November 2022
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Quarterly Journal of Speech
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November 2022
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Quarterly Journal of Speech
January 2022
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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted relationships between hegemonic sensory perceptions and disease epistemologies. The affective pedagogies of the COVID-19 sensorium signal vectors and victims of disease through racialized, classed, and gendered assemblages of sensory presence and absence. Present sounds of weaponized coughing suture white consumerist entitlement to violate public health imperatives. The coughs in the film Corona critique the rise of anti-Asian violence and demonstrate how sound is intelligible through available stereotypes and circulating xenophobic rhetoric. Amid asymptomatic spread, appeals to “Typhoid Mary” Mallon—the first named asymptomatic typhoid carrier–re-emerged as another xenophobic sensory pedagogy to signify threatening absent symptoms.
October 2021
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Quarterly Journal of Speech
As the 2020 election campaign unfolded within a sanitary rhetorical ecology of COVID-19, so too did Joe Biden’s grief practices. This essay examines two of Biden’s campaign moments where he recognized 100,000 and 200,000 U.S. deaths from COVID-19. While Biden’s aggregate marking of those lost during the pandemic was a necessary rhetorical endeavor in the face of Donald Trump’s systematic COVID-19 denial, his speech homogenized ethnic, cultural, and racialized experiences of grief. Doing so sanitized the larger context of health inequities that persist in the United States and elided the ways that COVID-19 grief was compounded by the extant public health crisis of anti-Black police brutality. This essay encourages critics of campaign eulogy to attend to the emotional-viral-load of racialized grief during moments of national crisis.
May 2021
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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
July 2019
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Women's Studies in Communication
Building an archive of avowed public engagements with anger in the #MeToo movement, this article lends conceptual specificity to understanding anger regulation through the rhetorical vocabulary of volume. Volume illuminates how anger is rhetorically rendered available for some to mobilize around while simultaneously limiting the emotional expression—and thus the political potential—of others. Specifically, volume illuminates how anger waxes and wanes through public life along raced, gendered, and classed lines that too often elevate the righteous expression of privileged anger while ignoring or silencing the anger of those most marginalized. Two forms of volume regulate public anger: the amplification and diminishment of affective intensity or sound and the aggregation and dispersion of bodies, interests, and collective energies. Volume invites critics to assess how different angers circulate under the heading of a social movement to determine how they can suture collective norms of emotional expression.
July 2019
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Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
April 2018
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The Communication Review
December 2017
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This investigation into the cultural dynamics of gendered, aging bodies attends to a mediated representation of what contemporary biomedicine defines as pregnancy in “advanced maternal age” (AMA). We offer a feminist rhetorical analysis of an episode of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting entitled “A Duggar Loss,” where 45-year-old matriarch Michelle Duggar experiences pregnancy loss. In the episode, age is reconfigured in discussions of AMA pregnancy through a metonymic substitution and slippage of risk discourses, pre-natal self-care, and technological interaction. Moreover, “A Duggar Loss” mobilizes strategies of expansive affiliation around and through reproductive choice, which appears to align with feminist principles of reproductive autonomy despite the family’s ties to the Quiverfull Movement. This work contributes to feminist studies of aging bodies by suggesting that representations of advanced maternal age pregnancy remain a central, yet undertheorized subject in formulating powerful trans-ideological affiliations that can undermine progressive reproductive politics.
June 2016
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Despite repeated acclaim within the television industry, feminist media scholars have argued that TLC’s long-running program, A Baby Story, disciplines women into selecting obstetrical intervention by offering a standard episodic structure for understanding a complex birth experience. This article thickens this line of inquiry by arguing that TLC uses a narrow, but decipherable, range of temporalities to leverage biomedicine’s claim to childbirth. Drawing on the rhetorical concepts of chronos as narrative duration-time and kairos as interruptive moments of possibility, I argue that episodes are structured by a chronic articulation of “family completion” and “hospital biomedical duration” that conditions women to expect a kairotic interruption of selected birth plans. I conclude with implications for studying birth temporalities and rhetorically crafting women-centered birth narratives.
May 2016
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Poroi
This manifesto presents positions arrived at after a day-long symposium on agency in science communication at the National Communication Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, November 18, 2015. During morning sessions, participants in the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine preconference presented individual research on agency in response to a call to articulate key problems that must be solved in the next five years to better understand and support rhetorical agency in massively automated and mediated science communication situations in a world-risk context. In the afternoon, participants convened in discussion groups around four topoi that emerged from the morning’s presentations: automation, biopolitics, publics, and risk. Groups were tasked with answering three questions about their assigned topos: What are the critical controversies surrounding it? What are its pivotal rhetorical and technical terms? And what scholarly questions must be addressed in the next five years to yield a just and effective discourse in this area? Groups also assembled capsule bibliographies of sources core to their topos. At the end of the afternoon, Carolyn R. Miller presented a reply to the groups’ work; that reply serves as the headnote to this manifesto.
