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Friday, July 29, 2016

Call for papers: 3/2016 "Digital Rhetoric" & 4/2016 "Rhetoric and Institutions"

Call for papers: 3/2016 "Digital Rhetoric" & 4/2016 "Rhetoric and Institutions"
„Res Rhetorica” is a peer-reviewed open access quarterly academic journal (ISSN 2392-3113). Its scope includes both theories of rhetoric and practices of persuasive communication. Read more (previous issues): www.ResRhetorica.com.

Digital Rhetoric

The era of orality and writing has given way to the digital era of multimedia and multimodality. Every day we use computers, smartphones and the Internet to persuade or to be persuaded. These goals are achieved through digital genres of public and private communication – text messages, blogs, posts, twits, hashtags, to name a few. They are used both by ordinary people in everyday communication, as well as companies, institutions and public figures.

New means of communication are accompanied by academic reflection on the changes they bring. How does rhetoric function in the new digital environment? Does it apply the modes of persuasion which had been explored by the classics? How do the digital tools help to develop the ethos? Do they change anything in the way of establishing and maintaining relationships between the speaker and his audience?

Digital rhetoric can be understood as the new method of communication and persuasion mediated by the computer and the Internet. At the same time digital rhetoric poses a challenge for the researchers to look for the methods of analysis that will allow to examine multimodal messages.

Therefore, we invite submissions of articles concerning the following topics:

Digital Rhetoric – theoretical and methodological issues:
What is the digital rhetoric, what is its status, scope and object of research
What are the relations between the digital rhetoric and classical rhetoric
Methodology of rhetorical analysis of the new media
Digital tools that may be useful for rhetorical scholars
The relationship between the digital rhetoric and other disciplines (eg. Media Studies, Computer Science)
Digital Rhetoric and its applications:
Media Education
Persuasion in computer games
Rhetorical dimension of computer graphics / rhetoric in computer-aided design: UI/UX Design
Rhetoric of social media (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, snapchat)
Online journalism
Rhetoric of memes, tweets, hashtags, comments....
Digital Rhetoric – a new rhetorical situation?
Actio 2.0 - Youtubers – contemporary rhetoricians
Dialectical / deliberative / argumentative dimension of rhetoric in the digital world
Internet as a space for action (digital activism, crowdfunding etc.)

Issue Editors
Agnieszka Kampka (agnieszka_kampka@sggw.pl)
Ewa Modrzejewska (modrzejewska.ewa@gmail.com)

Schedule
submission deadline: August 31, 2016
target publication date: Autumn 2016.


Rhetoric and Institutions

A democratic public sphere requires its institutions to be transparent and accessible to the public, However, the interests of administrators and of citizens are not always aligned. Powerful interest groups, ideologues and bureaucracies can perpetuate dominance and mystify divisions under the guise of institutional or organizational culture. Specific rhetoric is usually mobilized to achieve such purposes. But rhetoric, or rhetorical criticism, may also be used to expose the paradoxes, abnormalities and abuses within institutional discourses.

Tracing good and bad practices of institutional discourse has always been within the scope of rhetorical scholarship. The 4/2016 issue of Res Rhetorica will be devoted to exploring historical and current trends in institutional rhetoric and offering rhetorical criticism of institutional discourses in various domains of public life.

Issue Editor
Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (molekk@uni.opole.pl)
Schedule
submission deadline: October 31, 2016
target publication date: Winter 2016.



How to submit
To see the author guidelines and submit the paper, prospective authors should register on www.ResRhetorica.com.
The Issue Editors welcome proposals (250 words) for the articles related to the theme of the issue to be sent to the Editors' emails by the date specified in the Call for Papers.
We also invite year-round submissions unrelated to the themes of the consecutive issues to be published in the "Varia" section.
The papers are reviewed and have its own DOI.


Polish Rhetoric Society
„Res Rhetorica” is affiliated by the Polish Rhetoric Society. The Society established in the year 2000 aims at promoting the awareness of rhetoric and perfecting the art of effective communication in practice by identifying links between rhetoric and other disciplines, disseminating research in the field of rhetoric, exchanging experience with researchers from other countries, popularizing rhetorical skills. Feel welcome to join us and become a member of the Polish Rhetoric Society. For more information go to: www.retoryka.edu.pl.

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Call for Chapter Proposals-- (E)-Racing Voice and Identity: Communal and Divisive Aspects of Digital Media

Call for Chapter Proposals-- (E)-Racing Voice and Identity: Communal and Divisive Aspects of Digital Media

Friendly Reminder--Proposals Due August 1st!

Chapter proposals are now being solicited for:

(E)-Racing Voice and Identity: Communal and Divisive Aspects of Digital Media

Editors: Cerise L. Glenn & Roy Schwartzman (University of North Carolina at Greensboro).

Synopsis:

Digital media, also termed “new media,” is increasingly being used to shape racial discourses, particularly as they connect to issues of voice, identity, agency, activism, and resistance. This book will address the synergy of social media with voice, identity, and activism as they pertain to race, as well as social media’s power to widen or constrict the divides on contemporary perceptions of race. The book’s overarching focus examines how digital media shapes new understandings of traditional constructs of race, identity, community, and divisiveness, as well as how it provides new avenues for voice and coordination of racial discourses.

Potential topics for individual chapters may include, but are not limited to:

Enacting Racial Identity and Fluidity: Racial Boundaries and Ambiguities

Learning and performing race in digital spaces

(Re)defining personal or collective racial identity via digital media

Authenticity and authority in online media

Race and class based digital divides

(Mis)representations of racial identities or behaviors online


(E)-Racing History: Remembrance and Inclusivity

Social media as tools to address social (in)justice

Roles of digital media in preserving/revising history

Digital tools in promoting legacies of racial inclusivity or marginalization

Corporate and other organizational appropriation of racial histories


Social Justice, Voice, and Mobilization

Coordination of collective action through social media

Digital dialogues centering on race and justice

Digital ways of engaging race in conjunction with other identities (e.g., gender, class, sexuality, nationality)

Interpersonal, community, national, or international methods of (dis)empowerment using digital tools

New media as ways of connecting specific ethnic groups with social causes


Media Convergence and Audience Interaction

Roles of race in online fandom and entertainment

How interactive media challenge or reinforce stereotypes

Audience appropriation of new media to rearticulate identities via mashups, remixes, etc.

Subversion of mainstream media treatments of race

Other topic areas relevant to the book’s overall theme are welcomed. All theoretical and methodological approaches are invited for consideration.

Deadline for receipt of chapter proposals and supporting materials: 1 August 2016

Proposals should be no more than 500 words plus include a complete chapter title and 3-5 keywords.  In the abstract, please include: topic, explanation of material to be analyzed and/or theoretical approach, as well as preliminary findings/theoretical points. A brief (2-3 page) CV should be included for every author. Email proposal and CV in MS Word (.doc or .docx) format to: clglenn@uncg.edu AND roypoet@gmail.com

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full manuscripts for consideration due: 1 November 2016

Facing the Sky: Composing through Trauma in Word and Image

Facing the Sky: Composing through Trauma in Word and Image
$32.00
SKU: 978-1-60235-449-4
Roy F. Fox
Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Series Editors: Patricia Sullivan, Catherine Hobbs, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay

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At forty-one, Lucy was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Kate lost her husband in a freak accident. These women—practical, intelligent, perceptive—were also language experts who had devoted their lives to the study and teaching of reading and writing. When these traumas shattered their normal lives, they turned to writing. Through extensive interviews, correspondence, and close analysis of their public and personal writing, Roy F. Fox details why and how writing helped these people make sense of their physical and emotional upheavals, exploring such issues as their motivation, fluency, awareness of audience, rhetorical decision-making, focused collaborations, and uses of secondary source material.


