Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs

Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs
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Monday, July 31, 2017

“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

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Volume 1, issue 1 of Sequentials, a hub for comics-as-scholarship, is now live: http://www.sequentialsjournal.net/!

From:  Ashley Manchester

I am proud and excited to announce that volume 1, issue 1 of Sequentials, a hub for comics-as-scholarship, is now live: http://www.sequentialsjournal.net/!

At this site you will find a number of original comics that range in topic, style, and length, some connecting with our special issue topic, Postmodernism," and others forming the General Forum. You'll also find details on submitting to the General Forum and information for our second special issue on the "Submissions" page of the website. I've also copied that information below.

I hope you find these comics-as-scholarship as useful and exciting as I do! Any help in spreading the word about this issue would be greatly appreciated!

Best,

Ashley Manchester

Doctoral Candidate
Managing Editor, ImageTexT
Editor, Sequentials
University of Florida
Dept. of English

Science Communication- Volume: 39, Number: 4 (August 2017)

Submit your manuscript to Science Communication! Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sc for more details.

Research Articles
Roles of Social Scientists in Crisis Media Reporting: The Case of the German Populist Radical Right Movement PEGIDA
Birte Fähnrich, Corinna Lüthje
Radio Sensors and Electric Storms: Scientific Metaphors in Media Talks
Rony Armon
Effects of Goal Framing and Emotions on Perceived Threat and Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Change
Helena Bilandzic, Anja Kalch, Jens Soentgen
Narrating the Monarch Butterfly: Managing Knowledge Complexity and Uncertainty in Coproduction of a Collective Narrative and Public Discourse
Karin M. Gustafsson
Research Notes
Improving Climate Change Acceptance Among U.S. Conservatives Through Value-Based Message Targeting
Graham Dixon, Jay Hmielowski, Yanni Ma
Women Scientists as Decor: The Image of Scientists in Spanish Press Pictures
David González, Anna Mateu, Empar Pons, Martí Domínguez,
Does a Scientific Breakthrough Increase Confidence in Science? News of a Zika Vaccine and Trust in Science
Joseph Hilgard, Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Media, Culture & Society- Volume: 39, Number: 6 (September 2017)


Original Articles
Two-way cultural transfer: the case of the Israeli TV series BeTipul and its American adaptation In Treatment
Rakefet Sela-Sheffy
Women, youth and everything else: age-based and gendered stereotypes in relation to digital technology among elderly Italian mobile phone users
Francesca Comunello, Mireia Fernández Ardèvol, Simone Mulargia, Francesca Belotti
All I get is an emoji: dating on lesbian mobile phone app Butterfly
Denise Tse-Shang Tang
Crowdfunding and the democratization of the music market
Patryk Galuszka, Blanka Brzozowska
Religious beings in fashionable bodies: the online identity construction of hijabi social media personalities
Elif Kavakci, Camille R Kraeplin
Reconsidering mediatization of religion: Islamic televangelism in India
Patrick Eisenlohr
Being publicly intimate: teenagers managing online privacy
Claire Balleys, Sami Coll
Repositioning news and public connection in everyday life: a user-oriented perspective on inclusiveness, engagement, relevance, and constructiveness
Joëlle Swart, Chris Peters, Marcel Broersma
Crosscurrents
‘In the case of Africa in general, there is a tendency to exaggerate’: representing mass atrocity in Africa
J Siguru Wahutu
The medium is the mob
Aaron Shapiro

Monday, July 24, 2017

Facebook Groups for Communication Graduate Students


Nick Tatum, Nick.Tatum@acu.edu

My name is Nick Tatum - the current chair of the NCA Student Section. As we are approaching the beginning of the academic year, I want to make new and continuing graduate students aware of two helpful Facebook groups. Faculty advisors and mentors - these pages are a great way to connect students in the discipline across the country.

1) NCA Student Section [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCAStudentSection/]

-         This is the official Facebook group for NCA's Student Section. The Student Section is a group at NCA dedicated solely to graduate students; all submissions, reviews, and convention presentations are done by students and for students.

2) Communication Graduate Students Connect [https://www.facebook.com/groups/1078632132280363/]

-         This is a relatively new Facebook group created to connect graduate students across the country. This group is used to share information about conferences/journals/etc., share surveys, ask information about programs, and anything else graduate students might need.

