Forum: Bruno Latour on Rhetoric

Walsh, Lynda; Rivers, Nathaniel A.; Rice, Jenny; Gries, Laurie E.; Bay, Jennifer; Rickert, Thomas; Miller, Christopher L.

doi:10.1080/02773945.2017.1369822

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“…It was doubly risky because she was also blamed for being the instigator of her sexual harassment. Gloria's story is a prime example of the claim that every woman in her status as a woman has experienced the accusation of being an active agent in her own objectification (Walsh et al, 2017). Gloria experienced sexual harassment but was viewed as an active agent in her own assault.…”

Section: Reporting Harassment Is Riskymentioning

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The purpose of whisper networks: a new lens for studying informal communication channels in organizations

Johnson

2023

Front. Commun.

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IntroductionThis paper explores whisper networks, which are informal communication networks women use to share information about sexual harassment and sexual harassers in the workplace. Women use whisper networks to share information about people known for sexual harassment or assault. This study offers an innovative approach to studying the nuances and dynamics of sexual harassment and communication in the workplace by focusing on women's experiences in whisper networks.MethodsTo examine these back-channels, I conducted 20 semi-structured interviews with participants who participated in whisper networks in their organizations. Using grounded theory, I established three emergent theories about the purposes whisper networks serve in organizations.ResultsWhisper networks (1) serve as protection in organizational cultures of harassment and (2) help women make sense of their harassment experience through sensemaking. Whisper networks also serve the purpose of (3) identifying harassers because harassers are not readily apparent when entering a new work situation.DiscussionThese findings establish a baseline of theories to explain whisper networks' purposes and offer theoretical and practical implications for future research on sexual harassment, whisper networks, and informal communication networks.

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Section: Reporting Harassment Is Riskymentioning

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The purpose of whisper networks: a new lens for studying informal communication channels in organizations

Johnson

2023

Front. Commun.

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“…But these problems persist. As Latour () has pointed out, no human eye could maintain a steady view across the scales presented in “Powers of 10”; in fact, some of the galaxies shown are not even visible to the human eye (Walsh et al., ). Even if we replaced the human eye with a camera, that camera could not record in a continuous fashion all the visualizations presented sequentially in the film; in fact, those visualizations come from dramatically different sources – optical and radio telescopes, film cameras, and animations.…”

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The politics of zoom: Problems with downscaling climate visualizations

Schneider

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2019

Geography and Environment

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Following the mandate in the Paris Agreement for signatories to provide “climate services” to their constituents, “downscaled” climate visualizations are proliferating. But the process of downscaling climate visualizations does not neutralize the political problems with their synoptic global sources—namely, their failure to empower communities to take action and their replication of neoliberal paradigms of globalization. In this study we examine these problems as they apply to interactive climate‐visualization platforms, which allow their users to localize global climate information to support local political action. By scrutinizing the political implications of the “zoom” tool from the perspective of media studies and rhetoric, we add to perspectives of cultural cartography on the issue of scaling from our fields. Namely, we break down the cinematic trope of “zooming” to reveal how it imports the political problems of synopticism to the level of individual communities. As a potential antidote to the politics of zoom, we recommend a downscaling strategy of connectivity, which associates rather than reduces situated views of climate to global ones.

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“…Gloria's story is a prime example of the claim that every woman in her status as a woman has experienced the accusation of being both an active agent in her own objectification (Walsh et al, 2017). Gloria experienced sexual harassment but was viewed as an active agent in her own assault.…”

Section: Cultures Of Harassment Are Not Just Built By What Is Said An...mentioning

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Whisper networks in organizations: Sexual harassment protection through informal connections

King Johnson

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Forum: Bruno Latour on Rhetoric

Cited by 19 publications

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The purpose of whisper networks: a new lens for studying informal communication channels in organizations

The purpose of whisper networks: a new lens for studying informal communication channels in organizations

The politics of zoom: Problems with downscaling climate visualizations

Whisper networks in organizations: Sexual harassment protection through informal connections

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