Praise for Facing the Sky
"Fox is both anthropologist and theorist. Reading Facing the Sky gives us remarkable perspective—and in the end distance­—on how writers have used symbolic systems to deal with pain. Yet all the while he is opening windows that cannot but lead us to experience some of the pain that his subjects write about."—PETER ELBOW (from the Foreword)

"Facing the Sky . . . breaks new ground and sows an abundance of seeds for a transformative pedagogy with the power to heal fractured souls in broken times. This book is not only for those in power--teachers, clinicians, politicians—but especially for those who have little or none—a book for NOW that unites theory and practice in a kind of prayer for our times."—SUSAN HUDSON

"Teachers of writing are bound to bump into student trauma before the first semester ends. When expressive writing is on the table, students soon wander into memory. Many will encounter scar tissue and open wounds from their past. Roy F. Fox . . . has written a valuable therapeutic prescription for composing through trauma. Facing the Sky offers a solid writing protocol grounded in narrative therapy and expressive therapies (art, writing, journaling). The approach he suggests is supported by contemporary neuroscience, which helps us understand that the brain heals when offered the right opportunities." —SUSAN REULING FURNESS, M.Ed, LCPC, LMFT, PTR

About the Author
Roy F. Fox currently serves as Professor of English Education and former Chair of the Department of Learning, Teaching, & Curriculum at the University of Missouri. He previously served in the Department of English at Boise State University as that university's first Director of Campus Writing. In this capacity, he led the revision of the Freshman English writing program, developed campus-wide graduation requirements for writing ability, and established a Writing across the Disciplines Program with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Fox's research focuses on the teaching and learning of language, writing, and media literacy—especially how people interact with television, film, and advertising messages. For the past decade these research interests have coalesced into his current focus on exploring how combinations of reading, writing, technology, and media can address physical and psychological trauma. In addition to numerous chapters and articles, Fox is the author of several books, including Images in Language, Media, & Mind; Technical Communication: Problems and Solutions; Harvesting Minds: How TV Commercials Control Kids; UpDrafts: Case Studies in Teacher Renewal; and MediaSpeak: Three American Voices. In 2010, Fox founded the journal, Engaging Cultures & Voices: Learning through Media. A former high school English teacher, Fox has received the Maxine Christopher Shutz Award for Distinguished Teaching and the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.

Contents
Foreword
Peter Elbow
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Unfinished Furrow
1 Composing through Trauma
2 Beyond "Just Academic Stuff": The Course, The Teacher, The Study
3 Lucy
4 Seven Writers Composing in Word and Image
5 Kate
6 Common Threads
7 Recommendations
Notes
Works Cited
Appendix A: The Course Syllabus
Appendix B: Research Questions
Appendix C: Assessing Thinking in Writing
About the Author
Index

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Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies

Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies
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Edited by Vicki Callahan and Virginia Kuhn
Electracy and Transmedia Studies
Edited by Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes

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Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies sketches several possibilities for future texts, those that imagine new pathways through the forms used to express contemporary questions of race, gender, and identity. Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies’ area of investigation is situated within popular culture, not as a place of critique or celebration, but rather as a contested site that crosses an array of media forms, from music video, to games, to global journalism. While there is an established tradition in feminist writing founded on experimental expression that disrupts patriarchal culture, it has too often failed to consider issues of race and class. This is evident in the dilemma faced by black feminists who, alienated from dominant feminism’s failure to consider their experience, have been forced to choose whether they were black or women first. To push back against such identity splintering, Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies begins with the politics and aesthetics of Afrofuturism, which sets the stage for the dialogue around contemporary feminism that runs through the collection. With a paradigm of remix as linguistic play and reconfiguration, the chapters confront the question of narrative codes and conventions. These new formats are crucial to rewriting the relationship between hegemonic and resistant texts.

Praise for Future Texts
Future Texts offers fresh and exciting work by a range of inspiring contributors on the cultural possibilities of Afrofuturism and new media. In these polyvocal essays, the concerns of race, gender and identity are reimagined, expanded, and revitalized, demonstrating (anew) the contemporary relevance of feminist engagement with popular cultural forms. —ANNE BALSAMO

About the Editors
Vicki Callahan is Associate Professor in the Division of Media Arts + Practice in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award to Ireland for 2015. She teaches courses focused on the integration of theory and practice with attention to issues of media history and theory, digital culture, social media + remix, transmedia, and media strategies for social change. She is author of Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade (Wayne State University Press 2005) and editor for the collection, Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History (Washington State University Press 2010). Her essays on feminist history and theory appear in the journals Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, Velvet Light Trap, and Sight and Sound. She is working on a monograph on the silent film star, Mabel Normand. Founder of the Feminism 3.0 website and co-founder of the Transmedia Activism site, she also works with Sarah Atkinson on the Transmedia Database Project, a scholarly resource site for cross-platform storytelling.

Virginia Kuhn is Associate Professor in the Division of Media Arts + Practice, and Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Her work centers on digital rhetoric and visual culture and her current research project, the VAT (video analysis tableau), applies computational analysis to the study of vast video archives. In 2005 she successfully defended one of the first born-digital dissertations in the US, titled Ways of Composing: Visual Literacy in the Digital Age, which challenged archiving and copyright conventions, and published the first article composed in the digital platform, Scalar, titled “Filmic Texts and the Rise of the Fifth Estate.” She recently edited her second peer-reviewed digital anthology, MoMLA: From Gallery to Webtext, and is now working on a monograph. Her work can be found in a variety of print and digital journals and serves on the editorial boards of several journals.

Contents and Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction by Vicki Callahan and Virginia Kuhn

Part 1: Afrofuturism in Popular Culture
2 The New "Material Girls": Madonna, "Millenial" Pop Divas, and the Politics of Race and Gender by Shelleen Greene

3 A Window Seat to History: Erykah Badu's Dealey Plaza Remix by Vicki Callahan

4 The Possibilities of Liminality: Black Women's Future Texts as Productive Chaos by Nina Cartier

5 Re-Creating Niobe: The Construction and Re-Construction of Black Femininity through Games and the Social Psychology of the Avatar by Nettrice R. Gaskins

6 "Ghana Meets the World": Remixing Popular Culture on OMG! Ghana by Lorien R. Hunter

Part 2: Feminist Disruptions of Gender and Narrative Codes
7 Adapting Lisbeth for Hollywood: The Politics and Franchising Practices behind Sony's GWTDT Reboot by Courtney Brannon Donoghue

8 Recasting The Best Years of Our Lives: Gender, Revision, and Military Women in the Veteran's Homecoming Film by Anna Froula

9 Television's Queer Future? The Possibilities and Limitations of Web Series, Digital Distribution, and LGBT Representation in Husbands by Melanie E. S. Kohnen

10 Sucker Punch and the Aesthetics of Denial: Future Perfect Tense by Virginia Kuhn

Contributors
About the Editors
Index

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Mikhail Bakhtin: Rhetoric, Poetics, Dialogics, Rhetoricality

Mikhail Bakhtin: Rhetoric, Poetics, Dialogics, Rhetoricality
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SKU: 978-1-60235-725-9
Don Bialostosky
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Foregrounding language and the utterance in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and his colleague Valentin Voloshinov, Mikhail Bakhtin: Rhetoric, Poetics, Dialogics, Rhetoricality examines their insights against the background of the classical, predominantly Aristotelian, verbal liberal arts of rhetoric, dialectic, and poetics. First setting Bakhtinian dialogics against a narrow rhetoric aimed at winning over others, it goes on, drawing upon the school's earlier phenomenological and sociological writings, to elaborate a Bakhtinian discourse theory that sees all utterances as rhetorical in an expanded sense and poetry as an imitation of rhetorical utterance.

Bialostosky invents a Bakhtinian dialogic criticism that he situates against such figures as Todorov, Gadamer, Rorty, and Booth and explores the potentials of Bakhtin-School thought for a revitalized rhetorical criticism. He draws parallels between Bakhtin's dialogism and Michael Billig's sophistic sociology and argues the importance of language and history in Bakhtin's earliest work against Morson and Emerson's emphasis on ethics. He sets Aristotelian rhetoric against Bakhtin's discourse theory and reads Aristotle's Poetics against the grain to bring out its category of "thought" or dianoia as a site from which a Bakhtinian poetics of utterance can be recovered. A compilation and extension of more than thirty years' work on the Bakhtin School, Mikhail Bakhtin: Rhetoric, Poetics, Dialogics, Rhetoricality demonstrates the rich implications of Bakhtin's works for rhetorical theory, practice, and understanding.

