TY - CHAP TI - Textual Genres AU - Miller, C. AU - Bazerman, C. T2 - Série Bate-papo Acadêmico PY - 2011/8// VL - 1 PB - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco UR - http://www.nigufpe.com.br/serie-bate-papo-academico-vol-1-generos-textuais/. ER - TY - JOUR TI - Fraudulent Practices: Academic Misrepresentations of Plagiarism in the Name of Good Pedagogy AU - Anson, Chris M. T2 - Composition Studies DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// VL - 39 IS - 2 SP - 29–43 ER - TY - CHAP TI - Foreword AU - Anson, Chris M. T2 - Clash! Superheroic Yet Sensible Strategies for Teaching the New Literacies Despite the Status Quo A2 - Vavra, Sandra A. A2 - Spencer, Sharon L. PY - 2011/// SP - ix-xiii PB - Information Age ER - TY - CHAP TI - Location-Aware Technologies: Control and privacy in hybrid spaces AU - de Souza e Silva, A. AU - Frith, J. T2 - Communication Matters: Materialist approaches to media, networks, and mobilities A2 - Packer, J. A2 - Wiley, S. PY - 2011/// SP - 265–275 PB - Routledge ER - TY - CHAP TI - Placing Location-Aware Media in a History of the Virtual AU - de Souza e Silva, A. AU - Sutko, D.M. T2 - The Long History of New Media: Technology, historiography, and newness in context A2 - Park, D.W. A2 - Jones, S. A2 - Jankowski, N.W. PY - 2011/// SP - 299–316 PB - Peter Lang Publishers ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition and WAC, Part Two: 1967-1986 AU - Anson, Chris M. AU - Lyles, Karla T2 - The WAC Journal DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// DO - 10.37514/wac-j.2011.22.1.02 VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 7-19 LA - en OP - SN - 1544-4929 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.37514/wac-j.2011.22.1.02 DB - Crossref ER - TY - CHAP TI - Art by Telephone: From Static to Mobile Interfaces AU - de Souza e Silva, Adriana T2 - The Mobile Audience: Media Art and Mobile Technologies A2 - Rieser, Martin T3 - Architecture - Technology - Culture PY - 2011/1/1/ DO - 10.1163/9789042031289_007 SP - 67–79 PB - BRILL SV - 5 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042031289_007 ER - TY - JOUR TI - My Dinner with Calais AU - Anson, Chris M. T2 - Pedagogy AB - At the suggestion of a colleague, the narrator — a professor of oceanography — agrees to have dinner with Calais Steever, a professor of history from a nearby university, to talk about teaching. The conversation takes place in an informal but elegantly appointed bistro in a small city. Ever the skeptic, the oceanographer isn’t convinced at first that Steever’s passion for assigning students to write dialogues in courses across the curriculum would help his thoroughly fact-based, biologically oriented instruction. As the dinner proceeds, Steever shares examples of students’ dialogic writing from courses in such disciplines as philosophy, anthropology, biology, architecture, literature, chemistry, history, and political science. Slowly — but cautiously — the narrator begins to see possibilities for dialogic writing. DA - 2011/10/1/ PY - 2011/10/1/ DO - 10.1215/15314200-1302863 VL - 11 IS - 3 SP - 578-590 LA - en OP - SN - 1531-4200 1533-6255 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-1302863 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - Fraudulent Practices: Academic Misrepresentations of Plagiarism in the Name of Good Pedagogy DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// ER - TY - JOUR TI - Symposium: How I Have Changed My Mind DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition and WAC, Part Two: 1986-2006 DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// ER - TY - BOOK TI - Net Locality DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// ER - TY - BOOK TI - Net Locality DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// ER - TY - BOOK TI - Net Locality DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// ER - TY - BOOK TI - Net Locality DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// ER - TY - JOUR TI - Technological Literacy as Network Building AU - Swarts, Jason T2 - Technical Communication Quarterly AB - Following recent work to advocate a strongly social understanding of technological literacy, this article considers how networking technologies are reshaping our understanding of the social. In this context, technological literacy can be understood as a process of constructing the networks in which literate action is defined. I explore the role of technological literacy as a force of network building accomplished through a mechanism of translation. From the comments of experienced technical communicators, I make observations about how technical communicators are taught to be technologically literate. DA - 2011/7// PY - 2011/7// DO - 10.1080/10572252.2011.578239 VL - 20 IS - 3 SP - 274-302 J2 - Technical Communication Quarterly LA - en OP - SN - 1057-2252 1542-7625 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2011.578239 DB - Crossref ER - TY - RPRT TI - Strengthening meteorological services on Lake Victoria to enhance safety of navigation and efficient exploitation of natural resources AU - Semazzi, Fredrick AU - Yuter, Sandra AU - Xie, Lian AU - Kiwanuka-Tondo, James A3 - North Carolina State University and Lake Victoria Basin Commission DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// M3 - Research consultancy report PB - North Carolina State University and Lake Victoria Basin Commission ER - TY - CHAP TI - Community-engaged scholarship through mutually transformative partnerships AU - Jameson, J. AU - Clayton, P. AU - Jaeger, A. T2 - Participatory Partnerships for Social Action and Research A2 - Harter, L. A2 - Hamel-Lambert, J. A2 - Millesen, J. PY - 2011/// SP - 259–278 PB - Kendall Hunt ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Role of Perceptions of Media Bias in General and Issue-Specific Political Participation AU - Ho, Shirley S. AU - Binder, Andrew R. AU - Becker, Amy B. AU - Moy, Patricia AU - Scheufele, Dietram A. AU - Brossard, Dominique AU - Gunther, Albert C. T2 - Mass Communication and Society AB - Despite a large body of literature documenting