feminist Media Studies site.

Please be sure to follow the Feminist Media Studies style guide, which can be found at the following link: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1468-0777&linktype=44

Theory, Culture & Society - Volume: 34, Number: 1 (January 2017)

Interview
Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon
Michel FoucaultJonathan SimonStuart Elden

Articles

Critique of Accelerationism
Michael E. Gardiner
Appropriation, Activation and Acceleration: The Escalatory Logics of Capitalist Modernity and the Crises of Dynamic Stabilization
Hartmut RosaKlaus DörreStephan Lessenich
Biopolitics, Thanatopolitics and the Right to Life
Muhammad Ali Nasir
The Rhythm of Echoes and Echoes of Violence
Mickey Vallee
Tibetan Diaspora, Mobility and Place: ‘Exiles in Their Own Homeland’
Chris Vasantkumar
Conspiracy Theory: Truth Claim or Language Game?
Ole Bjerg, Thomas Presskorn-Thygesen

Rhetorical Questions (podcast) discusses the rhetorical legacy of President Obama

Rhetorical Questions (podcast) discusses the rhetorical legacy of President Obama with Professors Jennifer Mercieca, Mark McPhail, and David Frank

Rhetorical Questions has released a new episode: The Rhetorical Legacy of President Obama. Professors Jennifer Mercieca, Mark McPhail, and David Frank join me to reflect on our nation’s 44th president. We discuss the “heroic expectations” that accompanied Obama’s 2009 inauguration, his rhetoric of racial “consilience,” the implications of Trump’s recent victory, and more. The show, along with previous episodes, is available at www.rhetoricalquestions.org.

Rhetorical Questions seeks to offer rhetorical analyses of social and political phenomena in a form accessible to popular audiences (and suitable for undergraduate students). It launched in April 2015. You can follow the show on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/rhetqs) and Twitter (@RhetQs), and you can subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or I Heart Radio. Links are available on our website, rhetoricalquestions.org. Direct email inquiries to rhetoricalquestions@yahoo.com.

Brian Amsden, Clayton State University
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Public Understanding of Science - Volume: 26, Number: 1 (January 2017)

Table of Contents Alert
Public Understanding of Science - Volume: 26, Number: 1 (January 2017)
Invited Essays

Contemporary understanding of riots: Classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach
Clifford Stott, John Drury
A framework for visual communication at Nature
Kelly Krause
Articles

The influence of science popularizers on the public’s view of religion and science: An experimental assessment
Christopher P. Scheitle, Elaine Howard Ecklund
Mundane science use in a practice theoretical perspective: Different understandings of the relations between citizen-consumers and public communication initiatives build on scientific claims
Bente Halkier
UK science press officers, professional vision and the generation of expectations
Gabrielle Samuel, Clare WilliamsJohn Gardner
Understanding public perceptions of biotechnology through the “Integrative Worldview Framework”
Annick De Witt, Patricia Osseweijer, Robin Pierce
Framing ‘fracking’: Exploring public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom
Laurence Williams, Phil Macnaghten, Richard Davies, Sarah Curtis
Discourse over a contested technology on Twitter: A case study of hydraulic fracturing
Jill E. Hopke, Molly Simis
Commentaries

Response to “Discourse over a contested technology on Twitter: A case study of hydraulic fracturing”—Word choice as political speech
Emily Grubert
Response to ‘Word choice as political speech’: Hydraulic fracturing is a partisan issue
Jill E. Hopke, Molly Simis

Visual Communication Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4, October-December 2016

Visual Communication Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4, October-December 2016 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.



This new issue contains the following articles:


Commentary
Commentary
xtine burrough
Pages: 198-198 | DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1270668

Research
Time, Ethics, and the Films of Christopher Nolan
Tom Brislin
Pages: 199-209 | DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1252655

Pictures From the Sky: Propaganda Leaflet Psyop During the Korean War
Ross F. Collins & Andrew D. Pritchard
Pages: 210-222 | DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1223546

Black, White, and a Whole Lot of Gray: How White Photojournalists Covered Race During the 2015 Protests at Mizzou
T.J. Thomson
Pages: 223-233 | DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1230473

Insight
Full of Wonder
Paul Martin Lester
Pages: 234-235 | DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1257258

Portfolio
There Is No Why
Alida Sayer
Pages: 236-249 | DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1257253

Book Review
Hokusai's Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon
Paul Messaris
Pages: 250-252 | DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1252658

VizBib
VizBib
Dennis Dunleavy
Pages: 253-253 | DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1268427

Miscellaneous
Editorial Board EOV
Pages: 254-254 | DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2016.1271236

Case Western Reserve University / Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Research Fellowships


The Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University, working with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, announces the availability of research fellowships to support use of the resources of the Rock Hall’s Library & Archives.

