O'Neill Letters on High School Debate

Admin Compromises on Titles at UW Madison

Arguing for Name Changes in Speech at UW-Madison

Admin Speaks on the UW Madison Name Changes

Letter from Rarig to O'Neill

“Literacy, Democracy, and Fake News”

We are delighted to announce the publication of “Literacy, Democracy, and Fake News,” a special issue of Literacy in Composition Studies, now live at www.licsjournal.org. This issue features the following pieces:

• “Introduction to Special Issue on Literacy, Democracy, and Fake News: Making it Right in the Era of Fast and Slow Literacies” by Thomas P. Miller and Adele Leon

• “Navigating a Varied Landscape: Literacy and Credibility of Networked Information” by Jacob W. Craig

• “How Automated Writing Systems Affect the Circulation of Political Information Online” by Timothy Laquintano and Annette Vee

• “‘Globalist Scumbags’: Composition’s Global Turn in a Time of Fake News, Globalist Conspiracy, and Nationalist Literacy” by Christopher Minnix

• “Toward a Theory and Pedagogy of Rhetorical Vulnerability” by David Riche

Also included is the symposium essay “Literacy and Rhetoric as Complementary Keywords” by Ben Wetherbee and a review of Katrina M. Powell’s Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement by Tabetha Adkins.

LiCS is an open-access online scholarly journal--please share this timely issue with your colleagues and networks. We welcome queries at licsjournal@gmail.com.

We hope you enjoy the read!

O'Neill letter to Rarig on NCTE and NAATPS

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O'Neill Letters from Madison on a National Organization, eventually to be the NCA

Very Blurry O'Nell Letters

Thinking through Pop Lit: "Staked"

I bought a stack of "Urban Fantasy" and "Paranormal Romance" books, books with a romance angle and a science fiction skin.  I've been reading them in the sauna;  as I finish, they fall apart.  It's not a loss.

Reading them has been instructive.  I tend to imagine literacy is a solution for all problems, that if only people read more, problems would diminish.

Reading genre fiction reminds me that that's not the case.

J.F. Lewis' Staked [author's website here] is an example of why it might be better not to read -- the narrative might only exacerbate our social problems.

The general narrative of the book is that the vampire protagonist, Eric, is being double-crossed into a conflict with werewolves so that the ensuing war makes it possible for a third party to buy property from the werewolves dirt cheap.  A significant subplot is that Eric must deal with romantic and familiar relationships that are clearly outside his depth.

Embedded in this plot are a slew of lessons about human relationships that are counterproductive, at least to me.


Lessons about Men
The central character and narrator for more than half of the book is Eric, a vampire who owns a strip club.  One of the central dimensions of Eric is his ignorance of the history that has brought him into the world:

• Eric does not know his biological, human genetic connection to a nineteenth-century creator of a revolver that kills werewolves.  Eric does not know his connection to the nineteenth century.
• Eric does not know who his "sire" was -- the vampire who made him a vampire.  Eric does not know the source of his power and privilege.
• Eric does not know, as the book starts, why he is killing a werewolf in an alley.  He's blacked out.  He doesn't understand his violent present.

In short, Eric is the twenty-first century white male.  He doesn't understand his history, his power and privilege, or his violence.


Lessons about Male to Male Relationships [Friendships]
The thrust of the novel is that Eric's best friend since WWII, before he was turned, has betrayed him.  Male relationships are agonistic [Phillip keeps a competitor on a pike in his apartments].  Even Talbot, Eric's companion, sleeps with his girlfriend, Tabitha, with a competitive snarl.  No male relationship is loyal, genuine, or emotionally intimate.


Lessons about Women
In a way that is almost cliche, Eric has four women in his life.  It takes four women to provide the infrastructure to support the protagonist the emotional cripple.

• Marilyn:  his first wife, now in her eighties, who refused to let him "turn" her into a vampire.  She looks after him, she cleans up his messes [in the club, with young women, when his violence draws attention to him].  She is, for all intents and purposes, his mom.  In the novel, he breaks his arm.  
• Tabitha: his current girlfriend, the one who wants him to commit romantically.  She believes that if he will turn her, he will commit to her.  But the more she clamors for commitment, the more he will push her away.
• Rachel:  his current girlfriend's sister, a witch, who wants him sexually without commitment.  
• Greta:  his daughter, whom he turned when she turned twenty-one, who overeats as a vampire and is described in excessively sexual terms for a daughter.  

Maternal care, romantic love, sexual desire, and a daughter whose adulthood is marked by being turned into a vampire, a sexual act in many ways, by her father.  It takes four women to prop up the violent male, prone to blackouts and detachment from his emotions.


Lessons about Female to Male Relationships [Romance]
So, if you want to remain true to yourself [like Marilyn, who refuses to let Eric turn her into a vampire], you end up alone, disconnected from the love of your life.  If you want to become like your lover, in the hopes that becoming one with them will win commitment, you will end up alone [Tabitha].  If you offer yourself sexually without commitment, you will get sex without commitment [Rachel].  And the daughter -- she is his dependent, his property to offer as a hostage when he needs a hostage to be taken by his enemies so that they will trust him [Greta].  There is no whole relationship between men and women in this novel.

None of my reading is particularly sophisticated.  No fancy theories here:  just recognizing that a man reading this book will feel justified in being emotionally disconnected, a woman will feel like it's her job to prop him up, and no one will ever be whole.

On "Public" in Speech at UW Madison

Negotiating Professor Titles at UW Madison

Discussing the Name of the New Field of Speech at UW-Madison with Colleagues in Iowa

Everyday minutes at UW Madison's Dept of Speech, 1921

UW Madison Meeting Minutes -- What Were People Professors Of, in this Early Comm Program?

Archival Finds, 1: The First Proposal for an MA in Speech at UW-Madison

Possessions help us manipulate our possibilities

From:

Possessions and the Extended Self
Author(s): Russell W. Belk
Source: Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Sep., 1988), pp. 139-168 

The possessions in- corporated in extended self serve valuable functions to healthy personalities. One such function is acting as an objective manifestation of the self. As Douglas and Isherwood (1979) noted, such possessions are "good for thinking." Possessions help us manipulate our possibilities and present the self in a way that gar- ners feedback from others who are reluctant to re- spond so openly to the unextended self.
The possessions in our extended self also give us a personal archive or museum that allows us to reflect on our histories and how we have changed.