About the Author
An early adopter of Bakhtin School ideas, Don Bialostosky first mobilized them to rehabilitate Wordsworth's narrative experiments in Making Tales (Chicago 1984) and extended them to rethink his lyric poetry and the critics who wrote about them in Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism (Cambridge 1992). Participant in the first international Bakhtin conferences in the early 1980s and contributor to the first bibliographies of the Bakhtin Newsletter, he introduced Bakhtin to a CCCC convention in 1984 and published the first article on Bakhtin in PMLA in 1986. His forthcoming book How to Play a Poem from the University of Pittsburgh Press brings Bakhtin School poetics to a pedagogy for poetry. Rhetoric has been on his radar since his undergraduate studies in the Analysis of Ideas and the Study of Methods at Chicago, where his engagement with the art was reinforced by graduate work with Wayne Booth, to whose memory this volume is dedicated. He has taught at the Universities of Utah and Washington, at Stony Brook and Toledo and Penn State. Currently he is Professor in the Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric track and Chair of the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh.

Contents
Abbreviations Used in Text and Notes
Preface
1. Introduction

Part I. Dialogics, Rhetoric, Criticism
2. Dialogics as an Art of Discourse
3. Booth, Bakhtin, and the Culture of Criticism
4. Rhetoric, Literary Criticism, Theory, and Bakhtin
5. Bakhtin and Rhetorical Criticism
6. Antilogics, Dialogics, and Sophistic Social Psychology

Part II. Architectonics, Poetics, Rhetoricality, Liberal Education
7. Bakhtin's "Rough Draft"
8. Architectonics, Rhetoric, and Poetics in the Bakhtin School's Early Phenomenological and Sociological Texts
9. Aristotle's Rhetoric and Bakhtin's Discourse Theory
10. Rereading the Place of Rhetoric in Aristotle's Poetics in Light of Bakhtin's Discourse Theory: Rhetoric as Dianoia, Poetics as an Imitation of Rhetoric
11. Liberal Education, Writing, and the Dialogic Self
Notes
Works Cited
About the Author
Index

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Placing the History of College Writing: Stories from the Incomplete Archive

Placing the History of College Writing: Stories from the Incomplete Archive
$27.00
SKU: 978-1-60235-801-0
Nathan Shepley
Perspectives on Writing
Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Rich Rice

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New Books and MIT's Uncommon Sense by Barbara Fister. Inside Higher Ed. 29 Mar. 2016

Description
In Placing the History of College Writing, Nathan Shepley argues that pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing’s physical, social, and discursive surroundings. Even if the immediate outcome of student writing is to generate academic credit, Shepley shows, the writing does more complex rhetorical work. It gives students chances to uphold or adjust institutional codes for student behavior, allows students and their literacy sponsors to respond to sociopolitical issues in a city or state, enables faculty and administrators to create strategic representations of institutional or program identities, and connects people across disciplines, occupations, and geographic locations. Shepley argues that even if many of today’s composition scholars and instructors work at institutions that lack extensive historical records of the kind usually preferred by composition historians, those scholars and teachers can mine their institutional collections for signs of the various contexts with which student writing dealt.

About the Author
Nathan Shepley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric and Composition. In addition to composition history, his specialization areas include composition pedagogy and ecological and neosophistic theories of writing. His articles have appeared in Composition Studies, Enculturation, Composition Forum, and Open Words: Access and English Studies.

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Placing History, Historicizing Place
2 Customizing Composition: Students Broadening Behavioral Codes
3 Tracking Lines of Communication: Student Writing as a Response to Civic Issues
4 Composition on Display: Students Performing College Competence
5 Rethinking Links Between Histories of Composition
6 Composition as Literacy, Discourse, and Rhetoric

Works Cited
Glossary

Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games

Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games
$34.00
SKU: 978-1-60235-731-0
Edited by Douglas Eyman and Andréa D. Davis
Electracy and Transmedia Studies
Edited by Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes

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Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing Games presents a wide range of approaches to digital video games as sites of composition and rhetorical performance. The chapters in Play/Write examine writing—both textual and multimodal—and rhetorical activity that takes place within games as player-game and player-player interactions, as well as external sites of writing, such as player communities, corporate-supported transmedia storytelling, walkthroughs, cheats, and documentation. The final sections of Play/Write consider the writing of games and the use of games as platforms for rhetorical actions. Following a new materialist approach, the key concept that all of these approaches build upon is that games operate in rhetorical ecologies that include designers, players, texts, communities, and the procedures of the gameplay mechanics and the operations of the games themselves. Contributors include Eric Alexander, Phill Alexander, James J. Brown, Jr., Kym Buchanan, Richard Colby, Rebekah Shultz Colby, Sean Conrey, Andréa D. Davis, Jessica Masri Eberhard, Douglas Eyman, Grace Hagood, Steven Holmes, Brian Ladd, Jill Morris, Scott Nelson, Joshua Peery, David M. Sheridan, Lee Sherlock, Wendi Sierra, Brandes Stoddard, and Emily Stuemke.

Praise for Play/Write
“Despite what some players, creators, and critics may think or even hope, games do not exist in a cloister, separated from the rest of the media ecosystem. Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games presents a welcome connection between games and rhetoric, through the lens of different types of writing. The result shows how we think to talk about games is as important as how we play them.” —Ian Bogost

“Playing with words and semiotics within rule systems to defined and purposeful ends has always been the domain of rhetoric and composition. Combine verbal play with digital play and you have the important contribution that Eyman and Davis present in Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games. Gaming asks audiences to take up an active subjectivity as an audience, co-creating the unfolding of texts. These activities, then, provide audiences an excellent transition from consumers to producers, players to makers. And this is the strength of this collection. Eyman and Davis have brought together a dynamic group of scholars who prove that the skills of analysis and production in rhetoric and composition can add new insight into game studies, and likewise, the act of writing about games, writing for games, and composing in the multimedia spaces afforded by games can highlight agency, theory, and ethics in game studies writ large. A must have book for anyone considering computer games in the classroom.” —Jennifer deWinter

About the Editors
Douglas Eyman is an avid player of online role playing games and has previously published work on the digital ecologies and economies of video games. His most recent work, Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice maps the growing field of digital rhetoric, including its relationship to the study of video games as platforms for the performance of writing and rhetoric. He is also the senior editor and publisher of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Andréa D. Davis, an aficionado and expert player of World of Warcraft, earned her PhD in digital and cultural rhetorics from Michigan State University. Andréa is co-editor of Metamorphosis: The Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students and served as Kairos Praxis editor from 2006 to 2012

Contents and Contributors
1 "Introduction: Networks of Gaming and Writing" by Douglas Eyman

Part I: Game Rhetorics and Gaming Pedagogies (or, Writing About Games)
2 "Aleatory Invention and Glorious Trainwrecks' Accursed Share" by Steven Holmes
3 "'What Do You Mean None of My Choices Mattered?': Collaborative Composition and the Ethics of Ownership in Games—A Case Study of Mass Effect 3" by Jessica Masri Eberhard
4 "The Composing Practices and Rhetorical Acumen of MMORPG Players: What City of Heroes Means for Writing Instruction" by Phill Alexander
5 "Procedurality as Play: Movement in Games and Composition" by Grace Hagood

Part II: Game Ecologies and Networks (or, Writing Around Games)
6 "Who's That Walking on My Bridge? Transmedia Shifts and Trolling in Game Forums" by Richard Colby and Rebekah Shultz Colby
7 "Data vs. Play: The Digital Rhetorics of Theorycrafting" by Lee Sherlock
8 "Intellectual Property Pong: Three Classic Matches That Affect Your Play Today" by Scott Nelson

