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Monday, February 27, 2017

Book Announcement: Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization (Lexington Books)


Description

Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines the growing popularity of food and travel television and its implications for how we understand the relationship between food, place, and identity. Attending to programs such as Bizarre Foods, Bizarre Foods America, The Pioneer Woman, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, Man vs. Food, and No Reservations, Casey Ryan Kelly critically examines the emerging rhetoric of culinary television, attending to how American audiences are invited to understand the cultural and economic significance of global foodways. This book shows how food television exoticizes foreign cultures, erases global poverty, and contributes to myths of American exceptionalism. It takes television seriously as a site for the reproduction of cultural and economic mythology where representations of food and consumption become the commonsense of cultural difference and economic success.

Reviews

Kelly’s incisive analysis demonstrates that taste represents a cultural fault line, one wrought with assumptions about clean, dirty, the self, and other. A must-read for those grappling with the complex intersection of rhetoric and foodways.

— Justin Eckstein, Pacific Lutheran University

Food Television and Otherness asks important questions about the ways identity is mediated through food in the swirl of contradictory globalization. Kelly helps us see how food shapes the historical relations between culture and power in ways that both tantalize and threaten. This is a compelling work of media criticism.

— Donovan Conley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

In Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization, Professor Kelly does much more than offer a critique of food based television programming. Kelly explores the very nature of representation through careful, diligent, and close examinations of contemporary food based television. In so doing, Kelly explores the very production of meaning centered around Western audiences and offers an essential read for those interested in, or concerned about, the struggles inherent in shared social experiences.

— Derek Buescher, University of Puget Sound

About the author

Casey Ryan Kelly is currently Associate Professor of Critical Communication and Media Studies at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN.

Available now at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498544443/Food-Television-and-Otherness-in-the-Age-of-Globalization#

The Howard Journal of Communications Publishes Special Issue on Obama Presidency

The Howard Journal of Communications, in its first issue of 2017 (volume 28, 1), publishes a special issue on Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidency. This historical presidency creates various discussion points captured in this special issue.

In Obama’s campaign en route to winning the Presidency in 2008, The New Yorker published on its cover page a caricature of Barack and Michelle Obama that generated much discussion. Stevens and King-Meadows, in the Howard Journal of Communications’ special issue, revisits The New Yorker’s publication and analyzes the meaning behind that controversial cover page. In another article, Glenn explores Obama’s special relationship with indigenous Americans and remarks that Obama uses “a ‘nations-within’ concept . . . that contrasts markedly with past presidential rhetoric concerning indigenous Americans.” While several of the articles focus on President Obama and his tenure, Meyers and Goman focus on the First Lady, Michelle Obama, and investigate how the White House uses Youtube videos to redefine the First Lady via intersectionality of race, gender, and class.

This is a can’t miss special issue that is both a must read and a must keep. It is certain to be a historical issue for sometime to come. You may access the issue and its articles via the Taylor and Francis website for the Howard Journal of Communications:

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhjc20/current.

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Book Announcement: Rhizcomics: Rhetoric, Technology, and New Media Composition

We're excited to announce the publication of a new book from the University of Michigan Press and the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative -- Rhizcomics: Rhetoric, Technology, and New Media Composition, by Jason Helms of Texas Christian University.

It is a fully digital, interactive publication that playfully and artfully presents an argument about comics as rhetorical arguments.

Happy reading!

Naomi, for the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

Women's Studies in Communication, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2, 2017

Women's Studies in Communication, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2, 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Mothering Rhetorics

This new issue contains the following articles:
INTRODUCTION
Introduction to Mothering Rhetorics
D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
Pages: 1-10 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1280326

ARTICLE
Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief: The Racialized Rhetorical Contexts of Maternity
Sara Hayden
Pages: 11-28 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2016.1182095

Fixing Food to Fix Families: Feeding Risk Discourse and the Family Meal
Amber E. Kinser
Pages: 29-47 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2016.1207001

#SpoiledMilk: Blacktavists, Visibility, and the Exploitation of the Black Breast
Megan Elizabeth Morrissey & Karen Y. Kimball
Pages: 48-66 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2015.1121945

Standpoints of Maternity Leave: Discourses of Temporality and Ability
Patrice M. Buzzanell, Robyn V. Remke, Rebecca Meisenbach, Meina Liu, Venessa Bowers & Cindy Conn
Pages: 67-90 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2015.1113451

Rhetorics of Unwed Motherhood and Shame
Heather Brook Adams
Pages: 91-110 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2016.1247401

Empowering Disgust: Redefining Alternative Postpartum Placenta Practices
Elizabeth Dickinson, Karen Foss & Charlotte Kroløkke
Pages: 111-128 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2016.1247400

UM Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric

http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/book-prize/

We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the UM Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric. The prize, which is funded by the Sweetland Center for Writing, is awarded to an innovative and important book-length project that displays critical and rigorous engagement in the field of digital rhetoric. These projects should be born-digital or substantially digitally enhanced, and they should be completed or very near completion.

Eligible projects will be peer reviewed, with the prize recipient determined by the DRC advisory board and directors. The advisory board members are Jonathan Alexander (University of California, Irvine), Cheryl Ball (West Virginia University), Kristine Blair (Bowling Green State University), Douglas Eyman (George Mason University), Troy Hicks (Central Michigan University), Derek Mueller (Eastern Michigan University), Jentery Sayers (University of British Columbia), and Melanie Yergeau (University of Michigan). The directors are Anne Ruggles Gere and Naomi Silver, and the assistant director is Simone Sessolo (University of Michigan).