Fellowships will be in the amount of $2,000 to support a one-week research trip.  Applicants should send the following as a single PDF to popmusic@case.edu by 2pm EST, 16 January 2017:

-  CV or résumé

- One-page statement of your research plan as it relates to the holdings of the Library and Archives (see http://catalog.rockhall.com and https://rockhall.on.worldcat.org/discovery)

- Proposed dates of residence

If you need assistance searching the online catalogs, please contact library@rockhall.org. Questions about the fellowship can be sent to popmusic@case.edu.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Library & Archives is the world’s most comprehensive repository of historical materials relating to rock and roll, its musical roots (e.g. blues, country, R&B, gospel) and related genres (e.g. soul, hip-hop). The library gives users access to thousands of non-circulating books, periodicals, and recordings. In the archives, researchers may work directly with hundreds of thousands of original photographs, posters, promotional materials, rare audio and video recordings, and personal and corporate papers. Over 450 collections focus on such luminaries as Alan Freed, Del Shannon, Curtis Mayfield, Otis Redding, Art Garfunkel, Clive Davis, and Scotty Moore, plus Atlantic Records, Sire Records, FAME Studios, Bloodshot Records, Kill Rock Stars, and other music-related companies. The library is also home to NEO Sound, a local music collecting initiative which includes over 50 years of Cleveland rock critic Jane Scott’s working notes, as well as pers!
 onal collections from local producers, photographers, promoters, and musicians.

The Library & Archives is a 22,500-square-foot facility located in the Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts on the Metro Campus of Cuyahoga Community College, at 2809 Woodland Avenue in downtown Cleveland.  More information about the Library and Archives and its holdings can be found at: http://library.rockhall.com.

Daniel Goldmark

Director, Center for Popular Music Studies

Speech in Revolt: Ranciere, Rhetoric, Politics

Philosophy & Rhetoric Special Issue

Philosophy & Rhetoric is pleased to announce its special issue for 2016 (49:4) Speech in Revolt: Ranciere, Rhetoric, Politics. This book length volume is Guest Edited by Michaele Ferguson.  It includes sections focused on Sam Chambers’ Lessons of Ranciere, on its title theme Speech in Revolt, and to The Pedagogics of Unlearning.  It concludes with an essay by Jacques Ranciere prepared for this volume.  Philosophy & Rhetoric is published by the Penn state University Press.
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Journal of Material Culture - Volume: 21, Number: 4 (December 2016)

Articles

‘Uurga shig’ – What is it like to be a lasso? Drawing figure–ground reversals between art and anthropology
Hermione Spriggs
The curator, the investor, and the dupe: Consumer desire and Chinese Cultural Revolution memorabilia
Laurence Coderre
Old things with character: The fetishization of objects in Margate, UK
Ana Carolina Balthazar
The museum’s lexis: Driving objects into ideas
Gabriela Nicolescu
How khipus indicated labour contributions in an Andean village: An explanation of colour banding, seriation and ethnocategories
Sabine Hyland

Critical Studies in Media Communication, Volume 34, Issue 1, March 2017


Critical Studies in Media Communication, Volume 34, Issue 1, March 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.



This new issue contains the following articles:


Articles
Exchange relations on the dark web
Jonathan Pace
Pages: 1-13 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1243249

Walter White(ness) lashes out: Breaking Bad and male victimage
Paul Elliott Johnson
Pages: 14-28 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1238101

Learning to stand on their own: contradictory media representations of Burmese refugees by nonprofit organizations
Emily A. Ehmer
Pages: 29-43 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1258716

New media–new voices: satirical representations of Nigeria’s socio-politics in Ogas at the top
Philip Effiom Ephraim, Tutku Akter & Martin Gansinger
Pages: 44-57 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1257861

Special Forum: What's Next?
Introduction
Robert Alan Brookey
Pages: 58-58 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1266687

The age of Twitter: Donald J. Trump and the politics of debasement
Brian L. Ott
Pages: 59-68 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1266686

What’s next for whiteness and the Internet
Thomas K. Nakayama
Pages: 68-72 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1266684

Expanding media and sexuality studies: a transnational study of sex museums
Katherine Sender
Pages: 73-79 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1266685

Reviving audience studies
Jonathan Gray
Pages: 79-83 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1266680

Player one, playing with others virtually: what’s next in game and player studies
Mia Consalvo
Pages: 84-87 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1266682

What’s next?: the LGBTQ video game archive
Adrienne Shaw
Pages: 88-94 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1266683

Selling streetball: racialized space, commercialized spectacle, and playground basketball
Thomas P. Oates
Pages: 94-100 | DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1266681

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Paperback: Clockwork Rhetoric The Language and Style of Steampunk

Clockwork Rhetoric

The Language and Style of Steampunk

Edited by Barry Brummett

University Press of Mississippi

ISBN 978-1-4968-0975-9, paper, $30

For Immediate Release

A unique look at how the language of the imaginatively styled movement attracts followers to steampunk aesthetic

“Steampunk” is a style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and accoutrements modeled on a heightened and hyperextended age of steam. In addition to its modeling of attire and other symbolic trappings, what is most distinctive is its adherents' use of a machined aesthetic based on steam engines and early electrical machinery—gears, pistons, shafts, wheels, induction motors, clockwork, and so forth. Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk (University Press of Mississippi) is a unique book that explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement of steampunk persuades audiences through rhetoric.

Precursors to steampunk can be found in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. The imagery of the American West contributed to the aesthetic—revolvers, locomotives, and rifles of the late nineteenth century. Among young people, steampunk has found common cause with Goth style. Examples from literature and popular culture include William Gibson's fiction, China Miéville's novels, the classic film Metropolis, and the BBC series Doctor Who. Clockwork Rhetoric recognizes that steampunk, a unique popular culture phenomenon, presents a prime opportunity for rhetorical criticism.

Steampunk’s art, style, and narratives convey complex social and political meanings. These chapters explore topics ranging widely from jewelry to Japanese anime to contemporary imperialism to fashion. Mainly, the book addresses how consumers of steampunk are influenced to have certain social, political attitudes and commitments.

