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Jayson Harsin

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Jayson Harsin

Associate Professor

  • Department: Communication, Media and Culture
  • Complementary Department(s): History and Politics
  • Graduate Program(s): Global Communications
  • Office: 
    G-307
  • Office Hours: 
    On Sabbatical Fall 2021

Professor Harsin arrived at BT天堂 in 2003, after having taught at Northeastern University and, earlier, worked as a music and culture journalist and dj. Current director of BT天堂's research Center for Media, Communication & Global Change, Harsin is a critical scholar who has published seminal work on the media and communicative forms and processes of what is popularly called 鈥減ost-truth politics,鈥� such as 鈥渇ake news,鈥� conspiracy theory, rumor, lying, and disinformation. His research especially emphasizes critical cultural aspects of聽 gender, dis-/trust, emotion, and cognition, in the digital attention economy. His work theorizes, critiques and empirically analyzes communication and culture dynamics between professional and amateur-citizen political communicators, journalists, and social movements.听Professor Harsin is the former chair of the Philosophy, Theory & Critique research division of the International Communication Association. His edited book, journal issues, and own peer-reviewed research has been published widely in journals such as聽Communication, Culture & Critique,听International Journal of Communication,听and聽French Politics, Culture & Society.听He is the recipient of the 2022 International Award for Excellence for Information, Medium, and Society鈥擳he Publishing Studies Research Network鈥攆or his article 鈥淧ost-truth Reflections on Public Origins and Functions of Publishing鈥� (2021). He presents peer-reviewed research at professional conferences such as the International Communication Associaion. Professor Harsin is currently preparing a book manuscript that critically examines a renewed academic and popular fascination with "information" in a new cultural context of digital dystopia.



Education/Degrees

  • Northwestern University (PhD)
  • University of Illinois (MA)
  • University of Kansas (BA, Honors)

News

  • Delacroix, G. (2019, April 9). 芦La tromperie est enracin茅e dans la communication politique禄 [Interview].听
  • (2017, 1 December TV Interview) 鈥�,鈥� [Fake news聽: the battle for truth] TV 7, L鈥橧nfo Sud Ouest
  • in Brazillian magazine 脡笔翱颁础, 鈥淎s pessoas est茫o c茅ticas comapol铆tica,鈥� April 24, 2017
  • 聽(Jun - 4 September 2017) (research on post-truth featured in Art Exhibit). 鈥�Jayson Harsin Sightings 21: (Post) Truth on Display.鈥� Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University.
  • Lopes, G. (2017, Avril 14). . Le Journal du Dimanche
  • Rodel, Patrick. (2017, 6 Mars) 芦聽.听禄 Mediapart
  • Segond, V. (2017, March 2). 芦鈥��. Le Monde, Le Monde.fr
  • Boyer, Philippe (2017, February 5). 芦聽Mobilisation g茅n茅rale contre les 芦fake news禄.听禄 Les Echos
  • Glad, V. (2016, Novembre 10). l鈥橝n 2000 - , Liberation

Publications

Edited Books and Special Journal Issues
  • Editor, (2023). Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect, London: Routledge.

  • (2018) 鈥淭he Nuit Debout Social Movement: Communication, Politics and the Counter-production of 鈥楨verynight Life,鈥欌�� International Journal of Communication, 12, 1819-1927

  • (With Mark Hayward) 鈥淐ultural Studies and the Popular,鈥� special issue of Communication, Culture, & Critique, 6:2 (Summer 2013)

Articles

  • (in press). "Three Critiques of Disinformation (for-hire) Scholarship: Definitional Vortexes, Disciplinary Unneighborliness, and Cryptonormativity," Social Media+Society.