Friday, July 21, 2017

CFP Celebrity Culture

Invitation to Submit Abstract

One of the many books and articles on the cult of celebrity contains the observation that "celebrity culture surrounds us," but I believe that the culture of American society actually is a celebrity culture. This fascination with celebrities from chefs to athletes to people who are only famous for being non-celebrities in a reality TV show permeates how Americans view themselves, how they vote, the causes they give to and care about, the products they buy, their health concerns and even how they view suicide. Much scholarly attention has been paid to how the cult of celebrity developed and the connection between the production and consumption of celebrity. Individual journal articles have explored particular aspects of the effect of celebrity of American culture. It's time for a book that integrates these scholarly pursuits into one thorough exploration of the effect of celebrity on Americans' public and private lives, a meta analysis of America's entertainment orientation. !
 Basically, contributors would consider how celebrity effects change. I would expect this book to be an easy read with lots of illustrations from celebrity magazines for undergraduate audiences in sociology or media introductory courses or even for a non-academic audience. Contributors might explore the following:

-         Celebrity activism

-         Celebrity trials and their inevitable suspicion of the victim trying to take advantage of a celebrity as well as their nexus of race, wealth and culture

-         The cult of celebrity and its effect on democracy and politics (Oprah and Obama; Ted Nugent, etc.)

-         Celebrities and animal welfare (creation of the First Dog, Michael Vick, etc.)

-         Cult of celebrity and women's health (self-image, narrow definition of attractiveness, the perfect 10, Dove's natural beauty campaign)

-         Celebrity effect on body modification (dimple plasty)

-         Celebrity image vs. brand image

-         Celebrity health crises and their effect on health awareness and behavior (Prince Harry and mental illness, Angelina Jolie and breast cancer)

-         Celebrity suicide (Robin Williams) and its effect on the public's understanding and empathy

-         Celebritizing conflict (Ben Affleck and the Congo)

-         Celebrity exemplars and their ability to affect health behavior in college students (reality TV and Twitter)

-         Celebrity endorsement of charity appeals

Abstracts are due by September 4, 2017 and must be emailed to Carol M. Madere, editor, at cmadere@southeastern.edu. Contributors should use Chicago style and provide a brief author bio along with the 250-word abstract. Contributors will be notified of acceptance by October 7, 2017 with a deadline for the completed chapter of January 7, 2017

Thursday, July 20, 2017

New Book: Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition

New Book on Media Ecology

Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition

by Lance Strate

published by Peter Lang

The publisher's write-up:

Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition provides a long-awaited and much anticipated introduction to media ecology, a field of inquiry defined as the study of media as environments. Lance Strate presents a clear and concise explanation of an intellectual tradition concerned with much more than understanding media, but rather with understanding the conditions that shape us as human beings, drive human history, and determine the prospects for our survival as a species.

Much more than a summary, this book represents a new synthesis that moves the field forward in a manner that is both unique and unprecedented, and simultaneously grounded in an unparalleled grasp of media ecology's intellectual foundations and its relation to other disciplines. Taking as its subject matter "life, the universe, and everything," Strate describes the field as interdisciplinary and communication-centered, provides a detailed explication of McLuhan's famous aphorism, "the medium is the message," and explains that the human condition can only be understood in the context of our biophysical, technological, and symbolic environments.

Strate provides an in-depth examination of media ecology's four key terms: medium, which is defined in much broader terms than in other fields; bias, which refers to tendencies inherent in materials and methods; effects, which are best understood via the Aristotelian notion of formal causality and contemporary systems theory; and environment, which includes the distinctions between the oral, chirographic, typographic, and electronic media environments. A chapter on tools serves as a guide to further media ecological research and scholarship. This book is well suited for graduate and undergraduate courses on communication theory and philosophy.