Having, Doing, and Being

From: Possessions and the Extended Self

Author(s): Russell W. Belk
Source: Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Sep., 1988), pp. 139-168 

Objects in our possession literally can extend self, as when a tool or weapon allows us to do things of which we would otherwise be incapable. Possessions can also symbolically extend self, as when a uniform or trophy allows us to convince ourselves (and per- haps others) that we can be a different person than we would be without them. Tanay (1976) suggests that handguns represent a symbolic penis for their owners. However, Kates and Varzos (1987) challenge this in- terpretation and instead emphasize the real rather than symbolic power given by guns. This sense of en- hancement of personal power is what made the six- gun the "equalizer" in American Western lore. Ta- nay's symbolic interpretation focuses on the sense of being presumably provided by such a weapon, whereas this alternative interpretation maintains that it is what one can do with a gun that contributes to sense of self. Thus, having possessions can contribute to our capabilities for doing and being.

CFP: Special issue- "Women in Buddhism"

deadline for submissions:
March 1, 2018
full name / name of organization:
Religions
contact email:
religions@mdpi.com
Dear Colleagues,

The topic of women in Buddhism spans a large geographical and historical expanse, beginning some 2500 years ago during the lifetime of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. Throughout the history of Buddhism, women—their status within the traditions, their contributions, and their myriad roles—have been a subject of attention and concern.  The present volume seeks to examine how women’s roles in Buddhism have changed over time, how the women’s ordination movement has developed in specific contexts, and how women have changed the landscape of Buddhism, both as practitioners (lay and monastic) and as scholars in the field.

(1) This issue will examine the changing landscape of women in Buddhism;

(2) It will consider existing literature on the topic and will contribute to new avenues of research and scholarship.

Given the digital nature of the journal, there is no restrictions on the length of manuscripts, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive.

More information can be found in http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/WB

To submit your paper, please click on the following link: http://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=religions

If you have any questions, please do not hesiate to contact us.

Thank you,

Religions Office





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disClosure, vol 27: Archives

deadline for submissions:
December 1, 2017
full name / name of organization:
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
contact email:
zcgrif2@uky.edu
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 27: Archives

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2017



The editorial collective of the open access journal, disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, calls for submissions that explore “Archives” for an issue to be published summer 2018. As early as the 1970s when French philosopher Michel Foucault published The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse of Language (1972), archives have undergone a conceptual shift from mere repositories of historical documents to representing processes of knowledge production and forms of social meaning. Two decades later, another French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, contemplated the power and authority of archives in his Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (1996). Today, archives continue to receive attention from scholars in the social sciences and the humanities. From the archival memory-work of Karen Till (2005; 2008) and Caitlin DeSilvey (2007), to recent scholarship on (post-)colonial archives and tribal knowledge (Christen 2012; Caswell 2014), the topic of archives has come to occupy a central space in the discourses of a vast array of disciplines and approaches. In addition to providing new insights, these works also serve to question widely held institutional beliefs and practices. In this vein, we seek submissions that look at a range of archives, including national, personal, and community archives to investigate the ways in which documents, images, objects, and places serve various purposes and occupy different types of cultural, intellectual, and physical spaces. Possible topics may include:



Archives in practice
Bodies in archives / bodies as archives
Participatory approaches to archives
Community archives
Archival methodology
Digital archives
Memory and archives
Rhetoric of the archive
Literary archives
Art and archive
Archives and (post-)colonialism
Race, culture, and archives
Silence and speaking / absence and presence
Hauntings
Queer and queering archives
Affect and archives
The future of archives


Additionally, submissions may explore memory institutions, broadly conceived, in order to touch on the constitution of libraries, museums, and universities, and their relation to social practice and theory. Finally, we welcome submissions that investigate archives and archival practices beyond the borders of the United States and outside of the global west.

About disClosure

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory is a graduate student-run, blind-refereed journal produced in conjunction with the Committee on Social Theory (https://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/) at the University of Kentucky. We welcome submissions from graduate students and faculty as well as authors and artists concerned with social theory regardless of academic affiliation, such as community activists. Submissions may be from any discipline (i.e., archival studies, library sciences, humanities, social sciences), theoretical perspective, and genre (scholarly articles, essays, interviews, reviews, practitioner pieces, short fiction, poetry, and artwork). The 27th volume of disClosure will include interviews with Karen Till, Kimberly Christen, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, and Michelle Caswell.



The full 25th volume (2016) of disClosure, Transnational Lives, may be accessed here (http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1414&context=discl...).



Submission Information



Scholarly Articles, Essays, Poetry, and Fiction

Please submit electronically, in Word format only, to disclosurejournal@gmail.com.

Submissions should be written in English, Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12-point font, and be between 2,000 and 10,000 words in length.
Submissions should include a title page with author(s) contact information, submission title, abstract, word count, and author(s) biography. See example here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xZkfhx8SFnTepOWmh5MLSnnfEWdKNxHHFLWt...).
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Photographs and graphs should include figure number, description, and source.
Manuscripts should follow the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style author-date format for citations and references.


Book Reviews

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Submissions should be written in English, Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12-point font, and be approximately 1,000 words in length.
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Submissions should review works published no earlier than 2014.
Book reviews should follow the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style author-date format for citations and references.






Art and Digital Media

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Do you have a question about this issue or want some early feedback on your submitted manuscript? Please contact us! The Editors-in-Chief (Sophonie Bazile, Zach Griffith, and Christine Woodward) may be reached at disclosurejournal@gmail.com.

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Call for Articles in Communication, Media and Journalism Studies

Call for Articles in Communication, Media and Journalism Studies

deadline for submissions:
October 31, 2017
full name / name of organization:
KOME - An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry
contact email:
jatoth@komejournal.com
Dear Members,

(apologies for cross-posting)

KOME, an international Open Access journal published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association is currently seeking articles for its 2017 and 2018 issues.

KOME is a theory and pure research-oriented journal of communication studies and related fields. Theoretical researches and discussions  that help to understand better, or reconceptualize the understanding of communication or the media are its center of interests; being either an useful supplement to, or a reasonable alternative to current models and theories. Given the connection between theory and empirical research, we are open to submissions of empirical papers if the research demonstrates a clear endorsement of communication and/or media theories. KOME is also committed to the ideas of trans- and interdisciplinarity and prefer topics that are relevant for more than one special discipline of social sciences.