  • 鈥淎ggro-Truth: (Dis-)Trust, Toxic Masculinity, and the Cultural Logic of Post-Truth Politics.鈥� The Communication Review 24 (2): 133鈥�66 (2021). .听

  • 鈥淧ost-Truth Reflections on Public Origins and Functions of Publishing.鈥� Information, Medium, and Society: Journal of Publishing Studies 19 (1): 7鈥�19 (2021). .听
  • 鈥淭oxic White Masculinity, Post-Truth Politics and the COVID-19 Infodemic.鈥澛�European Journal of Cultural Studies, August 2020, 136754942094493.听.听
  • 鈥淭he Nuit Debout Social Movement: Communication, Politics and the Counter-production of 鈥楨verynight Life,鈥欌�� International Journal of Communication, 12 (2018), 1819鈥�1839.
  • [Introduction to interview and co-translation] 鈥淭oward a Creative Activism With a Sense of Humor: An Interview With Fran莽ois Ruffin,鈥� International Journal of Communication 12 (2018), 1鈥�13.
  • 鈥淧ost-Truth Populism: the French Anti-Gender Theory Movement and Cross-cultural Similarities,鈥� Communication, Culture, & Critique, vol. 11, no. 1, 1 March 2018: 35鈥�52,
  • 鈥淎 Critical Guide to Fake News: From Comedy to Tragedy,鈥� Pouvoirs, revue fran莽aise d鈥櫭﹖udes constitutionnelles et politiques, n掳164, 164 - La Datacratie, p.99-119. (January, 2018).
  • 鈥淭rump l鈥櫯抜l: Is Trump鈥檚 Post-Truth Communication Translatable?鈥� Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, vol. 21, no. 5, Oct. 2017, 512鈥�22.
  • 聽鈥淐ultural Racist Frames in TF1鈥檚 French Banlieue Riots Coverage.鈥� French Politics, Culture & Society 33 (3) (2015): 47鈥�73.
  • 鈥淩egimes of Post-Truth, Post-politics, and Attention Economies鈥� Communication, Culture & Critique, 8 (2) (2015): 327-333
  • (with Mark Hayward) Chinese Translation of聽 鈥淪tuart Hall鈥檚 鈥楧econstructing the Popular鈥�: Reconsiderations 30 years Later.鈥� Foreign Theoretical Trends, edited by Zhang Liang (Fall 2014). Originally published in Communication, Culture & Critique 6 (2) (Summer 2013): 201-207.
  • 鈥淧ublic Argument in the New Media Ecology: New Spatialities, Temporalities, and Cognitions,鈥� Argumentation in Context 3 (1) (2014): 7-34.
  • 鈥淭he French Democracy": Mapping Promise and Limitation of Glocal Digital Protest,鈥� Communication, Culture, & Critique 7 (2014): 174-191.
  • 鈥溾赌榃TF was Kony 2012?鈥� Considerations for 鈥楥ommunication鈥� and 鈥楥ritical Cultural Studies,鈥欌�� Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies (August 2013): 1-8.
  • 鈥淚nterview with Armand Mattelart鈥� (sole translator; interviewer with James Hay and Jim Cohen), Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Spring 2013): 1-16.听
  • (Invited article) 鈥�Dallas at the Elys茅e: French Political Communication Today,鈥� Political Communication Report, 22(2) (July 2012). (Online publication of the International Communication Association and American Political Science Association鈥檚 Political Communication Division). (approx. 2,000 words)
  • "Cultural Studies and/of Economic Rights: Neglect and Promise." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 9:1 (2012): 1-31.
  • 鈥淭he Plague 2.0: Soderbergh鈥檚 Contagion and Global Convergence Culture.鈥� Bright Lights Film Journal, 75 (2012). Available online at
  • 鈥淒igital Rhetoric and the Circulation of Protest: The French Banlieue Riots Turn Five,鈥� Flow, 13.8 (2011). Available online at
  • 鈥淐ommunication and Academic Labor: A Perspective from France.鈥� International Journal of Communication 5 (Fall 2011): 1737-1744. Available online at http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/issue/view/6
  • 鈥淲ikileaks鈥� Lessons for Media Theory and Politics,鈥� Flow, 13.6 (2011). Available at
  • 鈥淭hat鈥檚 Democratainment: Obama, Rumor Bombs, and Primary Definers,鈥� Flow 13.1(2010). Available online at
  • "Lost Histories of American Economic Rights," Cultural Studies, May (2010): 333-355.
  • 鈥淭he Responsible Dream: On Waltz with Bashir.鈥� Bright Lights Film Journal 44 (2009). Available online at http://brightlightsfilm.com/63/63waltz.php
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics,鈥� Flow 9.4 (2008). Available online at http://flowtv.org/2008/12/the-rumor-bomb-on-convergence-culture-and-politics-jayson-harsin-american-university-of-paris/
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb: A Convergence Theory of Contemporary Mediated American Politics,鈥� Southern Review: Politics, Communication, Culture (Spring 2006): 84-110.
  • 鈥淓co-Apocalypse and the PowerPoint Film: An Inconvenient Truth,鈥� Bright Lights Film Journal 53 (2006).
  • 鈥�Manderlay: Von Trier鈥檚 Brechtian Gamble,鈥� Bright Lights Film Journal 51 (2006).
  • 鈥淧assing and the American Identity Machine: Race, Class and Sexuality in USA,鈥� John Dos Passos Newsletter. Number 8 (Summer 2001): 1-11. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau, Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning (2014), 176-186.
Book Chapters

