TOC Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Volume 20, Issue 2, 2017: "Rhetoric In Situ": The ASHR Symposium 2016

Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Volume 20, Issue 2, 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online. "Rhetoric In Situ": The ASHR Symposium 2016 This new issue contains the following articles: Editorial Editor’s Note Arthur E. Walzer Pages: 117-117 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1327273 Guest Editor’s Introduction Rhetoric In Situ Kathleen S. Lamp Pages: 118-120 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1337414 Articles Remembering Emmett Till: Reflections on Geography, Race, and Memory Dave Tell Pages: 121-138 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1325414 Confederate Memory in Post-Confederate Atlanta—a Prolegomena Christopher Lee Adamczyk Pages: 139-152 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1325413 Loss and Lived Memory at the Moore’s Ford Lynching Reenactment Megan Eatman Pages: 153-166 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1325411 Doing Rhetorical Studies In Situ: The Nomad Citizen in Jordan Heather Ashley Hayes Pages: 167-179 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1325415 Reading Augustan Rome: Materiality as Rhetoric In Situ Diane Favro Pages: 180-195 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1326325 Socrates Ex Situ Michele Kennerly Pages: 196-208 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1327278 Early Christian Rhetoric(s) In Situ Cory Geraths Pages: 209-220 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1325412 Book Review Kant’s Philosophy of Communication G. L. Ercolini, Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2016. pp. 251. ISBN: 978-0-8207-0486-9, $30.00 (Paper). Matthew Bost Pages: 221-223 | DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1325666

TOC POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention

POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention announces the publication of Volume 13, Number 1. This Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Translation is guest edited by Russell Scott Valentino, Indiana University, in collaboration with Jacob Emery, Sibelan Forrester, and Tomislav Kuzmanović. Jordan Hussey-Andersen and Sarah Raine served as Assistant Editors.

This issue contains six papers by an international group of scholars on how Translation Studies is illuminated and affected by rhetorical theory, ancient and contemporary.

The journal invites your submissions through the portal on its homepage at http://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/. POROI focuses on rhetorical aspects of knowledge production and on the role of various media, old and new, in this process. 

Quarterly Journal of Speech, Volume 103, Issue 3, August 2017

Articles
Mobility, citizenship, and “American women on the move” in the 1977 International Women’s Year torch relay
Alyssa A. Samek
Pages: 207-229 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1321134

When homelessness becomes a “luxury”: Neutrality as an obstacle to counterpublic rights claims
Whitney Gent http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6534-307X
Pages: 230-250 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1321133

Hurricane Katrina and the chōric object of rhetorical studies
Jeremy R. Grossman
Pages: 251-276 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1321132

Hacking agency: Apps, autism, and neurodiversity
Anne Teresa Demo
Pages: 277-300 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1321135

Book Reviews
Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film
Kendall R. Phillips
Pages: 301-303 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1324280

Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet
Caroline A. Guerin & Davi Thornton
Pages: 304-307 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1331886

The Politics of Resentment: A Genealogy
Robert Asen
Pages: 308-311 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1324281

Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics
Sharon Yam
Pages: 311-315 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1331887

Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship
Jeremy L. Cox
Pages: 315-319 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1324283

Historical Justice and Memory
Allison Morris Niebauer
Pages: 319-323 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1331880

Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
Katie P. Bruner
Pages: 323-327 | DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2017.1339400

Visual Communication- Volume: 16, Number: 3 (August 2017)

Special issue: Picturing Protest – Visuality, Visibility and the Public Sphere

Introduction
Picturing protest: visuality, visibility and the public sphere
Maria Rovisco, Anastasia Veneti
Articles
Aesthetics of protest: an examination of the photojournalistic approach to protest imagery
Anastasia Veneti
Power revealed: masking police officers in the public sphere
Pollyanna Ruiz
How right-wing versus cosmopolitan political actors mobilize and translate images of immigrants in transnational contexts
Nicole Doerr
The indignados social movement and the image of the occupied square: the making of a global icon
Maria Rovisco
Visual Essay
In Photos: Palestinian ‘Outposts’ Expose Israel’s Land Grab Tactic

Book Announcement: Comic Performativities: Identity, Internet Outrage, and the Aesthetics of Communication by Dustin Bradley Goltz

Dustin Bradley Goltz

Routledge, 2017

https://www.routledge.com/Comic-Performativities-Identity-Internet-Outrage-and-the-Aesthetics/Goltz/p/book/9781138742604

Comic Performativities studies patterns of criticism and public debate in the relationship between humour, identity, and offense. In an increasingly reductive and politically charged debate, right-wing pundits argue leftist politics has compromised a free and open discussion, while scholars take right-wing critics to task for reifying systems of oppression under the guise of reason and respect. In response, Goltz scrutinizes twenty-first century "comedic controversies," the notion of "political correctness," and the so-called "outrage machine" of social media. How should we appropriately determine whether a joke is "sexist," "racist," or "offensive"?

Informed by communication, performance, and critical identity theory, Goltz examines infamous controversies involving performers like Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, and Seth MacFarlane, and the social media backlash that redefined these events. He investigates the ironic interplay between spoken word, identity, physicality and, as a result, the contrasting meanings potentially construed. Consequently, the book encourages a greater appreciation of the aesthetics involved in comedic performance that help signpost interpretation and emphasizes the role of the audience as self-reflexive and self-aware.

This book highlights the significant parallels between the nature of performance art and comedic performance in order to elevate analysis of, and discussion around, contemporary comedy. In doing so, it is an important critical contribution to the field of performance studies and cultural criticism, as well as communication studies and social media, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: what Rock Said: Don't Tweet This

  1.  Ironic Performativity: Amy Schumer and the Conventions of Embodiment

  2.  The End of the Discussion: The Crisis of Judgment

  3.  The joke is on YOU: Audience Contexts, Criticisms, and Investments

  4.  "We Saw Your Boobs": "Bro Camp" and Subversive Coaching

  5.  Conclusion: Racial Humor and Performing White Innocence

Reviews:

This book shows why humor and our responses to it matter. … Rarely has performance been more clearly and consequentially articulated, dialogue more subversively coached, nor aesthetics so vitally defended. Comic Performativities implicates the entire cultural landscape in a compelling appeal for more self-reflexivity, dialogue, and art.

