Networking Argument

Herausgeber: Winkler, Carol

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Networking Argument presents selected works from the 20th Biennial Alta Argumentation Conference sponsored by the National Communication Association and the American Forensics Association in 2017.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781032084978
• ISBN-10: 1032084979
• Artikelnr.: 62151105

Autorenporträt

Carol Winkler is Professor of Communication Studies at Georgia State University, USA, where she leads the interdisciplinary Transcultural Conflict and Violence Initiative and is a former Associate Dean of Humanities. A former President of the American Forensics Association, she served as Principal Investigator on grants that funded urban debate programs to Atlanta and Milwaukee, including the Computer Assisted Debate Program selected as the signature school program for the 2005 White House's Helping America's Youth initiative. She has also served as an invited technical consultant for the U.S. Bureau of Justice Administration to expand the benefits of debate to low-income communities. Her current research program focuses on presidential rhetoric, extremist discourse, and visual arguments related to terrorism. Her book, In the Name of Terrorism (2006), won the National Communication Association's Outstanding Book Award in Political Communication, and her co-authored article on how certain visual images stand as ideological markers of the culture won that same organization's Visual Communication Excellence in Research Award. She is currently working as co-principal investigator on a Minerva funded project, 'Mobilizing Media', which analyzes the media campaign of violent extremist groups in the Middle East and North Africa.