  • (in press). "Post-truth," Oxford Research Encyclopedia.

  • (2023). "Post-truth as Globalizing Public Mood (Indefinite, Anxious, Dystopic),"聽 in Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect, ed. Jayson Harsin, 1-26.
  • Harsin, J. (2019). Political Attention: A Genealogy of Reinscriptions. In W. Doyle & C. Roda Eds.),Communication in the Era of Attention Scarcity聽(pp. 75鈥�111).听
  • Harsin, J. H. (2019). Post-Truth and Critical Communication. In聽The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies. Retrieved from
  • 鈥淐onnecting and (Im-)mobilizing in Regimes of Post-truth: Strategic and Tactical Communication of the French Boycott School Day Campaign and Anti-Gender Theory Movement.鈥� in Global Cultures of Contestation, eds. Esther Peeren, Jeroen de Kloet, Thomas Poell & Robin Celikates. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2017): 193-214.
  • 聽鈥淩umor Bombs as Managed Democracy in Convergence Culture鈥� chapter 11 in G. Braun and G.L. Henderson eds. Propaganda and Rhetoric in Democracy: History, Theory, Analysis, Carbondale: SIU Press (2016): 202-222.
  • 鈥淟ost Histories of Economic Rights鈥� in M. Hayward ed. Cultural Studies and Finance Capitalism: New York: Routledge (2012): 51-73 (reprinted article from the journal Cultural Studies, 2010).
  • "Diffusing the Rumor John Kerry is French, i.e. Haughty, Cowardly, Foppish, Socialist and Gay," in R. Given and S. Soule eds. The Diffusion of Social Movements, New York: Cambridge University Press (2010): 163-186.
  • 鈥淩umor Bombs: American Mediated Politics as Pure War.鈥� In Cultural Studies, an Anthology, ed. Michael Ryan. New York: Blackwell (2008): 468-482.
  • 鈥淵ou鈥檙e next Frenchy! An Episode in the Feudal American Public Sphere.鈥� In La France dans le regard des Etats-Unis, ed. Fr茅d茅ric聽Monneyrand. Perpignan/Montpelier聽: Presses Universitaires de Perpignan/Publications de l'Universit茅 Paul Val茅ry (2006).
  • "Avant-Garde Argument, Spectacular Argument: the Challenge to the Challenge of the Avant-Garde," in Critical Problems in Argumentation: Selected Papers of the Thirteenth NCA/AFA Argumentation Conference, ed. Charles Willard. Washington DC: National Communication Association (2005): 136-143.