Visit our website at http://www.komejournal.com
For submission, send your paper to the

Editorial Office
kome@komejournal.com

Indexation:
Web of Science
http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MAS...
SCOPUS
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ERIH Plus:
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All submission undergo double blind peer review. Average turnaround time is 8 to 10 weeks. KOME is a platinum Open Access journal: No APC's, page charges, submission charges; we do not charge authors for publishing their work and do not solicit or accept payment for contributions. KOME assigns DOIs to all published articles and submits article metadata and identifiers to CrossRef. All published articles are archived in REAL, the Repository of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Sincerely,

Dr. Janos Toth,
co-Editor in Chief, KOME
jatoth@komejournal.com

"Possessions and the Extended Self"

From: "Possessions and the Extended Self"
by Russell W. Belk
Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Sep., 1988), pp. 139-168

William James (1890, pp. 291-292), who laid the foundations for modern con- ceptions of self, held that:

a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ances- tors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands, and yacht and bank-account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down,-not necessarily in the same degree for each thing, but in much the same way for all.

Communication Monographs, Volume 84, Issue 3, September 2017

Communication Monographs, Volume 84, Issue 3, September 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.



This new issue contains the following articles:


Articles
A longitudinal study of parental anti-substance-use socialization for early adolescents’ substance-use behaviors
YoungJu Shin & Michelle Miller-Day
Pages: 277-297 | DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2017.1300821

Distinguishing technologies for social interaction: The perceived social affordances of communication channels scale
Jesse Fox & Bree McEwan
Pages: 298-318 | DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2017.1332418

The promises and pitfalls of personalization in narratives to promote social change
Shuo Zhou & Jeff Niederdeppe
Pages: 319-342 | DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2016.1246348

Confirmation biases in selective exposure to political online information: Source bias vs. content bias
Axel Westerwick, Benjamin K. Johnson & Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
Pages: 343-364 | DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2016.1272761

Explaining parental coviewing: The role of social facilitation and arousal
Eric E. Rasmussen, Justin Robert Keene , Collin K. Berke, Rebecca L. Densley & Travis Loof
Pages: 365-384 | DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2016.1259532

The fluency principle: Why foreign accent strength negatively biases language attitudes
Marko Dragojevic, Howard Giles, Anna-Carrie Beck & Nicholas T. Tatum
Pages: 385-405 | DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2017.1322213

Is plus size equal? The positive impact of average and plus-sized media fashion models on women’s cognitive resource allocation, social comparisons, and body satisfaction
Russell B. Clayton , Jessica L. Ridgway & Joshua Hendrickse
Pages: 406-422 | DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2017.1332770

Comics and anarchism

A new issue of SubStance on the intersection of comics and anarchism just came out;  the issue also features contributions by Michael A. Chaney, Jesse Cohn, Matt Jones, Patricia Leighten, and Allan Antliff.

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/36780

cfp: Women, video games, and modding

deadline for submissions:
November 1, 2017
full name / name of organization:
Bridget Whelan / McFarland Books
contact email:
bawhelan@gmail.com


This is a call for article-length scholarly contributions for inclusion in a proposed collection of essays (to be published by McFarland) broadly focused around the topic of women and video game “modding.”



Potential topics may include:

Romance mods, including the politics of modding race and sexuality, NPC (“non-player character”) availability, NPC appearance, and creating or extending canonical romantic scenes
Modding the body: what sort of mods are women creating and using on their own characters? Can mods express dissatisfaction with base game character creation options?
Modding communities: how have online spaces like Tumblr fostered modding communities for women? The importance of crediting modders, the policing of gamers on how to use and credit use of mods, collaborative modding communities versus “lone wolf” modders, the backlash against websites like Nexus
Essays focused on particular games, such a Dragon Age, The Sims, or Skyrim
The relationship between female modders and developers: do developers ever respond to modder creations? Is base game content ever altered to appease modder interests? Do developers ever express disagreement or lack of support for modders?
Using modding and game creation in girls' education.
This list is far from expansive; any proposed essay addressing some aspect of female gamers and modding will be considered.



Please email a 500-word abstract to bawhelan@gmail.com by Nov 1, 2017. Completed essays are also welcome in lieu of an abstract. Essays should be about 10,000 words in length (final length can be fairly flexible, however). Completed first drafts will be expected sometime around Jun 1, 2018. Please also include a short bio with your abstract submission.

CFP: Currents in Teaching and Learning

Currents in Teaching and Learning, a peer-reviewed electronic journal that fosters exchanges among reflective teacher-scholars across the disciplines, welcomes submissions for its Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 issues (Volume 10, Numbers 1-2), and looks ahead to the special themed issue for Spring 2019.  We consider all submissions that address new approaches to theories and practices of teaching and learning.
Each year we release two issues of Currents, an open-ended Fall issue and a themed issue in the Spring.  We welcome all teaching and learning-related submissions for the Fall  Issues.

The following are the themes for the Spring 2018 and Spring 2019 issues:

The theme for the Spring 2018 issue is “theories and practices of project-based and problem-based learning.” Project-based learning has been described as “a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge.” Problem-based learning has been defined as a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem.” We invite submissions that address any or all aspects of these approaches to teaching and learning. Some questions that might be addressed include (but are not limited to):

·       What kinds of knowledge and skills should educators be cultivating inside and outside the 21st century classroom?

·       How do long-term projects and open-ended problems fit into curricula that are often content-driven?

·       How do (or should) educators guide students who are frequently risk-averse toward taking on “authentic, engaging and complex questions, problems, or challenges”?

Looking ahead, the theme for the Spring 2019 issue is “Globalizing learning.” With the intensifying clash between nationalism and globalization, the issue of how to incorporate consciousness of global issues and trends into college education has become ever more critical.  For this issue, we invite submissions that address this issue from theoretical and/or practical perspectives. Some questions that might be addressed include (but are not limited to):

·       What constitutes “global learning”, and what implications might this have for the nature, substance, content, and methods of tertiary education?

·       What kinds of approaches can be used to integrate global knowledge and skills into teaching and learning across the disciplines?

·       In what ways can global and local forms of knowledge construction be related in classroom and extra-curricular modes of teaching and learning?