Part III: Games and/as Rhetorical Production (or, Writing In or Through Games)
9 "'Leeroy Jenkins!' What Computer Gamers Can Teach Us about Visual Arguments" by Andréa D. Davis
10 "Playing with Play: Machinima in the Classroom" by Wendi Sierra
11 "VoIP, Composition, and Membership: Constructing Working Identities through Collaborative Play" by Emily Stuemke
12 "Gaming Between Civic Knowledge and Civic Know-How: Direct Engagement and the Simulated City" by Sean Conrey

Part IV: Composing Games in Industry and Classroom Contexts (or, Writing Games)
13 "Narrative Realities and Alternate Zombies: A Student-Centered Alternate Reality Gam"e by Jill Morris
14 "Procedural Rhetoric, Proairesis, Game Design, and the Revaluing of Invention" by James J. Brown, Jr. and Eric Alexander
15 "Games and the Search for "Contextually Valid Settings" in the Writing Classroom" by David M. Sheridan and Kym Buchanan
16 "Programming, Pedagogy, Play" by Brian Ladd
17 "Writing for Games" by Brandes Stoddard
18 "Game Writing in Practice-MMORPG Quests" by Joshua Peery

Contributors
Index

Strategies for Writing Center Research

Strategies for Writing Center Research
$30.00
SKU: 978-1-60235-719-8
Jackie Grutsch McKinney
Lenses on Composition Studies
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Description
Strategies for Writing Center Research is a guide to empirical research on writing center work. Though there are many other places where formal writing instruction, conversations about writing, conversations about teaching writing, writing, and revision happen, these activities are all always occurring in writing centers. All of the political, theoretical, social, spatial, technological, and practical debates about how a someone becomes a better writer play out hour after hour in the writing center; thus, the possibility of the writing center as a site for serious, interesting, groundbreaking writing research cannot be overstated.

Strategies for Writing Center Research is divided into three parts that correspond, more or less, to the stages of a research project. Part 1 includes an overview of writing center research, an introduction to key terms for research, a discussion of how to conduct bibliographic research in writing center studies, and advice on shaping a research proposal. Part 2 helps readers select appropriate research methods for their research questions. Chapters are devoted to discourse analysis, interviewing, surveying, fieldwork, and action research, including a discussion of the limitations, ethical challenges, and pitfalls to expect, as well as a description of the sort of data collected. Part 3 includes a discussion of approaches for analyzing and reporting research.

About the Author
Jackie Grutsch McKinney is Director of the Writing Center and Associate Professor of English at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Her scholarship on writing center issues has appeared in key journals such as WPA: Writing Program Administration, Writing Center Journal, Writing Lab Newsletter, and Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, as well as in several writing center edited collections including Before and After the Tutorial, Multiliteracy Centers, and The St. Martin’s Sourcebook for Writing Tutors. Her first book, Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers, won the International Writing Center Association Outstanding Book Award in 2014.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Call for Review Articles, Canadian Review of American Studies

Call for Review Articles
Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2016
Contact: Chris Vanderwees, Reviews Editor, chrisvanderwees@gmail.com

Canadian Review of American Studies, a journal published by the University of Toronto, is seeking review articles for upcoming issues. Typically, a review article surveys three recently published books that explore similar or intersecting themes, summarizing the main issues raised between texts and offering a critical perspective of the given field.

CRAS is currently accepting review article submissions on a wide range of topics in the context of American literature, culture, and politics.

Please contact the Reviews Editor, Chris Vanderwees, with any questions or suggestions pertaining to review articles.

Canadian Review of American Studies is the leading American Studies journal outside the United States and the only journal in Canada that deals with cross-border themes and their implications for multicultural societies. Published three times a year, the journal aims to further multi- and interdisciplinary analyses of the culture of the US and of social relations between the US and Canada. CRAS is a dynamic and innovative journal, providing unique perspectives and insights in an increasingly complex and intertwined world of extraordinarily difficult problems that continue to call for scholarly input.
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COMPLETE ARCHIVE NOW AVAILABLE!
Canadian Review of American Studies Online now offers a comprehensive resource for the best work being done in American Studies today. CRAS Online now includes the complete archive of current and previously published articles – more than 1200 articles, reviews and commentaries – going back to 1970(issue1.1).

Canadian Review of American Studies is available online at
Project MUSE - http://bit.ly/cras_pm
CRAS Online - http://bit.ly/cras_online


Submissions to Canadian Review of American Studies
The Canadian Review of American Studies is published three times a year. The journal publishes articles, review articles, and short reviews; its purpose is to further multi- and interdisciplinary analyses of the culture of the United States and of the social relations between the United States and Canada. The journal invites contributions, in English and French, from authors in all relevant scholarly disciplines related to the study of the United States, and the United States and Canada, as well as to the borders “in-between.” The Canadian Review of American Studies has an international standing, attracting submissions and participation from many countries in North America and Europe.
Recently, the journal has received and published articles from the following disciplines: Anthropology, English, History, American Studies, Canadian Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Communication, Law, African-American Studies, Religious Studies, Economics, Fine Arts, Cultural Studies, and Humanities.
For submission guidelines, please visit http://bit.ly/cras_online or contact us at:

Canadian Review of American Studies
Department of English, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
E-mail: cras@carleton.ca
Fax: (613) 234-4418
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

CFP: book chapters -- Neoliberalism and the Media

CFP: book chapters -- Neoliberalism and the Media

Volume editor: Marian Meyers, Georgia State University

Proposal/Abstract deadline: August 15, 2016

About the book: Neoliberalism and the Media will explore neoliberalism within mediated popular culture from an intersectional perspective that takes into account not only representations, discourses, and narratives about social class, but also those of race and gender. It takes as a given that it is impossible to fully and accurately explore class within the media without recognizing that gender and race are inextricably tied to discourses and representations of class, as well as to economic, social, cultural and political factors and conditions. An overarching focus of the book is whether and how neoliberal ideology and myths, including those of class mobility and individualism, are reinforced by -- or may be challenged within -- mediated popular culture.

Chapters will draw upon a wide variety of media and genres, from TV programs and film to music, news, online and social media, advertising and magazines. For example, welcome chapters would include those about: the Netflix show "Orange is the New Black," which portrays the privatization of a woman’s prison, as well as focusing on race, class and gender dynamics among the inmates, guards, prison administration and corporate owner; and local or national news coverage of the charter school movement, which often targets poor schools in minority neighborhoods and school districts for take-over.

Chapter proposals/abstracts of approximately 250-300 words are due by midnight on Aug. 15, 2016. Potential contributors are encouraged to contact Marian Meyers if they have an idea they would to discuss: mmeyers@gsu.edu.

CFP: Journal of Games Criticism


The Journal of Games Criticism (ISSN: 2374-202X) is currently seeking submissions from game developers, designers, bloggers, journalists, and scholars for its Summer/Fall 2016 issue. This issue’s submission deadline is August 1, 2016 and will be published on October 8, 2016. This open access, peer reviewed journal accepts articles, book reviews, experimental game reviews, and letters to the editor for review.

Our submission guidelines are available at http://gamescriticism.org/submissions/ and submission templates are available at http://gamescriticism.org/templates/. Questions or comments can be directed to gamescriticism@gmail.com.

Nicholas A. Hanford

Editor-in-Chief

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Foucault on Heterotopia

From Philosophy Now
Foucault on Heterotopia


Book: Divided Sovereignties Race, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America


Divided Sovereignties
Race, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America
Rochelle Raineri Zuck
How racial and ethnic populations in America influenced notions of sovereignty throughout the nineteenth century

Description
In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about the constructions of American nationhood and national citizenship, the frequently invoked concept of divided sovereignty signified the division of power between state and federal authorities and/or the possibility of one nation residing within the geopolitical boundaries of another. Political and social realities of the nineteenth century—such as immigration, slavery, westward expansion, Indigenous treaties, and financial panics—amplified anxieties about threats to national/state sovereignty.
Rochelle Raineri Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs’s novel Imperium in Imperio in 1899, four populations were most often referred to as racial and ethnic nations within the nation: the Cherokees, African Americans, Irish Americans, and Chinese immigrants. Writers and orators from these groups engaged the concept of divided sovereignty to assert alternative visions of sovereignty and collective allegiance (not just ethnic or racial identity), to gain political traction, and to complicate existing formations of nationhood and citizenship. Their stories intersected with issues that dominated nineteenth-century public argument and contributed to the Civil War.