... In response to the current overturning of Roe v. Wade, Emily Winderman and Atilla Hallsby illustrated how the Dobbs decision elevated women as "the centralizing term for post-Roe coalitional identifications," which excluded abortion's significance to genderfluid, nonbinary, and transgender individuals, thus limiting abortion coalitions and the presence of non-cisgender voices and experiences. 5 As we found in our earlier scholarship, what is most concerning is "the lack of explicit mention of how abortion restrictions affect women of color, poor women, women in rural areas, and other women who might not have immediate access to health care organizations and Planned Parenthood facilities that provide abortions." 6 Ultimately, the history of news coverage of abortion rights did indeed repeat itself decades later, particularly with (1) "the permeation of rhetorical terms and party ideologies pertaining to choice, women's rights, abortion as murder, and the divinity of life and the unborn child," and (2) the erasure of reproductive justice perspectives and efforts to contribute to a more holistically accurate perspective on reproductive experiences and advocacy. ...
November 2022
Quarterly Journal of Speech
... In sum, our study will contribute to solving the existing problem of rhythmic gymnastics resources. More specifically, the algorithm solves the problem of too high resource dimension and reduces the resource classification time and improves the classification accuracy ( [15], p121). In addition, this study establishes a personalized rhythmic gymnastics for health promotion teaching resource database through cloud computing technology, records, arranges, and analyzes the teaching resources, provides personalized services for users, and provides technical support for the classification of teaching resources. ...
October 2021
Quarterly Journal of Speech
... Alongside Julia's, I review several other public ostomy stories that have been accused of spreading stigma. I argue that one thing these stories share is the way they draw on experiences with leaks and disability to stage the ostomy as a worst-case scenario or last resort and, in so doing, precipitate a visceral public audience (Johnson, 2016;Winderman et al., 2019) and propagate stigma. Moreover, this chapter extends current RHM theorization of stigma by showing how stigma can actually enhance rhetorical credibility when stories and experiences align with pre-existing stigma. ...
July 2019
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
... It can be observed in the media, on stage, and in reality that anger is one of the most societal feelings [24]. Angry expressions can be exchanged between people resulting in providing drama and stimulating critical view and creativeness [25]. Concerning movement, the physical acts and gestures are the tools of theatric actors to depict anger, like walking out of a door or coming in through a door [26] Through characters' actions and motility, symbolism also can function as a medium for performing anger. ...
July 2019
Women's Studies in Communication
... While all of the articles and chapters took televised childbirth as a central concern, topics of interest within this varied. For some it was about the visual or narrative of the television shows (Winderman 2017), for others it is a vehicle for exploring theoretical issues around, for example abjection (Tyler et al. 2013), affect (Horeck 2016); or interactional practices (Jackson et al. 2017). For some researchers, the ways in which television reflects or reinforces social norms around birth and motherhood is at issue (O'Brien Hill 2014;Sears et al. 2011;Morris et al. 2010;Verena Siebert 2012;Feasey 2012), still others focus on how women make sense of televised birth (De Benedictis 2016; Bessett et al. 2018;Hall 2013). ...
June 2016
... 36 Thus, because deliberative democracy necessarily entails public engagement by citizens "paying attention to-and talking about-their passions," 37 it is fitting that expressions of emotion found in historical newspapers have been studied, in part, for their capacity to signal budding social unrest, 38 forge emotional communities, 39 and (re)define collective standards of morality. 40 This study's examination of letters published in the Smasher's Mail builds on this research by illuminating how citizens' powerful feelings shaped the public discourse surrounding the 1901 smashing controversy at the midway point between the start of Kansas prohibition in 1880 and ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919. ...
October 2014
Rhetoric and Public Affairs
... Perhaps the clearest demonstration of this shift towards evidence with underlying moral tension is the mid-2000s battle over "partial birth abortion," or abortions performed in the second or third trimester after the point of viability. Ziegler (2020) notes that antiabortion political imaginations animated by disgust, such as rhetoric describing the closure of Kermit Gosnell's clinic in visceral terms to foster outrage and moral indignation (Winderman & Condit, 2015), may have structured the political beliefs of some segments of the population. However, those imaginations receded due to Congressional testimony on the medical merits of specific procedures. ...
October 2015
Communication Quarterly
... A rhetorical framework has been discussed in the PUS-context (Condit et al., 2012;Gross, 1994) and can be usefully applied to discuss how the perceived expertise of an institution forms part of its trustworthiness, which in turn can strengthen trust (e.g. McCroskey and Young, 1981;Mihelj et al., 2022). ...
May 2012
Public Understanding of Science