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Triple bill of crime dramas. In 'Bad Karma' (2012), starring Ray
Liotta and Dominic Purcell, a criminal's attempts to go straight
are sabotaged by his former partner. Relocating from Sydney to the
Gold Coast to start afresh, Molloy (Liotta) is remarkably
successful and even finds something approaching domestic bliss with
a new girlfriend. Naturally, when his old crime partner Mack
(Purcell) tracks him down he finds that Molloy is reluctant to
return to his past life. Unfortunately, this doesn't deter the
increasingly deranged Mack as he sets about convincing Molloy to
help him pull off one last job. In 'The Entitled' (2011) social
misfit Paul (Kevin Zegers) is driven to desperate measures when he
is turned down for yet another job and his ill mother is given a
foreclosure notice on the family home. He enlists the help of two
friends to abduct three kids from rich families and hold them
ransom for a million dollars each, but the plan goes badly wrong
and they soon find themselves in way over their heads. 'Officer
Down' (2012) follows Detective David Callahan (Stephen Dorff),
known as 'Cal' on the force, who has had a mixed career as a police
officer, struggling with drink problems and straying to the wrong
side of the law himself at times. When he finds himself caught up
in a murder investigation, Cal must attempt to overcome the demons
from his own past as well as the challenges of the case.
An accessible and important look at what is truly behind our
digital outrageOn any given day, at any given hour, across the
various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone
is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Reddit. 4Chan. In The
Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media is Making Us Angry Professor
Jeff Rice addresses the increasingly critical question of why anger
has become the dominant digital response on social media. He
examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for the
intense rage that prevails across social media platforms, and sheds
new light on how our anger isn't merely a reaction against singular
events, but generated out of subversive, aggregated beliefs and
ideas. Captivating, accessible, and exceedingly important, The
Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry encourages
readers to have the difficult conversations about what is truly
behind their anger.
An accessible and important look at what is truly behind our
digital outrageOn any given day, at any given hour, across the
various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone
is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Reddit. 4Chan. In The
Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media is Making Us Angry Professor
Jeff Rice addresses the increasingly critical question of why anger
has become the dominant digital response on social media. He
examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for the
intense rage that prevails across social media platforms, and sheds
new light on how our anger isn't merely a reaction against singular
events, but generated out of subversive, aggregated beliefs and
ideas. Captivating, accessible, and exceedingly important, The
Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry encourages
readers to have the difficult conversations about what is truly
behind their anger.
As it becomes impossible to imagine a world without a World Wide
Web, information organization, delivery, and production have
converged on the simple principle of marking up information for
given audiences. From A to investigates the relationship between
media and culture by articulating questions regarding the role of
markup. How do the codes of HTML, CSS, PHP, and other markup
languages affect the Web's everyday uses? How do these languages
shape the Web's communicative functions? This novel inquiry
positions markup as the basis of our cultural, rhetorical, and
communicative understanding of the Web. Contributors: Sarah J.
Arroyo, CSU Long Beach; Jennifer L. Bay, Purdue U; Helen J.
Burgess, U of Maryland, Baltimore County; Michelle Glaros,
Centenary College of Louisiana; Matthew K. Gold, NYCC of
Technology; Cynthia Haynes, Clemson U; Rudy McDaniel, U of Central
Florida; Colleen A. Reilly, UNC, Wilmington; Thomas Rickert, Purdue
U; Brendan Riley, Columbia College Chicago; Sae Lynne Schatz, U of
Central Florida; Bob Whipple, Creighton U; Brian Willems, U of
Split, Croatia.
PRE/TEXT 21.1-4 2013 - CONTENTS. Special Issue: FOOD THEORY.