Submissions may take the form of:

·      Teaching and Program Reports: short reports from different disciplines on classroom practices (2850–5700 words);
·      Essays: longer research, theoretical, or conceptual articles and explorations of issues and challenges facing teachers today (5700 – 7125 words);
·      Book and Website Reviews: send inquiries attn: Book Review Editors. No unsolicited reviews, please.

We welcome both individual and group submissions.  All submissions must be original, previously unpublished work and, if based in a particular academic discipline, must explicitly consider their relevance and applicability to other disciplines and classroom settings.

Submissions Deadlines:
Fall 2017 issue: August 15, 2017
   Spring 2018 issue: December 1, 2017

Submissions received after these dates will be considered for the following issue and on a rolling basis.

Currents in Teaching and Learning is a peer-reviewed electronic journal that fosters non-specialist, jargon-free exchanges among reflective teacher-scholars. Published twice a year and addressed to faculty and graduate students across the disciplines, Currents seeks to improve teaching and learning in higher education with short reports on classroom practices as well as longer research, theoretical, or conceptual articles, and explorations of issues and challenges facing teachers today.

Send all inquiries to Editor Martin Fromm or Editorial Assistant Kayla Beman at currents@worcester.edu. For submission guidelines, visit our website at www.worcester.edu/currents.

Currents in Teaching and Learning is a publication of Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.   ISSN: 1945-3043

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Volume 47, Issue 4, July-September 2017

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Volume 47, Issue 4, July-September 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.



This new issue contains the following articles:


Editor’s Message
Editor’s Message
Pages: 293-294 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2017.1343029

Articles
Neoliberalism as Common Sense in Barack Obama’s Health Care Rhetoric
Jeffrey St. Onge
Pages: 295-312 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2016.1273378

Rhetorical Closure
Craig Rood
Pages: 313-334 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2016.1242769

Political Animals: Prosopopoeia in the 1944 Presidential Election
Bryan Blankfield
Pages: 335-358 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2017.1293283

Man Interrupted: Mental Illness Narrative as a Rhetoric of Proximity
Katy Rothfelder & Davi Johnson Thornton
Pages: 359-382 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2017.1279343

Book Reviews
The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry, by S. Scott Graham
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2015. x + 256 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Cathryn Molloy
Pages: 383-386 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2016.1260901

Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars, by Heather Ashley Hayes
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 188 pp. $129.00 (paper).
Brittany Knutson
Pages: 386-389 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2016.1272324

Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism, by James Zeigler
Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2015. xxii + 229 pp. $30.00 (paper)
José G. Izaguirre
Pages: 389-392 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2017.1306416

Book Beviews
Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere, by Damien Smith Pfister
State College: Pennsylvania State UP, 2014. 288 pp. $63.95 (cloth)
Justin Eckstein
Pages: 392-395 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2017.1302737

Book Reviews
Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric, edited by Kathleen J. Ryan, Nancy Myers, and Rebecca Jones
Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2016. xii + 304 pp. $45.00 (paper).
Lori Ostergaard
Pages: 395-399 | DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2016.1272326

Book Announcement: Dennis D. Cali (2017). Mapping Media Ecology: Introduction to the Field (New York: Peter Lang).

Dennis D. Cali offers a survey of a field as consequential as it is fascinating. Designed to be used primarily in media and communication courses, the book's goal is to hone insight into the role of media in society and to extend the understanding of the themes, processes, and interactions of media ecology to an ever-broader intellectual community.

Available now at PeterLang at: https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/31071 or at Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Media-Ecology-Introduction-Understanding/dp/1433127636

Endorsements of Mapping Media Ecology:

“Part of the power and draw of the study of media ecology is its strong interdisciplinary connections. Dennis D. Cali’s noble efforts to outline these connections provide an excellent resource to introduce readers to the breadth and scope of the field. A most enjoyable read, Mapping Media Ecology is a welcome and much-needed work of fine scholarship.”

—Stephanie Bennett, Professor of Communication and Media Ecology, Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, Florida; Author of the Within the Walls trilogy and Communicating Love: Staying Close in a 24/7 Media Saturated Society

“As any cartographer knows, making a map is itself a process of discovering. In this book Dennis D. Cali sketches an alternative and innovative route for exploring the complex and multilayered media environment. Anyone interested in the ecological dynamics of human culture will treasure this book as a great reference and a source of inspiration to find new pathways and territories. Eventually, this book will serve not only as a delightful map for advanced students in media and communications, but also as an excellent attempt for the canonization of media ecology as a field of study."

—Paolo Granata, University of Bologna

“Dennis D. Cali’s Mapping Media Ecology is a remarkable contribution to an exciting area of study that guides readers across complex media, social, and cultural environments. This volume is a must for all those who want to engage with the many dimensions of media ecology, discover its founding figures, and learn about its more recent developments.”

—Elena Lamberti, North American Literature and Communication, University of Bologna; Author of Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies (MEA 2016 McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology)

“Dennis D. Cali’s Mapping Media Ecology is a well-conceived, richly-researched, and clearly-written introduction to media ecology…. It provides an excellent survey of a number of key concepts and specific areas of study, as well as the major thinkers most associated with them, for a fascinating discussion on the intellectual origins of the subject.”

—Casey Man Kong Lum, Professor of Communication, William Paterson University; Co-Founder and Founding Vice President, the Media Ecology Association

“Dennis D. Cali does a splendid job elucidating the systemic nature, function, and scope of the meta-field that is media ecology. In addition to bringing some of McLuhan’s sky-high postulates and probes down to earth, Cali vivifies so many other core thinkers, like Elizabeth Eisenstein, Susanne Langer, Walter Ong, and Neil Postman.”

—Robert MacDougall, Professor, Communication/Media Studies; Coordinator, Video Game Studies Concentration, Curry College

“Dennis D. Cali has done a tremendous service to the media ecology perspective in offering the first extensive account of this important thought tradition specifically designed for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. Mapping Media Ecology is guaranteed to become a primary gateway for future students of this emerging field.”

—Phil Rose, Immediate Past President of the Media Ecology Association; Editor of Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival

Francine Merritt Award Winner

On behalf of this year's Francine Merritt Award Committee, I would like to officially congratulate Dr. Roseann M. Mandziuk of Texas State University as the winner.

The Women’s Caucus of NCA offers the Francine Merritt Award to someone who has made a difference through her/his scholarship, teaching, mentoring, service, and advocacy.

