This is a quick reminder about the CARP Webinar on Friday (10:30am Eastern) where Kevin Stein and Matt Barton will talk about memes as rhetorical attack tools. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-jokes...
Big news out of Maryland!
Beginning July 1st, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty in Maryland will have collective bargaining rights.
www.aaup.org/news/collect...
Huge thanks to @aaup.org, @aft.org, & @aftmaryland.bsky.social for helping us pass this historic legislation!
Many thanks, all! This is immensely helpful.
This is a broad question, but rhetorical critics, help me out. Can you think of book-length works that analyze the rhetoric of one particular speaker? (Thinking of @cubsmurphy.bsky.social's book on JFK and Liberalism, for instance.) What others are out there? Edited collections need not apply (sry)
Join us for "From Jokes to Judgments: Memes as Tools for Rhetorical Attack," an upcoming webinar hosted by @carpresearch.bsky.social April 17, 10:30am (New York) with Kevin Stein and Matt Barton. We'll talk COVID memes, the 2024 election, and more. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/from-jokes...
Hey comm scholars! Do I know anyone going to Central States this year? I'm briefly popping in, but would love to try to check out your panels or meet up.
A student this week said I "had whimsy but was also professional" and honestly? Big compliment.
What the average person thinks HR is supposed to do for them at a job
is what unions are actually for.
Reminder for the Comm scholars that the NCA Deadline is tonight. Consider submitting your work to ASHR! I'm the program planner!
Tomorrow! You can attend even if you're not an ASHR member!
Not me, having converted an entire essay to APA format, only to learn that the journal has its own, secret, citation style.
Flyer announcing a forum on "Rhetoric in Motion" in blue color palette
Lovers of rhetorical history! Come on by the American Society for the History of Rhetoric first Friday forum (3/6) to hear these wonderful scholars (and me) talk about rhetoric in motion.
God bless whatever past Jennie went through and put alt text on my course images on Canvas.
I do not remember doing this, but it's making course prep in advance of the DOJ digital accessibility rule so much easier.
Cover of a book called Auto/biography and Reputation Politics. The cover has brightly colored circles.
This book FINALLY exists in print. It's based on papers from a 2020 (eeep) conference, the last place I traveled before everything changed. It was expertly and meticulously edited and improved, mostly by Nadja. Trust me, it's a beautiful volume. Have your libes buy it.
I had forgotten the time-honored Midwestern tradition of everyone being sick at Christmas, with Boomer parents insisting they aren't sick at all! Happy holidays from this germ-infested house to yours! (I'm also fine so far!)
Sweet potatoes are so gross.
I love that Gritty article. Probably because I love Gritty.
Really bummed to be a Northwestern alum right now.
New adult milestone unlocked: getting generic holiday messages from your mortgage lender in addition to your dentist.
Amen.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
a grilled cheese sandwich and bowl of tomato soup captioned “this and never opening Microsoft Outlook again”
all I need in the world
I've spent the last 6 mos working with faculty on a curriculum overhaul for our comm program. Today, the documents go to our curriculum committee! This would probably feel like a bigger moment if I wasn't also the chair of our curriculum committee.
A book cover with an iPhone encased in chains. The book is called "Platforming Cancel Culture."
I'm excited to finally have this book in my hand. My chapter is about how digital maps resist a simple cancel culture narrative when statues fall, like this to Confederate soldiers. Let me know if you want to read it. It seems...prescient at a time when history is a central battle.
9am on 10/10. Sigh. That's a relevant detail.
@carpresearch.bsky.social is hosting a webinar to help launch @alessandronai.bsky.social and colleague's new book. Join us at 9am (Eastern) to learn about attack politics and their impacts. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-psycho...
"Today's models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right."
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
I know y'all know I hate Microsoft Teams with every fiber of my being. But, seriously. Whoever just called me and didn't tell me who you were [or what you wanted], Teams just lists "Wireless Caller" so I literally am not calling you back since I don't know who you are.
Platforming Cancel Culture, a new edited collection with Routledge, is available to pre-order! My chapter asks whether taking down Confederate statues is cancel culture and ways activists intervene digitally to remember differently. Get the book for your libe! www.routledge.com/Platforming-...