In five chapters focused on these groups, Zuck reveals how constructions of sovereignty shed light on a host of concerns including regional and sectional tensions; territorial expansion and jurisdiction; economic uncertainty; racial, ethnic, and religious differences; international relations; immigration; and arguments about personhood, citizenship, and nationhood.

Latour on "Double Click Communication"


From the review of rejoicing by Bruno Latour from the Journal of Communication and Religion

[S]cience and religion... are saddled with the expectations of what Latour calls “double-click communication,” in which one expects “immediate and costless access” to knowledge, as easy as tapping a computer’s mouse (22). This demand harms both science and religion by stripping away all their difficult and laborious work and expecting that both speak as oracles. Latour has rejected this reduction in science, and he now rejects it in religion. “It’s impossible to simplify. There is no straight path. No angelic inspiration, no muse whispering in your ear” (7). Latour’s project in Rejoicing is not to invent more persuasive discourse in order to buttress religion in its fight with science. Instead, he seeks to tease out the complexity of religious utterance in the same way he has done for science...
Latour’s use of rhetoric never becomes this explicit, his vision of religious speech is thoroughly rhetorical. Latour calls such speech “faithful invention” (111, emphasis in original). “To find the right words again you have to use whatever speaks to the ears of those you’re addressing” (156). To miss the rhetorical nature of religion is to judge religion by the wrong set of felicity conditions and therefore to undermine the true power of religious rhetoric. It does not simply deliver religious information, but rather offers new formation: “angels do not convey messages; they change those they address. What they transfer is not an information content, but a new container” (32). Latour understands religious rhetoric as a means not of persuasion, but rather as a means of forming new identities and communities. He asks, “So, there really exist such miraculous words, then, that produce those who say them at the same time as those who hear them, gathering them together into a newly convened people united by the same message finally made real?” (50)...

[T]he question of religion is not one of belief. “To confuse belief (or non-belief) in ‘God’ with the demands of religion means taking the decor for the room, the overture for the opera” (6)... For Latour, saying “I believe” is not to anchor in being so much as engage in becoming... God is “The thing that begets neighbors” (135). God is more of a project than a “person.” 

Paul Lynch, Saint Louis University

© 2014 Religious Communication Association 

Monday, July 25, 2016

Statement Regarding Threats to Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Turkey


Statement Regarding Threats to Academic Freedom and Higher Education in
Turkey

NCA and several other scholarly societies have issued a joint statement
expressing concern about the apparent moves to dismantle much of the
structure of Turkish higher education through purges, restrictions, and
assertions of central control and calling for respect for academic
freedom and the autonomy of universities in Turkey.  To view the full
statement, visit http://bit.ly/2ai9LVJ

2017 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute

Applications are now open for the 2017 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute!

We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the 2017 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute to be hosted at Indiana University in Bloomington. The Institute will host both seminars and workshops. Seminars will run from Monday, May 22 through the morning of Thursday, May 25, and workshops will run from the afternoon of Thursday, May 25 through noon on Saturday, May 27, 2017.

Applications can be found online at http://associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/pt/sp/institute_application. The application deadline is October 1st, 2016. Acceptances will be announced by the end of 2016. The registration deadline will be April 1st, 2017.

The seminars will investigate the racial contract (Mark McPhail and Keith Miler), the new materialism (Diane Davis and Thomas Rickert), rhetoric’s affect and the affect of rhetoric (Joshua Gunn and Jenny Rice), digital rhetoric beyond the screen (James Brown, Casey Boyle, and Steph Ceraso), in/visible bodies and human rights (Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol), post-cold war presidential rhetoric (John Murphy and Mary Stuckey), the rhetorical spaces of memory (Carole Blair and Greg  Dickinson), and queer archival immersion—to be held in the world famous Kinsey Institute and working with its collections (Charles Morris, E. Cram, Eric Darnell Pritchard, K.J. Rawson, and Jennifer Tyburczy).

The Institute Workshops will feature a workshop on academic publishing led by the immediate past editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech and the current editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly, as well as another on how to convert your dissertation to a book manuscript.  Of course, we will have a wide array of topical workshops on argumentation, the archive, animal rhetoric, computational rhetoric, decolonizing rhetoric in the 21st century, disability rhetorics, rhetoric and environmental justice, rhetoric and the scientific object, rhetoric and sport, rhetoric and law, non-western rhetorical traditions, cinema and social movement, sonic rhetoric, textual criticism, rhetoric and violence, and much more!

You can find a complete list of seminars and workshops at the RSA webpage (http://associationdatabase.com/aws/RSA/pt/sp/institute_seminars), or at the Institute webpage (https://www.indiana.edu/~iucweb/rsa17/).

If you have any questions, please let us know at RSA2017@indiana.edu

You can also find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rsa2017/

We hope you’ll apply and plan on joining us at Indiana University for #RSA17!

Friday, July 22, 2016

CFP: The Millennial Generation and its Future Prospects

CFP: The Millennial Generation and its Future Prospects

Journal: Communication, Politics and Culture. Editor-in-chief Dr. Chris Hudson

Guest Editors: Drs. Ahmet Atay & Anthony Cristiano

Description:

Millennials have been described in a variety of ways, as the ‘dumbest generation’ (M. Bauerlein, 2009), ‘the want’ generation (E. Fish, 2015), ‘the rising’ generation (N. Howe & W. Strauss, 2000), the ‘most influential consumer’ generation (J. Fromm & C. Garton, 2013), the ‘next political’ generation (A. Novak, 2016), the ‘Muggle generation’ (A. Gierzynski, 2013), part of the ‘faithful generation’ (J. Mabry, 2013), and the ‘digital-only media consumer’ generation (D. Desjardins, 2015), among other qualifications. Members of the millennial generation, or Generation Y, were born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s. Most of them are offspring of the baby boomers. Even though Generation X members were known to heavily consume electronic media due to the infancy of the Internet, the millennials were born into a media-saturated and new consumer-driven culture. Moreover, unlike the members of the previous generations, they are surrounded by d!
 igital media technologies since birth. In a way, they live in a digital media ecosystem and in fact are known as “digital natives” (J. Palfrey & U. Gasser, 2013; A. Parment, 2012; F. Tanyel et al., 2013). While there may not be a global culture created by the members of the millennial generation outside of their national borders, what appears to be emerging, however, is a transnational similarity among them due to the shared environments afforded to them by the global nature of new media and Internet technologies. This CFP aims to survey the state of the current studies and findings pertaining to the role played by, and effects of, portable devices (i.e. smartphones, new digital gadgetry, social media networks, and other transnational web-based networks accessed via mobile devices, etc.), as well as propose new understandings, on diverse ethnic groups and demographics (i.e. the impact of millennials in political culture, despite the criticism of being disconnected and d!
 isengaged, is apparent: the role they played in the last presidential e
lections in Canada, their involvement in the U.S. political landscape through their support of Bernie Sanders, and their overwhelming reaction to the Brexit ‘remain campaign’ is worthwhile to note). Have millennials’ prospects and/or competencies improved compared to previous generations? Are they demonstrating the ability to set out a path for themselves and take charge of their own life and future—as per the claims of visionaries like Ray Kurzweil, among others? This special issue is particularly interested in, but not limited by, the following points:

1)    Review of current studies and findings with critical assessment of arguments and propositions, if any.

2)    Advancement of descriptions and classifications of common features and trends among millennials, globally.