Conferences & Lectures

Invited Talks (past and forthcoming)

  • "Post-truth and the Covid-19 pandemic," invited talk, NYU PhD research seminar, convenor Radha Hegde, October 12, 2020.

  • 鈥淧ublishing and Receiving in Post-truth Democracies: Why information overload is not the cause and media literacy is not the solution,鈥� Plenary speaker lecture, Information, Medium & Society: Eighteenth International Conference on Publishing Studies, Venice, Italy, July 3, 2020.

  • 鈥淧ost-Truth and Liberal Democracy: Origins and Futures鈥� Plenary Speaker Lecture, 7th International Congress on Social Sciences, Paris, June 16, 2019.
  • 芦聽Quel est la situation post-verit茅 en France聽? Considerations des cas recents,听禄 Forum francophone de Recherche (initiative de l鈥�Organisation internationale de la Francophonie聽and The American University of Paris), April 25, 2019, Paris, France.
  • 鈥淧ost-truth Politics and Society: a Cultural Approach,鈥澛�A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s, Max Weber Institute, Erfurt, Germany, October 6, 2018.
  • 鈥淭he Longer (historical) and broader (cultural) critique of fake news鈥� Fake Days conference, Universit茅 Paris Diderot, April 9, 2018.
  • 鈥淓mo-truth Style of Post-truth Populism: Popular Cultural Embeddeness,鈥� Lecture Series 芦聽Analyses critiques des configurations populistes聽禄,听 脡cole des hautes 茅tudes en sciences sociales, April 7, 2018.
  • 鈥淎merican Post-truth Political Communication: Causal Synergies,鈥� 脡cole des hautes 茅tudes en sciences sociales, February 12, 2018.
  • 鈥淗ow We Got Trump (and He Us): A Cultural-Historical Theory of Trump鈥檚 Post-Truth Politics,鈥� Trump: Year One, Universit茅 de Paris 2 Panth茅on-Assas, January 19, 2018.
  • 鈥淔ake News and Post-Truth Politics: American and French Comparisons,鈥� Universit茅 de Paris, La Sorbonne, December 12, 2017.
  • 鈥淭he Post-Truth Populist Wave,鈥� 芦聽La strat茅gie populiste en聽Europe聽禄 conference, French Senate, Government of France, Paris, March 24, 2017.
  • 鈥淧ost-truth and Incivility (How Trump Happened Conjuncturally),鈥� Civic Media Lab International Lecture Series, The American University of Paris, March 23 2017.
  • 鈥淎 Cultural Approach to Fake News and Post-Truth/Trust: Theorize to Strategize,鈥� Keynote Address, Digital Methods Initiative鈥檚 鈥淔ake News Sprint鈥� conference, University of Amsterdam, March 6, 2017.
  • 鈥淭he Post-Truth U.S. Presidential Election,鈥� Address to American University Board of Trustees,鈥� Paris, France, October 22, 2016.
  • 鈥淔rench Mediascapes and Public Life in Digital Transition,鈥� Lecture to Visiting Rutgers University Journalism Students.鈥� Paris, March 24, 2016.
  • 鈥淎ffect, Power, and Agency in Contemporary Attention Economies,鈥� Lecture Series on Communication in the Era of Attention Scarcity.鈥� American University of Paris, September 22, 2014
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb as a Contemporary History of Social Media,鈥� Weissman School of Arts & Sciences, Dean鈥檚 Lecture Series, Baruch College-CUNY, New York, April 24, 2014.
  • 鈥淭he New (?) Byte Rhetoric: Affect, Attention, and Circulation,鈥� Northwestern University Working Paper Series in Communication Studies. November 2012.
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb: This is What Vertiginous Democracy Looks Like,鈥� paper presented at the Sage Foundation and Goldsmith鈥檚 College University of London conference 鈥淚s Democracy Possible鈥oday?鈥� British Academy, London, UK, December 8, 2010.
  • "The Rumor Bomb as Political Communication," University of Denver, April 15, 2009.
  • 鈥淟a Nuit Americaine,鈥� evening of televised roundtable discussions about the American presidential election, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, November 4, 2008.
  • 鈥淭he Rumor 鈥楯ohn Kerry is French,鈥欌�� Conference, Contentious Politics and Knowledges, Cornell University, November 11, 2007.
  • 鈥淢onsieur John Kerry: The Rumor Bomb Continued.鈥� Dean鈥檚 Lecture Series, American University of Paris, May 3, 2006.
  • 聽鈥淭he Rumor Bomb and the Whirligig of Public Discourse.鈥� Cultures, Languages and Civilizations Lecture Series, University of Ankara, Turkey, March 16, 2006).
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb: Theorizing New and Old Trends in American Public Discourse, Media, and War.鈥� St. Louis University, Madrid Campus, February 18, 2005.
  • 鈥淭he American. Economic Rights Imaginary.鈥� Northeastern University Colloquium Series, Boston, MA, March 17, 2004.
  • 鈥淓conomic Rights and Taft-Hartley: Or How the Media Overwhelm/become Rhetoric.鈥� Northwestern University Communication Studies Colloquium Series, Evanston, Illinois, February 2000.
Conference Presentations (past and accepted for forthcoming presentation)

