Names: Josephson, Sheree, editor.| Kelly, James D., 1957–editor.| Smith, Ken, 1947 August
14–editor. Title: Handbook of visual communication: theory, methods, and media/edited by …

Conflict over moral, religious, social, political, and economic values fuel social movements.
People form organized collectivities to promote or to oppose changes in societal norms and …

This chapter explores how visitors experience the symbolic and material dimensions of
spaces such as museums. In traveling to Cody and to the Plains Indian Museum (PIM), then …

FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT in the early twenty-first century, rhetorical criticism of the
1970s and 1980s must appear now to have been rather staid, uniform, and predictable …

The authors offer a reading of the Civil Rights Memorial (Maya Lin, Montgomery, Alabama,
1989) as a set of rhetorical performances that reproduce the tactical dimensions of Civil …

Few places tell the myth of the American frontier more vigorously than the Buffalo Bill
Museum does in Cody, Wyoming. Traveling to the museum through the 'Western'landscape …

In this essay, I explore the materiality of rhetoric through a close analysis of one Starbucks
coffee shop. Starbucks' rhetoric works to suture individual bodies and subjectivities into a …

The region between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, is known to some as
“Cancer Alley.” Environmental justice activists provide “toxic tours” through this area to …

Scholarly inquiry into collective memory has fostered a host of innovative questions,
perspectives, and interpretations about how individuals and communities are both …

What does the popularity of the Creation Museum tell us about the appeal of the Christian
right? On May 28, 2007, the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky. Aimed at …