For consideration, authors should provide by email a portfolio including the prospectus and full manuscript for the completed project. The prospectus should provide the following information: a description of the goals, intended audience, and significance; and an explanation of technical requirements, feasibility, and long-term sustainability. The full manuscript should include all digital materials (manuscript and materials can be submitted as a url). We also ask that authors provide a recent CV. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2017.

Please send submissions to Mary Francis, Editorial Director for the University of Michigan Press, and the DRC directors, using this email address: SweetlandDRCBooks@umich.edu.

The prize is open to scholars of all ranks, though preference is for first and single-author projects of younger scholars. A prize of $5000 will be awarded, along with an advance contract for publication in the series. The recipient will be announced on the DRC, U-M Press, and Sweetland websites, and at Computers and Writing 2017.

Friday, February 24, 2017

How to Write a Profile of an Academic Celebrity

From "The Times Magazine and Academic Megastars" by Tim Spurgin
Minnesota Review, Number 52-54, Fall 2001 pp. 225-237


Henry Louis Gates and the Rise of Academic Celebrity

From "The Times Magazine and Academic Megastars" by Tim Spurgin
Minnesota Review, Number 52-54, Fall 2001 pp. 225-237

Typology of Academic Celebrity

From "The Times Magazine and Academic Megastars" by Tim Spurgin
Minnesota Review, Number 52-54, Fall 2001 pp. 225-237


Psychoanalysis of the Graduate Student Experience

Seems like hooey to me.  But I remember when I would have found this kind of thinking seductive.

From "What does womangraduate students want?": John Guillory and that obscure object of desire
by Gregg Lambert
Minnesota Review, Number 52-54, Fall 2001, pp. 249-262




Thursday, February 23, 2017

"For women, especially for women in composition... unfair working conditions have been a concern since the 1970s.. [T]he only reason the problem is now known as the academic labor crisis is because unfair labor practices have begun to affect men as well...

From: Felicia Carr, "The Gender Gap in the Academic Labor Crisis"

Current discussions of the academic labor crisis do not acknowledge that for women, especially for women in composition, labor issues and unfair working conditions have been a concern since the 1970s. I argue that the only reason the problem is now known as the academic labor crisis is because unfair labor practices have begun to affect men as well...


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I remembered when theory was my biggest concern... This book review reminds me...

From "Rhetoric Run Riot" by Dion Cautrell
Minnesota Review, Number 52-54, Fall 2001 pp. 365-369


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Kaleidoscope Call for Graduate Papers (EXTENDED)


Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research welcomes submissions for our upcoming issue. Our submission period has been extended from February 15, 2017, until March 15, 2017.

Kaleidoscope is a refereed, annually published print and electronic journal devoted to graduate students who develop philosophical, theoretical, and/or practical applications of qualitative, interpretive, and critical/cultural communication research. We welcome scholarship from current graduate students in Communication Studies and related cognate areas/disciplines. We especially encourage contributions that rigorously expand scholars’ understanding of a diverse range of communication phenomena.

In addition to our ongoing commitment to written scholarship, we are interested in ways scholars are exploring the possibilities of new technologies and media to present their research. Kaleidoscope welcomes scholarship forms such as video/audio/photos of staged performance, experimental performance art, or web-based artistic representations of scholarly research. Web-based scholarship should be accompanied by a word-processed artist’s statement of no more than five pages. We invite web-based content that is supplemental to manuscript-based scholarship (e.g., a manuscript discussing a staged performance could be supplemented by video footage from said performance).

Regardless of form, all submissions should represent a strong commitment to academic rigor and should advance salient scholarly discussions. Each submission deemed by the editor to be appropriate to the style and content of Kaleidoscope will receive, at minimum, anonymous assessments by two outside reviewers: (1) a faculty member and (2) an advanced Ph.D. student. For works presented in video/audio/photo form, we may not be able to guarantee author anonymity. The editor of Kaleidoscope will take reasonable action to ensure all authors receive an unbiased review. Reviewers have the option of remaining anonymous or disclosing their identities to the author via the editor.

Submissions must not be under review elsewhere or have appeared in any other published form. Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages (double-spaced) or 7,000 words (including notes and references) and can be prepared following MLA, APA, or Chicago style. All submissions should include an abstract of no more than 150 words and have a detached title page listing the author’s/authors’ name(s), institutional affiliation, and contact information. Authors should remove all identifying references from the manuscript. To be hosted on the Kaleidoscope website, media files should not exceed 220 MB in size. Larger files can be streamed within the Kaleidoscope website but must be hosted externally. Authors must hold rights to any content published in Kaleidoscope, and permission must be granted and documented from all participants in any performance or presentation.