  -       Kristin M. Langellier, Professor Emerita of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine.

By examining “comic controversies,” Dustin Goltz reminds us … that comedy is not always just entertainment, but can cross into politics and philosophy and become part of socio-cultural struggles. Grounded in communication and performance theory, we as readers come to understand more deeply the reigning comedic controversies of our time and the need for self-reflexivity when thinking about comedy and politics.

  -       Kent Ono, Professor in and Chair of Department of Communication, University of Utah

With clarity and insight, Goltz offers a much-needed analysis of comic performativity. Through consideration of hotly contested comic controversies, he deftly provides a critical template for evaluating the aesthetic, rhetorical, and political dimensions of stand-up comedy, elucidating the importance of audience investment and appropriation in the evolving new media landscape.

  -       Joanne Gilbert, Charles A. Dana Professor of Communication and New Media Studies, Alma College

Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War, due to become available on the 1st July.

https://www.amazon.com/Comics-Trauma-New-Art-War/dp/1496812468 
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2024

Communication Research- Volume: 44, Number: 5 (July 2017) Themed Issue: Family Communication

Articles
A Communication-Based Approach to Adoptive Identity: Theoretical and Empirical Support
Colleen Warner Colaner, Jordan Soliz
A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Mediating Role of Family Support and Parental Advice Quality on the Relationship Between Family Communication Patterns and First-Year College Student Adjustment in the United States and Belgium
Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, Jenna McNallie, Kathleen Custers, Elisabeth Timmermans, Steven R. Wilson, Jan Van den Bulck
Caregiver Confirmation and Children’s Attachment Security During the Transition to Kindergarten
Elizabeth A. Munz, Steven R. Wilson
Understanding Children’s Television Exposure From a Life Logistics Perspective: A Longitudinal Study of the Association Between Mothers’ Working Hours and Young Children’s Television Time
Ine Beyens, Steven Eggermont
Testing Multiple Goals Theory With Low-Income, Mother-Child Spanish-Speakers: Language Brokering Interaction Goals and Relational Satisfaction
Lisa M. Guntzviller
Communal Coping Among Spanish-Speaking Mother–Child Dyads Engaging in Language Brokering: A Latent Class Analysis
Jennifer A. Kam, Erin D. Basinger, Lisa M. Guntzviller

Philosophy & Social Criticism- Volume: 43, Number: 6 (July 2017)

Articles
The politics of religious freedom
Jon Mahoney
Towards an ethical politics
Kathy Kiloh
The Perpetual Peace Puzzle
Ben Holland
Libertarian personal responsibility
Joshua Preiss
Political toleration, exclusionary reasoning and the extraordinary politics
Armin Khameh

European Journal of Communication- Volume: 32, Number: 3 (June 2017)

Table of Contents Alert European Journal of Communication- Volume: 32, Number: 3 (June 2017)

Articles
Privacy by disaster? Press coverage of privacy and digital technology
Thilo von Pape, Sabine Trepte, Cornelia Mothes
Impartiality, statistical tit-for-tats and the construction of balance: UK television news reporting of the 2016 EU referendum campaign
Stephen Cushion, Justin Lewis
Measuring news bias: Russia’s official news agency ITAR-TASS’ coverage of the Ukraine crisis
Kohei Watanabe
Cynicism ex machina: The emotionality of reporting the ‘refugee crisis’ and Paris terrorist attacks in Czech Television
Johana Kotišová
Echo chamber and trench warfare dynamics in online debates
Rune Karlsen, Kari Steen-Johnsen, Dag Wollebæk, Bernard Enjolras
Book reviews
Book review: By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism
Tara Brabazon
Book review: Strategies for Media Reform: International Perspectives
Tom O’Malley
Book review: eQuality: The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons with Cognitive Disabilities
Elena Fell
Book review: Handbook on the Economics of the Internet
Robin Mansell
Book review: The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future
Linda Steiner
Book notes
Göran Bolin, Media Generations: Experience, Identity and Mediatised Social Change
Jan Fredrik Hovden, Gunnar Nygren and Henrika Zilliacus-Tikkanen (eds), Becoming a Journalist. Journalism Education in the Nordic Countries
Ruth Sanz Sabido, Memories of the Spanish Civil War: Conflict and Community in Rural Spain
Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte (eds), Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Peter Simonson and David W Park (eds), The International History of Communication Study
Ron Moy, Authorship Roles in Popular Music
Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks and Chris Paterson (eds), Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century: From the ‘Heart of Darkness’ to ‘Africa Rising’
Gary Hall, The Uberfication of the University
Kristin Skare Orgeret and William Tayeebwa (eds), Journalism in Conflict and Post-Conflict Conditions
Eszter Hargittai and Christian Sandvig (eds), Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behaviour Online

IPR and PRSA Relaunch PR Journal, an academic, peer-reviewed, open-source journal

The Institute for Public Relations is partnering with PRSA to relaunch an academic, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, the “PR Journal.”
PR Journal is dedicated to offering the latest public relations and communications-based research. This includes the online “publishing” of articles by academics or practitioners who examine public relations in depth and/or create, test or expand public relations theory. We accept all appropriate methodologies including social-scientific, case studies, philosophical, legal/historical and critical. All submissions should be focused on “research that matters to the profession,” and should include a section that outlines that both in the paper and executive summary. Implications for the discipline are required. The Journal provides vital insights that professionals can incorporate into daily practice, and if of interest, explore rich academic studies and resources for a fuller perspective.