3)    New insights into the culture, outlook, aspirations, and vision of millennials, as well as difference from previous generational mindsets.

4)    Prognostic depiction of future states, prospects, and/or outcomes of current trends.

5)    The creation of a ‘global millennials’ culture’; is it possible?

6)    The ways in which members of the millennial generation increasingly become cosmopolitans, and the quality or character of such cosmopolitanism.

7)    New forms of addiction, anxieties, relationships, and/or distractions, millennials are subjected to and affected by.

8)    Disruptive technology and the schooling of millennials, revolutions in higher education: where are they headed?

9)    How is the complex relationship between millennials and new media technologies changing media and cultural landscapes?

Abstracts are due by August 30, 2016, with a word length of up to no more than 500 words, along with pertinent references, and a short biographic blurb of 300 words. Full-length manuscripts are due on December 30, 2016, with a word length of no more than 6,000 words and in MLA style, including references, endnotes, and so forth. Abstracts should be emailed as Word documents to both co-editors Ahmet Atay (aatay@wooster.edu) and Anthony Cristiano (anthony.cristiano@utoronto.ca) for an initial review.

Selected bibliography:

Atay, Ahmet. Globalization’s Impact on Cultural Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberpace. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. Print.
—. “Digital Diasporic Experiences in Digital Queer Spaces.” Click and Kin: Transnational Identity and Quick Media. Eds. May Friedman and Silvia Schuldermandl, Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 2016. 139-158. Print.

Bauerlein, Mark. The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30). New York, NY: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2008. Print.

Bibby, Reginald W, Sarah Russell, and Ronald Rolheiser. The Emerging Millennials: How Canada’s Newest Generation Is Responding to Change & Choice. Lethbridge, AB: Project Canada Books, 2009. Print.

Botterill, Jacqueline, Marian Bredin, Tim Dun. “Millennials’ Use: It is a Matter of Time.” Canadian Journal of Communication 40.3 (2015): 537-551. Print.
Chod, Suzanne M., William J Muck, Stephen M. Caliendo.Technology and Civic Engagement in the College Classroom: Engaging the Unengaged. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2015. Print.

Cristiano, Anthony. “Internet Technologies: Digital Paradises or Digital Hells?” in Digital Images of Europe: Past, Present, Future. Ed. Yolanda Espiña. Porto: Universidade Católica Editora, 2014. Internet source.

—. “Digital Media Realities: Propositions from the Arts, Philosophy, and Criticism.” URAM (University of Toronto Press Journal)33.3-4 (2010, Published 2014): 208-221. Print.

Desjardins, Danielle. The Digital-Only Media Consumer: Key Findings from a Conversation with All-Digital Millennials. Toronto: Canada Media Fund, 2015. Internet resource.

Ferreira, Stacey and Jarred Kleinert. 2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World. New York: St Martin’s Press, 2015. Print.

Fish, Eric. China’s Millennials: The Want Generation. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Print.

Fromm, Jeff, and Christie Garton. Marketing to Millennials: Reach the Largest and Most Influential Generation of Consumers Ever. New York: American Management Association, 2013. Print.

Gierzynski, Anthony, and Kathryn Eddy. Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2013. Print.

Greenfiled, David. “The Addictive Properties of Internet Usage.”Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment. Kimberly S. Young and Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu eds. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2011. 135-153. Print.

Griffiths, Mark. “Does Internet and Computer ‘Addiction’ Exist? Some Case Study Evidence.” Cyberpychology & Behavior 3.2 (2000): 211-217. Print.

Guzzo, Tiziana, Fernando Ferri, and Patrizia Grifoni. “Social Network’s Effects on Italian Teenager’s Life.” Journal of Next Generation Information Technology (JNIT) 4.3 (2013): 54–62. Print.

Howe, Neil, and William Strauss. Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation /by Neil Howe and Bill Strauss; Cartoons by R.J. Matson. New York: Vintage Books, 2000. Print.

Kimberly S. Young and Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu eds. Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2011. Print.

Imperato, Rob. The Digital Age: The Real Challenge and Effect on Children and Parents. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris.com, 2014. Print.

Lancaster, Lynne C. and David Stillman. When Generation Collide: Who They Are, Why They Clash, and How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work. New York: Harper Collins, 2002. Print.

Luo, Shanhong. “Effects of texting on satisfaction in romantic relationships: The role of attachment.” Computers in Human Behavior 33 (2014) 145–152. Print.

Luttrell, Regina and Karen McGrath. The Millennial Mindset: Unraveling Fact from Fiction. Lanham, MD. Lexington Books, 2015. Print.

Mabry, John R. Faithful Generations: Effective Ministry Across Generational Lines. New York: Morehouse Publishing, 2013. Print.

McHaney, Roger and John Daniel. The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2011. Print

New Strategist Publications. The Millennials: Americans Born 1977 to 1994. Ithaca, N.Y: New Strategist Publications, 2004. Print.

Novak, Alison. Media, Millennials, and Politics: The Coming of Age of the Next Political Generation. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. Print.

Palfrey, John and Urs Gasser. “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.” The Millennial Generation. Eds. David Haugen and Susan Musser. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2013. 35-42. Print.

Parment, Anders. Generation Y in Consumer and Labor Markets. New York: Routledge, 2012. Print.

Poindexter, Paula. M. Millennials, News, and Social Media: Is News Engagement a Thing of the Past? New York: Peter Lang, 2012. Print.

Rankin, David. US Politics and Generation Y: Engaging the Millennials. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013. Print.

Schwalbe, Carol B. “Leveraging the Digital Media Habits of the Millennials: Strategies for Teaching Journalism Courses.”Southwestern Mass Communication Journal Fall (2009). 53-68. Print.

Serazio, Michael. “Selling (Digital) Millennials.” Television & New Media 16.7 (2015): 599-615. Print.

Serres, Michel. Thumbelina: The Culture and Technology of Millennials. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. Print.

Sujansky, Joanne G, and Jan Ferri-Reed. Keeping the Millennials: Why Companies Are Losing Billions in Turnover to This Generation-and What to Do About It. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Print.

Tanyel, Faruk, Elnora W. Stuart, and Jan Griffin. “Have ‘Millenials’ Embraced Digital Advertising as They Have Embraced Digital Media?” Journal of Promotion Management 19 (2013). 652-673. Print.

Tapscott, Don. Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998. Print

Zhou, Yan et al. “Gray matter abnormalities in Internet addiction: A voxel-based morphometry study.” European Journal of Radiology 79 (2011): 92-95. Print.

Rhetorical Questions (podcast) discusses proposed Michigan law prohibiting "aggressive panhandling"

Rhetorical Questions (podcast) discusses proposed Michigan law
prohibiting "aggressive panhandling" with Whitney Gent and Melanie
Loehwing

Rhetorical Questions has released Episode 11: Lessons in Fear. The show
features interviews with Whitney Gent and Melanie Loehwing. We discuss
popular representations of homelessness, rhetorical constructions of
public space, and the relationship between homeownership and
citizenship. 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 or Stitcher. Links
are available on our website, rhetoricalquestions.org. Direct email
inquiries to rhetoricalquestions@yahoo.com.

Brian Amsden, Clayton State University

CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Special Issue Sexual Violence in Comics

CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Special Issue
Sexual Violence in Comics

Guest Editors: Rebecca Scherr (University of Oslo) and Mihaela Precup (University of Bucharest)

This special issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics explores the representation of sexual violence in any form of the medium of comics. The visual representation of sexual violence tests the limits of what can be shown in different contemporary cultural spaces, but it also provides a good testing ground for what the medium of comics can do to contribute to the wider conversation about the ethics and aesthetics of the rendition of difficult subjects. Important contributions to this topic have already been made by cartoonists working in many different areas of the medium, and who speak from a variety of cultural backgrounds, from the autobiographical work of authors like Debbie Drechsler (Daddy’s Girl), Phoebe Gloeckner (A Child’s Life and Other Stories), and Katie Green (Lighter Than My Shadow), to graphic reportage (Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Gorazde), historical graphic narratives (Paolo Cossi’s Medz Yeghern. Le Grande Mal), fantasy (Saga, Sex Criminals), historical fiction (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Manifest Destiny), as well as in many other examples from both alternative and superhero comics. This list is by no means exhaustive: there are many other graphic narratives where sexual violence is not a minor plot point, but an important part of the narrative which positions it at the intersection of current conversations on violence, gender and sexuality, as well as trauma and memory.