*Special Call*

Affirming (Global) Life: Overcoming Divisive Discourses, Remembering What’s at Stake, and Doing Something Now

In addition to regular submissions, this year’s issue will feature a special section devoted to scholarly discussions of discourses charged with promoting inequality and xenophobia. 2016 has been a violently tumultuous year of global upheaval that has deeply affected public dialogue about diversity. Black Lives Matter, for example, rose to prominence with protests against the killing of unarmed Black citizens in ways that prompted even the religious blog Patheos to use the word “execution” to describe one example, the shooting of Terrence Crutcher by Officer Betty Shelby (Stone). The Orlando massacre of members of the LGBTQ community at Pulse nightclub gave rise to a rhetorical struggle to contain, clarify, and expand upon arguments about the shooter’s motivations and the implications of calls for policy reactions that struck many as Islamophobic (Green) and/or perpetuating an erasure of the intersectional LGBTQ and Latinx identities of those killed (Brammer). Other !
 examples of such discourses this year included North Carolina’s unconstitutional bathroom laws persecuting trans people; the gender wage gap and overwhelming income disparity systemically oppressing the poor and rewarding the rich; ISIS’s fundamentalist terrorism; the desperate plight of millions of refugees fleeing their war-torn countries in search of life; and the xenophobic, racist, and misogynistic rally speeches by Donald Trump, which caused spikes in violence in the nation’s schools (Costello). 2016 has shaken many of us from any complacent perch that “things are fine the way they are,” and discourse communities from academia to the Internet debate the best ways to respond. For some, this uncertainty about the best way to respond mixes with anger and one longs for a different time “before” now – for the nostalgic comfort of a bygone world that likely never existed. At other times, such concerns stimulate pragmatic hope for different circumstances, pro!
 mpting proactive efforts to foster transformational changes.

People in the U.S. and around the world are becoming collectively concerned about the future we face. The forces of terrorism, racism, xenophobia, sexism, and unmindful privilege compel many persons to close themselves off from others they perceive as overwhelmingly different in one way or another. These tactics exploit one trait or practice as determining that an entire person or demographic is dangerous and expendable. In U.S. culture especially, fundamental individualism has always been less concerned with an ethics of community than with capitalism and profiteering. But people are not inherently greedy or solipsistic. We are social creatures, vulnerable and interdependent, and we’re all stuck here together. In this (extra)ordinary way, as Levinas tells us, we are always responsible for the other before our sense of self.

This special section, then, invites essays that ask how communication theory and practice can assist in transcending discourses that demonize and scapegoat difference. How can communication studies guide this transcendence and encourage the commitment, in de Beauvoir’s words to embrace our “fundamental ambiguity” as a shared condition? How can communication studies assist those who seek to deconstruct and untangle themselves from the ethnocentrism poisoning their perceptions of others? How can communication studies undo the scripts that encourage the automatic association of Muslims with terrorism, African Americans with criminality, trans* persons with pedophilia, and women with sex objects? How can communication studies foster a communication ethics that might begin with the notion that none of us are exempt from considering our participation in some of these discourses? It is time for us to begin making decisions, as Sartre said, as if each choice mattered for the w!
 hole of humanity. And our choices do matter, because as Sartre also warned, humans are a most curious animal, and the only of its kind that has the power to destroy itself.

This special editor’s call invites authors to move beyond mere critiques of communication practices by imagining concrete pragmatic actions and building connections across difference. Additional questions to consider include: How can qualitative research disrupt the forces of de facto xenophobia, racism, sexism, classism, and other systems of marginalization? For performance scholars, how can performance art be deployed to inspire postmodern global ethics of interconnection – to remind us of our enfleshed similarities and vulnerabilities, the worthiness of well-lived lives, and the possibility of crafting joint hopes for the future? From an activist perspective, what are we doing and what can we do right now in our communities to counteract the public’s growing contempt and suspicion of foreign-others? For rhetoricians, how can we dissect, dismantle, and transform pervasively xenophobic rhetoric of hate, deficiency, and fear? What would a communication-studies-informed!
  ethics of postmodern pragmatism entail? What might this existential calling realize?

Authors should clearly mark in their cover letter that their submission is for this special call. Submissions should be no longer than 2,000 words (excluding references) and be prepared using the same citation conventions as regular submissions.

To submit a manuscript, please visit opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/kaleidoscope

Inquiries should be emailed to kalscopejrnl@gmail.com

Works Cited:

Brammer, John Paul. “Why it Matters that it was Latin Night at Pulse.” Slate, 14 June
2016,http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/06/14/it_was_latin_night_at_the_pulse_orlando_gay_bar_here_s_why_that_matters.html. Accessed 18 Nov. 2016.

Costello, Maureen B. Southern Poverty Law Center. “The Trump Effect: The Impact of thePresidential Campaign on our Nation’s Schools.”  https://www.splcenter.org/sites/ default/files /splc_the_trump_effect.pdf. Accessed 18 Nov. 2016.

de Beauvoir, Simone. The Ethics of Ambiguity. 1948. Open Road, 2015.

Green, Emma. “The Politics of Mass Murder.” The Atlantic, 13 June 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/orlando-political-reactions-homophobia-gun-rights-extremism/486752/. Accessed 18 Nov. 2016.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Otherwise Than Being. 1974. Duquesne University Press, 1998.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism is a Humanism. 1946. Yale University Press, 2007.

Stone, Michael. “Tulsa Police Execute Unarmed Black Man.” Patheos, 19 Sept. 2016,
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/09/tulsa-police-execute-unarmed-black-man/. Accessed 18 Nov. 2016.

