Status
Faculty
School
School of Economics and Business Administration
Department
Marketing
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Publication / Conference / Sponsorship
Poroi
Description/Abstract
This manifesto presents positions arrived at after a day-long symposium on agency in science communication at the National Communication Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, November 18, 2015. During morning sessions, participants in the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine preconference presented individual research on agency in response to a call to articulate key problems that must be solved in the next five years to better understand and support rhetorical agency in massively automated and mediated science communication situations in a world-risk context. In the afternoon, participants convened in discussion groups around four topoi that emerged from the morning’s presentations: automation, biopolitics, publics, and risk. Groups were tasked with answering three questions about their assigned topos: What are the critical controversies surrounding it? What are its pivotal rhetorical and technical terms? And what scholarly questions must be addressed in the next five years to yield a just and effective discourse in this area? Groups also assembled capsule bibliographies of sources core to their topos. At the end of the afternoon, Carolyn R. Miller presented a reply to the groups’ work; that reply serves as the headnote to this manifesto.
Keywords
rhetorical agency, rhetoric of science, science communication, automation, biopolitics, publics theory, risk
Scholarly
yes
Peer Reviewed
1
DOI
10.13008/2151-2957.1246
Volume
12
Issue
1
Disciplines
Business | Economics | Marketing
Rights
Open Access journal
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Original Citation
Tucker, B. (Contributing author). (2016). In Walsh, L., The Great Chain of Being: Manifesto on the Problem of Agency in Science Communication. Poroi, 12(1), 2. doi: 10.13008/2151-2957.1246
Repository Citation
Miller, Carolyn R.; Walsh, Lynda; Wynn, James; Kelly, Ashley Rose; Walker, Kenneth C.; White, William J.; Winderman, Emily; and Tucker, Bonnie. The Great Chain of Being: Manifesto on the Problem of Agency in Science Communication (2016). Poroi. 12 (1), 10.13008/2151-2957.1246 [article]. https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/school-economics-business-faculty-works/343