The blurbs:

“With characteristic passion and soulfulness, Lance Strate embarks on a metatask: to synthesize thinking about ‘life, the universe and everything’ through the lens of media ecology. In the process, he locates media ecology as the dynamic shift between figure and ground and as the basis for ‘understanding the human condition.’ Writing with an almost disarming ease that belies the complexity of the ideas he communicates, Strate brilliantly and reflexively mediates media ecology itself, bringing clarity to the Kekulé-like conundrums of an immense and increasingly relevant field. Anyone who thoughtfully enters and engages the environment of Strate’s book will be rewarded with moments of profound clarity, connecting ideas typically viewed as disparate or oppositional into patterns of deep understanding about media ecology―and about the process of living.”―Julianne H. Newton, Professor of Visual Communication, University of Oregon

“Lance Strate’s synthetic thinking in «Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition» opens up media ecology, allowing the reader to see how, as a field of inquiry, it applies to everything from language, media, and philosophy to our very understanding of what it means to be human living in a dynamic environment. Along the way Strate shows how media ecology connects with all the major approaches to communication study.”―Paul Soukup, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, Santa Clara University

“Lance Strate asks big questions―and provides a myriad of perceptive answers. This book is at once playful, poetic, and precise. The clear writing about complex ideas is a pleasure to read and offers many gifts of understanding.”―Joshua Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies- Volume: 17, Number: 4 (August 2017) Special Issue: Autoethnographic Reflections on the Neoliberal Academy

Introduction
Autoethnographic Reflections on the Neoliberal Academy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Remembrance
Christopher N. Poulos
Articles
Under Pressure
Christopher N. Poulos
An Unauthorized Autoethnography of the Academic Life of Dr X
Donna F. Henson,
Academic Labor in the Age of Anxiety: Autoethnography Matters
Elissa Foster
Speaking Back to the Neoliberal Agenda for Higher Education
Spoma Jovanovic
Unma(s)king Education in the Image of Business: A Vivisection of Educational Consumerism
Roy Schwartzman
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Andrew F. Herrmann
The Cost of a Presumed Public Good
Bryant Keith Alexander
Welcome to the Neoliberal University
Lesa Lockford
Still Here, Writing, Trying to Be a Part of the Conversation
Ronald J. Pelias

Written Communication- Volume: 34, Number: 3 (July 2017)


Written Communication in the Classroom: Resources for Teaching Methods. Visit http://journals.sagepub.com/page/wcx/collection/classroom/introduction to find out more and access collection.

Editors’ Notes
Editors’ Notes
Christina Haas, Chad Wickman
Articles
Simulation Genres and Student Uptake: The Patient Health Record in Clinical Nursing Simulations
Lilly Campbell
The Effect of Keyboard-Based Word Processing on Students With Different Working Memory Capacity During the Process of Academic Writing
Steffie Van Der Steen, , Dianne Samuelson, Jennifer M. Thomson,
Written Language Bursts Mediate the Relationship Between Transcription Skills and Writing Performance
Teresa Limpo, Rui A. Alves
Senior Students’ Perceptions of Entering a Research Community
Doug Brent

Communication & Sport- Volume: 5, Number: 4 (August 2017)

Invited Article
Anniversaries, Trajectories, and the Challenges for the Communication of Sport
Lawrence A. Wenner
Articles
Analysis of FIFA’s Attempt at Image Repair
Chuka Onwumechili, Koren Bedeau
“This Is Who We Are!” National Identity Construction and the 2014 FIFA World Cup
Anita Atwell Seate, Rong Ma, Irina Iles, Thomas McCloskey, Shawn Parry-Giles
International Newspaper Coverage of the 2013 EuroBasket for Men
Simon Ličen, Mateja Lončar, Nicolas Delorme, Thomas Horky, Honorata Jakubowska
An Examination of Women’s Sports Coverage on the Twitter Accounts of Local Television Sports Broadcasters
Kevin Hull
College Student-Athletes’ Communicative Negotiation of Emotion Labor
Lynsey K. Romo
To listen to Communication & Sports Podcasts visit http://journals.sagepub.com/page/com/podcasts

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Comics and Adaptation

Comics and Adaptation
Guest Editors: Armelle Blin-Rolland, Guillaume Lecomte, and Marc Ripley

Editorial
European Comic Art Reaches Its Tenth Year
The Editors
http://bit.ly/2rnTBoL

Introduction
Comics and Adaptation
Armelle Blin-Rolland, Guillaume Lecomte and Marc Ripley
http://bit.ly/2sxS8Mx