Please join Dr. Mandziuk and members of the Women's Caucus and the Feminist and Women's Studies Division at the joint Francine Merritt/Bonnie Ritter Award Reception on Friday, November 17, 2017, 3:30-4:45pm in the Sheraton, San Antonio - A, 3rd floor.

Book announcement The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships

The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships is the communication field’s most major, comprehensive volume of the study of social media and romantic relationship development. It is the first volume in the discipline of communication studies. It is intended to provide an overview of romantic development that includes all types of social media, such as Tinder and Facebook. The volume contains several major communication and media scholars who have researched social media and romantic relationship development.

Below is more information about the book:

EDITED BY:  NARISSRA M. PUNYANUNT-CARTER AND JASON S. WRENCH

CONTRIBUTIONS BY: V. SANTIAGO ARIAS; MEGAN BASSICK; JENNIFER L. BEVAN; KATE G. BLACKBURN; DEREK R. BLACKWELL; ERYN BOSTWICK; NICHOLAS BRODY; JOHN P. CAUGHLIN; GINA MASULLO CHEN; JONATHAN D. D'ANGELO; JAYSON L. DIBBLE; JESSE FOX; JESSICA FRAMPTON; JENNIFER HUEMMER; AMY JANAN JOHNSON; BRIANNA L. LANE; LEAH E. LEFEBVRE; HINDA MANDELL; TERRI MANLEY; PAROMITA PAIN; CAMERON W. PIERCY; NARISSRA M. PUNYANUNT-CARTER; NATHIAN SHAE RODRIGUEZ; LIESEL SHARABI; HUA SU; CATALINA L. TOMA AND JASON S. WRENCH

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: From the Front Porch to Swiping Right: The Impact of Technology on Modern Dating Jason S. Wrench and Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter

Unit One: Understanding Social Media & Romantic Relationships

Chapter 2: Usage Patterns of Social Media Across Stages of Romantic Relationships Liesel Sharabi and John P. Caughlin

Chapter 3:Making Sense of Becoming Facebook Official: Implications for Identity and Time Brianna L. Lane and Cameron W. Piercy

Chapter 4:Millennials use of Online Applications for Romantic Development Terri Manley

Chapter 5:Revisiting the Investment Model of Relationships in Light of Technologically Mediated Communication Jayson L. Dibble

Unit Two: Different Contexts and Variables

Chapter 6:Male Same-Sex Dating in the Digital-Mobile Age Nathian Shae Rodriguez and Jennifer Huemmer

Chapter 7:“Love Isn’t Just for the Young” Examining the Online Dating Experiences of Older Adults Derek R. Blackwell

Chapter 8:Long-distance Versus Geographically Close Romantic Relationships: The Effects of Social Media on the Development and Maintenance of These Relationships Amy Janan Johnson, Eryn Bostwick, and Megan Bassick

Chapter 9:Love in Mediated Landscape: The Socio-Spatial Logic of Young Chinese Lovers’ Media Use Hua Su

Chapter 10:Connecting Profile-to-Profile: How People Self-Present and Form Impressions of Others through Online Dating Profiles Catalina L. Toma and Jonathan D. D’Angelo

Unit Three: Turbulence

Chapter 11: Liking, Creeping, and Password Sharing: Romantic Jealousy Experience and Expression and Social Networking Sites Jennifer L. Bevan

Chapter 12:Social Media Stressors in Developing Romantic Relationships Jesse Fox & Jessica Frampton Unit

Four: Dissolution

Chapter 13:#SadWife and #HappyHusband: The Performance of Unattainable Marital Ideals on Facebook Hinda Mandell, Gina Masullo Chen, and Paromita Pain

Chapter 14:Phantom Lovers: Ghosting as a Relationship Dissolution Strategy in the Technological Age Leah E. LeFebvre

Chapter 15:Post-Dissolution Surveillance on Social Networking Sites Nicholas Brody, Leah E. LeFebvre, and Kate G. Blackburn Unit Five: Conclusion

Chapter 16:Future Directions for Swiping Right: The Impact of Technology on Modern Dating V. Santiago Arias, Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, and Jason S. Wrench

*If you would like a 30% discount just use code: LEX30AUTH17 when ordering!

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498544481/The-Impact-of-Social-Media-in-Modern-Romantic-Relationships

Reviews about the book:

From personal ads to ghosting, this edited volume of empirical and review articles from communication experts throughout the U.S. provides insight into the changes in romantic communication that have occurred over the last decade, as technology has become a ubiquitous medium for social interaction. This is a great resource for any student or scholar who wants a cohesive and current overview of the ways in which technology is affecting how we communicate with romantic partners. — Michelle Drouin, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

Understanding the ways in which social media have changed the ways that we initiate, maintain, and terminate relationships is an essential part of contemporary interpersonal communication courses. Instructors will find this text to be an essential addition to their assigned readings as it encourages critical thinking and personal reflection in exploring how relationships have been influenced by social media. Students will absolutely connect with the content and engage in class discussions as they make connections between classical theories of communication in contemporary relationships. Perfect as a stand-alone text for a special topics class or as a supplement to interpersonal courses! — Candice Thomas-Maddox, Ohio University

Book announcement: Theorizing Digital Rhetoric

Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that our edited volume, Theorizing Digital Rhetoric, has been published by Routledge. More information about the book can be found at https://www.routledge.com/Theorizing-Digital-Rhetoric/Hess-Davisson/p/book/9781138702394

Edited by Aaron Hess, Arizona State University, and Amber Davisson, Keene State College

Theorizing Digital Rhetoric takes up the intersection of rhetorical theory and digital technology to explore the ways in which rhetoric is challenged by new technologies and how rhetorical theory can illuminate discursive expression in digital contexts. The volume combines complex rhetorical theory with personal anecdotes about the use of technologies to create a larger philosophical and rhetorical account of how theorists approach the examinations of new and future digital technologies. This collection of essays emphasizes the ways that digital technology intrudes upon rhetorical theory and how readers can be everyday rhetorical critics within an era of ever-increasing use of digital technology.