The rebranded journal combines IPR’s “Research Journal of IPR” with PRSA’s “PR Journal.” The new site includes links to the current issue and past issues of both journals:

http://prjournal.instituteforpr.org/.

If you are interested or know someone who may be, we are also looking for a new Editor-in-Chief—deadline for applications is August 1.

For more information, please visit the release about the merger.  If you have any questions, please email IPR President & CEO Tina McCorkindale tina@instituteforpr.org.

Book: Jim Shooter: Conversations - University Press of Mississippi

Jim Shooter: Conversations is now available and includes both rare, out of print interviews and a brand-new career-spanning interview. Of possible interest to those of you who do work on mainstream comics (and maybe to some of you who don't).

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2018

Jim Shooter: Conversations - University Press of Mississippi
www.upress.state.ms.us
"I think that if you're an editor, and you do what's right, you occasionally have to say 'no' to people. To the good people, the professionals, that's fine. But the ...

Book Announcement Climate and Sustainability Communication: Global Perspectives (2017).

In this edited collection, chapters build upon traditional approaches to understanding mass media’s role in shaping social issues by amplifying diverse perspectives of opinion leaders, as well as voices of those affected by climate and sustainability issues. From South Korea and China, to the U.S., and Zambia, studies reported in this book emphasize cultural orientation and global implications of climate and sustainability concerns and issues. Chapter authors attend to the cultures, geographies, and media systems underpinning climate and sustainability campaigns emerging around the world, how we theorize about them, and ways media are used to communicate about them. Reported studies use a variety of formal research methods, including content analysis, interview, and survey. Complex problems and opportunities associated with globalization and power inequities as these interplay with climate and sustainability communication require interdisciplinary, creative approaches. Thi!
 s book opens new conversations for integrating scholarly arenas of mass media communication, science and environmental communication, political communication, health communication and their respective theory and research method sets.

Available via the Routledge website: www.routledge.com/9780415788991

BOOK: Surviving Sexism in Academia Strategies for Feminist Leadership

Surviving Sexism in Academia
Strategies for Feminist Leadership
Edited by Kirsti Cole, Holly Hassel

© 2018 – Routledge

This edited collection contends that if women are to enter into leadership positions at equal levels with their male colleagues, then sexism in all its forms must be acknowledged, attended to, and actively addressed. This interdisciplinary collection—Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership—is part storytelling, part autoethnography, part action plan. The chapters document and analyze everyday sexism in the academy and offer up strategies for survival, ultimately 'lifting the veil" from the good old boys/business-as-usual culture that continues to pervade academia in both visible and less-visible forms, forms that can stifle even the most ambitious women in their careers.

Public Understanding of Science- Volume: 26, Number: 5 (July 2017)

Articles
Spiderman and science: How students’ perceptions of scientists are shaped by popular media
Aik-Ling Tan, Jennifer Ann Jocz, Junqing Zhai
Homo Politicus meets Homo Ludens: Public participation in serious life science games
Olga Radchuk, Wolfgang Kerbe, Markus Schmidt
How scary! An analysis of visual communication concerning genetically modified organisms in Italy
Vera Ventura, Dario G. Frisio, Giovanni Ferrazzi, Elena Siletti
This isn’t going to end well: Fictional representations of medical research in television and film
Jill A. Fisher, Marci D. Cottingham
Passages on Brazilian scientific cinema
Jane de Almeida, Cicero Inacio da Silva, Alfredo Suppia, Brett Stalbaum
Factual accuracy and the cultural context of science in popular media: Perspectives of media makers, middle school students, and university students on an entertainment television program
Evan Szu, Jonathan Osborne, Alexis D. Patterson
Making UFOs make sense: Ufology, science, and the history of their mutual mistrust
Greg Eghigian
Historical Moments in Public Understa nding of Science
Paolo Mantegazza and the dream of ‘making’ science popular circa 1860–1900.
Cristiano Turbil
Book Review
Book Review: Raza G, Ren F, Khan HJ and He W (eds), Constructing culture of science: Communication of science in India and China
Hepeng Jia

(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work  (Yale University Press) is now available. You can read an excerpt via Culture Digitally.


Amidst profound transformations in our digital society, legions of young women are turning to social media platforms—from blogs to YouTube to Instagram—in hopes of channeling their talents into fulfilling careers. In this eye opening book, Brooke Erin Duffy draws much needed attention to the gap between the handful who secure lucrative work as “influencers”—and the rest, whose passion projects amount to free labor for corporate brands. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork, Duffy offers fascinating insights into the work and lives of fashion bloggers, beauty vloggers, designers, and more. She connects their activities to larger shifts in unpaid and gendered labor, offering a lens through which to understand, anticipate, and critique broader transformations in the creative economy. At a moment when social media offer the rousing assurance that anyone can “make it”—and stand out among freelancers, temps, and gig workers—Duffy urges us to consider the stakes of !
 not getting paid to do what you love.

Reviews

"Duffy chronicles, with clarity and compassion, what she calls “aspirational labor”—an intoxicating desire to forego the realities of today’s soulless and uncertain labor market for the allure of a more soulful connection to meaningful work. Using today’s dizzying world of social media microcelebrity to make her case, Duffy accomplishes that rare thing: advances theory with elegance, challenging all easy reads of late capitalism, while helping readers see themselves in the book’s careful, detailed accounts of people’s lives."—Mary L. Gray, Indiana University and Microsoft Research

“A fascinating, meticulously researched study that shows how these creative women exemplify modern workers. Her lessons are essential for all those interested in fashion studies, gender studies, and the creative economy.”—Angela McRobbie, author of Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries

“Duffy is an excellent guide to the contemporary anxieties of aspirational labor, showing both the very calculated nature of investments these women are trying to make in their futures, while pointing to the larger social forces that shape and constrict their possibilities.”—Gina Neff, author of Venture Labor