Articles
Perspectives on Cinema and Comics: Adapting Feature Films into French-Language Comics Serials during the Post-war Years
Alain Boillat
http://bit.ly/2sl2A9x

Gazing at Medusa: Adaptation as Phallocentric Appropriation in Blue Is the Warmest Color
Marion Krauthaker and Roy Connolly
http://bit.ly/2rnTQjF

Adapting the Rhetoric of Authentication of Riad Sattouf's La Vie secrète des jeunes
Guillaume Lecomte
http://bit.ly/2reRoI8

Adapting Brittany: The Ker-Is Legend in Bande Dessinée
Armelle Blin-Rolland


'. . . But Is It Literature?': Graphic Adaptation in Germany in the Context of High and Popular Culture
Juliane Blank
http://bit.ly/2spji8R

Divine Comics
Ronald de Rooy
http://bit.ly/2spknNQ

'Are We Coming to Make a Documentary or a Surrealist Film?': Demythifying Luis Buñuel's Tierra sin pan in Fermín Solís's Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas
Marc Ripley
http://bit.ly/2sYIy2q

Reviews
Book Reviews
Harriet Kennedy, Elizabeth (Bij) Nijdam, Logan Labrune and Chris Reyns-Chikuma
http://bit.ly/2sYLsEz

Recommend European Comic Art to your library
A form for this purpose is provided on the European Comic Art website:  www.journals.berghahnbooks.com/eca/library-recommendations

Sample Issue
View a sample issue of European Comic Art: www.journals.berghahnbooks.com/eca/sample

CFP Authorship special issue: Comics and Authorship



The comic, recently legitimized through the graphic novel phenomenon while remaining anchored in popular culture, can provide unique insights into issues surrounding authorship. Although comics scholarship has explored autobiographical comics and the strategies for self-fashioning of individual canonized comics artists and writers, the complex and mutating concept of comic book authorship remains by and large overlooked.
Analyses of the changing notions of authorship, their contextualization and implications - aesthetic, political, economic - across different comics genres and formats can provide answers to key questions, such as:
·  How do different techniques and styles mold conceptions of the author?
·  Who is the author in large franchises and studio collaborations?
·  What are the claims to authorship of vital but often overlooked mediators such as letterers and inkers?
· How do conceptions of authorship vary with publishing format (serial comic book, graphic novel, syndicated comic strip, self-published fanzine)?
In this special issue dedicated to comics, the open-access journal Authorship seeks to specify the range and potential of the terrain covered by comics and authorship through bringing together papers on the following, broad aspects:
· Roles encompassed by the notion of authorship in comics (writer, artist, letterer, inker, penciller)
·  Differences in constructions of authorship across formats, genres, cultures and history
·  Self-creation of author (and auteur) personas through paratextual elements
·  Self-reflection on authorship in comics, cartoons and graphic novels
· Issues of authorship raised by adaptations of comics in other media such as novels and films.
Please send articles (ca. 5000 words) to Maaheen Ahmed (ahmedmaaheen@gmail.com) by 31 August 2017. The issue will be published in December 2017.

Author guidelines can be consulted here (but please send submissions only via e-mail).

3 AFA Awards

Call for Nominations - Schnoor Award

The Larry Schnoor Award for Excellence in Forensics Research recognizes research in competitive academic forensics (Individual Events and/or Debate).  The Research Committee of the American Forensic Association will consider a wide range of manuscripts including unpublished competitive papers which have been presented at academic conferences (e.g. NCA, Alta, etc.) along with published articles, books, theses and dissertations.  Manuscripts nominated for the Schnoor Award may also be considered for the Rohrer Award and the AFA Outstanding Dissertation/Thesis Award.  To nominate a manuscript, a copy of the article, or in the case of a longer work a table of contents and a representative chapter, should be submitted along with a letter of nomination detailing the significance of the work.  The candidate must be a member of AFA.  Self-nominations are welcomed.  Only electronic submissions will be accepted.  Eligible scholarship for 2017 must have a publication date of 2016. The !
 award shall be presented at the annual AFA business meeting to be held in Dallas, TX onWednesday November 15, 2017. The committee chair must receive nominations no later thanOctober 1, 2017. Nominations received after this date may not be considered.