factors influencing general political participation, research has lagged in understanding what motivates participation regarding specific issues. Our research fills this gap by examining the interplay of perceptions of media bias, trust in government, and political efficacy on individuals' levels of general and issue-specific political participation. Using survey data with indicators related to general political participation, our results demonstrate that perceptions of media bias overall are negatively related to general political participation. Moreover, this relationship is an indirect one, mediated by trust in government and political efficacy. Using survey data with indicators of issue-specific political participation in the context of stem cell research, our results show that—contrary to the relationship found for general political participation—perceptions of media bias are directly and positively associated with issue-specific participation. Implications for political participation and media bias theories are discussed. DA - 2011/5// PY - 2011/5// DO - 10.1080/15205436.2010.491933 VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 343-374 J2 - Mass Communication and Society LA - en OP - SN - 1520-5436 1532-7825 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2010.491933 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - Students' Talk about the Climate of Feedback Interventions in the Critique AU - Dannels, Deanna P. AU - Housley Gaffney, Amy L. AU - Martin, Kelly Norris T2 - Communication Education AB - Similar to many courses in communication, oral communication is central to the learning goals in the discipline of design. Design critiques, the primary communication activity in design classrooms, occur in every studio course multiple times. One key feature of the critique, as an oral genre, is the amount of time and emphasis placed on feedback. The feedback intervention process within the critique plays a large role in determining the overall communicative climate of the teaching and learning event. The purpose of this study was to explore how students talk about the communication climate of the critique and the feedback within it. Drawing on feedback intervention theory and using an ethnographic interviewing framework, we conducted in-depth interviews of students in design studios. Results of this study identified four ways students characterized the critique climate and six kinds of feedback students suggested contribute to a climate for learning. Discussion suggests that feedback intervention spaces (specifically those focused on oral genres) are dialectical and relational spaces—necessitating attention not only to the cognitive processes of feedback (as feedback intervention theory suggests), but also to the emergent relational tensions that demand communicative energy within the feedback intervention process. DA - 2011/1// PY - 2011/1// DO - 10.1080/03634523.2010.487111 VL - 60 IS - 1 SP - 95-114 J2 - Communication Education LA - en OP - SN - 0363-4523 1479-5795 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2010.487111 DB - Crossref KW - Feedback Intervention Theory KW - Design Critiques KW - Classroom Climate KW - Dialectics KW - Communication across the Curriculum ER - TY - CONF TI - A humanistic approach to the study of social media AU - Kelly, Ashley Rose AU - Kittle Autry, Meagan T2 - the 29th ACM international conference AB - Humanistic research into social media is presently diverse in approach, but rich in theoretical underpinnings. It is unsurprising that there is some difficulty in translating often text-based approaches to multi-media rich, rapidly-evolving social networking environments. We explore theoretical issues for studying social media with respect to one popular research methodology: case study research (CSR). Here we examine the challenges that social media pose to CSR in the humanities and then advance an approach using social network analysis (SNA) to assist in selecting case studies. This approach, we argue, improves selection of case studies by considering the network structures of social media. C2 - 2011/// C3 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM international conference on Design of communication - SIGDOC '11 DA - 2011/// DO - 10.1145/2038476.2038525 PB - ACM Press SN - 9781450309363 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2038476.2038525 DB - Crossref ER - TY - BOOK TI - Communication matters : materialist approaches to media, mobility and networks A3 - J. Packer, A3 - Wiley, S. DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// PB - New York : Routledge SN - 9780415782241 ER - TY - CONF TI - Communication genres: Integrating communication into the software engineering curriculum AU - Carter, M. AU - Vouk, M. AU - Gannod, G. C. AU - Burge, J. E. AU - Anderson, P. V. AU - Hoffman, M. E. AB - One way to improve the communication abilities of new software engineering graduates in the workplace is to integrate communication more effectively in the software engineering curriculum. But faculty typically conceive of communication as outside their realm of expertise. Based on the results of an NSF-funded project, we use theories of situated learning and genre to make the case that communication is integral to software engineering and that faculty are in the best position to guide students in becoming better communicators in the field. We identify software engineering genres and show how those genres may be used to integrate communication in the classroom and throughout the curriculum. C2 - 2011/// C3 - 2011 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) DA - 2011/// DO - 10.1109/cseet.2011.5876091 SP - 21-30 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Special issue: Learning from the 2008-09 global financial crisis AU - Kinsella, W. T2 - Electronic Journal of Communication DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// VL - 21 IS - 3 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Personal connections in the digital age AU - Frith, J. T2 - New Media & Society DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// VL - 13 IS - 8 SP - 1396-1397 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Symposium: How I Have Changed My Mind AU - Anson, Chris M. AU - Cooper, M. AU - Desai, G. AU - Gere, A.R. AU - Gilbert, P.K. AU - Gilyard, K. AU - Harris, J. AU - Lee, V. AU - Miller, S. AU - Mortensen, P. AU - Shumway, D. AU - Sommers, N. AU - Vitanza, V.J. T2 - College English DA - 2011/11// PY - 2011/11// VL - 74 IS - 2 SP - 106–130 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Uncertain Terms: Message Features of Online Cancer News AU - Hurley, Ryan J. AU - Kosenko, Kami A. AU - Brashers, Dale T2 - COMMUNICATION MONOGRAPHS AB - About 113 million Americans have reported seeking health information online; however, little is known about the quality (or qualities) of the information being retrieved. Users have reported seeking information about health issues in an attempt to reduce negatively appraised uncertainties (Brashers, 2007), but less is known about the ability of the retrieved information to increase or produce unwanted uncertainty. A content analysis of online cancer news was conducted and suggests that 65% of Internet-based cancer news contains message features previously linked to the production of uncertainty (e.g., ambiguous or complex information). Though future research is required regarding uncertainty-related content and its effects, this project provides a foundation for such future endeavors. DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// DO - 10.1080/03637751.2011.565061 VL - 78 IS - 3 SP - 370-390 SN - 1479-5787 KW - Uncertainty KW - Cancer KW - Internet News KW - Google KW - Content Analysis ER - TY - JOUR TI - Visual Wellbeing: Intersections of Rhetorical Theory and Design AU - Gallagher, Victoria J. AU - Martin, Kelly Norris AU - Ma, Magdy T2 - DESIGN ISSUES AB - April 01 2011 Visual Wellbeing: Intersections of Rhetorical Theory and Design Victoria J. Gallagher, Victoria J. Gallagher Victoria J. Gallagher is a professor in North Carolina State University's (NCSU) Department of Communication and is currently serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Graduate Studies for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her primary area of publication and scholarship is rhetorical criticism, particularly of civil rights-related discourse, commemorative sites (museums and memorials), visual images, and public art. Current research projects include the development of a theory of visual wellbeing and a collection of critical essays in the area of visual rhetoric, examining the rhetorical functions and potentialities of various works of painting, photography, and sculpture. She helped institute an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM) at NCSU and currently serves on editorial boards of Rhetoric Society Quarterly and Quarterly Journal of Speech. Dr. Gallagher also serves on the advisory board for the Urban Communication Foundation and the North Carolina Freedom Monument project. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Kelly Norris Martin, Kelly Norris Martin Kelly Norris Martin is a doctoral candidate in North Carolina State University's Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media program. Her primary research interests include: visual communication, visual research methods, design methods and new media. In addition to her work with Drs. Gallagher and Ma on developing the theory of Visual Wellbeing, she recently published a study titled, “Digital Dynamism and Digital Credibility in Public Relations Blogs,” with her co-author Dr. Melissa Johnson, in Visual Communication Quarterly. Her research on the communication practices of design critiques has appeared in Communication Education, Journal of Business and Technical Communication and the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Magdy Ma Magdy Ma Magdy Ma is currently teaching history and theory of art and design at the Open University of Hong Kong. Prior to that she taught graphic design at the HKU SPACE and coordinated the international student research project “International Design Opportunity” (I-do) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she also received her MA in Design before later earning her PhD from North Carolina State University. A former Senior Information Offcer with the HKSAR Government, Dr. Ma has created visual design solutions for a wide range of public service advertising campaigns. She has written and published two books—Disoriented Visual Objects: Their Creators and Users (1999) and A Semiotic Phenomenology of Visual Rhetoric (2009). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Victoria J. Gallagher Victoria J. Gallagher is a professor in North Carolina State University's (NCSU) Department of Communication and is currently serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Graduate Studies for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her primary area of publication and scholarship is rhetorical criticism, particularly of civil rights-related discourse, commemorative sites (museums and memorials), visual images, and public art. Current research projects include the development of a theory of visual wellbeing and a collection of critical essays in the area of visual rhetoric, examining the rhetorical functions and potentialities of various works of painting, photography, and sculpture. She helped institute an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM) at NCSU and currently serves on editorial boards of Rhetoric Society Quarterly and Quarterly Journal of Speech. Dr. Gallagher also serves on the advisory board for the Urban Communication Foundation and the North Carolina Freedom Monument project. Kelly Norris Martin Kelly Norris Martin is a doctoral candidate in North Carolina State University's Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media program. Her primary research interests include: visual communication, visual research methods, design methods and new media. In addition to her work with Drs. Gallagher and Ma on developing the theory of Visual Wellbeing, she recently published a study titled, “Digital