Essays by David E. Beard, Elizabeth Birmingham, Joshua Gunn, Mirko M. Hall, Lisa Horton, Andrew Mara, John M. McKenzie, Kristin Stimpson, Mary Anne Taylor, John R. Thompson, and Jaime Lane Wright

BARRY BRUMMETT is Charles Sapp Centennial Professor in Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of A Rhetoric of Style and Rhetorical Homologies: Form, Culture, Experience.

For more information contact Clint Kimberling, Publicist, ckimberling@mississippi.edu

Read more about Clockwork Rhetoric: The Language and Style of Steampunk at http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1710

New Book! - American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment

Jordan Nettles, jnettles@ihl.state.ms.us

Good afternoon,

I wanted you to know about a new book from the University Press of Mississippi. Attached is the news release. If you know of others who may be interested in news of this title, don’t hesitate to pass this release along.

If you no longer wish to receive news of our books, please drop me a note at jnettles@ihl.state.ms.us, and we’ll remove you from the list.

Thanks for taking a look at the release below.

Sincerely,

Jordan

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American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment

By Jason Edward Black

University Press of Mississippi

ISBN 978-1-4968-0973-5, paper, $30

For Immediate Release

How the United States government tried to define, displace, and control indigenous peoples while American Indians refused to surrender their voices

American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment (University Press of Mississippi) demonstrates how American Indians decolonized dominant rhetoric in terms of impeding the removal and allotment policies. Author Jason Black examines the ways the U.S. government’s rhetoric and American Indian voices contributed to the policies of Native-U.S. relations throughout the nineteenth century’s removal and allotment eras.

Black shows how these discourses co-constructed the perception of the U.S. government and American Indian communities and contributed to the relationship. Such interactions—though certainly not equal between the two —illustrated the hybrid nature of Native-U.S. rhetoric in the nineteenth century. That is, both governmental colonizing discourse and indigenous decolonizing discourse added arguments, identity constructions, and rhetorical moves to the colonizing relationship.

By turning around the U.S. government’s discursive frameworks and inventing their own rhetorical tactics, American Indian communities helped restyle their own and the government’s identities. During the first third of the twentieth century, Native decolonization impacted the Native-U.S. relationship as American Indians urged for the successful passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and the Indian New Deal of 1934.

In the end, Native communities were granted increased rhetorical power through decolonization, though the U.S. government retained a powerful colonial influence through its territorial management of Natives. The Indian Citizenship Act and the Indian New Deal – where this book concludes – emblemize the prevalence of the identity duality of U.S. citizenship that amalgamated American Indians to the nation, yet segregated them on reservations outside the spaces of U.S. society. This duality of inclusion and exclusion was built incrementally and existed as residues of nineteenth century Native-U.S. rhetorical relations.

American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment is the first Native-centered book in the larger field of rhetorical studies and communication studies and provides a longitudinal movement between western and Native voices.

JASON EDWARD BLACK is an associate professor in rhetoric and public discourse and an affiliate professor in gender and race studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He is the coeditor of An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings and Arguments about Animal Ethics. His work has appeared in such journals as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, American Indian Quarterly, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal.

For more information contact Clint Kimberling, Publicist, ckimberling@mississippi.edu

Read more about American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment at http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1801

New Book on Rhetoric in Neoliberalism

Kendall R Phillips, kphillip@syr.edu

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to announce another exciting new book from the Palgrave Macmillan series on "Rhetoric, Politics, and Society:"

Kim Hong Nguyen's edited volume Rhetoric in Neoliberalism brings together a group of outstanding scholars to explore crucial rhetorical dynamics in contemporary neoliberalism. The volume examines and applies classical and contemporary concepts of rhetorical theory and criticism to the context of late capitalism. Each contributor shows how discourse, its subjects, and power relations are irrevocably transformed by neoliberalism. The collection analyzes a range of discourses and phenomena in neoliberalism including: higher education reforms, computational culture, Occupy Wall Street protests, the activism of Warren Buffett, and the 9-11 Truth Movement.

More information about the volume and ordering can be found at: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319398495#reviews

Theory, Culture & Society December 2016; Vol. 33, No. 7-8


Special Section: City of Potentialities: Race, Violence and Invention
City of Potentialities: An Introduction
AbdouMaliq Simone

Black Placemaking: Celebration, Play, and Poetry
Marcus Anthony Hunter, Mary Pattillo, Zandria F. Robinson, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

City Everywhere
Neferti X.M. Tadiar

Critique of Urban Violence: Bismarckian Transformations in Managua, Nicaragua
Dennis Rodgers

Violence, Dramaturgical Repertoires and Neoliberal Imaginaries in Cairo
Mona Abaza

The Need for Speed: Traffic Regulation and the Violent Fabric of Karachi
Laurent Gayer

Racial Feralization: Targeting Race in the Age of ‘Planetary Urbanization’
Diren Valayden

Urbanity and Generic Blackness
AbdouMaliq Simone

Special Section: Deterritorializing Deleuze 2
Deleuze Against Control: Fictioning to Myth-Science
Simon O’Sullivan

Kafka and Deleuze/Guattari: Towards a Creative Critical Writing Practice
Ola Ståhl

The Life of an Idiot: Artaud and the Dogmatic Image of Thought after Deleuze
Jon K. Shaw

Special Section: Ulrich Beck in Asia: In Commemoration
The Legacy of Ulrich Beck in Asia: Introduction
Sang-Jin Han

