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Transdisciplinary collaboration offers great potential for meaningfully addressing complex proble... more Transdisciplinary collaboration offers great potential for meaningfully addressing complex problems related to climate change and social inequities. Communication shapes transdisciplinary collaboration in myriad ways, and interdisciplinary and rhetorical
approaches to communication can help identify these influences as well as strategies
to transform inequitable communication patterns. In this paper, we share results from
an engaged and ethnographic research project focused on strategic communication
in a large-scale transdisciplinary collaboration to develop environmental-DNA (eDNA)
science for coastal resilience. In this context, definitions of eDNA, perspectives about
communication, and constructions of audience and expertise shape the ways in which
collaborators co-produce knowledge across disciplines and with diverse partners.
Identifying relationships among strategic communication, knowledge co-production, and
power enables the development of strategic collaborative practices, including asking
questions as a means to identify and negotiate differences in definitions of eDNA
and using participatory methods and anti-oppressive data management platforms for
ethical praxis.
Following the July 22, 2011, Oslo bombing and shootings at the Utøya youth camp Norway became emb... more Following the July 22, 2011, Oslo bombing and shootings at the Utøya youth camp Norway became embroiled in a conflict over commemorative ethics. The memorial initially selected in an international contest, Memory Wound by Jonas Dahlgren, drew opposition from victims' families and local residents for its severe impact on the natural landscape. Plans for installation were cancelled in 2017. This controversy, we submit, must be contextualized in relation to the Norwegian justice system's handling of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator whose criminal proceedings were kept relatively secluded. We demonstrate how the design of Memory Wound and the suppression of Breivik's publicity reflect a symbolic logic traceable to a national imaginary of Norwegian exceptionalism. By interpretively aligning the use of negative space in Memory Wound with the muting of Breivik as a media event, we investigate the prescriptive force of symbols to inculcate world views. Specifically, we attend to the foreclosure of "prosthetic memory," which through media circulation allows people to engage with memory that is not primarily theirs. We acknowledge the possibility of empathy across difference that Landsberg ascribes to prosthetic memory; however, we insist that the circumstances under which solidarity might be rejected must be considered. With a dual case study, we offer a perspective on enduring assumptions about cultural identity and the rise of rightwing extremism in Northern Europe.
Environmental Communication, 2019
Sustainable development is rhetorically framed as exhibiting natural processes, reflected both sy... more Sustainable development is rhetorically framed as exhibiting natural processes, reflected both symbolically and materially. Taking the Frick Environmental Center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a rhetorical artifact, I argue that spaces where sustainable human-made structures and human-cultivated landscapes meet, reflect blurred borderlands of a culturally constructed urban/nature divide. Considering the Frick Environmental Center as an experiential landscape, my mixed methodology of textual analysis and rhetorical field work identifies how naturalized framing of sustainability bridges the urban/nature divide, inviting restoration, preservation, and construction efforts that are more environmentally engaged.
I'm honestly surprised that I learned anything at all from this class. It's a forced gen. ed. so ... more I'm honestly surprised that I learned anything at all from this class. It's a forced gen. ed. so I wasn't expecting to learn anything. " This response from one of my students on an end-of-class handout that asked, "What surprised you most about taking Public Speaking?" speaks to the problem of how students approach their required general education classes. Too often, students approach their general education courses as mere hurdles along the way to more important classes. If students are unable to grasp the value of their general education requirements, then no matter how noble the goals of the general ABSTRACT | This article examines the common communication practices of deliberation, discussion, delivery, and debate, for their democratizing potential through their greater inclusion in all general education classrooms. It argues that these tools are underutilized outside of communication classrooms but offer numerous benefits to teachers and students alike who participate in the general education process. Increasing communication opportunities for students in more classes can contribute to greater self-reflection, more positive engagement with and openness to difference, and higher connectivity with class content. Likewise, increased communication by faculty with students about the values of general education can reduce the risk of students missing out on the democratizing values that stand to be gained through a general education curriculum. These findings have implications for the reenvisioning of how general education classes can be taught as well as how instructors might better appeal to student engagement with course material based on the transformative power of communication.
Book Reviews by Kaitlyn Haynal
Garssen, is a collection of 20 papers selected from contributions to the proceedings of the 8 th ... more Garssen, is a collection of 20 papers selected from contributions to the proceedings of the 8 th conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), held in Amsterdam in 2014. This collection is filtered into six dimensions of argumentation theory: general perspectives; analysis of argumentation; evaluation of argumentation; argument schemes; contextual embedding of argumentation; and linguistic approaches to argumentation. These six themes chosen for the collection appear to be distilled from the 18 themes featured in the ISSA conference, although the absence of editorial commentary on this organizational scheme leaves such speculation up to the reader. The different parts follow a natural order, beginning with ways to approach the process of argument theory as a whole, continuing with ways to work through the actual argument construction and ending with ways to put these theories into verbal practice.
Transdisciplinary collaboration offers great potential for meaningfully addressing complex proble... more Transdisciplinary collaboration offers great potential for meaningfully addressing complex problems related to climate change and social inequities. Communication shapes transdisciplinary collaboration in myriad ways, and interdisciplinary and rhetorical
approaches to communication can help identify these influences as well as strategies
to transform inequitable communication patterns. In this paper, we share results from
an engaged and ethnographic research project focused on strategic communication
in a large-scale transdisciplinary collaboration to develop environmental-DNA (eDNA)
science for coastal resilience. In this context, definitions of eDNA, perspectives about
communication, and constructions of audience and expertise shape the ways in which
collaborators co-produce knowledge across disciplines and with diverse partners.
Identifying relationships among strategic communication, knowledge co-production, and
power enables the development of strategic collaborative practices, including asking
questions as a means to identify and negotiate differences in definitions of eDNA
and using participatory methods and anti-oppressive data management platforms for
ethical praxis.
Following the July 22, 2011, Oslo bombing and shootings at the Utøya youth camp Norway became emb... more Following the July 22, 2011, Oslo bombing and shootings at the Utøya youth camp Norway became embroiled in a conflict over commemorative ethics. The memorial initially selected in an international contest, Memory Wound by Jonas Dahlgren, drew opposition from victims' families and local residents for its severe impact on the natural landscape. Plans for installation were cancelled in 2017. This controversy, we submit, must be contextualized in relation to the Norwegian justice system's handling of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator whose criminal proceedings were kept relatively secluded. We demonstrate how the design of Memory Wound and the suppression of Breivik's publicity reflect a symbolic logic traceable to a national imaginary of Norwegian exceptionalism. By interpretively aligning the use of negative space in Memory Wound with the muting of Breivik as a media event, we investigate the prescriptive force of symbols to inculcate world views. Specifically, we attend to the foreclosure of "prosthetic memory," which through media circulation allows people to engage with memory that is not primarily theirs. We acknowledge the possibility of empathy across difference that Landsberg ascribes to prosthetic memory; however, we insist that the circumstances under which solidarity might be rejected must be considered. With a dual case study, we offer a perspective on enduring assumptions about cultural identity and the rise of rightwing extremism in Northern Europe.
Environmental Communication, 2019
Sustainable development is rhetorically framed as exhibiting natural processes, reflected both sy... more Sustainable development is rhetorically framed as exhibiting natural processes, reflected both symbolically and materially. Taking the Frick Environmental Center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a rhetorical artifact, I argue that spaces where sustainable human-made structures and human-cultivated landscapes meet, reflect blurred borderlands of a culturally constructed urban/nature divide. Considering the Frick Environmental Center as an experiential landscape, my mixed methodology of textual analysis and rhetorical field work identifies how naturalized framing of sustainability bridges the urban/nature divide, inviting restoration, preservation, and construction efforts that are more environmentally engaged.
I'm honestly surprised that I learned anything at all from this class. It's a forced gen. ed. so ... more I'm honestly surprised that I learned anything at all from this class. It's a forced gen. ed. so I wasn't expecting to learn anything. " This response from one of my students on an end-of-class handout that asked, "What surprised you most about taking Public Speaking?" speaks to the problem of how students approach their required general education classes. Too often, students approach their general education courses as mere hurdles along the way to more important classes. If students are unable to grasp the value of their general education requirements, then no matter how noble the goals of the general ABSTRACT | This article examines the common communication practices of deliberation, discussion, delivery, and debate, for their democratizing potential through their greater inclusion in all general education classrooms. It argues that these tools are underutilized outside of communication classrooms but offer numerous benefits to teachers and students alike who participate in the general education process. Increasing communication opportunities for students in more classes can contribute to greater self-reflection, more positive engagement with and openness to difference, and higher connectivity with class content. Likewise, increased communication by faculty with students about the values of general education can reduce the risk of students missing out on the democratizing values that stand to be gained through a general education curriculum. These findings have implications for the reenvisioning of how general education classes can be taught as well as how instructors might better appeal to student engagement with course material based on the transformative power of communication.
Garssen, is a collection of 20 papers selected from contributions to the proceedings of the 8 th ... more Garssen, is a collection of 20 papers selected from contributions to the proceedings of the 8 th conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA), held in Amsterdam in 2014. This collection is filtered into six dimensions of argumentation theory: general perspectives; analysis of argumentation; evaluation of argumentation; argument schemes; contextual embedding of argumentation; and linguistic approaches to argumentation. These six themes chosen for the collection appear to be distilled from the 18 themes featured in the ISSA conference, although the absence of editorial commentary on this organizational scheme leaves such speculation up to the reader. The different parts follow a natural order, beginning with ways to approach the process of argument theory as a whole, continuing with ways to work through the actual argument construction and ending with ways to put these theories into verbal practice.