"Introduction" by Jenny Edbauer Rice and Jeff Rice - "The Good
Body, Skilled in Eating" by Donovan Conley - "Food for Thought" by
Phillip Foss - "Un(Loveable) Food" by Jenny Edbauer Rice - "Love In
The Time of Global Warming" by Mark Stern - "The Organic
Libertarian: How Deregulation Should Benefit Small Farms" by Eric
Reuter - "Consuming Iowa, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love Earl Butz" by David M. Grant - "The Urban Food Database and
the Pedagogy of Attunement" by Jodie Nicotra - "Menu Literacy" by
Jeff Rice - "The Erotic Pleasures of Danger Foods" by Zachary
Snider - "My Conversion from Religion to Chocolate" by Alan McClure
- "Rhetorical Theory in the Light of Food: The Meaning of Authority
in Top Chef Masters" by Roland Clark Brooks - "Cook, Eat, and Write
the Self: L'ecriture Feminine, Alice Waters, and the Slow Food
Revolution" by Heather Eaton McGrane - "American Craft Brewers: A
Story of Collaboration & Creativity" by Greg Koch
The essays in NEW MEDIA/NEW METHODS: THE ACADEMIC TURN FROM
LITERACY TO ELECTRACY pose an invention-based approach to new media
studies. Representing a specific school of theory emergent in
graduates of the University of Florida and working from the concept
of electracy, as opposed to literacy, contributors present various
heuristics for elaborating new media rhetoric and theory. NEW
MEDIA/NEW METHODS challenges literacy-based understandings of new
media, which typically pose such work as hermeneutics or textual
interpretation. Rather than grounding their work in hermeneutics,
contributors rely on heuretics, or invention, to outline new modes
of scholarly discourse reflective of and adapted to digital
culture. Contributors include Ron Broglio, Elizabeth Coffman,
Denise K. Cummings, Bradley Dilger, Michelle Glaros, Michael
Jarrett, Barry Jason Mauer, Marcel O'Gorman, Robert Ray, Jeff Rice,
Craig Saper, and Gregory L. Ulmer. ABOUT THE EDITORS JEFF RICE is
Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Campus Writing
Program, at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author
of THE RHETORIC OF COOL: COMPOSITION STUDIES AND NEW MEDIA
(Southern Illinois University Press, 2007) and the textbook Writing
ABOUT COOL: HYPERTEXT AND CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE COMPUTER
CLASSROOM (Longman) as well as numerous essays on new media and
writing. He blogs at Yellow Dog (http: //www.ydog.net). MARCEL
O'GORMAN is Associate Professor of English at the University of
Waterloo and Director of the Critical Media Lab. His published
research, including E-CRIT: DIGITAL MEDIA, CRITICAL THEORY AND THE
HUMANITIES (University of Toronto Press, 2006), is concerned
primarily with the fate of the humanities in a digital culture.
O'Gorman is also a practicing artist, working primarily with
physical computing inventions and architectural installations.
The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a
focus on social boundaries. The rhetoric of food is more than just
words about food, and food is more than just edible matter.
Cookery:Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how food
mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the
overlapping concepts of invention and production. The classical
canon of rhetorical invention entails the process of discovering
one's persuasive appeals, whereas the contemporary landscape of
agricultural production touches virtually everyone on the planet.
Together, rhetoric and food shape the boundaries of shared living.
The essays in this volume probe the many ways that food informs
contemporary social life through its mediation of bodies - human
and extra-human alike - in the forms of intoxication, addiction,
estrangement, identification, repulsion, and eroticism. Our bodies,
in turn, shape the boundaries of food through research, technology,
cultural trends, and, of course, by talking about it. Each chapter
explores food's persuasive nature through a unique prism that
includes intoxication, dirt, "food porn," strange foods, and
political "invisibility." In each case readers gain new insights
about the relations between rhetorical influence and embodied
practice through food. As a whole Cookery articulates new ways of
viewing food's powers of persuasion, as well as the inherent role
of persuasion in agricultural production. The purpose of Cookery,
then, is to demonstrate the deep rhetoricity of our modern
industrial food system through critical examinations of concepts,
practices, and tendencies endemic to this system. Food has become
an essential topic for discussions concerned with the larger social
dynamics of production, distribution, access, reception,
consumption, influence, and the fraught question of choice. These
questions about food and rhetoric are equally questions about the
assumptions, values, and practices of contemporary public life.
Denied access to traditional advertising platforms by lack of
resources, craft breweries have proliferated despite these
challenges by embracing social media platforms, and by creating an
obsessed culture of fans. In Craft Obsession, Jeff Rice uses craft
beer as a case study to demonstrate how social media platforms such
as Facebook and Twitter function to shape stories about craft. Rice
weaves together theories of writing, narrative, new media, and
rhetoric with a personal story of his passion for craft beer. Both
an objective scholarly study and an engaging personal narrative
about craft beer, Craft Obsession provides valuable insights into
digital writing, storytelling, and social media.
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