Call for chapters: "Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory" (second call)



We are currently working with Lexington Books to develop an anthology regarding Black Mirror, the British-made sci fi series about humanity and technology. We are interested in chapter proposals that explore the meaning of the series for critical media studies. Below is an outline of the book's themes. All chapter proposals are welcome, but preference will be given to chapters that draw on theorists such as Baudrillard, Debord, Foucault, McLuhan, and Virilio. Please email a 250 word abstract and 100 word bio to cirucci@kutztown.edu AND bvacker@temple.edu by March 20, 2017.

Themes:

-Human Identity

-Surveillance Culture

-Spectacle and Hyperreality

-Technology and Existence

-Dystopian Futures

Informal Logic invites submissions for a special issue on “Reason & Rhetoric in the Time of Alternative Facts”

This issue aims to analyze, explain, and critique instances of argumentation connected to the campaign, election, and presidency of Donald Trump, as well as associated issues such as the concept of “post-truth” emerging from the Brexit campaigns. We believe that argumentation theory can help in forming answers to some of the questions that events around the new U.S. president open-up.

Submitted papers must present original research that has not been published and is not currently under review with any other journal. All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed and selected based on the paper’s originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. The deadline for the submissions is the 1st of September, 2017.
Author Guidelines:

Submissions should be between 5000 and 7000 words (without notes) in length and follow the Informal Logic formatting template available at:
http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/about/submissions

Submissions should be prepared for blind review and sent as a PDF or Word document to:

ilsubmission2017@gmail.com

Deadlines (these are cut-off deadlines; extensions are not possible):
Paper submission deadline: September 1st, 2017
Accept or decline decisions announced: December 1st , 2017
Revised papers due: February 1st , 2018
Publication: Informal Logic, 28.1, March, 2018

Guest Editors:
Katharina Stevens PhD, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Lethbridge
Michael D. Baumtrog PhD, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Windsor

Techniques of Propaganda (2) (1939)


Addressing Biomedical Science’s PhD Problem

Rhetoric has this same problem.  --David

Addressing Biomedical Science’s PhD Problem
From: https://tomprof.stanford.edu/

PhD degrees aren’t what they used to be. In 1973, more than half of doctoral degree graduates in biological sciences landed a tenure-track position within six years. Three decades later, that fraction had dropped to 15 percent. Demand has not kept pace with supply, says Bruce Alberts, a professor of biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and cofounder of the nonprofit organization Rescuing Biomedical Research (RBR). “The real world for [biomedical PhD students]  is that maybe a fifth will ever get academic jobs,” he says. And it’s not just academia that’s overpopulated, he adds. “There aren’t even enough jobs currently in the private sector to make it possible for all of them to get research jobs.”

As a result, trainees spend more and more time in postdoctoral positions, and even then, their chances of landing a tenure-track position are in decline. Several years of survey data collected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) show that, although the percentage of postdocs expecting to land a tenure-track faculty position stayed above 50 percent from 2010 to 2012, the percentage who actually do so fell from 37 percent to 21 percent. Unemployment following a postdoc position, meanwhile, rose from 2 percent to 10 percent over the same time period.

Yet despite these sobering statistics, PhD programs continue to grow—in the U.S., the life sciences saw an increase from around 8,000 doctoral recipients in 2004 to more than 12,500 a decade later—and show no signs of leveling off. “Graduate students are fundamental to the vitality of the research enterprise,” notes Alberts, who served for more than a decade as president of the National Academy of Sciences, adding that many university departments see little reason to stem the inflow of this young (and cheap) workforce.

The resulting situation for today’s PhDs—a hypercompetitive climate during graduate school and limited research-focused career prospects afterward—represents what many see as a systemic flaw in biomedical education that is impractical and unethical to maintain. It’s a problem that a growing number of students, researchers, universities, and companies are now attempting to address, some through initiatives to inform and better prepare current students for nonacademic and potentially nonresearch career paths, others through longer-term efforts to modernize PhD admissions and education. Given the current job climate, Alberts says, “we have an obligation to tailor our graduate programs differently.”

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Visualizing Election Data

Adjusted for population density, Election 2016...
Maps from Mark Newman’s website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Rhetorical Questions (podcast) goes to the March for Social Justice and Women


Rhetorical Questions has released a new episode: A Tale of Two Movements. Dr. Lauren Neefe joins to cohost this discussion of the similarities and differences between two groups that have claimed the mantle of a movement—supporters of Trump’s campaign to “Make America Great Again” and Americans who attended women’s marches on January 21. We joined Atlanta’s March for Social Justice and Women that day and asked our fellow marchers to help us understand the role of marginalization, solidarity, and persistence in rhetorical movements. 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.

New book: Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy


This is an announcement regarding a new book by NCA members and Communication Scholars Dr. Robert Denton and Dr. Ben Voth

A new monograph on political communication and the United States is now published by Palgrave Macmillan.  The book draws upon a diverse set of sources to critique the unique political era of partisanship that has divided the nation in ways apparent to all.  The opening chapter, “A Divided and Selfish Nation: A United States of America No More,” effectively captures the current 2017 sense of division that appears destined to render the American civic body untenable.  The book does progress toward proposals of renewal that suggest that these manifestations of cynical political ethics can not only be stopped but profoundly reversed.  An analysis of the postmodern communication trends contributing to these disruptions is interspersed with insights such as chapter six, “De-mock-racy:  Comic Framing as Political Wrecking Ball” that explain how postmodern communication patterns in habits such as political humor contribute to the divided political sense we find ourselves in.!
   Another chapter notes how Americans are suffering the effects of an “epistemological poisoning” that leaves them without trust for the epistemological organs of the nation found in academia, the media, Hollywood, the Church and the Federal government.  The renaissance of America is discovered in lost idealist frameworks such as the forgotten "great debater," James Farmer Jr. who led a largely forgotten successful American revolution against Jim Crow segregation.  His techniques were rooted in the Communication pedagogy of debate and are ready to make Black Lives Matter in ways largely forgotten until now.  Ultimately, an ethic of communication idealism that celebrates America’s diverse thoughts and opinions is offered as a solution to our divisive politics.  This book is unique in its effort to offer both an in depth confession of current problems alongside compelling and empirical remedies for the current problems of 2017.