“Duffy's critically astute study reveals the intersection of pleasure and power in contemporary capitalism and clearly articulates an essential new perspective on digital labor.”— Kylie Jarrett, author of The Digital Housewife

“This rich, original, and insightful book introduces a new concept—aspirational labor—for thinking about contemporary creative work and shows how gender and social media are intimately entangled with it. Highly recommended!”—Rosalind Gill, author of Gender and the Media

"A necessary antidote. Duffy deftly reveals the sweat of young women content creators, offering a new perspective on gender and the digital economy."—Leslie Regan Shade, University of Toronto

“This immensely valuable book reveals the trapdoor for female workers who pursue their talents on social media. Duffy expertly dissects a system which attracts many, rewards a few, and exploits the rest.”— Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times

"Smart and original. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with fashion bloggers and vloggers, Duffy unpacks the pressures of self-branding, status-seeking, and audience-building inherent in the gendered struggle to get paid doing what you love."—Laura Grindstaff, author of The Money Shot

“This insightful account will resonate with anyone who has ever sought to turn personal passions into wage-earning employment, juggled multiple part-time gigs, or struggled to fit pleasurable hobbies around a ‘real’ job or jobs.”—Library Journal, starred review

Order via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Getting-Paid-What-Love/dp/0300218176/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497888289&sr=8-1&keywords=not+getting+paid+duffy

Two New Calls: Social Theory and Intersectionality--Emerald Studies in Media & Communications

Two New Calls: Social Theory and Intersectionality--Emerald Studies in Media & Communications

Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is delighted to announce two new calls with a due date of  January 15, 2018:

Theorizing the Digital: Social Theory and Power, Media, and Everyday Life: Expanding the Intersectional.

Call for Theorizing the Digital: Social Theory and Digital Culture

We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed.

We also welcome theoretical submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume.

Methodological papers will be considered as long as they are grounded in theoretical concerns.

The scope of the volume is wide and includes application of classical and contemporary theorists in media contexts.

Any topic that engages the volume’s theme is welcome. Potential topics could include: ethics, practices, and politics of “big data”; self, identity, and community; privacy, publicity and surveillance; personal and algorithmic patterns of curation; social network formation, maintenance, and change; news and (dis)information; visual representations; memes and virality; politics; mediated embodiment, etc.

Call for Power, Media, and Everyday Life: Expanding the Intersectional

We welcome submissions using a wide variety of data and analytic techniques, assuming they are rigorously employed, and theoretical or methodological submissions, assuming they focus squarely on the topic of the volume.

The scope of this volume is wide, as it aims to contribute phenomenological and epistemic knowledge to the growing field of intersectionality.

Submissions are welcome on any topics that speak to intersectionality as it relates to media including gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and ability.
In addition, we are also especially interested in papers that expand and broaden the discourse of intersectionality vis-à-vis media to include:

Parenthood, Community, Religion, Nationality, Immigration, Language, Political Association, Aging, etc.

Submission Guidelines: Deadline January 15, 2018 by email to editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com.

Submissions should be approximately 7,000-10,000 in length inclusive of abstract, references, and notes. American or British spelling may be used.

While no special formatting is requested at the outset, upon acceptance authors must gain all permissions and format their manuscripts in accordance with the series' guidelines.

Submissions may be considered for either volume. All submissions must include

1) title of manuscript,

2) abstract up to 250 words,

3) up to 6 keywords,

4)  main text with headings,

5) references,

6) as appropriate to the submission appendices, images, figures, and tables.

For initial submissions, please follow these four steps or the submission may not be considered:

1) Create two copies of your submission: one in PDF for anonymous review and one in Word with all author information.

2) Use the title of your submission when naming your copies of your submissions in both Word and PDF.

3) Put the title of your submission and the name of the volume you prefer in the subject line of your email.

4) Email both copies of your submission in a single email to editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com by the deadline.

Anonymized Review Copy in PDF

Title of your submission + Anonymized (example: "Submission Title Anonymized")

Remove any author information and affiliations and save doc as PDF

Editorial Copy in Word

Title of your submission + Editorial (example: "Submission Title Editorial")

In a Word document, include all elements above, as well as a title page with all author names, emails, and bios of up to 250 words.

For more information, see emeraldmediastudies.com.

Please address any questions to: editorial@emeraldmediastudies.com

Review of Communication, Volume 17, Issue 3, July 2017 MEDICAL HUMANITIES

Review of Communication, Volume 17, Issue 3, July 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

MEDICAL HUMANITIES

This new issue contains the following articles:


Guest Editor's Introduction
More to the story: how the medical humanities can learn from and enrich health communication studies
Nicole Piemonte
Pages: 137-148 | DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2017.1331254

Original Articles
“I’d rather be dead than disabled”—the ableist conflation and the meanings of disability
Joel Michael Reynolds http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9640-5082
Pages: 149-163 | DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2017.1331255

A narrative framework for forgiveness at the end of life: suggestions for future research in health communication
Carmen C. Goman
Pages: 164-181 | DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2017.1331256

Abuse and shame in Homer and medicine
Alan Bleakley & Robert Marshall
Pages: 182-198 | DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2017.1331253

Anywhere but here, anyone but you: a re-reading of Philoctetes from the foot of the bed
Susan McCammon
Pages: 199-213 | DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2017.1331258

Is there a role for communication studies in translational research?
Jason Scott Robert
Pages: 214-223 | DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2017.1331257

CFP: Digital English: A Handbook for the 21st Century Classroom

deadline for submissions:
September 1, 2017
full name / name of organization:
University of Tasmania
contact email:
Naomi.Milthorpe@utas.edu.au
CFP: Digital English: A Handbook for the 21st Century Classroom

Edited by Naomi Milthorpe, Robert Clarke, Joanne Jones, and Robbie Moore.

Submissions due: September 1, 2017.



