Lisa Keranen
University of Colorado Denver, Communication, Faculty Member
- Lisa Keränen is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Den... moreLisa Keränen is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver, where she has also been named a University President’s Teaching Scholar.Her research and teaching concern the rhetoric of health and medicine, a growing interdisciplinary field of study that examines how discourses about health and medicine structure meaning and understanding of health and illness, including policy and identity.You might say she is a communication scholar who sometimes wishes she were a doctor.edit
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To pilot test the... more
To pilot test the "Palliative Care Clinical Evaluation Exercise (CEX)," a new experience-based intervention to teach communication skills in giving bad news and discussing code status. The intervention allows faculty to observe, evaluate, and give feedback to housestaff in their discussions with patients and families. In 2002-03, the intervention was piloted among 60 first-year residents in the categorical Internal Medicine Residency Programs at the University of Pittsburgh. The authors collected feasibility measurements at the time of intervention, and interns' attitudes were measured before and one week after intervention and at the end of the intern year. Forty-four residents (73%) completed the intervention. Discussions averaged a total of 49.5 minutes (SD 24.1), divided among 12.7 minutes (SD 7.5) for prediscussion counseling between the resident and faculty observer, 25.6 minutes (SD 16.1) for the resident-patient discussion, and 12.1 minutes (SD 5.7) for postdiscussion feedback. Residents rated the Palliative Care CEX favorably (>3 on a five-point scale) on ease of arranging the exercise, educational value, quality of the experience, effect on their comfort with discussions, importance to their education, and value of preceptor feedback. Self-ratings of communication competence showed improvement one week after the intervention. The Palliative Care CEX is feasible and positively valued by residents. The findings from this initial pilot study support the value of further efforts to refine the intervention, to confirm its feasibility in other settings, and to validate its use as an educational and assessment tool.
Research Interests: Educational Measurement, Palliative Care, Problem Based Learning, Humans, Internal Medicine, and 15 moreEnd of life, Female, Male, Communication Skill, Academic Medicine, Aged, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Clinical Competence, Terminal care, Pilot Projects, Academic, Clinical evaluation, Truth Disclosure, internship and residency, and Physician-Patient Relations
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Federal and institutional policies recommend the criterion of "seriousness" as a guide for sanction assignment in cases where researchers have been found to have committed research misconduct. Discrepancies in assessments of... more
Federal and institutional policies recommend the criterion of "seriousness" as a guide for sanction assignment in cases where researchers have been found to have committed research misconduct. Discrepancies in assessments of seriousness for similar acts of misconduct suggest the need to clarify what might be meant by the seriousness of research misconduct and how the criterion can be used to assign sanctions. This essay demonstrates how determinations of seriousness can differ depending on the set of ethical appeals employed and argues that an expanded lexicon for talking about the seriousness of research misconduct would help to promote fairness and consistency in sanction assignment. It concludes with some policy recommendations for those charged with research misconduct sanction assignment and for those who oversee research integrity at institutional levels.
Research Interests: Accountability, Social Justice, Medicine, Multidisciplinary, Intention, and 12 moreProfessional Role Socialization, Motivation, Policy making, Humans, Biomedical Research, Federal Government, United States, Punishment, Organizational Policy, Scientific Misconduct, Formal Social Control, and Professional Role
RHM editor Blake Scott interviews influential rhetoric of health and medicine and bioethics scholar Lisa Keranen to get her perspective on the first special issue of the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine journal on public health, co-edited by... more
RHM editor Blake Scott interviews influential rhetoric of health and medicine and bioethics scholar Lisa Keranen to get her perspective on the first special issue of the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine journal on public health, co-edited by editor Lisa Meloncon and by guest editor Jennifer Malkowski.
This essay analyzes how the borders between the technical and the public sphere were argumentatively demarcated in the B-06 lumpectomy controversy. Drawing from Thomas Gieryn's metaphor of “cultural cartographies of science,” it... more
This essay analyzes how the borders between the technical and the public sphere were argumentatively demarcated in the B-06 lumpectomy controversy. Drawing from Thomas Gieryn's metaphor of “cultural cartographies of science,” it tracks the implications of four discursive maps of scientific practice that circulated in argument spheres as the controversy unfolded. Considered together, these maps preserved institutional jurisdiction over decision making and missed a critical opportunity to address stakeholder concerns about scientific practice more meaningfully. This case study suggests the need to extend our understanding of argument spheres in science-based controversy.