Dynamism and Digital Credibility in Public Relations Blogs,” with her co-author Dr. Melissa Johnson, in Visual Communication Quarterly. Her research on the communication practices of design critiques has appeared in Communication Education, Journal of Business and Technical Communication and the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Magdy Ma Magdy Ma is currently teaching history and theory of art and design at the Open University of Hong Kong. Prior to that she taught graphic design at the HKU SPACE and coordinated the international student research project “International Design Opportunity” (I-do) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she also received her MA in Design before later earning her PhD from North Carolina State University. A former Senior Information Offcer with the HKSAR Government, Dr. Ma has created visual design solutions for a wide range of public service advertising campaigns. She has written and published two books—Disoriented Visual Objects: Their Creators and Users (1999) and A Semiotic Phenomenology of Visual Rhetoric (2009). Online ISSN: 1531-4790 Print ISSN: 0747-9360 © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011 Design Issues (2011) 27 (2): 27–40. https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00075-Martin Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Victoria J. Gallagher, Kelly Norris Martin, Magdy Ma; Visual Wellbeing: Intersections of Rhetorical Theory and Design. Design Issues 2011; 27 (2): 27–40. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00075-Martin Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsDesign Issues Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content. DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// DO - 10.1162/desi_a_00075-martin VL - 27 IS - 2 SP - 27-40 SN - 1531-4790 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Theatrical Bodies: Acting out Comedy and Tragedy in two anatomical displays AU - Gruber, D. T2 - Visual Communication Quarterly DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// VL - 18 IS - April SP - 100-113 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The Safer Sex Communication of Transgender Adults: Processes and Problems AU - Kosenko, Kami A. T2 - JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AB - Journal Article The Safer Sex Communication of Transgender Adults: Processes and Problems Get access Kami A. Kosenko Kami A. Kosenko 1Department of Communication, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 61, Issue 3, June 2011, Pages 476–495, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01556.x Published: 01 June 2011 DA - 2011/6// PY - 2011/6// DO - 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01556.x VL - 61 IS - 3 SP - SN - 1460-2466 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Role strain and online social support for childless stepmothers AU - Craig, Elizabeth A. AU - Johnson, Amy J. T2 - JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AB - Using Lazarus and Folkman’s (1984) Transactional Theory of Stress, a content analysis of 62 message sets identified role strain and social supportive behaviors utilized within an online support group for childless stepmothers. The stepmothers focused on issues related to stepchild living arrangements and interference of the biological mother. Results revealed positive correlations between stepchild investment and biological mother interference, stepchild investment, informational support, stepmother frustration and esteem support. Study implications include understanding issues and relationships that impact stepmother role strain, identifying the stress reappraisal process within actual messages written online, and focusing on the use of online social support for relationship based issues. DA - 2011/9// PY - 2011/9// DO - 10.1177/0265407510393055 VL - 28 IS - 6 SP - 868-887 SN - 1460-3608 KW - online social support KW - role clarity KW - role strain KW - social support KW - stepfamilies KW - stepmother ER - TY - JOUR TI - Review Essay: Understanding Digital Media and Society AU - Morain, Matthew AU - Frith, Jordan AU - Cummings, Christopher AU - Berube, David M. T2 - JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AB - Bookstore shelves are filled with works about the digital media revolution, the authors of which claim to have an inside and nuanced understanding of one or more digital media artifacts, such as Facebook or Twitter. The recent proliferation of literature on emerging technologies and changing social behavior makes it difficult to find well-researched and engaging arguments that are relevant to digital media scholars. Fortunately, Polity's Digital Media and Society Series has consistently published one of the strongest collections devoted to digital media studies. The Digital Media and Society Series includes 12 books on diverse topics ranging from the challenges facing the music industry to the explosion of mobile communication. We have chosen to focus on 3 of the 12 books in this review to provide a snapshot of the research you can expect from Polity; each book in the series deserves its own thorough review and we recommend all 12 books in the series for their own respective audiences and purposes. The three we chose capture the breadth and variety of the series as a whole, including a detailed discussion of late capitalist society (The Information Society), an excellent examination of the organizing technology of the Information Age (Search Engine Society), and an analysis of a specific digital media community (YouTube). DA - 2011/6// PY - 2011/6// DO - 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01560.x VL - 61 IS - 3 SP - E12-E14 SN - 0021-9916 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Redefining sewardship: Examining how Fortune 100 organizations use stewardship with virtual stakeholders AU - Waters, R. D. T2 - Public Relations Review DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// VL - 37 IS - 2 SP - 129-136 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Dropping the ball on media inquiries: The role of deadlines