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gender

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 20, 2013 - 9:58am

I can't begin to do this topic justice. Sociological Images tells the full story:
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/03/19/this-is-rape-culture-res...

"Yesterday two juvenile men were convicted of rape, one was convicted of distributing a nude photo of a minor (NPR). The response by a segment of society reflects rape culture: ”an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture” (source). Below are a series of concrete examples. Trigger warning for rape apologists and victim blaming."

Obsolete Media

media

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 19, 2013 - 7:44am

I am working with a local historical site, and of the puzzlers they have in front of them is movies shot on 17.5mm, which was basically 35mm repurposed during WWII shortages.

1. Anyone know how to read this antique?
2. I'm staring at a box with a ZIP drive in it as a write this and wondering: what other media are obsolete or falling that way, fast? And how will that trouble work in rhetoric?

Argumentation

journal toc

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 18, 2013 - 4:33pm

Argumentation Volume 27 Number 1 is now available on http://link.springer.com/journal/10503/27/1/page/1

CFP: "Acts of Scholarship are Acts of Friendship" -- A Special Issue of Argumentation & Advocacy on the Works of Jim Aune

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 15, 2013 - 8:25am

CFP: "Acts of Scholarship are Acts of Friendship" -- A Special Issue of Argumentation & Advocacy on the Works of Jim Aune

"Across the Divide: On Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Information Science and Communication"

libraries

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 14, 2013 - 11:17pm

"Across the Divide: On Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Information Science and Communication" will be the topic of the eighth annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science on March 25, 2013.

While you are at the 4Cs: Rhetoric’s Histories: Traditions, Theories, Pedagogies, and Practices

CCCC

Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 14, 2013 - 8:29am

PLEASE ATTEND:
Rhetoric’s Histories: Traditions, Theories, Pedagogies, and Practices
A Special Interest Group Sponsored by the Rhetoric Society of America
TSIG.13
Thursday March 14, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Riviera Hotel, Capri 116, First Floor

I. Introductions

II. Speakers
• William Keith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Since 1914: Rhetorical History and Pedagogy between the Disciplines
• Roxanne Mountford, University of Kentucky
Since 1914: Rhetorical History and Pedagogy between the Disciplines

III. Planning Conversation
Goals of the Special Interest Group (SIG)

William James and the Art of Popular Statement