Varieties of Second Modernity and the Cosmopolitan Vision
Ulrich Beck

Urban Climate Risk Communities: East Asian World Cities as Cosmopolitan Spaces of Collective Action?
Anders Blok

Cosmopolitan Sociology and Confucian Worldview: Beck’s Theory in East Asia
Sang-Jin Han, Young-Hee Shim, and Young-Do Park

Cosmopolitanizing Catastrophism: Remembering the Future
Daniel Levy

Realizing the Beckian Vision: Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitanism and Low-Carbon China as Political Education
David Tyfield

Ulrich Beck: Some Ideas for Tomorrow
Michel Wieviorka

Special Section: TCS Website Highlights
Moving with John Urry
Mimi Sheller

A Mobile Life: John Urry, 1946–2016
Peter Adey

Benedict Anderson: A Reflection by an Indonesian Urbanist
Rita Padawangi

Remembering Benedict Anderson and his Influence on South Asian Studies
Rohit K Dasgupta

Questioning Racial Prescriptions: An Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda
Sibille Merz and Jonathan Xavier Inda

Review: Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution
Nicholas Gane

Review: Barbara Cassin (ed.), Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
Lucie Mercier

Review: Sybille Krämer, Medium, Messenger, Transmission: An Approach to Media Philosophy
David W. Hill

Review: Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents
John Holmwood

Review: Peter Sloterdijk, Der Ästhetische Imperativ – Schriften zur Kunst
Sascha Rashof

On Africa in Oceania: Thinking Besides the Subaltern
Robbie Shilliam

Interview with Julia O’Connell Davidson on Modern Slavery
Angelo Martins, Jr

Culture, Politics, and Governing: Contemporary Ascetics and the Pecuniary Subject
Patricia Mooney Nickel

TCS E-Special Issues
John Urry: E-Special Introduction
Mimi Sheller

Fiction and Social Theory: E-Special Introduction
David Beer

Complexity: E-Special Introduction
Oliver Human

Thanks to Reviewers
Thanks to Reviewers

Annual Index
Annual Index – Volume 33, 2016

Erratum
Erratum

Crime, Media, Culture December 2016; Vol. 12, No. 3


Articles
“Pleasure stolen from the poor”: Community discourse on the ‘theft’ of a Banksy
Susan Hansen

Staging women in prisons: Clean Break Theatre Company’s dramaturgy of the cage
Aylwyn Mae Walsh

“Ah … the power of mothers”: Bereaved mothers as victim-heroes in media enacted crusades for justice
Sarah Wright

Policing paedophilia: Assembling bodies, spaces and things
Elaine Campbell

Research note
Photo-elicitation in prison ethnography: Breaking the ice in the field and unpacking prison officers’ use of force
Luigi Gariglio

Special section on Nicole Rafter
Tribute to Nicole Rafter for Crime, Media, Culture
Joachim J Savelsberg

Nicole Hahn Rafter’s contributions to Lombroso studies
Mary Gibson

The work of criminology and mourning: In memory of Nicole Rafter (1939–2016)
Michelle Brown

Film review
Sicario
Dawn Paley

CODA
CODA

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric Conference -- CFP: due Jan 15, 2017


The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR / SCÉR) invites scholars and students to submit proposals for presentations in English or French. Our next annual conference will be held at the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities’ Congress 2017 (www.congress2017.ca) at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 30 – June 1, 2017.

- Download the full CFP document from https://app.box.com/v/cssr-cfp-2017

- Proposals are due by January 15, 2017.

Our special theme this year is “Rhetoric and interdisciplinarity/disciplinarity.” However, proposals are not limited to the special theme.

The society welcomes papers on all aspects of rhetoric:

- rhetorical theory, criticism, and/or history

- rhetoric in popular culture and everyday life

- rhetoric and the media, film, gaming, and visual culture

- rhetoric and the physical environment

- rhetoric and the body, sports or performance

- rhetoric in the fine arts and literature

- rhetoric and identity, women’s/gender studies

- rhetoric in various disciplines and professions

- rhetorical discourse analysis and genre studies

- rhetoric of political, legal or public discourse

- biographical research on rhetors or rhetoricians

- rhetorical aspects of sociolinguistics and semiotics

We foster dialogue among scholars from diverse disciplines and professions who are interested in rhetoric. We welcome not only mainstream rhetorical scholarship, but also “rhetoric in/and” a wide variety of domains or disciplines and through interdisciplinary frameworks.

Please distribute this call among your networks.  I look forward to receiving your proposal.

Call for Book Chapters - Natural Disasters: Risk, Environmental, and Health Communication


CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Edited Volume on Natural Disasters and Environmental Crisis (Risk Communication, Health Communication, and Environmental Communication).

We invite submissions for an edited volume to be published in late 2017 (contract with Lexington Publishers has been accepted and signed) aimed at upper-division undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and libraries.