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ABSTRACT This essay examines the contested dynamics of postcolonial remembering in Taiwan. Focusing on the long-suppressed 228 massacre in particular and the White Terror period in general, we bring Taiwan’s postcolonial remembering into... more
ABSTRACT This essay examines the contested dynamics of postcolonial remembering in Taiwan. Focusing on the long-suppressed 228 massacre in particular and the White Terror period in general, we bring Taiwan’s postcolonial remembering into international and intercultural communication studies by analyzing two contemporary sites: Taipei’s 228 Memorial Museum and the Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park. As our case studies demonstrate, Taiwan’s postcolonial remembering offers unique indications of how public memory work can help move a culture toward a sense of reconciliation, thus promoting what one of our collaborators called “the end of fear.”
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Drawing on fieldwork and the rhetorical analysis of translations of the descriptive panels displayed in the “Exhibition of the 60th Anniversary of the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet” (EATPL), this article examines the ways in which Lhasa’s... more
Drawing on fieldwork and the rhetorical analysis of translations of the descriptive panels displayed in the “Exhibition of the 60th Anniversary of the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet” (EATPL), this article examines the ways in which Lhasa’s Tibet Museum in general and the EATPL in particular represent Tibet’s contested place in the rise of modern China. We analyze the displays to determine how presence, absence, and amnesiatic displays are used to celebrate the success of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) leapfrog development, how techniques of contrast produce visions of a so-called “better tomorrow for Tibet,” and how the repetition of before- and after-reform images (re)produce state narratives that showcase the triumph of modernization and the rhetoric of legacy building. By focusing on Jiang Zemin’s “Three Represents,” Hu Jintao’s “Scientific Development and Harmonious Society,” and Xi Jinping’s “China Dream,” we show that the rhetoric in these panels is aimed to constrain yearnings for the “Old Tibet.” We maintain that despite its limitations, the rhetoric of “triumphant modernization” should serve as the crux, not the crisis, of future dialogue about Chinese–Tibetan relations.
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Scholarly literature concerning terrorism and the media spans decades and disciplines with a dramatic increase after 9/11. This state-of-the-art review assesses strengths, limitations, and gaps in recent scholarship on mainstream... more
Scholarly literature concerning terrorism and the media spans decades and disciplines with a dramatic increase after 9/11. This state-of-the-art review assesses strengths, limitations, and gaps in recent scholarship on mainstream mass-mediated news coverage of terrorism and outlines an agenda for research that cuts across traditional context-based divisions of communication research. It begins by synthesizing various conceptions of terrorism as communication and discussing models of terrorism’s relationship to the media. It then considers empirical studies of media content in television, print, Internet, and multimodal contexts. Finally, it identifies the need for expanded studies of multi-modal international news coverage of terrorism that cut across interpersonal, organizational, religious, and new media subfields of the communication discipline.
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The post-9/11 era featured an unprecedented expansion of global biodefense initiatives. This essay chronicles the rise of biodefense by tracking biological risk construction across political, scientific, and cultural rhetoric from the... more
The post-9/11 era featured an unprecedented expansion of global biodefense initiatives. This essay chronicles the rise of biodefense by tracking biological risk construction across political, scientific, and cultural rhetoric from the late 1990s to the present. It maintains that the production of bio(in)security entails two interlocking rhetorical operations—framing biological threats as catastrophic risk and enlisting the specter of viral apocalypse—that
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... View full textDownload full text Full access. DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2010.504642 Lisa Keränen a ... Quantitative analysis and qualitative data coding (with assistance from Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Brent Heffron, and Ann Madsen) track... more
... View full textDownload full text Full access. DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2010.504642 Lisa Keränen a ... Quantitative analysis and qualitative data coding (with assistance from Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Brent Heffron, and Ann Madsen) track the changing features of case histories in ...