Contents

1.      Introduction: Theorizing Digital Rhetoric, Aaron Hess

SECTION I: PHILOSOPHICAL AND RHETORICAL CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

2.      Critique of Digital Reason, David Gunkel

3.      The Terms of Technoliberalism, Damien Pfister

4.      Rhetorical Affects in Digital Media, Jay Brower

5.      Digital Rhetoric and the Internet of Things, James P. Zappen

6.      Towards a Minor Assemblage: An Introduction to the Clickable World, J. Macgregor Wise

SECTION II: DIGITAL INTRUSIONS IN RHETORICAL THEORY

7.      From coercion to community building: Technological affordances as rhetorical forms, Amber Davisson and Angela Leone

8.      Fluidity in a Digital World: Choice, Communities, and Public Values, Ashley Hinck

9.      The Rhetorical Agency of Algorithms, Jessica Reyman

10.   The New Data: Argumentation amidst, on, with, and in Data, Candice Lanius and Gaines S. Hubbell

11.   Where is the Body in Digital Rhetoric? Brett Lunceford

12.   Reviving identity politics: Strategic essentialism, identity politics, and the potential for cross-racial vernacular discourse in the digital age, Vincent Pham

SECTION III: BEING RHETORICAL CRITICS IN OUR DIGITAL LIVES

13.   Toward a Digital Methodology for Ideographic Criticism: A Case Study of ‘Equality’, Michelle Gibbons and David Seitz

14.   Hashtags and Attention through the Tetrad: The Rhetorical Circulation of #ALSIceBucketChallenge, Jennifer Reinwald

15.   Ethics, Agency, and Power: Toward an Algorithmic Rhetoric, Jeremy David Johnson

16.   Pinning, Gazing, and Swiping Together: Identification in Visually Driven Social Media, Hillary A. Jones

17.   I am what I play and I play what I am: Constitutive Rhetoric and the Casual Games Market, Shira Chess

18.   Afterword: Digital Rhetoric at a Later Time, Brian L. Ott

Aaron Hess, Arizona State University

Amber Davisson, Keene State College

Studies in Visual Communication Now Available Online

The pioneering journal Studies in Visual Communication, published by the Annenberg School from 1974-1985, has been recently digitized and is now available online. To read more: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/studies-visual-communication-now-available-online.

Contact: Ashton Yount, Staff Writer, Annenberg School at Penn, ashton.yount@asc.upenn.edu

Book Announcement: Talking Black and White: An Intercultural Exploration of Twenty-First-Century Racism, Prejudice, and Perception.

Talking Black and White: An Intercultural Exploration of Twenty-First-Century Racism, Prejudice, and Perception.

Talking Black and White investigates domestic race-related social justice issues and intercultural communication between Black and White individuals. 60 Black and White folks shared their lived experiences about twenty-first-century racism, prejudice, police brutality, #BLM, misperception, and the role of the past in the present. These issues are deconstructed in an engaging, provocative, and accessible manner. Gina Castle Bell explores these dynamics through the lenses of intercultural communication, critical intercultural communication, critical theory, race and racism, interracial communication, Black communication, identity, identity negotiation, and communication theory. This is an ideal book for scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and working professionals who are interested in intercultural communication, race relations, and healthy communication across various areas of difference. This book could accompany multiple courses including: Qualitative Research M!
 ethods (or advanced), Communication Theory, Intercultural Communication, Race and Communication, Interracial Communication, Black Communication and Identity or African American Communication, Race, Gender, and Communication, Identity Negotiation, Racism and Health Outcomes, as well as other courses that examine difference.

How to Order Online: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498516891/Talking-Black-and-White-An-Intercultural-Exploration-of-Twenty-First-Century-Racism-Prejudice-and-Perception

Discount Code: LEX30AUTH17

Table of Contents

Foreword: “The More Things Change…”

Mark C. Hopson

Introduction: On Black and White Race Relations

Chapter 1—First Things First: Disclosing My Positionality

Chapter 2—Defining Key Terms: Discussing the Past

Chapter 3—Study Description: Methodology and Methods

Chapter 4—Guiding Theoretical Frameworks: Co-Cultural Theory & Cultural Contracts Theory

Chapter 5—Black Folks, Police Officers, & the Perception Problem

Chapter 6—On Prejudice, the Perils of this Generation, and Why Black Lives Matter

Chapter 7—On Stuff White Folks said they “Don’t Like about Black Folks”

Chapter 8—Moving Forward Together: On Why “I [Still] Have a Dream”

References

Book Endorsements

“Brilliantly-written and boldly honest, Talking Black and White is a refreshing empirical treatment of one of the most painfully intense social issues of our time. Gina Castle Bell skillfully manages to cut to the heart of the issue very early in the manuscript as she makes the provocative declaration, ‘We have not treated people of color like they are as valuable as White folks in this nation.’ Then, she clearly articulates and deconstructs the pulp of our collective possibilities. This book tells us what white privilege looks like by calling attention to #TrueStory examples, and Bell offers a path for moving forward. This book will be a must-read for many years to come!”
—Ronald L. Jackson II, University of Cincinnati

“In ways that many White scholars are unable and/or unwilling to do, Dr. Gina Castle Bell reflexively confronts what is at stake amid real-world Black and White racial dynamics—namely, survival for many and the humanity of us all. I am impressed by her intellectual endeavor in Talking Black and White, not because it is perfect but because she is a White woman setting a high standard for any White person who claims a socially just sensibility.”
—Rachel Alicia Griffin, University of Utah
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U of Chicago Monthly Free E-book: Wallis’s War: A Novel of Diplomacy and Intrigue

He might rule a world power but he was childlike in his intellect and emotions. She called him “the boy.” Moreover, he admired the authoritarian regime that threatened all of Europe. The boy was a danger to his own country. But what could be done?
Our free e-book for August, Wallis’s War: A Novel of Diplomacy and Intrigue by Kate Auspitz, is an imagined memoir of Wallis Simpson, the infamous American socialite and scandalous divorcée who caused the abdication of the King of England. Was it love? Or was it also some behind-the-scenes engineering? The plot unfolds in Wallis’s War, free in August.

A blend of diplomacy and dalliance, fashion and fascists, this richly researched satire offers witty and erudite entertainment and leaves us speculating: who really brought about the abdication and what were they wearing?

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEbook.html

“IS DONALD TRUMP a Threat to Democracy?” Or just to entrenched power?