New university students are digital natives; our classrooms filled with technology. Our students are increasingly online only – distanced by the demands of economics, geography, or time. Yet as English scholars, most of our training has been with physical materials and face-to-face methods: books, paper, discussion. So what are the best methods of using technology in our classrooms? How, why, and when should we use it?

The editors seek proposals of original, adaptable and proven exercises, assignments, and techniques using digital, online and mobile technology, for inclusion in a practical handbook of teaching methods for engaging with students in the tertiary English classroom – whether physical or virtual.

English broadly defined (literary studies, creative writing, composition, professional writing, cultural studies, media studies, drama and film studies, and critical theory) is taught widely in universities nationally and internationally, with new teaching appointments every year. More and more universities are transplanting their courses into the online realm. Yet it is difficult to find teaching handbooks that offer ideas, tips and practical solutions for tertiary teachers to improve their teaching using the affordances of mobile and e-technologies, or to help with the transition to online or blended teaching. We envision this handbook as a practical resource that educators can use whatever their stage of teaching, including tips, advice, and best practice pedagogy that has been tested by experience.

Structured so that educators can hit the ground running, whatever their stage of teaching, Digital English: A Handbook for the 21st Century Classroom will offer a comprehensive handbook of exercises, techniques and tips specifically designed for use in the undergraduate English classroom, face-to-face or online.



Guidelines

We seek 500-1000 word classroom exercises, online activities, assessment strategies, and course design ideas. We welcome submissions that work with a specific author, topic or genre (Wordsworth, critical race theory, Hollywood musicals), but will particularly value exercises that can be adapted to a variety of authors, subjects, periods, modes and critical frameworks.

We seek submissions in the areas of:

Creative e-tivities
Digital storytelling
Discussion boards and webinars
Blogs
Quizzes
Wikis and other community knowledge generators
Mobile technology in the physical classroom
Databases, graphs and distant reading tools
Troubleshooting
Using Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas) creatively and effectively
Online course design


Our ideal submission has the following qualities:

written in engaging and informal language immediately accessible to the user
short, snappy title
provides step-by-step instructions: how much preparation it requires from teachers or students, level of difficulty, writing component, duration, group size
reflects on how it works – did the students enjoy this activity, how did they demonstrate their learning, what was your experience, what kinds of discussions or questions did it generate


Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2017.

Contributors will be notified of their inclusion in the handbook by November 1, 2017.

To submit or for enquiries please contact Naomi.Milthorpe@utas.edu.au.

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly- Volume: 80, Number: 2 (June 2017)

Table of Contents Alert

Editorial
Mobile Learning: A Proven Pedagogy for Business and Professional Communication
Melinda Knight
Articles
Mobile or Not? Assessing the Instructional Value of Mobile Learning
Catherine Nickerson, Chrysi Rapanta, Valerie Priscilla Goby
Tackling the Survey: A Learning-by-Induction Design
Anne E. Witte
Professional Communication as Phatic: From Classical Eunoia to Personal Artificial Intelligence
James E. Porter
Gamification in the Business Communication Course
Jennifer R. Veltsos
Increasing Student Interaction in Technical Writing Courses in Online Environments
Drew Virtue
My Favorite Assignment Part 1
Selections From the ABC 2016 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Bright as Stars in the Albuquerque Desert Sky: Classroom-Tested Business Communication Assignments
D. Joel WhalenSection Editor
Book Reviews
Book Review: Designing texts: Teaching visual communication by Brumberger, E. R., & Northcut, K. M. (Eds.).
Lenny GrantBook Review Editor, Jennifer Wood
Book Review: The fourth dimension in architecture: The impact of building on behavior by Hall, M. R., & Hall, E. T.
Deborah Andrews

Journal of Business and Technical Communication- Volume: 31, Number: 3 (July 2017) Special Issue: Rhetoric of Entrepreneurship: Theories, Methodologies, and Practices

Journal of Business and Technical Communication- Volume: 31, Number: 3 (July 2017)
Special Issue: Rhetoric of Entrepreneurship: Theories, Methodologies, and Practices

Submit Your Manuscript to Journal of Business and Technical Communication! Visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jbtc for more details

Editorial
Introduction to Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Entrepreneurship
Clay Spinuzzi
Articles
When Is a Solution Not a Solution? Wicked Problems, Hybrid Solutions, and the Rhetoric of Civic Entrepreneurship
Jeffrey M. Gerding, Kyle P. Vealey
Rhetorical Narratives of Black Entrepreneurs
Natasha N. Jones
Start-Up Nation
Steven Fraiberg
For Journal of Business and Technical Communication's full back issue catalog, please visit http://journals.sagepub.com/loi/jbt

Social Studies of Science- Volume: 47, Number: 3 (June 2017) Special issue: Breaking Scientific Networks

Articles
A long history of breakdowns: A historiographical review
Dániel Margócsy
The breakdown of Galileo’s Roman network: Crisis and community, ca. 1633
Paula Findlen, Hannah Marcus
Zombie projects, negative networks, and multigenerational science: The temporality of the International Map of the World
William Rankin
A fragile assemblage: Mutant bird flu and the limits of risk assessment
Andrew Lakoff
The missing, the martyred and the disappeared: Global networks, technical intensification and the end of human rights genetics
Lindsay A Smith
‘This is what we got, what would you like?’: Aligning and unaligning academic-industry relations
Jane Bjørn Vedel, Alan Irwin

Games and Culture- Volume: 12, Number: 5 (July 2017)

Submit Your Manuscript to Games & Culture! Visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/games for more details.