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:This essay analyzes competing discourses of resilience across United States and United Kingdom online news and blog coverage following the 2005 London 7/7 subway bombings. More specifically, it tracks how dominant articulations of... more
:This essay analyzes competing discourses of resilience across United States and United Kingdom online news and blog coverage following the 2005 London 7/7 subway bombings. More specifically, it tracks how dominant articulations of resilience reflect an emerging Anglo-American sensibility that created constraints and possibilities for British national identity and security policy. We argue that the prevailing construction of Londoners as
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... See Walter Metz, “From Microfilm to Microbes: Outbreak as Post-Cold War Thriller,” in Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema (New York:Peter Lang, 2004), 23–44; and Schell, “Outburst!” View all notes. ...
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“Code status” is a prominent feature of end-of-life discussions in U.S. hospitals. This essay analyzes how the rhetoric of code status articulates the terms of end-of-life decision-making in one hospital's “Patient” Preferences... more
“Code status” is a prominent feature of end-of-life discussions in U.S. hospitals. This essay analyzes how the rhetoric of code status articulates the terms of end-of-life decision-making in one hospital's “Patient” Preferences Worksheet. The Worksheet signifies the abandonment of the technological fix as the preferred treatment for moribund patients and the transformation of a previously private moment into a matter of institutional control. Examining the Worksheet's interlocking institutional, technical, and vernacular deathbed rhetoric challenges the dominant bioethical discourse of patient autonomy and suggests a need to supplement this procedurally rational discourse with one of relational integrity.
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Independence and competence define the traditional characteristics of a game warden. External pressure to transform the game warden service into a more culturally and ethnically diverse state law enforcement agency, however, creates... more
Independence and competence define the traditional characteristics of a game warden. External pressure to transform the game warden service into a more culturally and ethnically diverse state law enforcement agency, however, creates tensions surrounding these characteristics in the organization's structurationally defined agency and reflexivity of law enforcement; duality of structure in office memos and citation counts; social integration and institutional reproduction of law enforcement training, use of decoys, and search and ...
Research Interests: Sociology, Communication, Organizational Communication, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture, and 15 morePublic Relations, Reflexivity, Natural Resource Management, Independence, Structuration Theory, Law Enforcement, Competence, Agency, Social Competence, Applied Communication, Communication Competence, Structure Analysis, Communication and media Studies, Ethnic diversity, and game warden
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This article analyzes presidential science advisor John H. Marburger III's use of an idealized vision of science in his February 14, 2005, address on science policy in the context of allegations of Bush administration science... more
This article analyzes presidential science advisor John H. Marburger III's use of an idealized vision of science in his February 14, 2005, address on science policy in the context of allegations of Bush administration science politicization. The authors contend that Marburger's speech is both a performative enactment and an active construction of a linear model of science supported by an entrepreneurial vision of science policy. Although incompatible with the actual conduct of science, this view is rhetorically advantageous for Marburger and the present administration in that it both encourages the demarcation of science from politics in ways that serve elite interests and allows for the negotiation of role tensions inherent in the science advisor position.
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... View full textDownload full text Full access. DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2010.504642 Lisa Keränen a ... Quantitative analysis and qualitative data coding (with assistance from Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Brent Heffron, and Ann Madsen) track... more
... View full textDownload full text Full access. DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2010.504642 Lisa Keränen a ... Quantitative analysis and qualitative data coding (with assistance from Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Brent Heffron, and Ann Madsen) track the changing features of case histories in ...
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... See Walter Metz, “From Microfilm to Microbes: Outbreak as Post-Cold War Thriller,” in Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema (New York:Peter Lang, 2004), 23–44; and Schell, “Outburst!” View all notes. ...
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Copyright © 2010 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Typeface: Adobe Caslon Pro ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum... more
Copyright © 2010 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Typeface: Adobe Caslon Pro ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National ...