N+1 on whether anxieties about Trump are couched in the language of democracy, but are actually anxieties about power:

“IS DONALD TRUMP a Threat to Democracy?” “An Erosion of Democratic Norms in America”; “Will Democracy Survive Trump’s Populism? Latin America May Tell Us”; “An Erosion of Democratic Norms in America”; “Trump, Erdoğan, Farage: The attractions of populism for politicians, the dangers for democracy”; “How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red.’” A steady succession of concern pieces has appeared across the press... As one moves from headline to text, however, a notable but subtle shift occurs in defining what’s actually under threat. The basic meaning of “democracy”—that is, the rule of the people, or popular sovereignty—is nowhere to be found. Instead, “democracy” appears to be constituted by a series of institutions and norms, not all of them obviously democratic."

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/democracy-without-the-people/

Call for Chapters: Ecocultural Identity

(Due to editors: AUGUST 27, 2017):

Book Title: Ecocultural Identity

Co-Editors: Tema Milstein (University of New Mexico) & José Castro-Sotomayor (University of New Mexico)

This edited book will bring transdisciplinary cultural, discursive, spatial, political, and ecological lenses to a much overlooked yet profoundly important issue of our time: ecocultural identity. We understand ecocultural identity as comprising the materially and discursively constructed positionality, subjectivity, perception, and practice that inform one’s emotional, embodied, ethical, and political sensibilities regarding the more than human world (Abram, c1996.). The book and its chapters will identify, examine, and reflect upon the cultivations, constraints, and force of these symbolically and materially emergent identities in our everyday and extraordinary lives.
We intend this book to foster a radical epistemology focused on ways ecocultural identities are being, and can be, thought, felt, performed, and experienced in ways directly relevant to regenerative Earth futures. This examination entails reflecting upon a type of politics that engages with the plurality of ecological subjectivities and environmental identities in flux and formation in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene (Moore, 2015)/Chthulucene (Haraway, 2016). Chapters in this book will trouble the tendency to conceive of the ecological as a subsidiary of the economic, political, historical, and cultural and will examine the ecological as mutually constituted with identity, meaning, and experience (Milstein, 2011). In defining, illustrating, and analyzing the processes, expressions, and functions of ecocultural identity, contributors will explore humans as diverse, always ecological beings.

As extremist rhetoric shatters conventional political scenarios, and demonstrations of climate denial, racism, sexism, and xenophobia intoxicate much of the political arena, ecological perspectives on identity open windows to different ways of understanding the world that are both broadly ethical and potentially liberatory. Indeed, multi and transdisciplinary academics and practitioners have been doing this work for some time. We hope some of this book’s chapters will explore and bridge the disconnect between such ongoing ecocentric troubling and knowing and the great transformative shifts in praxis that must prevail to enact these identities and knowings at a systems scale.

This book has an individual-local-global focus, and beyond an interest in grounded theoretical essays we are interested in a broad range of case studies including but not limited to such lived spheres as traditional and nontraditional ecocultural identities in networks of actions for ecological and cultural protection, radical environmental discourses emerging from global South identity-based resistance movements, and Western-infused identity struggles to target and dismantle passivity and dissociation normalized by market-driven logics. While divergent ecocultural identities emerge from different material, territorial, and temporal experiences, these identities are a shared entry point to environmental embeddedness in shared understandings and engagements of anthropogenic planetary disruption and renewal.

Questions contributors could address in their submissions include but are not limited to:

-       In what ways are ecocultural identities produced, performed, and negotiated?

-       How do varied ecocultural identities inform different ecological relations and how does the more-than-human world inform different ecocultural identities?

-       What are the cultural boundaries of ecological identities and how are those borders patrolled and transgressed?

-       What are some mutually constitutive relationships between specific political ecologies and interrelated ecocultural identities?

-       How does an ecological perspective on identity transfer into the realm of politics?

-       How do different bodies experience and perform ecocultural identity?

-       What are the implications of different or similar ecocultural identities for environmental movements or systems of environmental governance?

-       How might coalitions and alliances of ecocultural identities shape transnational politics?

-       How might diverse or intersecting ecocultural identities contribute to more or less antagonistic sociopolitical, economic, cultural, and environmental public spheres?

-       What are the roles of media in shaping, reproducing, and transforming ecocultural identities?

-       How do embodied, sensory, spiritual, and/or emotional understandings illuminate the formation of ecocultural identities?

-       How do wider cultural shifts from holistic and mutualist ways-of-being to more individualistic and dualist ones inform ecocultural identities?

-       How do the material conditions of places in environmental distress or generativity influence ways people think about and experience their ecocultural identity?

-       How do modes of thought and practice such as post-humanisms, rewilding, novel ecosystems, or re-indigenizing emerge from and/or inform ecocultural identities?

-       What is the relevance of ecocultural identities in conducting research? What kind of privileges are troubled by ecocentric versus anthropocentric positionalities in scholarship?

The book will have an international and transdisciplinary focus to represent the range of approaches and perspectives on issues of ecocultural identity. Scholars, educators, practitioners, and graduate students across disciplines are invited to submit full papers or abstracts for consideration. Chapter proposal submissions should be in the form of: (1) a 200-word author bio AND (2) a complete paper (5,000-7,000 words including references) OR extended abstract (400-500 words) (in either form, use APA 6th edition for citations/references).

For consideration, email submissions (author bio and paper/abstract) by August 27, 2017, to José Castro-Sotomayor at castrosotomayorj@unm.edu.
TIMELINE NOTE: We have verbal interest from a top academic press and plan a quick turnaround for formal consideration. As such, with chapter submissions due on August 27, we plan on contacting chapter submitters with decisions on revise/resubmit or acceptance by August 31 and delivering the book proposal to publishing houses as early as September 1. Those receiving revise/resubmit decisions on chapter submissions and those submitting abstracts that receive further consideration as complete papers will submit revisions and/or complete papers to the editors by Nov. 1, 2017.

References

Abram, D. (c1996.). The spell of the sensuous: perception and language in a more-than-human world. New York : Pantheon Books,.
Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press.
Milstein, T. (2011). Nature Identification: The Power of Pointing and Naming. Environmental Communication, 5(1), 3–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2010.535836
Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the web of life: ecology and the accumulation of capital (1st ed.). New York: Verso.
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Joe Mazer, jmazer@clemson.edu

2018 Basic Course Directors Conference—June 1-2, 2018

Clemson University is pleased to host the 56th Annual Basic Course Directors Conference at The Westin Poinsett Hotel in Greenville, South Carolina on June 1-2, 2018. Please review the conference website here: http://bit.ly/2uPUSGE

We will be disseminating information about the conference on our Facebook page (Basic Course Directors) as well as via the basic course director’s listserv (to join the listserv contact Sam Wallace at wallace@udayton.edu). Please consider joining these groups for more updated information on registration information and the conference schedule. Questions? Contact Joe Mazer at jmazer@clemson.edu

2nd Call for Chapters: Book on self-injury as communication

2nd Call for Chapters: Book on self-injury as communication under contract with Lexington Books (Lexington Studies in Health Communication).

