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Rhetoricians! I'm co-facilitating a virtual roundtable in conjunction with the ASHR symposium later this month on transitioning to a new job after grad studies. Regardless of if you're attending the ASHR symposium, you can come to the roundtable. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The number of y'all that do your NCA reviews at the literal last minute...

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

@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-...

This long post is worth reading as we reckon with AI generated writing in the classroom and beyond.

"There is 'a fundamental mismatch' between what AI can do and what citizens expect from government, she said." YES. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"When every learner is placed on their own “optimised” track, where is the shared experience of learning –– the chance to debate, to disagree, to collaborate, and to co-construct knowledge with peers?" www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Yes. This 100%.

This. 100%.

Hey #TeamRhetoric! I'm revising my syllabus for my undergrad course on digital rhetoric. Do you have any readings on circulation (broadly construed) that are accessible and informative? I want students to think about the importance and challenges of studying how rhetoric circulates.

Judge’s order to stop the dismantling of the Department of Ed is from a lawsuit filed by @aft.org Higher ed faculty….join your local @aaup.bsky.social who fights alongside @aft.org to protect education.

Worth a read. Not a lot in here will be surprising to rhetorical critics and others who have studied public memory, but I do love seeing these arguments make their way to the public. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Just wanted to take a second to personally thank folks who came to the #CARP5 conference. It was wonderful to be in community with you last weekend, and thanks for sharing your work! @carpresearch.bsky.social

Thanks, Florian! Panelists @hendrikmichael.bsky.social, Eric Shiraev, Holger Mölder, and @keohaneja.bsky.social discussed timeless tropes and new attacks on women in politics.

As a reminder, you can follow the conference livestream on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/TwKlBgm... #CARPV

We're welcoming scholars to George Mason's Arlington campus this week to talk about gender, power, and character assassination. See the conference schedule here: communication.gmu.edu/research-and...

I heard Fareed Zakaria talk about how American universities were the envy of the world back in 2008 at the Chicago Council. They definitely won't be after all this. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"The university will end the cafeteria’s pernicious diversity, equity, and inclusion program, otherwise known as 'Taco Tuesday.'" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cha...

I'm still very excited to welcome so many wonderful scholars to NoVa at the end of the month for @carpresearch.bsky.social's 5th biennial conference. schar.gmu.edu/news/2025-02...

1. I had no idea this was how the White House Press Pool worked. Fascinating. 2. This is an absolute travesty. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Just got my first email from an adjunct asking whether they are 'allowed' to teach something related to people of color working in the design field. Sigh.

I assigned Lucaites and Condit's essay on conceptions of the ideograph <equality> during the Civil Rights movement for ideology day in my rhetoric class. We sure have a lot more to discuss than I had in mind when I built this syllabus 6 weeks ago.

Mundane observation amidst the horrors: week 3 of the semester is a bit early for the 'emails I've pinned to the top of my inbox to deal with later' to completely obscure my view of my inbox.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

I am stoked that this book is in production now! (And I'm even stoked-er that my essay on mapping statue removal is the first chapter after the intro! For real, though, I'm really proud of this essay.) www.routledge.com/Platforming-...

I taught my first rhetoric class tonight where students read a Karlyn Kohrs Campbell article since her passing. It hit me in the gut pretty strongly.