Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is
presented and viewed as entertainment—or" militainment"—in contemporary American …

This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of
infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century …

This article explores the rhetorical function of Internet memes as memory actants. It
contributes to an ongoing conversation about the ways in which digital communication has …

Emergency responses are premised on the hope that, even when events cannot be wholly
predicted and prevented, timely action in the present can be exercised to strip an emergent …

Our nation faces a number of grave problems today, but none is more dangerous to
democracy than war. War saps resources, destroys bodies, and perverts public discussion …

This article provides a discursive grounding for understanding the construction of military
imaginaries by adding the concepts of 'antagonism'and 'intercalation'to articulation theory …

In the summer of 2010, a national controversy erupted suddenly as a majority of Americans
protested the building of an Islamic community center near Ground Zero. In this essay, I …

This essay isolates and explores a growing body of communication research concerned with
'security.'It opens by defining this concept, and discussing recent geopolitical and …

Popular discourse and advocacy efforts characterize homelessness as a social problem
bound by the present-centered concerns of physical affliction and material deprivation …

This essay analyzes how Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is making over democratic
citizenship in post-9/11 America. Seeking to counter a temporal bias that displaces attention …