Editor: Warren Bareiss, PhD

Department of Fine Arts & Communication Studies

University of South Carolina Upstate

wbareiss@uscupstate.edu

864-503-5299

Introduction

“Self-injury” is typically defined as the deliberate harming of one’s body without suicidal intent. Common forms of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) include cutting, burning, and bruising as a means of anxiety and stress reduction and avoidance.

The purpose of this book is to explore the communicative dimensions of self-injury, with “communication” being defined and applied in many ways: What messages, if any, are implied in the process and outcome of self-injury? What does self-injury say that words and other forms of communication can’t express? How do self-injurers communicate about their behaviors? What roles do social and mass media play in representing self-injury? How can healthcare professionals effectively communicate with self-injurers? How do communicative dimensions of self-injury vary across cultural settings?

The target audience includes scholars whose interests include communication, culture, and the body as well as healthcare practitioners and other professionals who work with self-injurers on a day-to-day basis.

Self-injury is typically associated with adolescent girls due under-reporting of NSSI among other groups. As such, chapters addressing self-injury among boys and adults are especially welcome. Forms of self-injury outside of the typical cases involving cutting, scraping, and bruising would also be particularly valuable additions.

Theory and Methodology

All chapters should clearly evidence communication as the central conceptual principle, applying one or more communication theories with respect to original data not published elsewhere. Scholarship from a wide range of disciplines and approaches to communication would be appropriate for submission. Data and analytical methods may be qualitative in approach, quantitative, or a combination of both. Final chapters should fall within a 5,000-6,000 word range, not including abstract, references, etc.

Abstracts should be submitted for consideration by Sept. 1, 2017.

Abstracts should be approximately 500 words, specifically addressing how the chapter will examine self-injury as communication. Abstracts should also describe the communication theory(ies) used, original data, and methodology. Each author should also include a CV of no more than two pages.

Organization

Sections of the book are tentatively conceived as:

-       In what ways is self-injury a form of communication, and what is being communicated?

-       How do self-injurers communicate about self-injury?

-       How does the self-injury/communication nexus vary across and within cultures?

-       What roles do social media and mass media play in representing self-injury?

-       What are best methods for communicating with self-injurers?

Samples of chapter proposal topics already submitted:

-       The co-construction of self-injury as a cultural—rather than diagnostic--category.

-       Cyber-ethnographic comparison of two online NSSI platforms.

-       Discourse analysis of NSSI in Japanese popular media.

-       Framing analysis of NSSI among amateur YouTube videos.

-       Nursing students’ attitudes toward self-injurers.

Revised Timeline:

-    Sept. 1: Deadline for submission of abstracts and CVs.

-    Sept. 7: Reviews of abstracts will be completed. Authors whose work is selected will be asked to submit a full chapter for further consideration.

-    Nov. 7: Full chapters should be submitted for review.

-    Dec. 7: First review of full chapters completed and authors notified of suggested revisions.

-    Feb. 15: Revised chapters due.

-    April 1: Second reviews of full chapters sent to authors pending Feb. 15 revisions.

-    May 1: Final manuscripts due.

Send inquiries to

Warren Bareiss
Associate Professor of Communication
University of South Carolina Upstate
wbareiss@uscupstate.edu

Book Announcement: The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education (Routledge)

Book Announcement: The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education (Routledge)

Description:

Capturing the voices of Americans living with student debt in the United States, this collection critiques the neoliberal interest-driven, debt-based system of U.S. higher education and offers alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and the corporatized university. Grounded in an understanding of the historical and political economic context, this book offers auto-ethnographic experiences of living in debt, and analyzes alternatives to the current system. Chapter authors address real questions such as, Do collegians overestimate the economic value of going to college? and How does the monetary system that student loans are part of operate? Pinpointing how developments in the political economy are accountable for students’ university experiences, this book provides an authoritative contribution to research in the fields of educational foundations and higher education policy and finance.

Reviews:

"An ideology which makes higher education a privilege instead of a societal benefit has commodified human life and human freedom and placed high academic achievement out of the financial means of many young Americans. This book is a deep exploration of the disastrous educational funding system of America. It is required reading for every person concerned about whether future generations will be equipped intellectually to defend our freedoms, which will require access to higher learning, as a basic right." --Dennis Kucinich, Member of Congress, 1997-2013, Senior Member of House Committee on Education. Presidential candidate 2004 and 2008

"This book offers a unique perspective – that of those in debt. The text provides a useful and timely overview of college finance and student debt, and offers a birds-eye view of the multiple problems students face once they encounter, and have to live with, debt." --William G. Tierney, Wilbur Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, University of Southern California, USA

"Higher education in the United States has been transformed from a public good to a poverty industry under the aegis of debtfarism. With wide-ranging coverage of vital themes ranging from the exploitative practices of student loans to the politics of financing education, this edited volume brings together an invaluable collection of critical interrogations into the complex practices of neoliberalizing colleges. This excellent volume will quickly become a standard reference for understanding the commodification of tertiary education." --Susanne Soederberg, author of Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry

"These authors remind us to be wary of the increasing commodification of college. They are right to be concerned that college costs and debt threatens to turn too many students into indentured foot soldiers for American capitalism. A college education is more than dollars and cents. Free nations need free colleges." --Anthony P. Carnevale, Research Professor and Director McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce

"Student debt has become a prison and this excellent collection of essays raises the question of whether the augmentation of labor power through higher education is worth the cost. This powerful text exposes the current crisis of education, and courageously brings the reader face-to-face with the consequences of capital unchained. It should be read by all in the higher education community."  --Peter McLaren, Distinguished Professor, Chapman University

Available at:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Neoliberal-Agenda-and-the-Student-Debt-Crisis-in-US-Higher-Education/Hartlep-Eckrich-Hensley/p/book/9781138194656

https://www.amazon.com/Neoliberal-Student-Education-Routledge-Neoliberalism/dp/1138194654/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501511323&sr=8-1&keywords=neoliberal+agenda+student+debt