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:This essay analyzes competing discourses of resilience across United States and United Kingdom online news and blog coverage following the 2005 London 7/7 subway bombings. More specifically, it tracks how dominant articulations of... more
:This essay analyzes competing discourses of resilience across United States and United Kingdom online news and blog coverage following the 2005 London 7/7 subway bombings. More specifically, it tracks how dominant articulations of resilience reflect an emerging Anglo-American sensibility that created constraints and possibilities for British national identity and security policy. We argue that the prevailing construction of Londoners as
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The post-9/11 era featured an unprecedented expansion of global biodefense initiatives. This essay chronicles the rise of biodefense by tracking biological risk construction across political, scientific, and cultural rhetoric from the... more
The post-9/11 era featured an unprecedented expansion of global biodefense initiatives. This essay chronicles the rise of biodefense by tracking biological risk construction across political, scientific, and cultural rhetoric from the late 1990s to the present. It maintains that the production of bio(in)security entails two interlocking rhetorical operations—framing biological threats as catastrophic risk and enlisting the specter of viral apocalypse—that
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Copyright © 2010 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Typeface: Adobe Caslon Pro ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum... more
Copyright © 2010 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Typeface: Adobe Caslon Pro ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National ...
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This article analyzes presidential science advisor John H. Marburger III's use of an idealized vision of science in his February 14, 2005, address on science policy in the context of allegations of Bush administration science... more
This article analyzes presidential science advisor John H. Marburger III's use of an idealized vision of science in his February 14, 2005, address on science policy in the context of allegations of Bush administration science politicization. The authors contend that Marburger's speech is both a performative enactment and an active construction of a linear model of science supported by an entrepreneurial vision of science policy. Although incompatible with the actual conduct of science, this view is rhetorically advantageous for Marburger and the present administration in that it both encourages the demarcation of science from politics in ways that serve elite interests and allows for the negotiation of role tensions inherent in the science advisor position.
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“Code status” is a prominent feature of end-of-life discussions in U.S. hospitals. This essay analyzes how the rhetoric of code status articulates the terms of end-of-life decision-making in one hospital's “Patient” Preferences... more
“Code status” is a prominent feature of end-of-life discussions in U.S. hospitals. This essay analyzes how the rhetoric of code status articulates the terms of end-of-life decision-making in one hospital's “Patient” Preferences Worksheet. The Worksheet signifies the abandonment of the technological fix as the preferred treatment for moribund patients and the transformation of a previously private moment into a matter of institutional control. Examining the Worksheet's interlocking institutional, technical, and vernacular deathbed rhetoric challenges the dominant bioethical discourse of patient autonomy and suggests a need to supplement this procedurally rational discourse with one of relational integrity.
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Independence and competence define the traditional characteristics of a game warden. External pressure to transform the game warden service into a more culturally and ethnically diverse state law enforcement agency, however, creates... more
Independence and competence define the traditional characteristics of a game warden. External pressure to transform the game warden service into a more culturally and ethnically diverse state law enforcement agency, however, creates tensions surrounding these characteristics in the organization's structurationally defined agency and reflexivity of law enforcement; duality of structure in office memos and citation counts; social integration and institutional reproduction of law enforcement training, use of decoys, and search and ...
Research Interests: Sociology, Communication, Organizational Communication, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture, and 15 morePublic Relations, Reflexivity, Natural Resource Management, Independence, Structuration Theory, Law Enforcement, Competence, Agency, Social Competence, Applied Communication, Communication Competence, Structure Analysis, Communication and media Studies, Ethnic diversity, and game warden
To pilot test the "Palliative Care Clinical Evaluation Exercise (CEX)," a new experience-based intervention to teach communication skills in giving bad news and discussing code status. The intervention allows faculty to observe,... more
To pilot test the "Palliative Care Clinical Evaluation Exercise (CEX)," a new experience-based intervention to teach communication skills in giving bad news and discussing code status. The intervention allows faculty to observe, evaluate, and give feedback to housestaff in their discussions with patients and families. In 2002-03, the intervention was piloted among 60 first-year residents in the categorical Internal Medicine Residency Programs at the University of Pittsburgh. The authors collected feasibility measurements at the time of intervention, and interns' attitudes were measured before and one week after intervention and at the end of the intern year. Forty-four residents (73%) completed the intervention. Discussions averaged a total of 49.5 minutes (SD 24.1), divided among 12.7 minutes (SD 7.5) for prediscussion counseling between the resident and faculty observer, 25.6 minutes (SD 16.1) for the resident-patient discussion, and 12.1 minutes (SD 5.7) for postdis...