We hope our communication colleagues will take a look at this scholarly approach to real contemporary political communication problems.

http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319439211#aboutBook

In Memoriam: Dr. Trevor Melia: The Finest Professor and Mentor I have known

by Richard E. Vatz (submitter), rvatz@towson.eduu

Trevor Melia:  The Finest Professor and Mentor I have known

Trevor Melia, University of Pittsburgh,  was simply the finest professor and mentor I have known in my lengthy career.  His knowledge and writing were impressive, but I shall leave it to more scholarly admirers to reflect on them.

Personally, I learned more from him regarding substance and character than all of my other undergraduate and graduate professors combined, if you subtract from the group the wonderful professor and teacher, Robert P. Newman, also from Pitt.

One of Trevor's key qualities, perhaps the key quality, was that he was unthreatened by disagreement.  He was on the left, and I was on the right, but he always found our differences of perspective interesting, and he loved to debate with me.  We had endless dialogues about points of political dispute, but they were always meetings of the minds.

His classes were characterized by his unthreatened nature, with help and evaluations unaffected by student disagreement.  His sense of humor, always understated and as subtle and clever and brilliant as his lectures, always made the class time pass in a wink.

When I wrote the article "The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation" as a graduate student, Trevor celebrated the publication, and we discussed how his influence and teachings had informed and motivated me to write the position I wrote.

My fellow graduate students and I were in consistent discussions at Pitt about the strengths and weaknesses of our professors.  I heard profound disagreements in their evaluations, but literally all of them cited Trevor as the individual who helped them grow in the field and treated them fairly.  This was a period in which unfair treatment of students by professors went unpunished, even undiscouraged.  The only motivation to be a principled professor was its intrinsic value.  And Trevor was also the most principled professor I have known.

Pitt hired a young professor at one point, brilliant but abrasive, but Trevor fearlessly became he closest friend in the department.  That friendship saved the professor for a long time, and Trevor never thought twice about it.

Trevor was the closest professor to me, but I was not the closest student to him.  His knowledge, decency and availability attracted the very best and second best of students and colleagues, and the sociology around him, with few exceptions, represented the best, brightest and highest integrity members of the field.

He was always available to help me throughout my career.

Brilliant, unthreatened and fair - a very rare combination of qualities, and Trevor Melia was the exemplar of those attributes.

Techniques of Propaganda (1) (1939)


Body & Society- Volume: 23, Number: 1 (March 2017)



Articles

Architecture of Sensation
Mark Paterson
Mark Paterson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has conducted research on the use of haptic technologies within museums, the role of haptics in human–robotic interaction (HRI), and the role of the bodily senses within ethnographic fieldwork. He is the author of The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (2007), Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch after Descartes (2016), and co-edited Touching Place, Spacing Touch (2012). Research for this article will be part of his next book project, How We Became Sensorimotor: Mapping Movement and Modernity.

Self-tracking in the Digital Era
Rachel Sanders
Rachel Sanders is an assistant professor of Political Science at Portland State University. Her research interests are in biopower, critical race studies, feminist theory, popular culture, and health and body politics. Her work has appeared in Law, Culture and the Humanities and Political Theory. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled The Color of Fat, the Shape of Power: Racial and Gender Biopolitics of Obesity.

Wireless Heart Patients and the Quantified Self
Julie Christina Grew, Mette Nordahl Svendsen
Julie Christina Grew holds an MSc in Public Health and a PhD from the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests lie in medical and telecare technology, patient–technology–society relations, and chronic patient care, particularly how patients, healthcare professionals, and technology mutually shape each other in clinical practice and patients’ everyday lives. The research that the article is based on is part of her PhD dissertation, which was defended in September 2015.

Mette Nordahl Svendsen is an anthropologist, associate professor and head of Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research centres on what the human becomes in the light of new advances in medical science and technology. In particular she takes an interest in how relationships, boundaries, and exchanges between human and animal are practised in the interface between laboratory, clinic, and patient lives. She has published extensively on these issues in anthropological, sociological and STS journals.

Notes & Commentary

The Phenomenology of Architecture
Tomoko Tamari
Tomoko Tamari is a lecturer in the Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship and member of the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is managing editor of Body & Society (Sage). Her long-standing research interests focus on consumer culture in Japan and Japanese new women, which will be discussed in her forthcoming book entitled, Women and Consumer Culture: The Department Store, Modernity and Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-century Japan (Routledge). She has recently published ‘Metabolism: Utopian urbanism and the Japanese modern architecture movement’ (Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 31 (7–8)). She is currently working in the following areas: body image and prosthetic aesthetics, Olympic culture and cities; human perception and the moving image; probiotics and immunity.

Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa
Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, professor emeritus, Helsinki. Practised design first in collaboration with other architects, and since 1983 through his office in Helsinki. He has held positions such as Rector of the Institute of Industrial Design Helsinki, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, and Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, and several visiting professorships in the USA, and taught and lectured extensively in numerous universities in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury 2008–14.

Media, Culture & Society- Volume: 39, Number: 2 (March 2017)


Original Articles

How to organise your body 101: postfeminism and the (re)construction of the female body through How to Look Good Naked
Christiana Tsaousi
Toward transformative media organizing: LGBTQ and Two-Spirit media work in the United States
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Chris Schweidler, Transformative Media Organizing Project
‘These cameras are here for a reason’ – media coming out, symbolic power and the value of ‘participation’: behind the scenes of the Dutch reality programme Uit de Kast
Balázs Boross, Stijn Reijnders
Capitalism and the media: moral economy, well-being and capabilities
David Hesmondhalgh
‘We are not North Korea’: propaganda and professionalism in the People’s Republic of China
Margaret Simons, David Nolan, Scott Wright
Governance by algorithms: reality construction by algorithmic selection on the Internet
Natascha Just, Michael Latzer

Crosscurrents

Best and worst practice: a case study of qualitative gender balance in Irish broadcasting
Anne O’Brien, Jane Suiter
From voice to voices: identifying a plurality of Muslim sources in the news media
Michael B Munnik
Polar bears and ice: cultural connotations of Arctic environments that contradict the science of climate change
Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Richard S Vachula

Book Reviews

Book Review: Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State
Annemarie Iddins
Book Review: Online Trolling and Its Perpetrators: Under the Cyberbridge
Anna Lee Swan
Book Review: Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States
Yiannis Mylonas

Science Communication- Volume: 39, Number: 1 (February 2017)

Editorial
Editor’s Note
Susanna H. Priest, PhD

Research Articles
Analyzing Climate Change Communication Through Online Games
Tania Ouariachi, María Dolores Olvera-Lobo, , José Gutiérrez-Pérez
A Role for Nature-Based Citizen Science in Promoting Individual and Collective Climate Change Action? A Systematic Review of Learning Outcomes
Mark Groulx, Marie Claire Brisbois, Christopher J. Lemieux, Amanda Winegardner, LeeAnn Fishback
Building Public Support for Science Spending
Jillian L. Goldfarb, Douglas L. Kriner
Ebola in the Public Sphere
Nahia Idoiaga Mondragon, Lorena Gil de Montes, Jose Valencia

Four Principles to Guide Interactions
Martha Merson

Monday, February 20, 2017

One journal's analysis of gender and peer review

One journal's analysis of gender and peer review:
From:  http://dailynous.com/2017/02/20/referee-gender-make-difference/
...follow link for details...
  1. A greater percentage of men than women who are asked agree to referee requests.
  2. Men, on average, complete referee reports in less time than women.
  3. Women referees recommend papers be rejected or undergo major revision more than men.*
  4. Men referees recommend papers be accepted or undergo only minor revision more than women.*
  5. The gender of the referee makes no difference to whether the editor follows the referee’s recommendation.

NYU Book Announcements

“Everything you ever wanted to know about the Supreme Court and the Presidency but were afraid to ask.”
—Nina Totenberg, correspondent for NPR

Instructor's Guide Available
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"This is a valuable introduction to a field that will become only more significant with the development of new media, such as virtual reality and digital mapping, that could merit First Amendment protection."
Publishers Weekly
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"French historian Alexis de Tocqueville warned about 'the tyranny of the majority' in American democracy.  This work deals with that important topic from colonial times to the present.  Young brings experience and knowledge to this subject...This history will satisfy fans of Howard Zinn, Pete Seeger, and Allen Ginsberg."

Library Journal
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“Sophisticated and fresh, Neocitizenship breathes new life into the discourse on neoliberalism. Cherniavsky’s provocative study of the emergence of new political subjectivities amid the decline of the nation-state as a guarantor of rights and a repository of popular sovereignty will galvanize conversations around neoliberalism, citizenship, and affective economies. This is a book certain to generate a great deal of heat as well as light.”
—Cotten Seiler, author of Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America
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"Ralph Young’s Dissent: The History of an American Idea, published by New York University Press in 2015, invoked the daring spirit and moral resolve of the late Howard Zinn. Make Art, Not War is the essential visual companion to this instant classic.  Drawing from thousands of compelling and provocative posters housed in the famed Tamiment Poster and Broadside Collection, Young presents a century’s worth of fierce dissent and unyielding opposition to hate, sexism, war, fascism, homophobia, and racism.  This is the coffee table book for the Bernie moment." 
—Bryant Simon, Temple University

The role of the teacher in resisting propaganda (1939)

The role of the teacher in resisting propaganda (1939)


Friday, February 17, 2017

Communication Center Journal Call for manuscript proposals: Technologies, Media, and Tools of Communication Centers

Communication Center Journal Call for manuscript proposals: Technologies, Media, and Tools of Communication Centers

The November 2017 special section of CCJ invites authors to consider the many technologies and tools in use within their communication centers. Communication centers of a variety of shapes, sizes, and contexts rely on technologies, media, and tools everyday that support their feedback to students, collaboration with student staff members, and enhance research and data collection. These resources, however, are becoming more complex, complicated, and political.