Papers can address (but are not limited to) the following topics:

-          The limitations/taboos of the visual representation of sexual violence

-          Aesthetic modes of the representation of sexual violence

-          Representations of post-traumatic memory in the wake of sexual violence

-          The ethics of retribution/revenge

-          Power, vulnerability, and sexual violence

-          The visual construction of the interaction of violent and violated bodies

-          Sexual violence and mental illness

-          Sexual violence during war/genocide

-          The gendered nature of various acts of sexual violence

You can submit abstracts of 150 words, with a 50-word biography, by 1 September 2016; articles of 5000-7000 words will be due by 15 November 2016. This special issue of the JGNC will come out in the summer of 2017.

Please submit your abstracts and/or questions to both editors at rebecca.scherr@ilos.uio.no and mihaela.precup@lls.unibuc.ro.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

From Daniel Boone to Captain America: Playing Indian in American Popular Culture

An exploration of whites posing as Native Americans from nineteenth-century literature to comic books

From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, From Daniel Boone to Captain America: Playing Indian in American Popular Culture
(University Press of Mississippi) examines the transmission of the ideals and myths of the frontier and the concept of playing Indian in American culture. Author Chad Barbour American surveys the ways American art and literature developed and nurtured images of the Indian and the frontiersman. These images exemplified ideals of heroism, bravery, and manhood, as well as embodying fears of betrayal, loss of civilization, and weakness.

In the twentieth century, comic books, among other popular forms of media, would inherit these images. The Western genre of comic books participated fully in that genre’s conventions, replicating and perpetuating the myths and ideals long associated with the frontier in the United States. A fascination with Native Americans was also present in comic books devoted to depicting the Indian past of the U.S. In such stories, the Indian is always a figure of the past, romanticized as a lost segment of U.S. history, ignoring contemporary and actual Native peoples.

Playing Indian occupies a definite subgenre of the Western comics, especially during the postwar period when a host of comics featuring a “white Indian” as the hero were being published. Playing Indian migrates into superhero comics, a phenomenon that heightens and amplifies the notions of heroism, bravery, and manhood already attached to the white Indian trope. Instances of superheroes like Batman and Superman playing Indian correspond with the depictions found in the strictly Western comics. The superhero as Indian is revived in the twenty-first century via Captain America, attesting to the continuing power of this ideal and image.

From Daniel Boone to Captain America the only book-length study of the frontier and playing Indian in comics, an covers an area of comics history that has received very little scholarly attention.

Chad A. Barbour is associate professor in the School of Arts and Letters at Lake Superior State University. He teaches courses in American studies, Native American studies, children's literature, and comics and graphic novels. His work has appeared in the Journal of Popular Culture and the International Journal of Comic Art.

For more information contact Clint Kimberling, Publicist, ckimberling@mississippi.edu
Read more about From Daniel Boone to Captain America: Playing Indian in American Popular Culture at http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1904

Latour on Rejoicing: Or the Torments of Religious Speech

One of the Latour books I have picked up to catch up with Nathan Johnson is this one.  It looks fascinating, because the intro is so personal.

From Rejoicing: Or the Torments of Religious Speech
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/496

Rejoicing – or the torments of religious speech: that is what he wants to talk about, that is what he can’t actually seem to talk about: it’s as though the cat had got his tongue; as though he was spoilt for choice when it comes to words; as though it was impossible to articulate; he can’t actually seem to share what, for so long, he has held so dear to his heart; before his nearest and dearest, he is forced to cover up; he can only stutter; how can he own up to his friends, to his colleagues, his nephews, his students?

He is ashamed of not daring to speak out and ashamed of wanting to speak out, regardless. Ashamed, too, for those who don’t make it any easier for him, thrusting his head underwater while claiming to rescue him, or, instead of throwing him a lifebuoy, throwing words as heavy as a mooring buoy at him. Weighted with lead, that’s it –they’ve weighted him with lead. Yes, he goes to mass, and often, on Sunday, but it doesn’t mean anything. Alas, no, it doesn’t mean anything really; it can’t mean anything anymore to anyone. There is no diction anymore for these things, no tone, no tonality, no regime of speech or utterance. It’s a twisted situation: he is ashamed of what he hears on Sunday from the pulpit when he goes to mass; but ashamed, too, of the incredulous hatred or amused indifference of those who laugh at people who go to church. Ashamed that he goes, ashamed of not daring to say he goes. He grinds his teeth when he hears the things said inside the church; but he boils with rage when he hears the things said outside the church. All that’s left for him to do is hang his head, weary, sheepish, before the horrors and misconceptions on the inside as well as before the horrors and misconceptions on the outside; it’s a double cowardice, double shame, and he has no words to express this, as though he were caught between two opposing currents, with the resultant clash leaving him whirling on the spot.

Journal of Consumer Culture March 2016; Vol. 16, No. 1


Journal of Consumer Culture
March 2016; Vol. 16, No. 1

Constructing a “democratic” dreamworld: Carnival cruise ships and an aesthetic of optimism
Stephanie Kolberg

Inconspicuous dressing: A critique of the construction-through-consumption paradigm in the sociology of clothing
Elise van der Laan and Olav Velthuis

Stacking wood and staying warm: Time, temporality and housework around domestic heating systems
Mikko Jalas and Jenny Rinkinen

Commercial pacification: Airline advertising, fear of flight, and the shaping of popular emotion
Richard K Popp

Onerous consumption: The alternative hedonism of off-grid domestic water use
Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart

How consumption prescriptions affect food practices: Assessing the roles of household resources and life-course events
Marie Plessz, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, Séverine Gojard, and Sandrine Barrey

Individual choice and social values: Choice in the agrifood sector
Lawrence Busch

Consumption as common sense: Heteronormative hegemony and white wedding desire
Patricia Arend

Moral reactions to reality TV: Television viewers’ endogenous and exogenous loci of morality
Roscoe C Scarborough and Charles Allan McCoy

Smells like teen spirit: Channelling subcultural traditions in contemporary Dr Martens branding
Cath Davies

Constructing and communicating an ethical consumer identity: A Social Identity Approach
Eleni Papaoikonomou, Rosalia Cascon-Pereira, and Gerard Ryan

Forming digital self and parasocial relationships on YouTube
Chih-Ping Chen

Conceptualizing non-voluntary anti-consumption: A practice-based study on market resistance in poor circumstances
Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen, Henna Syrjälä, and Pirjo Laaksonen

The age of affluence revisited: Council estates and consumer society in Britain, 1950–1970
Matthew Hollow

Living in wealthy neighborhoods increases material desires and maladaptive consumption
Jia Wei Zhang, Ryan T Howell, and Colleen J Howell

Book Review
Patricia Cormack and James F Cosgrave, Desiring Canada: CBC Contests, Hockey Violence, and other Stately Pleasures.
Creighton Connolly

Monday, July 18, 2016

2016 African American Communication and Culture Division and Black Caucus Outstanding Research Awards

2016 African American Communication and Culture Division and Black Caucus Outstanding Research Awards



The African American Communication & Culture Division (AACCD) and the Black Caucus of NCA seeks nominations from division and caucus members for the 2016 annual research awards. Awards will be granted to the author(s) of theory and/or research on specific issues of concern to African Americans, Black ethnicity, or people of the African Diaspora representing a variety of communication contexts, processes, practices, theory development, or innovative research approaches. There will be one award for an outstanding book; one for an outstanding refereed article; one for outstanding book chapter; and one award for outstanding dissertation/thesis. Book nominations may include authored books, edited books, and textbooks.