The impetus for the book is the anticipated Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake detailed in Kathryn Schultz’s Pulitzer Prize winning article, published in the New Yorker on July 20, 2015: “The Really Big One: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.” At the heart of the story was the warning that in the next 50 years the coast of the Pacific Northwest and its seven million inhabitants will experience the worst natural disaster the continent of North America has ever endured. The journalism was lauded while the story became the topic of conversation, worry, and debate around dinner tables, across related academic fields, and the seismic industry. You can read the Link to The New Yorker article here: https://chemtrailsplanet.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/new-yorker-the-really-big-oearthquake-will-destroy-a-sizable-portion-of-the-coastal-northwest.pdf

This book will use the framework and uncertainty of natural disasters and/or related types of events related to the intersections between human animals and nature in order to explore how people communicate and make sense of disasters using a risk, health, and environmental communication perspective.
General Guidelines for Submissions:

We are seeking original, previously unpublished submissions. Projects may be at any stage of progress. Data may be qualitative, quantitative, rhetorical, case study, and/or essay based. We are open to research from all disciplines and/or fields that engage risk communication, health communication, and environmental communication related specifically to natural disasters. We are particularly interested in scholarly work related specifically to the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and/or topics highly related.

Possible subtopics include – but are not limited – to the following:

- Mother Earth and Nature

- Fear and uncertainty around environmental crisis

- Social media and natural disasters

- Media framing of Natural Events/Disasters

- Seismology/Science of Earthquakes

- Economic implications of disaster (un)preparedness

- Organizational responses to environmental factors

- Calculating Risk and Decision-making

- Global responses and/or reactions to Natural Disasters

- Geographical location (rural and urban)

- Climate Change and preparedness

- Mental Health and Natural Disasters

The tone of articles should be academic, yet be written for a general readership. This project would especially suit scholars who may have already collected data and/or have a manuscript in progress, as we are requesting completed manuscripts by Friday June 30th, 2017. The book will be complete by August 31st, 2017, and be published by Lexington shortly thereafter.

Potential contributors should send an extended abstract (500 words). Your abstract should identify your study’s central research question(s), research method(s) and theories used, and findings or projected findings. To submit, please send your abstract and curriculum vitae by Friday, February 3rd, 2017 to BOTH editors (contact information below). Manuscripts should be APA Style (6th edition) with in in-text citation and reference list. Manuscripts should be no more than 20 pages, excluding reference list and footnotes.

Please send abstracts, questions, and inquiries to both editors: Dr. Vail Fletcher (fletcher@up.edu), Associate Professor in Communication Studies, University of Portland, Oregon and Dr. Jennette Lovejoy (lovejoy@up.edu), Associate Professor in Communication Studies, University of Portland, Oregon.

Call for papers for Special issue on LGBTQ Families and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election



LGBTQ Families and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

The Journal of GLBT Family Studies invites submission of abstracts for a special issue on LGBTQ Families and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, to be co-edited by Pamela Lannutti and M. Paz Galupo. This special issue will consider the ways LGBTQ families have been impacted by the 2016 Presidential election and related campaigns in the U.S.

We welcome disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions.  Empirical studies and critical analyses with special emphasis on work that draws conclusions to inform practice, policy, and directions for future research are encouraged.

The focus of submitted papers may include, but is not limited to:

- LGBTQ individuals’ responses to 2016 U.S. election campaign and results

- Analyses of campaign rhetoric related to LGBTQ individuals and families in the election

- Minority stress among LGBTQ families during the campaigns and/or post-election

- LGBTQ family communication related to the campaigns and election

- Analysis of policy changes impacting LGBTQ families post-election 

- Social action and advocacy for LGBTQ families during the campaigns and/or post-election

- Family support and therapy for LGBTQ families during the campaigns and/or post-election

- Intersectional approaches to understanding LGBTQ family during the campaigns and/or post-election

Manuscript Submissions

Proposed Abstract submissions should be 500-1,000 words in length and are due by March 31st, 2017. Abstracts should be jointly submitted to lannutti95@lasalle.edu and pgalupo@towson.edu.   If an abstract is accepted, full articles will be due July 15, 2017.  Full articles will be submitted to a full peer-review process which will determine final acceptance for the special issue.

Rhetoric Review, Volume 36, Issue 1, January-March 2017

Rhetoric Review, Volume 36, Issue 1, January-March 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.



This new issue contains the following articles:


Articles
A Composed “Rhetoric” in Place: A Material-Epistemic Reading of Plato’s Phaedrus
Steven M. Pedersen
Pages: 1-14 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1245999

The Pen of Puritan Womanhood: Anne Bradstreet’s Personal Poetry as Catechism on Godly Womanhood
Meridith Styer
Pages: 15-28 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246004

“Be Therefore Persuaded Ladies”: Boston’s Gleaning Circle (1805–13)
Katherine Fredlund
Pages: 29-43 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246005

Deploying Delivery as Critical Method: Neo-Burlesque’s Embodied Rhetoric
Maggie M. Werner
Pages: 44-59 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246010

Older Adults as Rhetorical Agents: A Rhetorical Critique of Metaphors for Aging in Public Health Discourse
Kathryn Yankura Swacha
Pages: 60-72 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246013

The Impact of Postmodernism on Style’s Demise
Kathleen M. Vandenberg
Pages: 73-85 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246016

The Myth of Self-Sacrifice for the Good[s] of Mankind: Contingency and Women’s Work
Theresa M. Evans
Pages: 86-99 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246020

Review Essays
Microhistories of Composition, Bruce McComiskey
Jacob Babb
Pages: 100-102 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246023

Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric, Kathleen J. Ryan, Nancy Myers, and Rebecca Jones
Timothy Ballingall
Pages: 102-105 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246025

Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method, Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard
Amanda B. Wray
Pages: 105-108 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246026

Women’s Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories, Tarez Samra Graban
Kristen Ruccio
Pages: 108-110 | DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246029

New Book - James W. Carey and Communication Research: Reputation at the University's Margins


