ARST

Preconference!

 

ARST 2011: “Communication: Energy, Inquiry, and Risk”

Pre-Conference Schedule

 

9:00-9:15a Introduction to ARST and David Depew/POROI

9:15a-12:15p Panels

12:15-1:30p Lunch

1:30-3:00p Panels

3:00-3:30  Discussion with David Depew, of POROI

3:30-? POROI Workshop

 

9:15-10:00a

Panel 1~ Communicating “Climategate”: Catastrophe and Strategic Public Relations
Banning, Marlia. “Uncertain Beings, Data and Energia in the Case of Climategate,” University of  Colorado, Boulder  (Marlia.Banning@Colorado.edu)

 

Bean, Hamilton. “Hitting the Panic Button: Public Warning and Catastrophic Events, ” University of Colorado, Denver (hamilton.bean@ucdenver.edu)

 

Kice, Brent. “BP’s Communication Reversal: Kiddies to Catastrophe,” Frostburg State University (bkice@frostburg.edu)

 

10:00-10:45a

Panel 2~ In Deep Water: Communicating the BP Crisis and its Aftermath to Public(s)

Grey, Stephanie Houston. “Hedging Toward Disaster:  Rhetorics of Risk, Mitigation, Normalcy and  Necessity,” Louisiana State University (shgphd1@yahoo.com)

 

Choi, Jingboi. “Crisis Communication through Twitter: An Analysis of BP’s Response to the Deepwater  Horizon Disaster,” Texas State University-San Marcos (jc87@txstate.edu)

 

Hall, Z. “The Rhetoric of Energy Beneath the Sea: Food Safety and the Gulf Oil Spill,” Independent Scholar  (zhall3@gmail.com)

 

10:45-11:30a

Panel 3~ The New Media Machine and Managing Risk Perception about the Environment

Clanaugh, David. “Critiquing Media Discourse about Reactive Sulfide Mining in the Upper Great Lakes  Region: Rhetorics of Environmental Risk and Economic Advantage,” Michigan Technological  University (daclanau@mtu.edu)

 

Gibbons, Michelle/Pfister, Damien. “Between Institutions and the Mass Media: Networked Media as a Third
Site of Risk Communication,” Gibbons: Georgia Institute of Technology
(mggibbons@gmail)  & Pfister: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(dpfister2@unl.edu)

 

Bartesaghi, Marielena. “Risk as Social Interaction: Revisiting Hurricane Katrina,” Communication
 University of South Florida
(mbartesaghi@usf.edu)

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:30-12:15p

Panel 4~ Analyzing the Discipline: Interventions in Rhetoric of Science and Communication

Graham, S. Scott. “Rhetoric of Science and Interdisciplinarity: A Citation Analysis,” Iowa State University,  (grahamss@iastate.edu)

 

Johnson, Nathan. “Inverting Infrastructural Rhetorics,” University of Wisconsin, Madison (njohnson4@wisc.edu)

 

Gibson, Steven. “Evolutionary Software Development to Reduce Risk,” California State University,  Northridge (steven.gibson.737@my.csun.edu)

 

Lunch Break: 12:15-1:30p

 

1:30-2:15p

Panel 5~ The Rhetoric of Everyday Politics: Plastics, X-Rays, Highways, and Carbon Credits

Sheffield, Jessica. “Re-cycling and Redistributing Energies: Garbloggers’ Environmental Discourses,”

 University of South Carolina – Extended University (jessica@farskies.com)

 

Majdik, Zoltan. “Fight or Flight: X-Ray Backscatter Scanning and the Question of Expertise,” North Dakota State University (zoltan.majdik@ndsu.edu)

 

Mehta, Aalok. “Precaution Ascendant: Implications of Precautionary Rhetoric on Public
Understanding of  Science at the Local and National Scales,” Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

 (aalokmeh@usc.edu)

 

Pierce, Tess. “Taking a rhetorical risk: How the framing of ‘carbon credits’ and ‘carbon commodification’ contributed to a Liberal party loss in 2008 national elections in Canada,” University of Ontario  Institute of Technology (tess@etresoft.com)

 

2:15-3:00p

Panel 6~ Seeking the Productive Energy in Public Debates over Science and Religion

Von Burg, Ron. Christopher Newport University (ron.vonburg@cnu.edu)

Lundberg, Christian. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (clundber@email.unc.edu)

Rhodes, Joe. Louisiana State University (joerhodes@tigers.lsu.edu)

Steiner, Mark. Christopher Newport University (mark.steiner@cnu.edu)

Lyne, John. University of Pittsburgh (jlyne@pitt.edu)

 

3:00-3:30p

Discussion with David Depew, University of Iowa, “The Rhetoric of Theodosius Dobzhansky:  Riffing on Cecarrelli’s Shaping Science With Rhetoric

 

3:30- ?

POROI Workshop

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