Authors might consider best practices implemented or in process in their centers along with challenges or opportunities involved with engaging technologies, media, and tools in their day-to-day and ongoing work.
Framing questions can include but are not limited to:

-What do you envision communication center technologies, media, and tools looking like in the next five, ten, or fifteen years?

-What is the best way to utilize these resources to solve problems in our centers?

How might instructors/centers collaborate with libraries/librarians to support students in harnessing/evaluating technologies, media, and tools to enhance teaching and learning?

-What best practices for communication centers will continue to be best practices?

-What best practices might emerge to best support student communicators in basic courses and beyond?

-If busy students are reluctant to come to communication centers, how might the communication center go to students?

-How might communication centers incorporate creativity and creative approaches in their plans and programming that involve innovative uses of mediated or technological tools?

-How might we use communication center research to inform our decision about choices in technology, media, and tools?

This special section encourages practical, specific solutions as well as data-driven research.

Deadlines

March 10, 2017: 500-word proposals due

April 15, 2017: Authors notified of review results

July 15, 2017: Full articles returned to editor

August 15, 2017: Article revisions sent to authors

November 16, 2017: CCJ issue released at NCA conference

Submissions can be emailed to commcenterj@gmail.com. Review the full call for proposals online.  Questions can be sent to Dr. Russell Carpenter, Editor-in-Chief, commcenterj@gmail.com

Thursday, February 16, 2017

1939: Fighting Intolerance

From the 1939 "American Answer to Intolerance"--




Technoculture Call for Reviews

Technoculture Journal, reviews@tcjournal.org

Technoculture Call for Reviews

Technoculture seeks reviews for potential publication, including reviews of critical projects and popular works. Critical projects and popular works may include books, movies, games, apps, art instillations, etc. which use technology and are relevant in todays culture.

We support HTML 5's audio and video tags, though also the use of deprecated tags as necessary for the sake of readers using Internet Explorer.
Suggested pieces include but are not limited to:

-Doctor Strange (film, 2016)
-Passengers (film, 2016)
-Pokémon Go (game, 2016)
-Fashion and Technology by Aneta Genova and Katherine Moriwaki (critical work, 2016)
-Windows Into the Soul: Surveillance & Society in an Age of High Technology by Gary T. Marx (critical work, 2016)

Other topics for review must be approved by the Technoculture Reviews editor and may not date prior to 2014. Reviewers are allowed one month to study and review the item(s). All reviews should average 1,000 to 1,500 words. Reviews should include the complete details of the work: author(s), publisher, date of publication, and medium. Please contact the reviews editor at reviews at tcjournal dot org if you have suggestions for works we should review or would like to write a review for us.

While anyone may submit critical essays or creative works we particularly encourage graduate students to consider doing a review for us as first publication.

Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2017


Articles
The Enthymizing of Lysias
James Fredal
Pages: 1-27 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2016.1271751

Performing Prudence: Barack Obama’s Defense of NSA Surveillance Programs
Svilen Veselinov Trifonov
Pages: 28-46 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2016.1271752

Forum
Democracy and Government: A Critical Edition of Jeannette Rankin’s 1917 Address at Carnegie Hall
Tiffany Lewis
Pages: 47-56 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2016.1269137

Jeannette Rankin, “Democracy and Government,” Carnegie Hall, New York, 2 March 1917
Edited by Tiffany Lewis
Pages: 57-74 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1272347

“Government Is an Instrument in Their Hands”: Jeanette Rankin on Progressive Technologies of Democracy
Cindy Koenig Richards & Paul McKean
Pages: 75-85 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1272349

Jeannette Rankin’s Democratic Errand to Washington
Paul Stob
Pages: 86-98 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1272351

Reviews of Scholarship
Note from the Editor
Arthur Walzer
Pages: 99-99 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1272352

State of the Scholarship in Classics on Ancient Roman Rhetoric
Michele Kennerly & Kathleen S. Lamp
Pages: 100-112 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2016.1269302

Book Review
In the Archives of Composition: Writing and Rhetoric in High Schools and Normal Schools by Lori Ostergaard & Henrietta Rix Wood | Open Access
Zornitsa Keremidchieva
Pages: 113-115 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1272353

Monday, February 13, 2017

Call for Nominations: Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award


The Selection Committee for the 2017 Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award invites nominations! The members of this year’s committee are Angela Ray (chairperson), Celeste Condit, and Suzanne Enck. A list of previous winners is available here: http://www.natcom.org/EhningerAward/

The Ehninger Award honors distinguished scholars who have executed research programs in rhetorical theory, rhetorical criticism, or public address studies. The award is given to an NCA member who, through multiple publications and presentations around a rhetorical topic or theme, demonstrates intellectual creativity, perseverance, and impact on academic communities. The recipient will be recognized at the awards ceremony during the NCA Annual Convention and will receive a plaque and monetary award supported by the Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award Fund.

Nominations must be sent to the Selection Committee Chairperson by someone well acquainted with the nominee’s qualifications. Self-nominations are encouraged. Nominees must be current members of NCA.