Jefferson Pooley

Series editor: David W. Park

Peter Lang, 2016

James W. Carey, by the time of his 2006 death, was a towering figure in U.S. communication research. His intellectual contributions came from the outside: He made his career as a critic of the discipline’s scientific pretensions, in a series of impossibly eloquent essays published in the 1970s and 1980s. As collected in his 1989 *Communication as Culture*, these essays opened up intellectual space for a different kind of scholarship. *James W. Carey and Communication Research* explores the geography of disciplinary prestige, as it made (and unmade) the Carey's reputation. The book's puzzle is the discrepancy between Carey’s blinding in-field renown and total obscurity without. He was a border-dwelling importer, a skilled exegete and creative synthesizer who translated ideas from surrounding, higher status fields. His eloquent, field-specific critique of scientism was a re-narration of the arguments of high-profile dissenters like Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. It was!
  Carey’s position upstream from the field that, more than anything, helps to explain his lopsided reputation. On the one hand he benefitted from his location, accruing intellectual capital from the high-prestige fields of origin. On the other hand, his one-way brokerage—his identity as a communication scholar addressing the field— meant that he suffered the same fate as his colleagues: His ideas failed to win the upstream struggle back to the source. The book traces the evolution of Carey's media theorizing from his graduate school years through to the publication, in 1989, of his landmark *Communication as Culture*.

Green open-access version: http://www.jeffpooley.com/pubs/pooley-carey-reputation.pdf

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Dr. Barbara Spies, “Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Prophetic Voice for the Purity Movement,” Free CCSN Webinar, Thursday, Dec. 15

Dr. Barbara Spies, “Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Prophetic Voice for the Purity Movement,” Free CCSN Webinar, Thursday, Dec. 15

Greetings, colleagues and friends.

Please join the Christianity and Communication Studies Network (CCSN) (http://www.theccsn.com) and Dr. Barbara Spies, Associate Professor of Communication, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for our upcoming free webinar titled “Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A Prophetic Voice for the Purity Movement,” on Thursday, Dec. 15, 8-9 pm EST. This webinar is free and open to the public. A full description of the webinar is located here: http://www.theccsn.com/antoinette-brown-blackwell-a-prophetic-voice-for-the-purity-movement/

You may register directly here: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/6693192750536075778

Description: From Biblical times to the current day speakers have employed persuasive tactics following the format of the jeremiad. We have heard prophetic warnings during the current Presidential election campaign from Mitt Romney and Michelle Obama. We have also heard the promise of great things to come if we act responsibly. Antoinette Brown Blackwell used the format of the jeremiad to prevent legalization of prostitution in the late 1800s. This webinar examines this particular usage of the jeremiad combining both the religious and contemporary secular version of the genre and how an understanding of this rhetoric can illuminate persuasion today.

To read more about Dr. Spies, please see: https://www.stritch.edu/directoryProfile.aspx?p=1099104

Previously recorded CCSN webinars by Quentin Schultze, Bill Strom, Kevin Schut, Tim Muehlhoff, Paul Patton, Paul Soukup, Terry Lindvall, Calvin Troup, Bala Musa, Janie Harden Fritz, Diane Proctor-Badzinski, Bill Romanowski, Jen Letherer, Mark Ward, Jenni Sigler, Heidi Campbell, Bob Fortner, Naaman Wood, Stephanie Sandberg, Ken Chase, Gerald Mast, Annalee Ward, Greg Spencer, Dennis Smith, Mark Williams, and Derrick Rosenior are available for download here: http://www.theccsn.com/category/webinars/webinars-recorded/

Thanks for your support of the CCSN.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Call for Chapter Proposals: Edited Book on the National Mall


I am looking for chapter proposals to fill out a volume that analyzes sites of public memory on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Each chapter will focus on a specific site, while exploring that site’s relationship to the commemorative landscape of the Mall as a whole. Chapters may employ rhetorical and/or qualitative methods of analysis.

I am particularly interested in chapters which offer unique examinations of one of the Smithsonian museums or any of the following monuments/memorials: Jefferson, Lincoln, Grant, Washington, Korean War Veterans, Vietnam Veterans.

Interested authors (who, by the prospective publisher’s request, should have PhD in hand) should contact me for additional details before completing a proposal, which will be due by Feb. 1.

Volume 6, number 2 of _Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal_

Dear Readers,

A new issue (volume 6, number 2) of _Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences Journal_ is now available on our web site. This issue begins with
an outstanding article by Andrew Corsa, “Kinesthetic Empathy, Dance, and
Technology,” that offers a tightly-argued case that technologically
mediated communication limits our empathy. Bringing together technology,
philosophy, and dance, Corsa’s work illustrates the deep
interdiscipinarity that is a specialty for _Polymath_.

This issue also contains papers from SIUE’s tenth annual Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference. Publishing the new scholars who present at this
conference has become a tradition for _Polymath_ and I hope you will read
all these innovative articles. And this issue wraps up with Aldemaro
Romero’s review of _The Gene: An Intimate History_ by Siddhartha
Mukherjee. Romero argues that the history of the gene is a worthy topic but
this book does not do it justice.

As always, thank you for reading _Polymath_ and supporting open access
publishing. Thanks also to the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences for their
continued support for _Polymath_.

Sincerely,
Jeff Manuel
Editor

Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Journal
Vol 6, No 2 (2016)
Table of Contents
https://ojcs.siue.edu/ojs/index.php/polymath/issue/view/94

Articles
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Kinesthetic Empathy, Dance, and Technology (1-34)
        Andrew J. Corsa

Showcasing Undergraduate Student Research
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Introduction (35)
        Robert Ware
On Being, Reality, and Chaos (36-45)
        Nathan Thomas Rector
A Utilitarian Defense of Non-Monogamy (46-52)
        Jason Cruz
Sensations, Intuitions, and the Law of Causality (53-59)
        Qimin Liu
A Hard Analysis of Annihilation (60-68)
        Helena Klassen
Freedom is a Woman's Song: A Critical Analysis of Moses I. Finley's Remarks
on Slavery and Freedom (69-78)
        Jessica Nicole Ellis

Book Reviews
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The Gene: An Intimate History, by Siddhartha Mukherjee (79-83)
        Aldemaro Romero

Jeffrey T. Manuel
Editor
Polymath: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Arts and Sciences
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, Illinois 62026
https://ojcs.siue.edu/ojs/index.php/polymath/index

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Journal of Communication Inquiry January 2017; Vol. 41, No. 1


Editorial
Editor’s Introduction
John C. Carpenter

Articles
Affective Framing and Dramaturgical Actions in Social Movements
Miranda L. Y. Ma

Othering and Fear: Cultural Values and Hiro's Race in Thomas & Friends' Hero of the Rails
Maggie Griffith Williams and Jenny Korn

Can the Intern Resist? Precarity of Blue-Collar Labor and the Fragmented Resistance of the White-Collar Intern in Laurent Cantet’s Human Resources
Ergin Bulut

Persuading the Home Front: The Communication Surrounding the World War I Campaign to “Knit” Patriotism
Marcy Leasum Orwig

Book Reviews
Sarah J. Jackson. Black celebrity, racial politics, and the press: Framing dissent
Venise Berry

Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control
David Asa Schwartz

Science, Technology & Human Values January 2017; Vol. 42, No. 1


Articles
An “Ethical Moment” in Data Sharing
Catherine Heeney

Peer Review and Scholarly Originality: Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom, but Don’t Step on Any
Kyle Siler and David Strang

Concretizing Simondon and Constructivism: A Recursive Contribution to the Theory of Concretization
Andrew Lewis Feenberg

Molecular Detector (Non)Technology in Mexico
Luis Reyes-Galindo

Impact of Alumni Connections on Peer Review Ratings and Selection Success Rate in National Research
Duckhee Jang, Soogwan Doh, Gil-Mo Kang, and Dong-Seong Han

The Troubling Logic of Inclusivity in Environmental Consultations
Robin S. Gregory

Of Defunct Satellites and Other Space Debris: Media Waste in the Orbital Commons
Katarina Damjanov

CFP: Edited Volume on the Intersectionality of Marginality for First-Generation College Students

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Edited Volume on the Intersectionality of Marginality for First-Generation College Students

We invite submissions for an edited volume aimed at first-generation students, faculty, student support services, and college/university administrators. Although many studies examine the academic experiences and challenges of first-generation college students, few analyze the complex, fragmented, competing, and often overlapping intersectionality of multiple identities: class, income, LGBTQ culture, race, ethnicity, disability, geographical location (rural and urban), citizenship status, and other aspects of human experience such as mental health and spirituality. Some identities are marginalized in different ways than others, or at different times. Some identities are invisible, whereas others are visually apparent to others. Our volume seeks to fill this gap in our understanding of the intersectionality of identities in first-generation student research.

The volume includes different sections with content geared toward undergraduate and graduate student readers, faculty, and staff. We are seeking two forms of submissions:

-Personal narratives

-Quantitative or qualitative research

Whether you submit a narrative or research essay, we seek perspectives from faculty, students, staff, and administrators who can offer insight from their own intersectionality of identities as a first-generation college student and as a member of at least one another marginalized group. We encourage scholars who are historically underrepresented, including but not limited to Hispanic, Black, Native Americans, LGBTQ, scholars with disabilities, and other marginalized groups to submit personal narratives and research.

General Guidelines for Narrative Submissions

Your submissions can be narratives from your own college experience as you negotiated multiple identities and perspectives as a first-generation college student. You might also focus on your experience as a first-generation faculty member, staff, or administrator.

General Guidelines for Research Submissions

We also seek research that examines student feedback about undergraduate or graduate programs that address multiple identities of first-generation college students. Data may be qualitative or quantitative. We are open to research from all disciplines.

Possible subtopics for research or narratives include – but are not limited – to the following intersectionalities of first-generation college students and:

- race/ethnicity, class, income, and family

- LGBTQ identity

- disability, mental health, and chronic illness

- spirituality/religious faith

- immigration status and citizenship

- geographical location (rural and urban)

- the non-traditional student

- insight for developing successful first-generation programs that address multiple identities

- adjustment to campus life and college expectations: insight from current students about having a successful college experience/challenges

- bridging the education gap in higher education

Narrative and research essays should be written for a general readership. This project would especially suit researchers who are on the tail end of a project, as we are requesting completed manuscripts by Friday July 14, 2017.

Potential contributors should send a biographical sketch (100-150 words) that explains how the intersectionality of marginality pertains to first-generation college students. For example, you might discuss your own identity in your narrative essay, or the intersecting marginalities of your research subjects. In addition to the bio sketch, please send an extended abstract (1,000-2,000 words). For research papers, your abstract should identify your study’s central research question(s), research method(s) and theories used, and findings or projected findings. Abstracts are due by Friday, February 10, 2017 to BOTH editors.