  • "Reflections on Potential Affinities Between Post-truth and Populism," paper presentation at The European Consortium for Political Research, Prague, CZ, September 7, 2023.

  • "Liberal Representive Democracy as Always-Already 'Degenerated': Persuasive Industries and the Hatred of Democracy," paper presentation at Institut f眉r die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for Human Sciences), Vienna, AU, June 21, 2023.

  • "Post-truth as Globalizing Public Mood: Anxious, Dystopic, Indefinite," paper presentation and roundtable for forthcoming book聽Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth聽Politics, International Communication Association annual conference, Toronto, CA, May 23, 2023.

  • 鈥淭he Limits of Information/Disinformation for Post-Truth Critical Communication Theory鈥� International Communication Association Annual Conference, Paris, France, May 30, 2022.听
  • 聽鈥淔rom Emo- to Aggro-truth Politics: Hyper-Masculinity and Transposable Dispositions.鈥� International Communication Association Annual Conference, Online, May 22, 2021.听
  • 鈥淒onald Trump鈥檚 Emo-truth Politics: a Critical Cultural Approach,鈥� Cultural Studies Association annual conference, New Orleans, May 28, 2019.
  • 鈥淩ight-wing Emotional Truth Populism,鈥� International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic, May 28, 2018.
  • 鈥淧ropaganda and Post-truth: A genealogy,鈥� International Communication Association, San Diego, California, May 26, 2017.
  • 鈥溾赌楾hey Require Children to Learn Masturbation鈥�: the French Anti-Gender Theory in Schools Movement,鈥� Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Association for Cultural Studies, Sydney, Australia. Accepted for presentation December 17, 2016.
  • 鈥淎 Hard Day鈥檚 Night: High and Low-Tech Night Tactics in Nuit Debout,鈥� Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Association for Cultural Studies, Sydney, Australia. Accepted for presentation December 17, 2016.
  • 鈥淕ender Theory in the Primary School Rumor Bombs: Political De-/Promotion in Post-Truth Society,鈥� Powers of Promotion, International Communication Association Pre-conference, Finnish Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, June 8, 2016.
  • 鈥淭ransitory Digital Organizing, Mobilizing and Precarious Political Cohesion.鈥� Global Cultures of Contestation Conference. Amsterdam Centre for Globalization Studies. Amsterdam, Netherlands. October 16, 2015.
  • 鈥淐itizen Participation, Popular Epistemologies, and Theories of Post-democracy: The Gender Theory in French Primary Schools Rumor Bomb, European Communication Research and Education Association Conference, Communication and Democracy Division, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 10, 2015.
  • 鈥淧opulisms within Regimes of Post-Truth and Post-political Strategies: The Manif Pour Tous Movement.鈥� International Communication Association. May 22, 2015, San Juan Puerto Rico.
  • 鈥淔raming the 2005 Banlieue Riots on France鈥檚 Most-Watched TV channel,鈥� National Communication Association, November 21, 2014, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 鈥淕lobal Populisms, Post-politics, and Regimes of Post-Truth,鈥� Conference 鈥淲hose Voice: Media and Global Populisms,鈥� Baruch College, New York, NY, October 25, 2014.
  • 鈥淕lobalization of Rumor Bombs?鈥� International Conference on Media and Popular Culture, May 30, 2014, Vienna, Austria.
  • 鈥淎ttention Economy, Affect, and Circulatory Control,鈥� Paper Presented in the Philosophy, Theory, Critique Division, International Communication Association Conference, 鈥淧olitical Affective Communication鈥� panel, June 2013, London, UK.