Articles
Why Can’t We All Get Along? A Study of Hygge and Janteloven in a Danish Social-Casual Games Community
Ahmad Beltagui, Thomas Schmidt
Mechanics and Metagame
Scott Donaldson
Why Video Game Genres Fail
Rachel Ivy Clarke, Jin Ha Lee, Neils Clark
Virtual Warfare
Mary Elizabeth Ballard, Kelly Marie Welch
For Games & Culture's full back issue catalog, please visit page http://journals.sagepub.com/loi/gac

Philip K. Dick, Here and Now

deadline for submissions:
July 31, 2017
full name / name of organization:
David Sandner, California State University, Fullerton
contact email:
dsandner@fullerton.edu
 In Spring, 2016, California State University, Fullerton hosted a singular Philip K. Dick Conference, bringing scholars from around the world to the place where he left his manuscripts and papers. We currently seek chapter submissions to join the strong core work from the conference in an edited volume that reinvents the study of major American author Philip K. Dick now that he is considered to be a major 20th-century American author. Where previous scholarly collections set out to explain why we should read Dick, our collection interrogates why we must and do—why he has become a touchstone for our culture today.



Philip K. Dick, Here and Now reinitializes and extends the study of a major American sf author whose reputation has undergone a profound transformation since his death. At Dick’s death, exactly one work was in print—Bladerunner, the movie tie-in, with its original title in small letters underneath. Now? Everything is in print. The Library of America collects Dick’s novels and more, even the hard to find, once-unpublishable Exegesis, so important to Dick, that has received scant critical attention. We live in a phildickian present.



Our collection divides into two sections: Rebuilding PKD concentrates on new studies of Dick’s literary works from a wide variety of recent critical perspectives; Building an Icon reassesses Dick’s legacy from the vantage point of his extraordinary rise in reputation. We seek essays for either section, but are particularly interested in proposals for the first section grounded in new perspectives on Dick’s work through such critical lenses as trauma studies, ecocriticism, monster studies, cultural studies or, of course, theoretically grounded science fiction studies; or interrogating his representations of gender, race, or class; or reassessments of material culture or spatiality in Dick’s work. This list is by no means exhaustive or meant to be prescriptive and we are happy to consider any proposal which places new critical approaches to Dick’s work at its center.



We hope to include chapters by authors from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints, reflecting the contemporary study of Philip K. Dick and science fiction. Please submit a 500-word chapter abstract and a biography of no more than 250 words by July 31st to:



dsandner@fullerton.edu



All proposed abstracts will be given full consideration, and submission implies a commitment to publish in this volume if your work is selected for inclusion. If selected, complete chapters will be due by November 30th.



All questions regarding this volume should be directed to: dsandner@fullerton.edu



Our editorial team includes editor David Sandner and associate editors Jaime Govier and Christine Granillo. We look forward to receiving an exciting array of abstracts and to working with selected authors on this important project, aiming to offer imaginative ways of re-conceptualizing Philip K. Dick Studies across a variety of critical approaches.

New Media & Society- Volume: 19, Number: 6 (June 2017)

Articles
The relational reconnection function of social network sites
Artemio Ramirez, Erin M Sumner, John Spinda

Understanding variations in user response to social media campaigns: A study of Facebook posts in the 2010 US elections
Michael A Xenos, Timothy Macafee, Antoinette Pole

Sensemaking in an online community after financial loss: Enterprising Jamaican investors and the fall of a financial messiah
Clea D Bourne

Beyond the power of networks: Differentiating network structure from social media affordances for perceived social support
Weixu Lu, Keith N Hampton

The gender binary will not be deprogrammed: Ten years of coding gender on Facebook
Rena Bivens

The longitudinal relation between online and offline political participation among youth at two different developmental stages
Yunhwan Kim, Silvia Russo, Erik Amnå

‘Machines don’t have instincts’: Articulating the computational in journalism
Taina Bucher

Foursquare and identity: Checking-in and presenting the self through location
Michael Saker

The digital hood: Social media use among youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods
Robin Stevens, Stacia Gilliard-Matthews, Jamie Dunaev, Marcus K Woods, Bridgette M Brawner

Review Article
What have we learned about social media by studying Facebook? A decade in review
Elizabeth Stoycheff, Juan Liu, Kunto A. Wibowo, Dominic P. Nanni

Oh, The Horror--The 1980s

deadline for submissions: 

August 1, 2017

full name / name of organization: 

Kevin M. Scott and Connor M. Scott

contact email: 

ohthehorror80s@gmail.com

Call for Paper (June 7, 2017)

Oh, The Horror: Politics and Culture in Horror Films of the 1980s

Kevin M Scott (Albany State University)

Connor M Scott (Georgia State University)

Contact email: ohthehorror80s@gmail.com

In the 1980s, a decade significantly known for Ronald Reagan, the Moral Majority, and the ascendance of the corporation as an aesthetic, Hollywood recovered from and reacted to the director-centric 1970s by reasserting studio control over mainstream cinema. With notable exceptions, the films of the 1980s were constructive—supporting a neater and more optimistic view of history and American culture—as opposed to the deconstructive films of the prior decade, challenging and, often, fatalistic. A simple review of Oscar nominees for the 1980s, compared to those of the 1970s, demonstrates that the capitalistic desires of the studios aligned neatly with an increasingly self-congratulatory culture and the fantasy of a return to an earlier, simpler, more conservative, whiter, United States.

By nature, however, the horror genre retains a bleaker view of society. In the 1980s, horror subverted corporate influences more often that other mainstream genres and did so both in covert support and critique of politics and values of the era. Because horror films were (and remain) lower budget productions and, hence, lower risk for studios, filmmakers enjoyed a greater degree of freedom. Some filmmakers used that freedom to reify “Reagan-era values” in violent and bloody ways (through figures like Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and other slashers) while others offered dark critiques of the politics of the decade—the anti-militarism of George Romero’s Day of the Dead (1985) or the deconstruction of the nuclear family in Joseph Rubin’s The Stepfather (1987).

The editors are developing a new collection of essays with McFarland Books and seek essays investigating the ways horror films during the 1980s responded to the cultural, social, and governmental politics of the decade. We welcome essays from a variety of critical stances (theoretical, psychological, formal, and so forth), but the volume’s purpose is to explore how horror films functioned as a site of political, cultural, and social engagement and/or critique. 