To be considered for an award, articles, books, and textbooks must meet the following minimum criteria: Nominations will be accepted for works published between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. At least one author must be an NCA member.

Award recipients will be announced during the division business meeting at the NCA convention in Philadelphia, PA and award winners should agree to attend the conference to receive their award in person.

In order to nominate the work of others or yourself, send a statement of nomination and the accompanying publication. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged and preferred. When nominating a book or textbook, if an electronic version of the book is not available, please send an electronic statement to the awards committee chair, and ask the book publisher to mail (4) copies of the book under separate cover to the awards committee chair (Amber Johnson).

All nominations must be postmarked no later than Monday, August 15, 2016 in order to be considered for the award. Please note that nominations will not be considered without receipt of the accompanying publication or book packet material. Please send nominations to:

Amber Johnson

Chair- Awards Committee

Email:ajohns37@slu.edu

Mailing Address:

Dr. Amber Johnson

Chair- Awards Committee

Saint Louis University - Department of Communication

Xavier Hall #329

3733 West Pine Mall

Saint Louis, MO 63108

Call for 2016 Outstanding Scholarly Book Award Nominations


Deadline: August 15, 2016



The African American Communication and Culture Division and the Black Caucus seek nominations for its 2016 Outstanding Book Award to be given to the author(s) or editor(s) of an outstanding scholarly book. Books published between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016 will be eligible for consideration. Self-nominations are strongly encouraged. All letters of nomination should clearly explicate how the book makes, or promises to make, a significant contribution to African American communication scholarship. In addition, the nomination letter should note specifically which single chapter is best representative of the nominated book.

The nomination packet should include the nomination letter and the book.  Electronic copies, including proof pages, will be accepted.  If electronic copies are not available, please submit (4) hard copies of the proof pages to the address below.  You can also ask the book publisher to mail (4) copies of the book under separate cover to the awards committee chair if an electronic version of the book is not available. All nomination packet materials for the book award should be sent to:



Amber Johnson

Chair- Awards Committee

Email:ajohns37@slu.edu

Mailing Address:

Dr. Amber Johnson

Chair- Awards Committee

Saint Louis University - Department of Communication

Xavier Hall #329

3733 West Pine Mall

Saint Louis, MO 63108


Call for 2016 Outstanding Scholarly Article Award Nominations


Deadline: August 15, 2016



The African American Communication and Culture Division and Black Caucus seek nominations for its 2016 Outstanding Article Award to be given to the author(s) of a peer-reviewed journal article. Articles published between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016 are eligible for consideration. Self-nominations for the article award are strongly encouraged. All letters of nomination should clearly explicate how the article makes, or promises to make, a significant contribution to African American communication scholarship.

Please send the nomination letter and electronic copy of the article (preferably as a PDF) to Amber Johnson@ajohns37@slu.edu If an electronic version is not available, please send four (4) copies of the nomination and article to:


Dr. Amber Johnson

Chair- Awards Committee

Saint Louis University - Department of Communication

Xavier Hall #329

3733 West Pine Mall

Saint Louis, MO 63108


Call for 2016 Outstanding Book Chapter Award Nominations


Deadline: August 15, 2016



The African American Communication and Culture Division and Black Caucus seek nominations for its 2016 Outstanding Book Chapter Award to be given to the author(s) of a chapter or essay appearing in an edited book. Articles or book chapters published between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2015 are eligible for consideration. Self-nominations for the article award are strongly encouraged. All letters of nomination should clearly explicate how the article or book chapter makes, or promises to make, a significant contribution to African American communication scholarship.

Please send the nomination letter and electronic copy of the book chapter (preferably as a PDF) to Amber Johnson @ ajohns37@slu.edu If an electronic version is not available, please send four (4) copies of the nomination and article to:

Dr. Amber Johnson

Chair- Awards Committee

Saint Louis University - Department of Communication

Xavier Hall #329

3733 West Pine Mall

Saint Louis, MO 63108


Call for 2016 Outstanding Dissertation Award Nominations


Deadline: August 15, 2016



The African American Communication and Culture Division and Black Caucus seek nominations for its 2016 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. The advisor of the dissertation or a faculty member from the department in which the dissertation was completed should make nominations. Eligible dissertations must have been defended between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. The nomination packet must include a cover letter written by the advisor or faculty nominator and the following: 1) a 500-word (maximum) abstract of the dissertation; 2) an article-length report of the dissertation (32 double-spaced pages maximum—includes title page, tables, figures, appendices, and references) OR a selection from the dissertation the applicant thinks is most representative of the study (32 double-spaced pages maximum).

Please send the nomination letter and electronic copy of the nomination materials (preferably as a PDF) to Amber Johnson @ ajohns37@slu.edu If an electronic version is not available, please send four (4) copies of the nomination and article to:

Dr. Amber Johnson

Chair- Awards Committee

Saint Louis University - Department of Communication

Xavier Hall #329

3733 West Pine Mall

Saint Louis, MO 63108

Towards an Integrative East-West Communications Paradigm

This special section of China Media Research invites scholars from various disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of “Towards an Integrative East-West Communications Paradigm.” A lack of philosophical integration between Eastern and Western research paradigms presents one of the main challenges in global academic research today. In addition, there is little evidence to suggest that scholars are actively addressing this issue despite the repeated calls for integration.

The fragmentation is particularly salient in communications research, which remains anchored in Western values, perspectives and constructs. This special section aims to explore how the indigenous Eastern philosophical frameworks could serve as a source of inspiration for theory building and reconstruction, and contribute towards achieving integration between Western and Eastern communications paradigms.

Following these considerations, scholars are invited to submit their original manuscripts that address the following topics, among others:

-       Cultural transformation/dialogue between East and West;

-       Paradigmatic assumptions of Chinese communication in the global context;

-       Integration of theoretical and practical aspects of the Chinese/Eastern philosophical concepts (such as harmony);

-       Yin Yang balancing as a framework for overcoming dualism;

-       Contrasting static and dynamic frameworks for cultural analysis;

-       Methods for achieving an etic-emic integration in communications research.

Submissions must not have been previously published nor be under consideration by another publication. An extended abstract (up to 1,000 words) or a complete paper at the first stage of the reviewing process will be accepted. All the submissions must be received by October 15, 2016. If the extended abstract is accepted, the complete manuscript must be received by February 15, 2017. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the APA publication manual (6th edition) and should not exceed 8,000 words including tables and references. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed, and the authors will be notified of the final acceptance/rejection decision. Please visit www.chinamediaresearch.net for more information about the quarterly journal of China Media Research, which publishes both print and online versions.

Please direct questions and submissions to the CMR special section guest editor Ivana Beveridge atIvana.beveridge@sunrise-education.com

Friday, July 15, 2016

Women's Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)by Tarez Samra Graban (Author)

Women's Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms)by Tarez Samra Graban (Author)
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press (30 Aug. 2015)
ISBN-10: 0809334186
ISBN-13: 978-0809334186
Review
"Employing apt historical examples, Tarez Samra Graban fully engages her readers with various iterations of irony--revealing the means by which irony connects speakers and writers with historians of their work, transforms our understanding of the archive, and exposes the complexity and creativity of many types of public discourse. Graban's is the first study to employ history and theory to focus on how irony might shape an influential text and how it might influence readers of different time periods."--Katherine H. Adams, Loyola University New Orleans

Employing apt historical examples, Tarez Samra Graban fully engages her readers with various iterations of irony revealing the means by which irony connects speakers and writers with historians of their work, transforms our understanding of the archive, and exposes the complexity and creativity of many types of public discourse. Graban s is the first study to employ history and theory to focus on how irony might shape an influential text and how it might influence readers of different time periods. Katherine H. Adams, Loyola University New Orleans"

About the Author
Tarez Samra Graban is an assistant professor of English at Florida State University, USA and a coauthor of GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century. Her essays on feminist rhetorical historiography and archival theory have been published in the journals Rhetorica, Gender and Language, College English, and the edited collection Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition.