The Big Rhetorical Podcast

This episode of The Project Uncensored Show titled, "Crisis, Culture, and Civility: Critical Media Literacy Education and Election 2024," was produced as part of the 2024 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Politics/Rhetorics: Navigating Crisis, Culture, and Civility," with new podcasts released each day from October 28-31, 2024. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

This episode of 10-Minute Tech Comm was produced as part of the 2024 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Politics/Rhetorics: Navigating Crisis, Culture, and Civility." The 2024 TBR Podcast Carnival occurs October 28-31, 2024, with new podcasts released each day. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Episode 166 features the Call for the 2024 TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Award. Nominations are due October 22, 2024. The full call is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LA-9se9EBNNzyfPEpMpJBL0N7F0oR1x6lrK4R_Ze_Iw/edit. Follow TBR Podcast on social media @thebigrhet and visa thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Episode 165 features the CFP for the 2024 TBR Podcast Carnival, "Politics/Rhetorics: Navigating Crisis, Culture, & Civility," which occurs October 28-31, 2024. The full CFP is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S27-Zg5u5z87I2Eyl7gP4nTxrtLRnTTusQ9wllezot8/edit. Follow TBR Podcast on social media @thebigrhet and visa thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com.

Keywords: Dr. Technical Communication, Design, Editor, Publishing, International Scholarship. Jason Tham is an associate professor and assistant chair of the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He is working on projects related design thinking, emerging technologies, collaboration studies, and technical communication pedagogy. He is the incoming editor of  Computers and Composition . E...

Keywords: Rhetorical Theory, Rhetoric of Film, History of Rhetoric, Writing Program Administration, Michigan. Dr. Ben Wetherbee is Assistant Professor of English and incoming Director of Composition at Northern Michigan University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetoric, writing, composition theory, and literature. His research on rhetorical theory and history, rhetorics o...

Keywords: Mentoring, Research Methodologies, Teaching Writing, Writing Studies, Public Writing. Leigh Gruwell is associate professor of English at Auburn University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and rhetoric. Charles N. Lesh is associate professor of English at Auburn University, where he regularly researches and teaches community and public writing, subculture,...

Keywords: Computers & Writing Conference, Fort Worth, Rhetoric and Composition, Academic Conferences, Karaoke. Episode 161 of TBR Podcast features sounds and soundscapes from the Computers and Writing Conference at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, from June 21-23, 2024. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and @thebigrhet across social media platforms.

Keywords: Editing, Publishing, Composition Studies, Collaboration, Writing. Jacob Babb is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of Rhetoric and Technical Writing at Appalachian State University. Zachary C. Beare is an associate professor of English, the Director of First-Year Writing, and a Core Faculty Member of the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Program at North Carolina State Univ...

Keywords: Queer Rhetorics, Archival Research, Techné, Computing, Digital Storytelling. Patricia Fancher has a PhD in Rhetoric and studies rhetorical theory, feminist and queer rhetoric and digital media. She teaches Writing and Gender Studies, Digital Storytelling, Rhetoric, among other courses. Her research has been published in Peitho, Composition Studies, Rhetoric Review, Present Tense, Compute...

Keywords: Rhetoric Society of America, Denver, Rhetoric, Academic Conferences, Interviews. Episode 158 of TBR Podcast features interviews and soundscapes from the Rhetoric Society of America Conference in Denver, Colorado, from May 23-26, 2024. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and @thebigrhet across social media platforms.

Keywords: Memoir, Disability Studies, Writing Pedagogy, Non-Fiction, Non-Tenure Track. Dr. Jessie Male is a nonfiction writer and teacher-scholar with specializations in Disability Studies and Memoir. She is currently the Postdoctoral Associate in Disability Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches, develops programs to support disabled studies and faculty, and curates a speaker...

Keywords: Feminism, Technical Communication, Intersectionality, Deepwater Horizon, Methods and Methodologies. Dr. Erin A. Clark (previously Erin A. Frost) is a technical communication specialist and associate professor at East Carolina University. She serves as Coordinator for East Carolina’s PhD program in Rhetoric, Writing and Professional Communication and she is affiliate faculty in rhetoric a...

Keywords: Police Corruption, Alabama, Local Reporting, Pulitzer Prize, Baltimore. Ramsey Archibald is a data reporter originally from Alabama. He worked at AL.com for nearly a decade, where he was part of a team that won multiple awards in 2023, including the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. He now works for the Baltimore Banner, a non-profit news organization. He loves sports, including footba...

Keywords: Creative Writing, Writing Program Administration, Twins, Plastic Surgery Cruises, Parenting. Dr. Lindsey Harding directs the Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia, where she earned her PhD in English in 2015. Her debut novel  Pilgrims 2.0  was published by Acre Books in 2023. Her recent flash fiction and stories have appeared in  Palisades Review ,  Lost Balloon ,  CRAFT...

Keywords: Digital Writing, Digital Publishing, Digital Rhetorics, Internships, Podcasting. Selena Loureiro is a fourth-year undergraduate student focusing on digital writing and publishing at York University in Toronto, Canada. Selena served as a The Big Rhetorical Podcast Intern in Spring 2024. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and @thebigrhet across social media platf...

Keywords: Digital Publishing, Digital Rhetorics, Feminist Rhetorics, Pedagogy, Digital Authoring. Dr Brandee Easter is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Department at York University. Her research and teaching focus on digital rhetoric, feminist rhetoric, and software studies, and her work has appeared in Rhetoric Review and Feminist Media Studies. In 2020, she received the Rhetoric Society of...

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Writing Studies, ChatGPT, Writing Pedagogy, Genre Theory. Season 10 Premiere. Emerging Scholar Series .Anuj Gupta is a doctoral candidate in the Rhetoric Composition program in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. In the past, he has helped build one of India’s first college level writing programs at Ashoka University as a WPA. A winner of Kair...

Keywords: infrastructure; mobile technologies; science, technology, and society; cultural history, internet of things. Dr. Jordan Frith (he/him) is the Pearce Professor of Professional Communication at Clemson University. His primary research focuses on technical communication, mobile communication, social media, and communication infrastructures. His work is inherently interdisciplinary, and he h...

Keywords: institutional ethnography, linguistic justice, community colleges, social theories of writing, literacy. Dominique Zino and Maria Jerskey are professors at Laguardia Community College. Dominique teaches the full range of courses in the English Department’s composition sequence and teaches regularly in interdisciplinary learning communities for first-year students. Her scholarship focuses...

Keywords: Foucault, surveillance, media genealogy, power, circuits and circuitry. The Prison House of the Circuit  presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media. The authors, writing as a collective, pro...

Keywords: Indigenous methodologies, anti-colonial rhetorics, migration, cultural studies, settler colonialism. Dr. Michael Lechuga is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico. He researches and teaches Rhetoric, Migration, Settler Colonial Studies, and Cultural Studies. He explores how migrants from Mexico and Central America are subjec...

Keywords: writing, first-year writing, artificial intelligence, teacher training, Jeopardy. Holly Hassel is director of composition at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests focus on the teaching of college writing, writing assessment, writing program administration, two-year college writing studies, and feminist pedagogy. Her research and scholarship have appeared in many edite...

Keywords: deliberative rhetoric, invention, religious rhetorics, archival methods, Texas. Dr. T J Geiger II is an assistant professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Faithful Deliberation: Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings. A feminist scholar of religious rhetorics and deliberative discours...

Keywords: assessment, undergraduate research, intersectionality, student-centered, education. Jennifer Burke Reifman, Loren Torres, and Mike Penarroyo are researchers in the UC Davis Student Assessment Researchers (StARs) program. The Student Assessment Researchers (StARs) program believes that student voices should be included in conversations about assessment of student learning at UC Davis. Und...