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb Barack Obama is Muslim: Political Vertigo or Rorschach Test?鈥� Competitive Paper Presented in the Political Communication Division, National Communication Association Annual Conference, November 2012, Orlando, FL.
  • 鈥淩umor Bombs as Brands: Affective Circulation and Attention Capital,鈥� Paper Presented at the International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, July 5, 2012, Paris, France.
  • 鈥淎ffect, Circulation and Attention Control: New Developments in the Integrated Spectacle,鈥� Paper presented on Guy Debord and Cultural Studies panel at the International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, July 6, 2012, Paris, France.
  • 鈥淢ediating Indignation: Five Years of Research on the French Banlieue Riots,鈥� Paper Presented at the Cultural Studies Association Conference, March 24, 2011, Chicago.
  • 鈥淥thering the Banlieue Riots: French Identity in the Mediatized Public Sphere,鈥� Paper Presented at the National Communication Association Conference, Pre-conference on Identity and the Public Sphere, November 13, 2010, San Francisco.
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb 'Barack Obama is a Muslim',鈥� International Political Science Association Workshop on E-democracy and Political Communication, May 23-25, 2010, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  • 鈥淛acques Ranci猫re鈥檚 Theory of Aesthetics and Politics: Possibilities and Cautions for Rhetorical Theory,鈥� National Communication Association Conference, November 15, 2009, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 鈥淢achinima and the French Democracy: New Media and the 2005 Banlieue Riots," Paper presented with Adrienne Russell at the International Communications Association Conference, May 21, 2009, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 鈥淭he Lost Histories of American Economic Rights,鈥� Paper presented at the Cultural Studies Association (North America) conference, April 16, 2009, Kansas City, Missouri.
  • (with Waddick Doyle) "TF1's Five Frames for the Banlieue Riots," BT天堂鈥擴niversite' de Paris-Dauphine conference on Postcolonialism and Culture, March 27, 2009.
  • 鈥淎merican Popular Discourses of Economic Rights: A Conjunctural History,鈥� Paper presented at the National Communications Association, November 2008, San Diego, California.
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb: Conceptualizing War and Peace in Political Communication,鈥� Paper presented at the 2008 International Communications Association conference, May 2008, Montreal, Canada.
  • 鈥淎 Theory of Politics and Branding,鈥� Paper presented with Waddick Doyle at the International Media and Communications Research conference, June 2007, Paris, France.
  • 鈥淭he Rumor 鈥楯ohn Kerry is French,鈥欌�� Accepted for presentation at the 2007 International Communications Association, San Francisco, May 24, 2007 [unable to present due to bicycle accident and hospitalization].
  • 鈥�Branding and 鈥楶residenting鈥�: Media and Belief in Berlusconi and Bush.鈥� Paper presentation at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2006. (with Waddick Doyle)
  • 鈥淐ontemporary Political Image-making: Toward a Theory of Political Branding,鈥� Paper Presented at the American University Symposium on Politics and Branding, Paris, France, May 28, 2006.
  • 鈥溾赌�The French Democracy鈥�: On New Media and Global Public Address.鈥� Paper presentation at the NYU/American University of Paris Conference on Cultural Diversity and International Affairs. (with Adrienne Russell), March 30, 2006.