in media catching AU - Waters, R. D. AU - Tindall, N. T. J. AU - Morton, T. S. T2 - Public Relations Review DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// VL - 37 IS - 2 SP - 151-156 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Characteristics and classification of nanoparticles: Expert Delphi survey AU - Berube, David AU - Cummings, Christopher AU - Cacciatore, Michael AU - Scheufele, Dietram AU - Kalin, Jason T2 - NANOTOXICOLOGY AB - Research needs assessment regarding environmental health and safety (EHS) of nanoparticles is problematic. Generating benchmark data to assess research and policy initiatives seems daunting. This study's findings present more granular and qualitative assessments of expert preferences and concerns. This three-round Delphi study elicits expert estimations of problematic nanoparticle characteristics and classifications from a sample of nanoscience experts in chemistry, EHS policy, engineering, environmental toxicology, and human toxicology (n = 18). The Delphi method is a forecasting tool designed for expert evaluation of events under high degrees of uncertainty. Results demonstrate high concordance indicating favorable consensus among the sample concerning characteristics and classifications of nanoparticles that are potentially or actually problematic to EHS. These findings establish a benchmark for future investigations of expert preferences and concerns. DA - 2011/6// PY - 2011/6// DO - 10.3109/17435390.2010.521633 VL - 5 IS - 2 SP - 236-243 SN - 1743-5404 KW - Delphi KW - expert KW - risk assessment KW - toxicology KW - nanoparticles KW - EHS ER - TY - JOUR TI - Contextual Influences on Sexual Risk-Taking in the Transgender Community AU - Kosenko, Kami A. T2 - JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH AB - High HIV prevalence and incidence rates and high-risk sexual activity have been documented in certain subgroups of the transgender community; however, less is known about the sexual experiences and risks shared by these subgroups. To identify contextual features influencing the sexual risk-taking of transgender adults, semi-structured interviews conducted with 41 self-identified transgender adults were analyzed via constant comparative analysis, a technique rooted in grounded theory. Seven aspects of the transgender experience, including stigma, financial hardship, sexual objectification, a lack of outreach, hormones, a second puberty, and gender role issues, created a unique context of risk. Findings indicate that traditional HIV prevention efforts might not be suited to the unique needs of transgender adults. Tailoring HIV prevention efforts to this community will warrant further attention to contextual influences on sexual risk and safety. DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// DO - 10.1080/00224491003721686 VL - 48 IS - 2-3 SP - 285-296 SN - 1559-8519 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Comparing nanoparticle risk perceptions to other known EHS risks AU - Berube, David M. AU - Cummings, Christopher L. AU - Frith, Jordan H. AU - Binder, Andrew R. AU - Oldendick, Robert T2 - Journal of Nanoparticle Research DA - 2011/3/19/ PY - 2011/3/19/ DO - 10.1007/s11051-011-0325-z VL - 13 IS - 8 SP - 3089-3099 J2 - J Nanopart Res LA - en OP - SN - 1388-0764 1572-896X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/S11051-011-0325-Z DB - Crossref KW - Nanoparticles KW - Risk perception KW - Public opinion KW - Ranking KW - Comparative analysis KW - Nanotechnology KW - ELSI ER - TY - JOUR TI - Cleansing the Superdome: The Paradox of Purity and Post-Katrina Guilt AU - Grano, Daniel A. AU - Zagacki, Kenneth S. T2 - QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH AB - Abstract The reopening of the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina on Monday Night Football dramatized problematic rhetorical, visual, and spatial norms of purification rituals bound up in what Burke calls the paradox of purity. Hurricane Katrina was significant as a visually traumatic event in large part because it signified the ghetto as a rarely discussed remainder of American structural racism and pressed the filthiest visual and territorial residues of marginalized poverty into the national consciousness. In this essay, we argue that a visual paradox of purification—that purifying discourses must “be of the same symbolic substance” as the polluted images that goad them—complicated ritual attempts to both purge and commemorate Katrina evacuees. It is within the paradox of purity that visually grounded purification rituals like the Superdome reopening should be considered for their potential to invite or foreclose public engagement with race and class problems firmly entrenched in Americans’ perceptions of pollution and public territory. Keywords: Paradox of PurityVisual RhetoricRaceKatrinaSport Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the editor and reviewers for their help in the preparation of this essay. Notes 1. Kenneth Burke, Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 323. 2. Cheree Carlson, “‘You Know It When You See It’: The Rhetorical Hierarchy of Race and Gender in Rhinelander V. Rhinelander,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 85 (1999): 112. 3. Carlson, “‘You Know It When You See It,’” 112. 4. Talmadge Wright, Out of Place: Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997), 69. 5. Sheryll Cashin, “Katrina: The American Dilemma Redux,” in After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina, ed. David Dante Trout (New York: The New Press, 2006), 32. 6. Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, “Performing Civic Identity: The Iconic Photograph of the Flag Raising on Iwo Jima,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 88 (2002): 366. 7. Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, “Dissent and Emotional Management in a Liberal-Democratic Society: The Kent State Iconic Photograph,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 31 (2001): 7. 8. John Louis Lucaites and Robert Hariman, “Visual Rhetoric, Photojournalism, and Democratic Public Culture,” Rhetoric Review 20 (2001): 37–42. 