The nomination must include the following material:

(1) A cover letter stating why the person should be recognized with the Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award

(2) The nominee’s curriculum vitae

(3) Letters of recommendation from up to three people familiar with the nominee’s qualifications Submission Information: Nomination materials should be sent as a Microsoft Word or PDF attachment to the Committee Chairperson. Please place the title of the award in the subject line of the email and provide your full contact information. Send nominations by April 1, 2017, to angela-ray@northwestern.edu

Book Announcement Economies of Writing Revaluations in Rhetoric and Composition


edited by Bruce Horner, Brice Nordquist,
and Susan M. Ryan

Economies of Writing advances scholarship on political economies of writing and writing instruction, considering them in terms of course subject, pedagogy, technology, and social practice. Taking the "economic" as a necessary point of departure and contention for the field, the collection insists that writing concerns are inevitably participants in political markets in their consideration of forms of valuation, production, and circulation of knowledge with labor and with capital.

Approaching the economic as plural, contingent, and political, chapters explore complex forces shaping the production and valuation of literacies, languages, identities, and institutions and consider their implications for composition scholarship, teaching, administration, and public rhetorics. Chapters engage a range of issues, including knowledge transfer, cyberpublics, graduate writing courses, and internationalized web domains.

Economies of Writing challenges dominant ideologies of writing, writing skills, writing assessment, language, writing technology, and public rhetoric by revealing the complex and shifting valuations of writing practices as they circulate within and across different economies. The volume is a significant contribution to rhetoric and composition's understanding of and ways to address its seemingly perennial unease about its own work.

Paper: $29.95
Adobe Digital Edition Ebook*: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-60732-522-2
Pages: 312
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Sunday, February 12, 2017

Poroi 12.2 now published online!

POROI 12.2 contains a five-authored symposium on engaged rhetoric of STEM disciplines; and rhetorical critiques of discourse surrounding MSG and human trafficking. Symposium authors include Carl G. Herndl, Lauren E. Cagle, Kenneth Walker, Sara Beth Parks and (guest-editor) Caroline Gottschalk Druschke; papers by Jennifer L. LeMesurier and John T. Gagnon.  The issue is available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/

Journal CFP: The Humanities as a Form of Resistance


The first issue of Con Texte, Laurentian University’s interdisciplinary humanities graduate student journal, will explore the various forms of text that ignite revolutionary forms of political and social resistance.
http://cssr-scer.ca/journal-cfp-the-humanities-as-a-form-of-resistance/
Works should reflect the ever present need for political resistance as expressed through the humanities and emphasize the role and importance of text as a means of pedagogy, revolution, and reformation.  When politics fall into dangerous and threatening forms, many of us have few alternatives for opposition.  This edition will explore the importance of text in maintaining our sense of the world, creating culture and national identity, and centring our communities within their own power.
We are looking for submissions exploring a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
  • feminist literature, philosophy, and all other forms of text
  • explorations of intersectionality in terms of art, literature and philosophy
  • humour and satire as forms of political commentary
  • explorations of empowerment for community and culture through humanities methods
  • scholarly reflections on music, poetry and prose as forms of resistance
We invite submissions from scholars at all levels and seek a variety of theoretical positions, differing and silenced opinions, and strange perspectives about the value of the Humanities.
Full Submission Due: March 15th 2017
Maximum 3,500 words in Word format.
Citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago.
Prepared for blind review.
In English or French.
Online publication released June 1st 2017.
Please send your submission to contexte.journal@gmail.com.

Book Announcement: Research on Writing: Multiple Perspectives

Research on Writing: Multiple Perspectives
Edited by Sylvie Plane, Charles Bazerman, Fabienne Rondelli, Christiane Donahue, Arthur N. Applebee, Catherine Boré, Paula Carlino, Martine Marquilló Larruy, Paul Rogers, and David Russell
Copy edited by Don Donahue. Designed by Mike Palmquist.

CoverIn February 2014, 1200 researchers from 60 countries assembled in Paris for the third Writing Research Across Borders conference. Although this book cannot convey fully the rich diversity of the gathering, it attempts nonetheless to highlight key questions which are shaping the current state of research in the field of writing studies. The contributors to this collection engage in a wide-ranging conversation about writing, a conversation made possible through a shared focus on improving learning and language usage. The chapters fall at various points, as a result, along a line extending from straightforward expressions of pedagogical concerns to focused analysis of how writing and texts work.

About the Editors

Sylvie Plane is Professor Emeritus of Language Sciences at the l'École Supérieure du Professorat et de l'Éducation de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. Charles Bazerman is Professor of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara. Fabienne Rondelli is a Lecturer in Language Sciences at the University of Lorraine. Christiane Donahue is Director of the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth (US) and member of the Théodile-CIREL research laboratory at l'Université de Lille III. Arthur N. Applebee (1946-2015) was a Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the State University of New York. Catherine Boré is Associate Professor of Letters and Professor Emeritus of Language Sciences at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. Paula Carlino is Research Professor with the CONICET at the University of Buenos Aires. Martine Marquilló Larruy is Professor of Linguistics at Lumière University Lyon 2. Paul M. Rogers is Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. David R. Russell is Professor of English in Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University.

Publication Information: Sylvie Plane et al. (Eds.). (2017). Research on Writing: Multiple Perspectives. International Exchanges on the Study of Writing. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse and CREM. Available at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/wrab2014/

Publication Date: February 2, 2017

Contact Information:
Sylvie Plane: sylvie.plane@wanadoo.fr

Note: This book is available in print in a companion volume, with chapters in French and English, through Centre de Recherche sur les Médiations (CREM).