We especially welcome essay proposals that take these approaches:

• Close readings of individual films and their engagement with the politics and culture of the era.
• Studies of particular filmmakers and the development of ongoing critiques or concerns within their films.
• Investigations of particular cultural and political themes (poverty, Barbara Creed’s idea of the “monstrous feminine,” the power of corporations, and so forth) in multiple films.
• The evolution within a subgenre over the decade (the slasher, religious/occult horror, and so forth) and how those changes reflected developments in American society.
• Discussions of how horror filmmakers interacted with the film industry and with American culture on an industry level.

This list is not intended to be complete. Other approaches are welcome. While the horror genre thrived in other countries, this volume is primarily interested in American films, films that were prominent for American moviegoers, and films that addressed American political and cultural concerns. While David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983, Canadian) fulfills this role, Dario Argento’s Italian films are less likely to do so. However, the inclusion of discussion of foreign films or films outside the decade in order to contrast “American” films of the 1980s or to highlight American political and/or cultural trends may be productive.

The editors seek essays of about 6,000 words.

The audience for this volume is undergraduates through active scholars, though books on this topic will attract an audience among fans of the genre.

Please submit abstracts of 500 words or less to Kevin M. Scott and Connor M. Scott (ohthehorror80s@gmail.com) by August 1, 2017. Abstracts should be accompanied by a short biography. Notification of acceptance will be given by August 15, 2017. Completed essays will be expected by December 15, 2017. And please email us if you have any questions.

Below, find a short list of films we would be especially interested in seeing discussed in essays for the volume. The list is certainly not meant to be exclusive, and we welcome any productive discussion of other films.

1980

Alligator

Altered States

Cannibal Holocaust

Demented

Friday the 13th

The Fog

Maniac

Motel Hell

Mother’s Day

The Watcher in the Woods

1981

An American Werewolf in London

The Entity

The Evil Dead

Friday the 13th PT 2

The Fun House

Graduation Day

Halloween II

Hell Night

The Howling

The Incubus

Inseminoid

My Bloody Valentine

Night School

Omen III: The Final Conflict

Wolfen 

1982

The Aftermath

Alone in the Dark

Basket Case

Cat People

Creepshow

Curse of the Cannibal Confederates

Friday the 13th Part III

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

The Last Horror Film

Poltergeist

The Thing

1983

Christine

Cujo

Eyes of Fire

House on Sorority Row

The Hunger

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Videodrome

 1984

C.H.U.D.

Children of the Corn

Gremlins

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Silent Night, Deadly Night

 1985

Day of the Dead

Fright Night

The Hills Have Eyes Part II

Lifeforce

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

The Return of the Living Dead

 1986

Aliens

Class of Nuke 'Em High

The Fly

The Hitcher

Little Shop of Horrors

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

 1987

Dark Tower

Evil Dead II

Killing Spree

The Lost Boys

Near Dark

Predator

Prince of Darkness

Hellraiser

Stepfather

 1988

The Blob

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Maniac Cop

Pumpkinhead

 1989

Dr. Caligari

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

Seeking Essays on Pokémon Go

deadline for submissions: 

August 13, 2017

full name / name of organization: 

Kristopher Purzycki

contact email: 

pokemongoessays@gmail.com

In July of 2016, Niantic Inc. released Pokémon Go in the United States to unanticipated public interest. In one of the hottest summers on record, millions took to the streets to search for charmanders and dragonites, overwhelming both servers and public spaces. While interest in the mobile application has subsided, Pokémon Go remains a cultural artifact that demands further analysis. Opening conversations on public and civic rhetorics through play, the phenomenon of this simple game exposes critical intersections of race, gender, ability, and class as technological concerns over access, privacy, and privilege.

 

Although other works of augmented reality have similarly blurred the boundaries between electronic and physical spaces, none has done so with the widespread adoption of Pokémon Go. Where the game catalyzes these spaces of hybridity, an underexamined exigency is revealed. At this intersection between cultural forces, multiple questions emerge: What impact does augmented reality have on “real” space? How do AR games help or hinder the development of communities? How are these AR spaces developed? What public spaces are privileged? Which are ignored?

This collection hopes to assemble a variety of perspectives that capture social and political rhetorics via mobile play. In addition to discussions of interface and user experience, we invite scholarly examinations of the game’s significance. Several publishers have expressed interest in the collection though we currently have an offer to contract with McFarland.

At this point we are accepting 400-500 word abstracts that should be turned into pokemongoessays@gmail.com by midnight on August 13th. Decisions and feedback will be given by October 31.

Topics that might fit this collection include:
● Pokémon Go’s precursors
● Pokémon Go’s legacy
● Pokémon Go and access
● Public play and its intersections with gender, race, and class
● Public play as frivolous
● Pokémon Go and place-based rhetorics
● Pokémon Go and Urban Planning
● Augmented reality and community
● Legal issues and legislation
● Pokémon Go and surveillance

Our timeline anticipates a Fall 2018 publication date and is organized around the following guideposts:
● Call for proposals: June 2017
● Receive abstracts (400-500 words): August 13, 2017
● Review and response to authors: October 31, 2017
● Submissions deadline: January 28, 2018
● Feedback due: March 25, 2018
● Revision due: June 3, 2018
● Production cycle (pending publisher): begins February 2018
● Publish: August 2018

Thanks for your interest and we look forward to working with you!
Sincerely,
Dr. Jamie Henthorn, Catawba College
Andrew Kulak, Virginia Tech
Kristopher Purzycki, UW-Milwaukee
Dr. Stephanie Vie, University of Central Florida

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

New Book Announcement - The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era (U of Alabama P, 2017)

In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an era’s worst racial stereotypes. Rather, he positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and criminality were incredibly unstable.

