Offers a theory of communication and media studies (and other academic fields) as gendered work, ... more Offers a theory of communication and media studies (and other academic fields) as gendered work, drawing upon feminist and posthumanist social theories, and putting forth the framework of "figures, formations, and flows" to make sense of the gendered organization of the field over time. Applies the framework to Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research and its predecessors, from the 1930s through the 1950s.
A bibliographic essay on Merton's life and his work in media/communication theory and research as... more A bibliographic essay on Merton's life and his work in media/communication theory and research as well as commentaries and uptakes of it.
An overview of recent developments in communication theory. I contributed with a section on commu... more An overview of recent developments in communication theory. I contributed with a section on communication as ontological event. In: Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 4(1), 2012, 73-92.
... of the candidate and campaign, prominently featuring attacks or local suspicions about Obama&... more ... of the candidate and campaign, prominently featuring attacks or local suspicions about Obama's personal identity, his “empty rhetoric,” and the belief that one might be “betraying the Clinton family by favoring the Illinois senator over Senator Hillary Clinton” (Aguilar, “Peña,” “Sen ...
'Science and the media'can mean many things. It might mean images and other representat... more 'Science and the media'can mean many things. It might mean images and other representations of science in movies, television, popular music or advertisingthe socalled entertainment media. Or it could refer to the media industries that produce that ...
Book Reviews 779 only in passing as the source of Sievers' definition of the commons. A host... more Book Reviews 779 only in passing as the source of Sievers' definition of the commons. A host of other important commons theorists, including Benkler and Lessig, get no mention at all. In sum, the identified strands of civil society Sievers identifies merit further careful ...
Religion vs. Television: Competitors in Cultural Context. By Jay Newman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1... more Religion vs. Television: Competitors in Cultural Context. By Jay Newman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. 168 pp. $55.00 (hard). ... Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. By Mark Silk. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 184 pp. $19.95 (soft).
My copy of Media and the American Mind is falling apart. I have taped the binding, but loose page... more My copy of Media and the American Mind is falling apart. I have taped the binding, but loose pages still tumble out if I am not careful. I count markings by at least five different pens, indexes of reading and teaching it over the years. In this brief essay, I would like to reflect on why ...
... Samuel F. Turner, Chris A. Benedict, Heather Darby, Lori A. Hoagland, Peter Simonson, J. Robe... more ... Samuel F. Turner, Chris A. Benedict, Heather Darby, Lori A. Hoagland, Peter Simonson, J. Robert Sirrine, and Kevin M. Murphy* ... of small, stout, hooked hairs (trichomes), as opposed to vines, which climb with the aid of tendrils (Mahaffee and Pethybridge, 2009; Probasco, 1997 ...
In this paper, Karen Ashcraft and I draw upon feminist and post-humanist theories to offer a fram... more In this paper, Karen Ashcraft and I draw upon feminist and post-humanist theories to offer a framework for understanding the history of communication studies (and academic fields more generally) as gendered work. We illustrate the theoretical frame by analyzing the historical gendering of media research in its formative decades of the 1940s and '50s in the U.S.
This article revisits James Aune’s sociological framework for rhetoric in his important but overl... more This article revisits James Aune’s sociological framework for rhetoric in his important but overlooked “Modernity as a Rhetorical Problem.” I situate Aune’s essay within the history of sociological and cultural turns in twentieth-century rhetorical theory then unpack his model and its implications for rhetorical study. I argue that Aune’s essay provides sociological texture to materialist views of rhetoric and offers a generative framework for addressing institutional, media, and normative structures within which rhetoric emerges. I then go on to address shortcomings in his view of culture, which I supplement with anthropological views consistent with his larger project and its comparative aspirations.
Keywords: sociology of rhetoric, materialist rhetoric, cultural studies, twentieth-century rhetorical theory, James Aune
Since the 1960s, invention theory has reinvented itself. This essay aims to map and advance that ... more Since the 1960s, invention theory has reinvented itself. This essay aims to map and advance that process. It provides a window into the recent intellectual history of rhetorical studies and advocates continued development of sociologically informed rhetorical theories open to culture, materiality, and post-humanist understandings. I argue that invention theory has productively organized itself around two sets of dialectical tensions but remains constrained by two longstanding prejudices. The productive tensions revolve around (a) breaking with and affirming inherited rhetorical traditions and (b) conceiving invention as emplaced or dispersed. The prejudices consist of a continued logophilia and normative privileging of creativity and newness. I map the dialectics and prejudices across modern, premodern, and postmodern orientations. I then provide a revised definition and heuristic framework revolving around a concept, inventional media, that aims to capture invention’s simultaneous emplacement and dispersal across processes of discovery, creativity, and rhetorical reproduction
Offers a theory of communication and media studies (and other academic fields) as gendered work, ... more Offers a theory of communication and media studies (and other academic fields) as gendered work, drawing upon feminist and posthumanist social theories, and putting forth the framework of "figures, formations, and flows" to make sense of the gendered organization of the field over time. Applies the framework to Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research and its predecessors, from the 1930s through the 1950s.