9. Cashin, “Katrina: The American Dilemma Redux,” 32–33. 10. Talmadge Wright, Out of Place, 40. 11. Greg Dickinson, “The Pleasantville Effect: Nostalgia and the Visual Framing of (White) Suburbia,” Western Journal of Communication 70 (2006): 212–33. 12. Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), 224. 13. Dave Zirin, Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2007), 16–17. 14. Lynne Duke and Teresa Wiltz, “A Nation's Castaways; Katrina Blew in, and Tossed Up Reminders of Tattered Racial Legacy,” The Washington Post, September 4, 2005. 15. Wendy Koch, “Storm Giving Outpaces That of 9/11, Tsunami,” USA Today, September 7, 2005. 16. Michael A. Fletcher and Richard Morin, “Bush's Approval Rating Drops to New Low in Wake of Storm; He Says Race Didn't Affect Efforts; Blacks in Poll Disagree,” The Washington Post, September 13, 2005; John Harwood, “Katrina Erodes Support in US for Iraq War,” Wall Street Journal Abstracts, September 15, 2005. 17. Susan Page and Maria Puente, “Views of Whites, Blacks Differ Starkly on Disaster,” USA Today, September 13, 2005. 18. Page and Puente, “Views of Whites.” 19. “TIME Poll Results: Hurricane Katrina,” September 10, 2005, http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,1103504,00.html. 20. Michael Butterworth, “Purifying the Body Politic: Steroids, Rafael Palmeiro, and the Rhetorical Cleansing of Major League Baseball,” Western Journal of Communication 72 (2008): 149–50. 21. Daniel A. Grano, “Ritual Disorder and the Contractual Morality of Sport: A Case Study in Race, Class, and Agreement,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10 (2007): 445–73. Also see Susan Birrell, “Sport as Ritual: Interpretations from Durkheim to Goffman,” Social Forces 60 (1981): 354–76; Michael R. Real, Exploring Media Culture: A Guide (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996). 22. Michael Butterworth, “Ritual in the “Church of Baseball’: Suppressing the Discourse of Democracy after 9/11,” Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies 2 (2005): 112. 23. Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (New York: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1966), 35–36. 24. Kenneth Burke, A Grammar of Motives (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), 302. 25. William H. Rueckert, Kenneth Burke and the Drama of Human Relations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 92, 101–2. Also see Burke Language as Symbolic Action, 308–43. 26. Rueckert, Kenneth Burke and the Drama, 102. 27. Burke, Language as Symbolic Action, 343. 28. Mark T. Williams, “Ordering Rhetorical Contexts with Burke's Terms for Order,” Rhetoric Review 24 (2005): 182. 29. Kevin Michael DeLuca and Anne Teresa Demo, “Imaging Nature: Watkins, Yosemite, and the Birth of Environmentalism,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 17 (2000): 257. 30. Lucaites and Hariman, “Visual Rhetoric, Photojournalism,” 38. 31. Cara A. Finnegan, “Recognizing Lincoln: Image Vernaculars in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8 (2005): 34. 32. Slavoj Žižek, “The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape: Reality and Fantasy in New Orleans,” In These Times, October 20, 2005, http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2361/. 33. Ann Gerhart, “‘And Now, We are In Hell,’” The Washington Post, September 1, 2005. 34. Mari Boor Tonn, Valerie A. Endress, and John N. Diamond, “Hunting and Heritage on Trial: A Dramatistic Debate Over Tragedy, Tradition, and Territory,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 79 (1993): 169–70. 35. Shaun R. Treat, “Scapegoating the Big (un)Easy: Melodramatic Individualism as Trained Incapacity in K-ville,” KB Journal 5 (2008): 7. 36. M. Justin Davis and T. Nathaniel French, “Blaming Victims and Survivors: An Analysis of Post-Katrina Print News Coverage,” Southern Communication Journal 73 (2008): 249–51. 37. Brian Thevenot and Gordon Russell, “Rape. Murder. Gunfights; For Three Anguished Days the World's Headlines Blared that the Superdome and Convention Center had Descended into Anarchy. But the Truth is that While Conditions Were Squalid for the Thousands Stuck There, Much of the Violence NEVER HAPPENED,” Times-Picayune (New Orleans), September 26, 2005. See David Carr, “More Horrible Than Truth: News Reports,” The New York Times, September 19, 2005 and Robert E. Pierre and Ann Gerhart, “News of Pandemonium May Have Slowed Aid; Unsubstantiated Reports of Violence Were Confirmed by Some Officials, Spread by News Media,” The Washington Post, October 5, 2005. 38. Donna Britt, “In Katrina's Wake, Inaccurate Rumors Sullied Victims,” The Washington Post, September 30, 2005; Michelle Roberts, “Reports of Rape, Murder at Katrina Shelters Were Probably Exaggerated, Officials Now Say,” Associated Press Worldstream, September 27, 2005; Mary Foster, “Superdome Survivors: Fear, Heat, Misery, But Most of All the Smell,” The Associated Press State and Local Wire, August 27, 2006; Neil Mackay, Jennifer Johnston, and Alan Crawford, “Chapter One: A City Reduced to Ruins; Anarchy in the USA Special Five-Page Report,” The Sunday Herald, September 4, 2005. 39. David Sibley, Geographies of Exclusion (New York: Routledge, 1995), 55–56, 49–59. 40. Thevenot and Russell, “Rape. Murder.” 41. David Carr, “More Horrible than Truth.” 42. Donna Britt, “In Katrina's Wake.” 43. Thevenot and Russell, “Rape. Murder.” 44. Jack Shafer, “Lost in the Flood: Why no mention of race or class in TV's Katrina coverage?,” Slate, August 31, 2005, http://www.slate.com/id/2124688. 45. See Aaron Kinney, “‘Looting’ or “finding’?: bloggers are outraged over the different captions on photos of blacks and whites in New Orleans,” Salon, September 1, 2005, http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/01/photo_controversy/index.html. 46. Tonn et al., “Hunting and Heritage,” 168, 171. 47. Jeff Ferrell, “Remapping the City: Public Identity, Cultural Space, and Social Justice,” Contemporary Justice Review 4 (2001): 175. 48. Tonn et al., “Hunting and Heritage;” Grano, “Ritual Disorder.” 49. Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007), 191. 50. Hariman and Lucaites, No Caption Needed, 183. 51. Hariman and Lucaites, No Caption Needed, 184. 52. Dave Zirin, “Saints and the Superdome,” The Nation, September 28, 2006, http://www.thenation.com/article/saints-and-superdome. 53. Real, Exploring Media Culture: A Guide, 48. 54. Grano, “Ritual Disorder.” 55. 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Hariman and Lucaites, No Caption Needed, 190. 75. Hariman and Lucaites, No Caption Needed, 184. 76. Les Carpenter, “Behind its team, the city rallies,” The Washington Post, February 7, 2010. 77. Victoria J. Gallagher, “Black Power in Berkeley: Postmodern Constructions in the Rhetoric of Stokely Carmichael, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 87 (2001): 147, emphasis original. 78. Gallagher, “Black Power in Berkeley,” 147. 79. Charles Ogletree Jr., “Introduction,” in After the Storm xxii. Additional informationNotes on contributorsDaniel A. Grano Daniel A. Grano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Kenneth S. Zagacki Kenneth S. Zagacki is a Professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// DO - 10.1080/00335630.2011.560175 VL - 97 IS - 2 SP - 201-223 SN - 1479-5779 KW - Paradox of Purity KW - Visual Rhetoric KW - Race KW - Katrina KW - Sport ER - TY - JOUR TI - Antidiets of the avant-garde: From futurist cooking to eat art AU - Gruber, D. T2 - Journal of Visual Culture DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 266-269 ER - TY - BOOK TI - Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World AU - Gordon, E. AU - de Souza e Silva, A. DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// DO - 10.1002/9781444340679 PB - Malden, MA : Blackwell-Wiley SN - 1405180609 UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84891583965&partnerID=MN8TOARS ER - TY - JOUR TI - Mobile phone appropriation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil AU - de Souza e Silva, Adriana AU - Sutko, Daniel M. AU - Salis, Fernando A. AU - Silva, Claudio T2 - NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY AB - This qualitative case study describes the social appropriation of mobile phones among low-income communities in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) by asking how favela (slum) residents appropriate cell phones. Findings highlight the difficulty these populations encounter in acquiring and using cell phones due to social and economic factors, and the consequent subversive or illegal tactics used to gain access to such technology. Moreover, these tactics are embedded in and exemplars of the cyclic power relationships between high-and low-income populations that constitute the unique use of mobile technologies in these Brazilian slums. The article concludes by suggesting that future research on technology in low-income communities focus instead on the relationship of people to technology rather than a dichotomization of their access or lack thereof. DA - 2011/5// PY - 2011/5// DO - 10.1177/1461444810393901 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 411–426 J2 - New Media & Society LA - en OP - SN - ["1461-7315"] UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444810393901 DB - Crossref KW - access to technology KW - appropriation KW - digital divide KW - globalization KW - infrastructure KW - low-income communities KW - mobile phones KW - sharing KW - slums KW - theft ER - TY - JOUR TI - Location-aware mobile media and urban sociability AU - Sutko, Daniel M. AU - de Souza e Silva, Adriana T2 - NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY AB - Location-aware mobile media allow users to see their locations on a map on their mobile phone screens. These applications either disclose the physical positions of known friends, or represent the locations of groups of unknown people. We call these interfaces eponymous and anonymous, respectively. This article presents our classification of eponymous and anonymous location-aware interfaces by investigating how these applications may require us to rethink our understanding of urban sociability, particularly how we coordinate and communicate in public spaces. We argue that common assumptions made about location-aware mobile media, namely their ability to increase one’s spatial awareness and to encourage one to meet more people in public spaces, might be fallacious due to pre-existing practices of sociability in the city. We explore these issues in the light of three bodies of theory: Goffman’s presentation of self in everyday life, Simmel’s ideas on sociability, and Lehtonen and Mäenpää’s concept of street sociability. DA - 2011/8// PY - 2011/8// DO - 10.1177/1461444810385202 VL - 13 IS - 5 SP - 807–823 J2 - New Media & Society LA - en OP - SN - ["1461-7315"] UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444810385202 DB - Crossref KW - cell phones KW - communication KW - coordination KW - interfaces KW - location-aware media KW - locative media KW - mobile technologies KW - sociability KW - social networks KW - urban spaces ER - TY - JOUR TI - Increasing fundraising efficiency through evaluation: Applying communication theory to the nonprofit organization-donor relationship AU - Waters, R. D. T2 - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// VL - 40 IS - 3 SP - 458-475 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Theorizing Locative Technologies Through Philosophies of the Virtual AU - de Souza e Silva, Adriana AU - Sutko, Daniel M. T2 - COMMUNICATION THEORY AB - The concept of the virtual along with the philosophical traditions it invokes has received sparse attention in the communication literature, even though the term “virtual” is used so readily to refer to new information and communication technologies (ICTs). In this article, we argue that philosophies of the virtual that dichotomize reality/representation, although perhaps sufficient for analyzing human–computer interfaces through the 21st century, are inadequate for developing theoretical approaches to understanding location-based technologies. We thus summarize different