Using a multi-methodological approach, we analyze member comments in Watts Up With
That (WUWT), a climate skeptical Facebook group. Quantitative topic modeling revealed that …

This dialogue is focused on community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships
that can shape public health research in RHM and health communication. The dialogue is …

This article examines the rhetorical productivity of ambiguity in the context of a loosely-
defined mood disorder formally known as dysthymia, referred to colloquially as mild …

This article presents a pilot study in agentive modeling, a mixed-methods approach for
visualizing networked models of agency. The study assesses technical and public seismic …

Trauma is pervasive in military culture; twenty years of war has led many in my community to
face a breakdown in identity, agency, meaning and integrity. Cases of military sexual …

Surrogacy as a medical practice goes back, in a practical sense, to 1988, when the court
case,“In the Matter of Baby M, A Pseudonym for an Actual Person,” was tried in the Supreme …

Abstract The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) is a growing body of scholarship that
pulls from technical communication, rhetorical theory, and a number of other disciplines to …

While culture plays an impressive role in shaping human persuasive practices, culture is
neither the sole province of human rhetoric, nor is it the only force involved in its practice …

My study is an ethnographic account of the collaborative discursive activity of the Council of
Canadian Academies (CCA), a non-profit advisory organization that contracts with …

Debates over GMOs, vaccines, and climate change are but a few examples that highlight a
growing body of high-stakes scientific controversies and the manifest difficulties inherent in …