A bibliographic essay on Merton's life and his work in media/communication theory and research as... more A bibliographic essay on Merton's life and his work in media/communication theory and research as well as commentaries and uptakes of it.
An overview of recent developments in communication theory. I contributed with a section on commu... more An overview of recent developments in communication theory. I contributed with a section on communication as ontological event. In: Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 4(1), 2012, 73-92.
... of the candidate and campaign, prominently featuring attacks or local suspicions about Obama&... more ... of the candidate and campaign, prominently featuring attacks or local suspicions about Obama's personal identity, his “empty rhetoric,” and the belief that one might be “betraying the Clinton family by favoring the Illinois senator over Senator Hillary Clinton” (Aguilar, “Peña,” “Sen ...
'Science and the media'can mean many things. It might mean images and other representat... more 'Science and the media'can mean many things. It might mean images and other representations of science in movies, television, popular music or advertisingthe socalled entertainment media. Or it could refer to the media industries that produce that ...
Book Reviews 779 only in passing as the source of Sievers' definition of the commons. A host... more Book Reviews 779 only in passing as the source of Sievers' definition of the commons. A host of other important commons theorists, including Benkler and Lessig, get no mention at all. In sum, the identified strands of civil society Sievers identifies merit further careful ...
Religion vs. Television: Competitors in Cultural Context. By Jay Newman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1... more Religion vs. Television: Competitors in Cultural Context. By Jay Newman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. 168 pp. $55.00 (hard). ... Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America. By Mark Silk. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 184 pp. $19.95 (soft).
My copy of Media and the American Mind is falling apart. I have taped the binding, but loose page... more My copy of Media and the American Mind is falling apart. I have taped the binding, but loose pages still tumble out if I am not careful. I count markings by at least five different pens, indexes of reading and teaching it over the years. In this brief essay, I would like to reflect on why ...
... Samuel F. Turner, Chris A. Benedict, Heather Darby, Lori A. Hoagland, Peter Simonson, J. Robe... more ... Samuel F. Turner, Chris A. Benedict, Heather Darby, Lori A. Hoagland, Peter Simonson, J. Robert Sirrine, and Kevin M. Murphy* ... of small, stout, hooked hairs (trichomes), as opposed to vines, which climb with the aid of tendrils (Mahaffee and Pethybridge, 2009; Probasco, 1997 ...
In this paper, Karen Ashcraft and I draw upon feminist and post-humanist theories to offer a fram... more In this paper, Karen Ashcraft and I draw upon feminist and post-humanist theories to offer a framework for understanding the history of communication studies (and academic fields more generally) as gendered work. We illustrate the theoretical frame by analyzing the historical gendering of media research in its formative decades of the 1940s and '50s in the U.S.
This article revisits James Aune’s sociological framework for rhetoric in his important but overl... more This article revisits James Aune’s sociological framework for rhetoric in his important but overlooked “Modernity as a Rhetorical Problem.” I situate Aune’s essay within the history of sociological and cultural turns in twentieth-century rhetorical theory then unpack his model and its implications for rhetorical study. I argue that Aune’s essay provides sociological texture to materialist views of rhetoric and offers a generative framework for addressing institutional, media, and normative structures within which rhetoric emerges. I then go on to address shortcomings in his view of culture, which I supplement with anthropological views consistent with his larger project and its comparative aspirations.
Keywords: sociology of rhetoric, materialist rhetoric, cultural studies, twentieth-century rhetorical theory, James Aune
Since the 1960s, invention theory has reinvented itself. This essay aims to map and advance that ... more Since the 1960s, invention theory has reinvented itself. This essay aims to map and advance that process. It provides a window into the recent intellectual history of rhetorical studies and advocates continued development of sociologically informed rhetorical theories open to culture, materiality, and post-humanist understandings. I argue that invention theory has productively organized itself around two sets of dialectical tensions but remains constrained by two longstanding prejudices. The productive tensions revolve around (a) breaking with and affirming inherited rhetorical traditions and (b) conceiving invention as emplaced or dispersed. The prejudices consist of a continued logophilia and normative privileging of creativity and newness. I map the dialectics and prejudices across modern, premodern, and postmodern orientations. I then provide a revised definition and heuristic framework revolving around a concept, inventional media, that aims to capture invention’s simultaneous emplacement and dispersal across processes of discovery, creativity, and rhetorical reproduction
Here is the Table of Contents and Introduction to the book I co-edited with David W. Park, a coll... more Here is the Table of Contents and Introduction to the book I co-edited with David W. Park, a collection of terrific essays that aims to map the growth of communication and media studies around the world and draw out transnational flows of ideas, people, texts, and organizations. The Introduction provides a compact overview of the history and historiography of communication study since the 19th century. (Routledge website for it: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138846036)
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Keywords: sociology of rhetoric, materialist rhetoric, cultural studies, twentieth-century rhetorical theory, James Aune
Keywords: sociology of rhetoric, materialist rhetoric, cultural studies, twentieth-century rhetorical theory, James Aune