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb 鈥楯ohn Kerry is French,鈥欌�� Conference 鈥渓a France dans l鈥櫭ゞard des Etats-Unis,鈥� Universit茅 de Montpellier鈥擯aul Val茅ry, Montpellier, France, October 6, 2005.
  • 鈥淭he Rumor Bomb: Re-theorizing American Public Discourse from the Perspective of Pure War,鈥� Conference on Media and Belief, American University of Paris, France, March 4, 2005.
  • 鈥淔ranklin D. Roosevelt and the 鈥楲unatic Fringe鈥�: Becoming Radical as Becoming Liberal,鈥� National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 2004.
  • 鈥淢odern Liberal Autarky: Economizing the Public,鈥� National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 12, 2004.
  • 鈥淩eagan鈥檚 Economic Bill of Rights, FDR鈥檚 Economic Bill of Rights: Conjuncture, Ideology and how meaning gets in the public form,鈥� National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 12, 2004.
  • 鈥淭oward a Theory of Avant-Garde Argument,鈥� The 13th ALTA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah, August 1, 2003.
  • 鈥淐ultural Turns in Rhetorical Studies: dead ends and future prospects,鈥� American Society for the History of Rhetoric Pre-conference on Rhetoric and Culture, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 19, 2002 (with Ron Greene).
  • 鈥淭oward a Genealogy of Economic Rights: ER Dead or/and Alive,鈥� National Communication Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1, 2001.
  • 鈥淐ountry Music Roots: Toward a Criticism For a Usable Past,鈥� National Communication Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1, 2001.
  • 鈥淚ntroducing Billy Bragg, Reintroducing Woody Guthrie: Memory, Articulation, and the Oxymoron of Radical Patriotism,鈥� National Communication Association Annual Convention, Seattle, Washington, November 11, 2000.
  • 鈥淭ext, Context, Audience鈥擭ew Developments in Rhetorical Criticism (or old developments in cultural studies)?鈥� National Communication Association Annual Convention, Seattle Washington, November 9, 2000.
  • 鈥淲ill the Real Site of Agency Please Stand Up? the Problem of Mediation and Intertextuality in Rhetorical Studies,鈥� University of Iowa and Northwestern University Graduate Student Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, September 2000.
  • 聽鈥淭he Taft Hartley Act in a Global Rhetorical Conjuncture,鈥� Top Debut Paper, Public Address Division, National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 1999.
  • 鈥淭he Taft-Hartley Act: A Polyhedron of Rhetorical Intelligibility,鈥� The National Communication Association鈥檚 Doctoral Honors Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Summer 1999.
  • 鈥淭aft-Hartley and the Cold War Conjuncture: The Subjugation of Economic Rights,鈥� Rutgers University Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Scholarship: 鈥淭he 鈥楢merican Century鈥� in the Americas, 1898-1998鈥擯olitics, Culture, History,鈥� New Brunswick, New Jersey, Spring 1999.

Affiliations

Research Affiliate, Institute for Global Culture & Communication, Northwestern University

Research Affiliate, Center for Transcultural Studies

Research Areas

* Journalism and politics聽

* Online attention economy聽

* Algorithms聽

* Emotion聽

* Belief, facts, truth聽

* Popular culture and politics聽

* Rhetoric and persuasion聽

* Democracy聽

* Civic participation聽

* Media Ethics聽

* Lying聽

* Trust聽

* Communication and cognition

* International Communication Association

* International Association for Media and Communication Research

* Political Studies Association

* European Consortium for Political Research

* Center for Transcultural Studies

* Association for Cultural Studies

Curriculum Vitae