At the center of this era—when politicians sought to prove their “tough-on-crime” credentials—was the mark of criminality, a set of discourses that labeled members of predominantly poor, urban, and minority communities as threats to the social order. Through their use of the mark of criminality, public figures implemented extremely harsh penal polices that have helped make the United States the world’s leading jailer of its adult population.

At the same time when politicians like Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton and television shows such as COPS and America’s Most Wanted perpetuated images of gang and drug-filled ghettos, gangsta rap burst out of the hip-hop nation, emanating mainly from the predominantly black neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles. Groups like NWA and solo artists (including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur) became millionaires by marketing the very discourses political and cultural leaders used to justify their war on crime. For these artists, the mark of criminality was a source of power, credibility, and revenue.
By understanding gangsta rap as a potent, if deeply imperfect, enactment of the mark of criminality, we can better understand how crime is always a site of struggle over meaning. Furthermore, by underscoring the nimble rhetorical character of criminality, we can learn lessons that may inform efforts to challenge our nation’s failed policies of mass incarceration.

Available via University of Alabama Press website: http://bit.ly/2qkcepO

Routledge Advances in Comics Studies Series.

The series promotes outstanding research on comics and graphic novels from communication theory, rhetorical theory and media studies perspectives. Additionally, the series aims to bring European, Asian, African, and Latin American comics scholarship to the English speaking world. The series includes monographs and themed anthologies.

For proposal guidelines contact:

Randy Duncan
Henderson State University
duncanr@hsu.edu
            or
Matthew J. Smith
Radford University
msmith455@radford.edu

Available Now

Reading Art Spiegelman By Philip Smith

The Modern Superhero in Film and Television By Jeffrey Brown

The Narratology of Comics Art By Kai Mikkonen

Coming Soon

Empirical Approaches to Comics Research: Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods Edited by Alexander Dunst, Jochen Laubrock and Janina Wildfeuer

Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus By Jeffrey Brown

Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis Edited by Nhora Lucía Serrano

For more information on any of these books or to place an order, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Advances-in-Comics-Studies/book-series/RACS

Journal of Material Culture- Volume: 22, Number: 2 (June 2017)

Articles
Mining and the living materiality of mountains in Andean societies
Guillermo Salas Carreño
Miniature town models and memory: An example from the European borderlands
Maja Mikula
China’s emerging demand and development of a key base metal: Zinc in the Ming and early Qing, c. 1400–1680s
Hailian Chen, George Bryan Souza
The material culture of Korean social movements
Eun-Sung Kim
A palace as legacy: The former French colonial museum – perspectives from the inside
Anne Monjaret, Mélanie Roustan
Ritual ecology
John J McGraw, Jan Krátký

Book: “The Citizen Marketer: Promoting Political Opinion in the Social Media Age”

Joel Penney

Oxford University Press

Description

From hashtag activism to the flood of political memes, grassroots circulation of opinion online is changing the landscape of political communication. By exploring how everyday people promote messages to persuade their peers and shape the public mind, Joel Penney offers a new framework for understanding the phenomenon of viral political communication: the citizen marketer. The discussion is grounded in testimony of citizens who have changed their profile pictures to protest symbols, tweeted links to articles about select issues, or displayed anything from slogan T-shirts to viral videos that promote favored politicians. In contrast to the “slacktivism” critique often leveled at these media-centered forms of activism, Penney argues that they enable citizens to take on the role of viral political marketers as they participate in the networked spread of ideas. Furthermore, Penney examines the risks that these practices pose for increasing polarization and partisanship, the t!
 rivialization of issues, and manipulation by political elites.

Like the citizen consumer, the citizen marketer is guided by the logics of marketing practice, but, rather than being passive, actively circulates persuasive media to advance political interests. Citizens view their participation in such activities not only in terms of how it may shape or influence outcomes, but as a statement of their own identity. As the book argues, these practices signal an important shift in how political participation is conceptualized and performed in advanced capitalist democratic societies, as they casually inject political ideas into the everyday spaces and places of popular culture.

While marketing is considered a dirty word in certain critical circles -- particularly among segments of the left that have identified neoliberal market logics and consumer capitalist structures as a major focus of political struggle -- some of these very critics have determined that the most effective way to push back against the forces of neoliberal capitalism is to co-opt its own marketing and advertising techniques to spread counter-hegemonic ideas to the public. Accordingly, this book argues that the citizen marketer approach to political action is much broader than any one ideological constituency or bloc. Rather, it is a means of promoting a wide range of political ideas, including those that are broadly critical of elite uses of marketing in consumer capitalist societies. The book includes an extensive historical treatment of citizen-level political promotion in modern democratic societies, connecting contemporary digital practices to both the 19th century tradition !
 of mass political spectacle as well as more informal, culturally-situated forms of political expression that emerge from postwar countercultures.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Citizen Marketer Approach to Political Action

Chapter 2: The Historical Lineage of the Citizen Marketer

Chapter 3: Self-Labeled and Visible Identities

Chapter 4: Political Fans and Cheerleaders

Chapter 5: News Spreaders and Agenda-Setters

Chapter 6: Towards a Critical Literacy of the Citizen Marketer Approach


“This is a must-read book for anyone looking to understand the ways that citizens are taking up the marketing of political candidates and causes in the social media era.”

- Daniel Kreiss, Author of Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy

 “The Citizen Marketer helps us dig into real campaigns and real campaigners whose work sometimes proceeds in the spirit of democracy, and sometimes degrades democracy. Understanding modern political communication means getting to know the varied forms of computational propaganda that we all produce and consume.”

- Philip Howard, Author of Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up

 “Joel Penney provides a compelling, nuanced, and rich exploration of how marketing logic and civic self-expression are morphing and combining in the digital age. It is an essential book for all interested in politics, marketing, and public life.”

-David Karpf, Author of The MoveOn Effect and Analytic Activism