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ARST Sessions
National Communication Association Convention
Chicago, IL November 11-15, 2009
WEDNESDAY 11/11
ARST Pre-Conference
New Technologies: Risks, Responsibilities, and Rhetoric
Wed, Nov 11 - 9:00am - 5:00pm
Palmer House Hilton, Wilson Room
Organizer: Roy Schwatrzman
9:00-9:15
Conference Sign-in, Registration and Welcome
Roy Schwartzman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Panel 1/ 9:15-10:15
Reconsidering Expertise and Stakeholder Interests
“Because I Said So”: Mother as the New Voice of Scientific Expertise
Rachel Avon Whidden and Jessica Kuchinski, Lake Forest College
Ethical Perspectives on Emerging Assistive Technologies: Insights from Focus Groups with Stakeholders in Long Term Care Facilities
Aimee-Marie Dorsten, Wilson College
Unfiltered Understanding
Karen Taylor, Kara Hoover, and Charu Uppal, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Panel 2/ 10:30-11:30
Imagery and Imag[in]ation: Seeing Through Technology
From Dis-ease to Disease: Ontological Rarefaction in the Medical-Industrial Complex
Scott Graham, Iowa State University
Digital Alchemy: Matter and Metamorphosis in Contemporary Animation and Interface Design
Michelle R. Silva, Saginaw Valley State University
Reading the Mind’s Open Book: Brain Imaging and the Mediated Sign
John Lyne and Michelle Gibbons, University of Pittsburgh
LUNCH 11:45-1:00
Panel 3/ 1:15-2:30
Enabling, Intrusive, and Invasive Technologies
Giving Food Value(s): The Calorimeter as Rhetorical Technology
Jessica Mudry, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
We Know Where You Are: How Developers Shape the Perception of Location Awareness
Jordan Frith, North Carolina State University
Flashing Your Phone: The Practice of Sexting and the Remediation of Teen Sexuality
Hugh Curnutt, Montclair State University
Inspecting Deep Packet Inspection: Legislative Data-Mining
Ian Hill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Panel 4/ 2:45-3:45
Public Understanding and Engagement with New or Risky Technologies
Twenty Years of Nanotechnology on Television News: Does Anyone Know What It Is?
Mary L. Nucci, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Ivory Bridges or Paper Planes? Nanotechnology and Citizen Outreach
Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines
A Canadian Utopia? How Structured Dialectical Discourse in Risk Communication Eased Tension over Liquefied Natural Gas Port Siting Conflicts in Québec
Susan L. Berube, University of Pennsylvania
Panel 5/ 4:00-4:45
Spotlight on Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Grants
Two prominent researchers will share insights regarding the role rhetoricians can play in interdisciplinary projects. They will share experiences from extensive collaborative partnerships with scientists and social scientists in various fields. Discussion includes ways that rhetorical scholars can contribute to NSF, NIH, and other funded research.
Discussants:
David M. Berube, North Carolina State University
Celeste M. Condit, University of Georgia
6:30 Dinner at location TBA
THURSDAY 11/12
NATCOM Sessions
Making Things Happen: Understanding and Facilitating Sustainable Technological Development
Session Submission type: Paper Session
Time: Thu, Nov 12 - 8:00am - 9:15am
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 5
Chair: Carl Herndl (Iowa State University)
The Rhetoric of Ethanol Technology and Sustainable Agriculture in Small Town Iowa
Gregory Wilson (Iowa State University)
Evaluating Biofuel Technology and Managing Uncertainty: The Rhetorical Forms that Diverse Expertise Takes in Technology Assessment and Policy Discussions
Carl Herndl (Iowa State University)
Making Things and Doing Rhetoric: Describing and Supporting Rhetorical Agency in Complex Decision Making Processes
Jeff Grabil (Michigan State University)
Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology Business Meeting Unit: American Association for Rhetoric of Science and Technology
Time: Thu, Nov 12 - 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Kimball Room
Top Student Papers in the Rhetoric of Science
Session Submission type: Paper Session
Time: Thu, Nov 12 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 6
Chair: Gregory Wilson (Iowa State University)
Respondent: Joan Leach (Univ of Queensland)
Incommensurability and Genocide: Holocaust Historiography and the Rhetoric of Science
Mark Ward Sr. (Clemson University)
My mobile maneuver: Technology, the rhetorical maneuver, and kairotic subjectification (download)
Daniel M. Sutko (North Carolina State University)
Posthuman Practice in Margaret Atwood’s Novel, Oryx and Crake
Rachel Wolford (Iowa State University)
Synthetic or Sin-thetic Biology? Rhetoric, Religion, and Emerging Technologies
Jason Kalin (North Carolina State University)
FRIDAY 11/13
Rhetorical Studies of Scientific and Technical Discourse: The Making of Knowledge in Public, Professional and International Spheres
Session Submission type: Paper Session
Time: Fri, Nov 13 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 5
Chair: Matthew Brigham (Univ of Pittsburgh)
Respondent: Kevin Cummings (Mercer University)
A Discipline and Its Constituents: Shaping Scholarship through Administrative Publics
Nathan Riley Johnson (University of Washington)
Between Science and the Social: Celebrating Science and Undermining Race in the Science Museum