philosophies of the virtual to propose a theoretical framework for the study of locative technologies. We do so to open up an understanding of the practical effects of locative technologies in lived experience and use examples of that experience to show motivations for shifts in theory. DA - 2011/2// PY - 2011/2// DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2010.01374.x VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 23–42 LA - en OP - SN - ["1468-2885"] UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2010.01374.x DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - Relational Genre Knowledge and the Online Design Critique: Relational Authenticity in Preprofessional Genre Learning AU - Dannels, Deanna P. T2 - JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION AB - This study explores the types of feedback and implicated relational systems in an online design critique using an inductive analysis of an online critique about a project focused on designing a new food pyramid. The results reveal eight types of feedback and three implied relational systems, all of which suggest relational archetypes that are disconnected from typical preprofessional activity systems. These results illustrate the potential for the online medium to be a space in which participants pursue idealized relational identities and interactions that are not necessarily authentic approximations of actual relational systems. Using these results as a foundation, the author discusses the potential relevance of the online medium to this setting and the implications of relational authenticity and genre knowledge on oral genre teaching and learning. DA - 2011/1// PY - 2011/1// DO - 10.1177/1050651910380371 VL - 25 IS - 1 SP - 3-35 SN - 1552-4574 KW - communication in the disciplines KW - communication across the curriculum KW - oral genre teaching and learning KW - relational genre knowledge KW - relational authenticity ER - TY - JOUR TI - Beyond typical ideas of writing: Developing a diverse understanding of writers,writing, and writing instruction AU - Miller-Cochran, S. K. T2 - College Composition and Communication DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// VL - 62 IS - 3 SP - 550-559 ER - TY - JOUR TI - The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains AU - Frith, Jordan AU - Morain, Matt AU - Cummings, Chris AU - Berube, David T2 - JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AB - McLuhan (2003) argued that we cannot fully understand a medium until we have moved on to a new dominant medium. McLuhan may have been partially correct, but it seems overly defeatist to relegate medium studies to the field of history, and despite its contemporaneity, many scholars have actively criticized our current dominant medium: the Internet. Although some academics have certainly taken a utopian stance to the Internet—most notably early theorists such as Negroponte (1996) and Lèvy (1997)—others have criticized the growth of the Internet from diverse disciplinary perspectives. The popular press, however, has seen much more of the Wired-inspired techno-utopian writing than any kind of cogent criticism on how life is being reshaped by a near complete reliance on the Internet. It is within this context that Nicholas Carr and Jaron Lanier set out to establish a necessary corrective to the techno-utopian strands that run through the popular literature on the Internet. The two authors come from different backgrounds—Carr is a New York Times best-selling journalist and Lanier is a founding father of virtual reality and an influential tech guru—and use different support for their arguments, but both books can be read together as a criticism of the blind and indiscriminate embrace of the Internet by the public at large. They remind the reader that technological adoption has consequences, and we all need to consider whether the consequences are worth it. For that, they should be commended. However, both books also suffer from major weaknesses that mar their intended effectiveness. We will start with a brief description of Carr's The Shallows and then move on to Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget. DA - 2011/2// PY - 2011/2// DO - 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01535.x VL - 61 IS - 1 SP - E9-E12 SN - 0021-9916 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Interpersonal Amplification of Risk? Citizen Discussions and Their Impact on Perceptions of Risks and Benefits of a Biological Research Facility AU - Binder, Andrew R. AU - Scheufele, Dietram A. AU - Brossard, Dominique AU - Gunther, Albert C. T2 - RISK ANALYSIS AB - Much risk communication research has demonstrated how mass media can influence individual risk perceptions, but lacks a comprehensive conceptual understanding of another key channel of communication: interpersonal discussion. Using the social amplification of risk as a theoretical framework, we consider the potential for discussions to function as amplification stations. We explore this possibility using data from a public opinion survey of residents living in potential locations for a new biological research facility in the United States. Controlling for a variety of key information variables, our results show that two dimensions of discussion—frequency and valence—have impacts on residents’ perceptions of the facility's benefits and its risks. We also explore the possibility that an individual's overall attitude moderates the effect of discussion on their perceptions of risks and benefits. Our results demonstrate the potential for discussions to operate as amplifiers or attenuators of perceptions of both risks and benefits. DA - 2011/2// PY - 2011/2// DO - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01516.x VL - 31 IS - 2 SP - 324-334 SN - 1539-6924 UR - https://publons.com/publon/5629008/ KW - Interpersonal discussion KW - risk communication KW - social amplification of risk ER - TY - BOOK TI - The Longman handbook for writers and readers (6th. Ed.) AU - Anson, C. M. AU - Schwegler, R. A. DA - 2011/// PY - 2011/// PB - Boston : Longman SN - 9780205741953 ER -