“Sharing a World with Others”: Rhetoric’s Ecological Turn and the Transformation of the Networked Public Sphere

Ehrenfeld, Dan

doi:10.1080/02773945.2020.1813321

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“…Words such as "dispersion" (Ehrenfeld 2020, 305) "interconnectedness" (see Gries 2015, 56), "contagions" and "flux" (Edbauer 2005, 9, 14) also orbit around the metaphor of "ecology". Ecological perspectives have influenced rhetorical thinking and teaching on public theory (Edbauer 2005;Sheridan, Ridolf, and Michel 2012;Ehrenfeld 2020), writing 4. See https://www.atomkraftnejtak.dk/det_lykkedes/ (accessed May 25, 2023).…”

Section: Rhetorical Agency and Ecologies -Unpredictability Interconne...mentioning

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Perseverance and zeal? Yes thanks: The ecology and endurance of a protest logo

Berg

2024

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By tracing the rhetorical ecology of an iconic protest logo created in Denmark in 1975, this article sheds light on an important part of the rhetoric of the Danish (and global) anti-nuclear power movement and how it continues to influence collective life in unpredictable and contradictory ways. Initially, the logo created a sense of community amongst anti-nuclear power activists. It was a powerful recruitment and fundraising tool, now it circulates as nostalgia, sparking both solidarity and alienation. The article builds on interviews with members of the Danish anti-nuclear power movement and a group of Danish youth today, including the founder of a current pro-nuclear power group. It relies on theories of rhetorical agency and ecology that have pinpointed the unpredictability and interconnectedness of rhetoric, and reminds us, further, of rhetoric’s potential endurance.

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Section: Rhetorical Agency and Ecologies -Unpredictability Interconne...mentioning

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Perseverance and zeal? Yes thanks: The ecology and endurance of a protest logo

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2024

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“…Scholars of the media who aim to pursue new directions in exploring relations between various absent material forms and domination may wish to take note of the relatively recent, but growing, body of work that brings an ecological imagination to bear on publicness (Cox, 2013;Ehrenfeld, 2020;Peters, 2015). These works are important not only because of the perilous conditions occasioned by climate change but also because they extend our conceptions of materiality to material flows (clouds, ruination, etc.)…”

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(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence

Sefat

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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Recent works in media and communications studies have increasingly embedded the analysis of publicness within Science and Technology Studies (STS) and, interrelatedly, the new materialism. The result has emphasized the significant role that everyday objects play in engendering various publics. Yet, the uncritical incorporation of the new materialism and its bias toward present forms of materiality has led many scholars of the media to ignore the relationships between absent material objects and publicness. This is a key shortcoming since absent material realities are actively, and not so innocently, produced as non-thinkable alternatives to what exists, impeding externalized material worlds from becoming pronounceable as a need or an aspiration within the contexts of hegemonic globalization. In this essay, I draw on emerging works in media and communications studies, along with the social and political history of revolutionary Iran, as touchstones for a critical discussion on the linkages between publicness, materiality, and absence. I conclude with some observations and questions on publicness amid emergency climate change.

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“…Next, Ehrenfeld (2020) provides a frame to better understand the features of social movements that originate within companies, and their possibilities for collective action. He points to the "imagined" dimensions of the public sphere and the character of post-human rhetoric that emerges from interactions with hardware, software, code that leads to unexpected and uncontrollable outcomes.…”

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Bringing Social Justice Rhetoric and Deliberation into the Engineering Writing Classroom: the case of Amazon "cubicle activists"

Fife

2022 ASEE Zone IV Conference Proceedings

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The tech industry has seen a growth in employee protest activity against both internal policies for workers, but also expressions of concern over wider social issues including US immigration policy, climate change, personal privacy, and military contracts. Companies including Microsoft, IBM, Tableau, Salesforce, Facebook, Google and Amazon have exhibited a variety of responses to manage this growth in social justice related petitions, walk-outs, and protests from their employees. Responses have ranged from firing individuals to meeting demands at least in part.Study of these activities in the engineering writing classroom has multiple benefits in terms of developing student's sense of deliberate purpose, persuasive communication skills and understanding of ethical limits within the field of engineering. This paper reports on the potential value of using a case study depicting Amazon's "cubicle activists," a group who organized to protest what they considered to be their company's lack of serious involvement in addressing climate change, given Amazon's economic power and global reach. Students at the master's and undergraduate level have engaged with this case and written reflective papers to identify ethical dilemmas and pathways to change within current global structures as well as professional documents providing industry with recommendations. This current paper argues the multiple benefits of bringing social justice issues of relevance to engineering students in a technical writing course.

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“Sharing a World with Others”: Rhetoric’s Ecological Turn and the Transformation of the Networked Public Sphere

Cited by 12 publications

References 45 publications

Perseverance and zeal? Yes thanks: The ecology and endurance of a protest logo

Perseverance and zeal? Yes thanks: The ecology and endurance of a protest logo

(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence

Bringing Social Justice Rhetoric and Deliberation into the Engineering Writing Classroom: the case of Amazon "cubicle activists"

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