Please send nominations with a subject line specifying the Schnoor Award Nomination to:

Jim Dimock

Speech Communication Department

Minnesota State University, Mankato

james.dimock@mnsu.edu
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James Dimock, james.dimock@mnsu.edu

Call for Nominations - Dissertation / Thesis Award

The AFA Outstanding Dissertation or Thesis Award recognizes the best dissertation or thesis in the theory and practice of argumentation and forensics completed in the previous calendar year.  The candidate must be a member of AFA.  To nominate a thesis or dissertation, a letter of nomination detailing the significance of the dissertation or thesis (usually from the project advisor), a copy of the table of contents, and a representative chapter of the completed study.  Only electronic submissions will be accepted.  Eligible dissertations and theses must have a completion date in 2016 (Spring, Summer or Fall terms).  The award shall be presented at the annual AFA business meeting to be held in Dallas, TX on Wednesday November 15, 2017. The committee chair must receive nominations no later than October 1, 2017. Nominations received after this date may not be considered.

Please send nominations with a subject line specifying the Dissertation/Thesis Award Nomination to:

Jim Dimock

Speech Communication Department

Minnesota State University, Mankato

james.dimock@mnsu.edu
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James Dimock, james.dimock@mnsu.edu

Call for nominations - Rohrer Award

The Daniel Rohrer AFA Research Award recognizes outstanding scholarship in argumentation and forensics published in the previous calendar year. Any published article, text, or book in the field of argumentation and/or forensics is eligible for nomination. To nominate a published scholarly article please send a letter of nomination detailing why the publication should be honored and a copy of the complete publication.  If the publication nominated is a book, a copy of the table of contents and of one chapter is sufficient.  Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Eligible scholarship for 2017 must have a publication date of 2016. The award shall be presented at the annual AFA business meeting to be held in Dallas, TX on Wednesday November 15, 2017. The committee chair must receive nominations no later than October 1, 2017. Nominations received after this date may not be considered.

Please send nominations with a subject line specifying the Rohrer Award Nomination to:

Jim Dimock

Speech Communication Department

Minnesota State University, Mankato

james.dimock@mnsu.edu

Call for applications - Brockriede Grant Argumentation

James Dimock, james.dimock@mnsu.edu

Call for applications - Brockriede Grant Argumentation

The Brockriede Grant is awarded competitively and funded by the American Forensic Association upon the recommendation of the AFA Research Committee and approval of the AFA National Council.

Named for Wayne Brockriede (PhD University of Illinois), an outstanding representative of the field who combined a love of research with excellence in teaching and a passion for forensics. Brockriede was known as “a friend to ideas regardless of their theoretical or methodological origins” and he supported both social scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of argument. Author of five books and thirty articles, the common theme of Brockriede’s work was the argument, “not as a weapon but as a way of advancing the best in people.”

The Brockriede Grant of up to $1,000.00 honors the legacy of Wayne Brockriede, supporting research in argumentation, advocacy, and debate. The Brockriede Grand is awarded every other year.

Applicants should review requirements and eligibility guidelines (http://www.americanforensics.org/awards/BrockriedeAward.html) and contact the Chair of the Research Committee of the AFA (james.dimock@mnsu.edu) if they have questions about the process. Grant applications must be received electronically by October 1, 2017 in order to receive full consideration.

Please send application materials via email with a subject line specifying The Brockriede Award to:

Jim Dimock

Speech Communication Department

Minnesota State University, Mankato

james.dimock@mnsu.edu

Monday, July 10, 2017

Theory, Culture & Society- Volume: 34, Number: 4 (July 2017)

Articles
Rethinking Gaia: Stengers, Latour, Margulis
Bruce Clarke
Probiotic Environmentalities: Rewilding with Wolves and Worms
Jamie Lorimer

Interview
Staying with the Manifesto: An Interview with Donna Haraway
Sarah Franklin

Articles
Africa’s ‘Two Publics’: Colonialism and Governmentality
Wale Adebanwi
Symbolic Production in the Art Biennial: Making Worlds
Monica Sassatelli

Interview
An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman: How to Turn the Word into Flesh
Slawomir Czapnik

Article
Hacktivism: On the Use of Botnets in Cyberattacks
Marco Deseriis

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Book Announcement: Women Bishops and Rhetorics of Shalom: A Whole Peace

The R3 book series is pleased to announce the publication of Women Bishops and the Rhetorics of Shalom by Leland Spencer.