Manuscripts should be APA Style (6th edition) in in-text citation and reference list. Manuscripts should be no more than 20 pages, excluding reference list and footnotes.

Please send abstracts and questions and inquiries to BOTH editors: Dr. Vickie L. Harvey, Professor in Communication Studies, California State University, Stanislaus at vharvey@csustan.edu and Dr. Teresa Housel, Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Communication and Marketing, Massey University of New Zealand, at Teresa.housel@gmail.com.

Fascism and Language (Giroux)

From "Against the New Authoritarianism" p. 47
The language of fascism is designed "to produce 'an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax [whose consequence is] to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning'."

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Canadian Review of American Studies Volume 46, Number 3, Winter 2016

Canadian Review of American Studies
Volume  46, Number 3, Winter 2016 

ARTICLES
Coming to Terms with the Murderer: Explanatory Mechanisms and Narrative Strategies in Three American Novels with Transgressive Protagonists
John Dale

Re-Reading the Portrait and the Archive’s Social Memory
Kalli Paakspuu

Narrative and Numbers: Edward Bellamy, Tony Judt, and the Political Economy of Inequality in the United States
Bruce Tucker and Nadia Timperio

Of Geography and Race: Some Reflections on the Relative Involvement of the Discipline of Geography in the Spatiality of People of Colour in the United States
Elyes Hanafi

Downfall of the Republic! The 1877 General Strike and the Fictions of Red Scare
Justin Rogers-Cooper

She May Be Hot, but She Is Also Really Crazy: Celebrity Deconversion Narratives
Andrew Connolly

Barack Obama and the Myth of the Superheroic Presidency
David Hoogland Noon
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

From Giroux, "Against the New Authoritarianism"

From Giroux, "Against the New Authoritarianism" p. 30
"The United States is not simply a centre-left government supported by the majority of the populace;  it is a country rapidly moving towards a form of authoritarianism"

Power in Rhetorical Studies

Andy King on the shape of rhetorical studies at the start of the 21st century
from "Scholarship Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Vol. 101, No. 1, February 2015, pp. 127–131

By the time of my 19982001 tenure as editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, the field had been utterly transformed. Our gaze was firmly rooted on the fault lines of late twentieth-century society: race, class, and gender. This trend has continued, and although the word is seldom uttered in our journals, much of our scholarship is about power. That is to say, it is about whose voice will prevail, and why and how other voices are silenced. There is a lively sense of the fragility and instability of power and an understanding that there are no final victories in politics, society, religion, or commerce. 

Media, Culture & Society January 2017; Vol. 39, No. 1


Editorial
The media and the military: editorial
John Corner and Katy Parry

Special issue: The Media and the Military
Mare Nostrum: the visual politics of a military-humanitarian operation in the Mediterranean Sea
Pierluigi Musarò

‘When he’s in Afghanistan it’s like our world/his world’: mediating military experience
Katy Parry and Nancy Thumim

Bare Strength: representing veterans of the desert wars in US media
Jenna Pitchford-Hyde

Gendering the authenticity of the military experience: male audience responses to the Korean reality show Real Men
Woori Han, Claire Shinhea Lee, and Ji Hoon Park

‘This is our Call of Duty’: hegemony, history and resistant videogames in the Middle East
Dima Saber and Nick Webber

Imagining an emotional nation: the print media and Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand
Alex McConville, Tim McCreanor, Margaret Wetherell, and Helen Moewaka Barnes

Targeted killing and pattern-of-life analysis: weaponised media
Nina Franz

Crosscurrents
Co-opting feminism: media discourses on political women and the definition of a (new) feminist identity
Jaime Loke, Ingrid Bachmann, and Dustin Harp

Book Reviews
Book Review: Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age
Rikke Bjerg Jensen

Book Review: Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border
Alexander L Fattal

Book Review: Surveillance after Snowden
Doug Specht

Book Announcement: Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South


Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South, written by Ashli Q. Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre, is now available from the University Press of Mississippi.

From the publisher:

Southerners love to talk food, quickly revealing likes and dislikes, regional preferences, and their own delicious stories. Because the topic often crosses lines of race, class, gender, and region, food supplies a common fuel to launch discussion. Consuming Identity sifts through the self-definitions, allegiances, and bonds made possible and strengthened through the theme of southern foodways. The book focuses on the role food plays in building identities, accounting for the messages food sends about who we are, how we see ourselves, and how we see others. While many volumes examine southern food, this one is the first to focus on food’s rhetorical qualities and the effect that it can have on culture.

The volume examines southern food stories that speak to the identity of the region, explain how food helps to build identities, and explore how it enables cultural exchange. Food acts rhetorically, with what we choose to eat and serve sending distinct messages. It also serves a vital identity-building function, factoring heavily into our memories, narratives, and understanding of who we are. Finally, because food and the tales surrounding it are so important to southerners, the rhetoric of food offers a significant and meaningful way to open up dialogue in the region. By sharing and celebrating both foodways and the food itself, southerners are able to revel in shared histories and traditions. In this way individuals find a common language despite the divisions of race and class that continue to plague the south. The rich subject of southern fare serves up a significant starting point for understanding the powerful rhetorical potential of all food.

To order, visit: https://www.amazon.com/Consuming-Identity-Role-Redefining-South/dp/1496809181/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478008545&sr=8-1&keywords=atkins-sayre