Greg Schneider (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Public Framing(s) of Biomedicine: Human Dignity, Rhetoric, and Social Knowledge
John Rief (Univ of Pittsburgh)
The Rhetoric of Biology and Psychology
Session Submission type: Paper Session
Time: Fri, Nov 13 - 5:00pm - 6:15pm
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 5
Chair: Erin Wais-Hennen (Lindsey Wilson College)
Conceptual Metaphors Constitute Molecular Biology: Schrodinger's 'What Is Life' as Metaphoric Transcendence
Donald Jones (Tri State Univ)
Looking for Legitimacy: Deficiencies of Justification in Direct-to-Consumer Genetics
Zoltan Majdik (North Dakota State University)
One Conflict, Two Stories: Practitioners’ and Scientists’ Incommensurable Narratives about APA’s History
Zachary Curtis Rash (North Carolina State University)
Strategic Ambiguity in Darwin’s Origin of Species
Thomas Wright (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
SATURDAY 11/14
Bodily Matters/ Bodies Matter: Unsettling Questions on the Discourse(s) on Health and Medicine
Session Submission type: Paper Session
Time: Sat, Nov 14 - 9:30am - 10:45am
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 7
Chair: Jennifer Schneider (Colorado School of Mines)
Muscles, Movements, and Emotions: Moving Discourses/Static Genres
Sara Newman (Kent State University)
A Decorous Proposal: Etiquette-based Medicine
Joan Leach (Univ of Queensland)
An Embodied Rhetoric of Mental Illness in Victorian England: Narrative Representations of Degeneracy in the Case History of a Patient at Ticehurst Asylum
Carol Berkenkotter (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
A Looming Question: Will All Medicine be Biomedicine?
Erin Wais-Hennen (Lindsey Wilson College)
Empowerment, Engagement and Guardianship: Examining Influential Societal Rhetoric about Technology
Session Submission type: Paper Session
Time: Sat, Nov 14 - 11:00am - 12:15pm
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 7
Chair: Lindsey Harness (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
The Scrapbook of My Life: Analyzing the Rhetoric of Camera Technology
Lindsey Harness (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
The E Generation: An Examination of How Coordinated Internet Technologies are Reshaping Political Engagement
Malynnda Ann Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Tele-what? A Rhetorical Analysis of Success vs. Failure in Telemedicine
Kelly Tenzek (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Verizon Wireless Chaperone Service: Discourses of Parenting in the Digital Age
Katie LaPlant Turkiewicz (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Establishing the Rhetorical Meaning of the Art World's New Houseguest: Interactivity
Tyler Buckley (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Five Years Out: The Rhetoric of Science and Technology Looks to its Past and Future
Session Submission type: Panel Discussion
Time: Sat, Nov 14 - 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 5
Chair: Gregory Wilson (Iowa State University)
Presenter: Carolyn Miller (North Carolina State University)
Presenter: William Keith (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Presenter: Lisa Keranen (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Presenter: Carl Herndl (Iowa State University)
Presenter: Leah Ceccarelli (University of Washington)
Presenter: John Lyne (Univ of Pittsburgh)
Presenter: Randy Allen Harris (University of Waterloo)
Presenter: Erin Wais-Hennen (Lindsey Wilson College)
What is "Scientific Consensus"? Three Views of the 4th IPCC Report
Session Submission type: Panel Discussion
Time: Sat, Nov 14 - 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 10
Chair: William Keith (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Presenter: William Rehg (St. Louis University)
Presenter: Jean Goodwin (Iowa State University)
Presenter: Leah Ceccarelli (University of Washington)
SUNDAY 11/15
Technology: Frameworks, Metaphors, Poetry, and Translations
Session Submission type: Paper Session
Time: Sun, Nov 15 - 9:30am - 10:45am
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: Karen Taylor (Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks)
A Framework for the Rhetorical Examination of Digital Technologies Over Time
Jacob A. Dickerson (North Carolina State University)
Autism and War: A New Articulation of an Old Metaphor (download)
Denise Jodlowski (Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Critical Servant as Boundary Crosser: How Al Gore's Rhetoric Serves to Integrate the Technical and Public Spheres
Lauren Archer (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Deconstructing the Theoria/Techne-praxis Distinction in Donne's 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' (download)
Paige Elysha Nelson (University of Iowa)
The Public and Scary Science: Biotechnology to Synthetic Biology
Session Submission type: Panel Discussion
Time: Sun, Nov 15 - 11:00am - 12:15pm
Place: Palmer House Hilton, Salon 1
Chair: David Berube (North Carolina State University)
Presenter: David Berube (North Carolina State University)
Presenter: Christopher Louis Cummings (North Carolina State University)
Presenter: Pat Gehrke (University of South Carolina)
Presenter: Jason Kalin (North Carolina State University)
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