Women Bishops and Rhetorics of Shalom: A Whole Peace argues that the theological concept of shalom offers a way forward for progressive Christians who want to advocate for social justice based on their faith in an increasingly globalizing world characterized by many faiths. To do so, the book considers the rhetorical leadership of three women bishops who are all “firsts” in important ways: Marjorie Matthews, the first woman bishop in any mainline Post-Reformation church, Leontine Kelly, the first woman bishop of color in any mainline church, and Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first woman to lead a national church in the Anglican Communion. This book is recommended for scholars interested in communications, religious studies, and gender studies.

Praise for the book:

Spencer’s compelling, nuanced analysis of women bishops’ rhetoric offers keen and timely insights about intersections of gender, power, religion, and politics. Yet it is his articulation of shalom as a model for peaceful community that takes my breath away—Spencer’s vision offers hope, guidance, and a call for social and political transformation based on the eloquent words of trailblazing women of God. A must-read for scholars and students in rhetoric, women’s and gender studies, and social change! (Laura L. Ellingson, Santa Clara University)

Women Bishops and Rhetorics of Shalom: A Whole Peace locates an intrepid “shalom,” in the sermons of three ground-breaking (and ground-making) bishops in the Christian Church…Spencer reveals how each woman navigates the waters in her singular manner, embodying and advancing a courageous shalom, co-constructed by persons from all religious backgrounds—and from none—as a vision of active and fully inclusive peace, across religious, racial, ethnic, gender, and all lines that would divide us. (Elizabeth Nelson, University of Minnesota, Duluth)

Leland G. Spencer invites readers along a path that is at once scholarly and transformational. The feminist rhetorical analysis offered in this study of the language of pioneering women bishops is skillful, integrated, and expansive. Professor Spencer’s re-visioning of the concept of shalom as it uniquely unfolds in their sermons calls forth the strength and hope of shared values in a world that far too frequently battens down the hatches against difference. Each chapter reminds the reader, through compelling display of Spencer’s intellect as he considers the words of the bishops, that feminist scholarship is as propelled by deep desire for learning as it is for social change. The goodness and grace of Professor Spencer’s message, culled from the sermons of the bishops, is not to be missed, either by seasoned or aspiring language and communication scholars. (Carol L. Winkelmann, Xavier University)

*If you are seeking a publisher for your book, see our call for proposals.

About the book author:

Leland G. Spencer (PhD, University of Georgia, 2013) is assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary and Communication Studies at Miami University in Hamilton, OH and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film.

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Memory Studies- Volume: 10, Number: 3 (July 2017)


Editorial
Historical cognition’s dilemmas: Introduction to the special issue—recent advances in historical cognition
Peter Hegarty, Olivier Klein
Articles
Hindsight 40 years on: An interview with Baruch Fischhoff
Olivier Klein, Peter Hegarty, Baruch Fischhoff
When do past events require explanation? Insights from social psychology
Susanne Bruckmüller, Peter Hegarty, Karl Halvor Teigen, Gisela Böhm, Olivier Luminet
Looking forward to the past: An interdisciplinary discussion on the use of historical analogies and their effects
Djouaria Ghilani, Olivier Luminet, Hans-Peter Erb, Christine Flassbeck, Valérie Rosoux, Ismee Tames, Olivier Klein
Forgetting history: The mnemonic consequences of listening to selective recountings of history
Charles B Stone, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, William Hirst
History as the narrative of a people: From function to structure and content
Denis J Hilton, James H Liu
The lay historian explains intergroup behavior: Examining the role of identification and cognitive structuring in ethnocentric historical attributions
Michał Bilewicz, Marta Witkowska, Anna Stefaniak, Roland Imhoff
Conspiracy theories as part of history: The role of societal crisis situations
Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Karen M Douglas
From socially motivated lay historians to lay censors: Epistemic conformity and defensive group identification
Yechiel Klar, Michał Bilewicz
‘11 November 1918, an exceptional day!’: Flashbulb memories of the World War I Armistice in Belgium from a psychological and a historical perspective
Olivier Luminet, Rose Spijkerman
Book reviews
Book review: Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science
Gregory W Dawes
Book review: Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past
Steven James
Book review: The Preservation of Memory
Michael Hornberger
Book review: Theorizing Social Memories: Concepts and Contexts
Joanna Wawrzyniak

Communication Studies, Volume 68, Issue 3, July-August 2017

Original Articles
Image Repair on the Donald Trump “Access Hollywood” Video: “Grab Them by the P*ssy”
William Benoit
Pages: 243-259 | DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2017.1331250

Pre- and Postinteraction Physical Attractiveness Ratings and Experience-Based Impressions
Jeffrey A. Hall & Benjamin L. Compton
Pages: 260-277 | DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2017.1317281

Transgenerational Patterns of Communication Orientations and Depression Among Mothers and Adult Children
Timothy Curran, Jennifer A. Samp & Anastacia Janovec
Pages: 278-295 | DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2017.1318160

The Communication Privacy Management of Adopted Individuals in Their Social Networks: Disclosure Decisions in Light of the Discourse of Biological Normativity
Haley Kranstuber Horstman http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9409-6554, Maria Butauski, Lauren Jean Johnsen & Colleen Warner Colaner
Pages: 296-313 | DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2017.1324890

“I’m Demi and I Have Bipolar Disorder”: Effect of Parasocial Contact on Reducing Stigma Toward People With Bipolar Disorder
Norman C. H. Wong, Kathryn L. Lookadoo & Gwendelyn S. Nisbett
Pages: 314-333 | DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2017.1331928

Family Communication Patterns and Adolescent Experiences During Parental Military Deployment and Reintegration: The Role of Inappropriate Parental Disclosures and Perceived Family Understanding
Skye Chernichky-Karcher & Steven R. Wilson
Pages: 334-352 | DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2017.1318159

Why Are You Saying That? Increases in Gaze Duration as Responses to Group Member Dissent
Johny T. Garner & Debra L. Iba
Pages: 353-367 | DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2017.1334147

Science, Technology and Society- Volume: 22, Number: 2 (July 2017)


Articles
The Relationship between Foreign Competition and Innovation Activities Based on Quantile Regression
Su Yi, Lin Zhou-Zhou, Wang Chen-Gang
Chasing Success: An Empirical Model for IT Governance Frameworks Adoption in Australia
Savanid Vatanasakdakul, Chadi Aoun, Yang (Nicole) Chen
Measurement and Convergence in Development Performance of China’s High-tech Industry
Xiao Ze-Lei, Du Xin-Ya
Hierarchical Relationship of Negative Emotion Perception from Violent Video Games
Hong-Wen Lin, Pin Luarn, Yu-Ling Lin
Papers and Report from South African Technology Network
Entrepreneurial-related Programmes and Students’ Intentions to Venture into New Business Creation: Finding Synergy of Constructs in a University of Technology
O. Matsheke, M. Dhurup
Higher Education: Catalysts for the Development of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, or … Are We the Weakest Link?
Ahmed A. Wadee, Anshu Padayachee
Towards an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: A Case Study of the Central University of Technology, Free State
H.J. De Jager, T.Z. Mthembu, A.B. Ngowi, C. Chipunza
Reports
Enhancing Innovation and Technological Capabilities in the Management of E-Waste: Case Study of South African Government Sector
Urmilla Bob, Anshu Padayachee, Mark Gordon, Irene Moutlana
Promoting Entrepreneurship amid Youth in Windhoek’s Informal Settlements: A Namibian Case
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Daniel G. Cabrero, Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria, Hedvig Mendonca, Shetuyene S. Angula, Lisa Onwordi
Book Reviews
Book Review: Rajeswari S. Raina (Ed.) (2015), Science, Technology and Development in India: Encountering Values
Aniket Pankaj Aga
Book Review: Rajshree Chandra (2016), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultures
Naveen Thayyil
Book Review: Joanna Kempner (2014), Not Tonight: Migraine and the politics of gender and health
Owen Whooley

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