Networking Argument

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.

Keynote Address 1. Disavowing Networks, Affirming Networks: Neoliberalism and Its Challenge to Democratic Deliberation Spotlighted Theories and Practices of Networking Argument 2. Substance: An Exploration of the State of Argument in the Post-Fact Era 3. Ideology, Argument, and the Post-Truth Panic 4. A Materialist Perspective on Argument Networks as Contentious Politics 5. More Disingenuous Controversy: Hashtags, Chants, and an Election 6. How Technoliberals Argue 7. Network Matters: Black Lives and Blue Lives Advocacy in On and Offline Settings 8. Networked Public Argument as Terrain for Statecraft Strategic Use of Definition in Networked Argument 9. Ideological Conservatism vs. Faux Populism in Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address 10. Populists Argue, but Populism Is Not an Argumentation (And Why the Distinction Matters for Argumentation Theory) 11. Contrasting Ideological Networks: Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump 12. The Cyber Imperative: Ligatures as Ordering Devices 13. The Agentic Earth Topos: Figuring a Violent Earth at the End of the Anthropocene 14. What Makes a Woman a Woman? The I.O.C.’s Deliberation over Sex in International Sport 15. The Discursive Construction of the Anti-Nuclear Activist 16. The Visible and the Invisible: Arguing about Threats to Loyalty in the Internet Age 17. When Do Perpetrators Count: A Longitudinal Analysis of News Definitions of Deceased Mass Shooters 18. Defining "Birth Rape": Networked Argument Resources for Mothers’ Advocacy 19. When They Found Her: Networked Argument and Contested Memory Strategic Use of Association and Dissociation in Networked Argument 20. Reading Freaks: Trump in an Analogical Hermeneutic Network 21. Petitioning a Mormon God: Analogical Argument as a Means of Revelation in the Ordain Women Movement 22. Extinguished Dissent: Norman Morrison’s Self-immolation as Argument by Sacrifice 23. Timescape 9/11: Networked Memories 24. Analogy and Argument in the Rhetoric of Science 25. Specification, Dissociation, and Voting Rights in the United States 26. Hispanic Politicians on the Rise: Argumentation Strategies of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio 27. Escaping the "Broken Middle": Establishing Argumentative Presence within Association and Disassociation 28. Challenges of Networked Circulation within Advocacy Campaigns 29. Accumulating Affect and Visual Argument: The Case of the 2015 Japanese Hostage Crisis 30. Analyzing Public Diplomacy for Japan-U.S. Reconciliation Strategic Use of Authority in Networked Arguments 31. Challenging a Culture of Secrecy: Investigating the Emergence of Antenarrative Storytelling in Community Responses to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation 32. The Visual Depiction of Statehood in Daesh’s Dabiq Magazine and al-Naba’ Newsletter 33. Networked Argumentation via Collective Rhetorics at the Women’s March on the Utah State Capitol and the Women’s March on Washington 34. Climate Change Argumentation: Subnational Networks, Interest Convergence, and Multiple Publics 35. Networking, Circulation, and Publicity of Climate Change Discourses and Arguments: An Examination of Leonardo Dicaprio’s Climate Change Advocacy 36. Arguments for Women’s Banks and the Possibilities and Limits of Corporate Structural Mimesis as Private-Public Argument Networks 37. Administrative Arguments and Network Governance: The Case of Women’s Health 38. Networks of Violence: Converging Representations of the Eric Garner Lynching 39. Performing Hegemonic Masculinity: Trump’s Framing of U.S. Foreign Policy 40. Argument and the Foundations of Social Networks: Affective Argument and Popular American History 41. Data Cannot Speak for Themselves: Unreasonable Claims within the Big Social Data Community 42. Scientific Argument Networks and the Polytechtonic Art of Rhetoric Argument Circulation in Online Networks 43. Arguments of a New Virtual Religion: How Athenism "Clicks" New Members and Reimagines the Mind-Body Dualism 44. "Nasty Women": "Dialectical Controversy," Argumentum Ad Personam, and Aggressive Rebuttals 45. The Rage Network: Form, Affective Arguments, and Toxic Masculinity in Digital Space 46. Polemic Platforms and the "Woman Card": Trumping Truth with Enthymemes in the Twitterverse 47. Following Affective Winds Over Panmediated Networks: Image-Drive Activism in Chengdu, China 48. Je (Ne) Suis…: Exploring the Performative Contradiction in Anti-Clicktivism Arguments 49. Memes as Commonplace: Ted Cruz, Serial Killers, and the Making of Networked Multitudes 50. Critical Deliberation Under Fire: Milblogging, Free Speech, and the "Soldiers’ Protocol to Enable Active Communication Act" 51. Embedded Argumentation in Digital Media Networks: On "Native" Advertising 52. Too Srat to Care: Participatory Culture and the Information Economy of Total Sorority Move 53. Social Physics and the Moral Economy of Spreadable Media: An Integrated Model for Communication Networking Argument Circulation in Offline Networks 54. Networks of Argument and Relationality in the Contemporary Use of Auschwitz Numbers in the New England Holocaust Memorial 55. Networked Reconciliation 56. To Tell Our Own Truths: Settler Postcolonialism as an Antecedent to Native American Argumentation Studies 57. Rhetorical Rumors: Hauntology in International Feminicidio Discourse 58. Networked Memories: Remembering Barbara Jordan in 21st Century Immigration Debates 59. Remembering Roosevelt: Arguing for Memory Through Public and Private Networks 60. Appearance Trumps Substance: The Enduring Legacy of the Great Debate of September 26, 1960 61. "Morning in America": Ronald Reagan’s Legacy of Population as Argument 62. Networking Legal Arguments: Prudential Accommodation in National Federation v. Sebelius Evaluating Argumentation Networks 63. Rising to the Defense of Ad Hominem Arguments 64. The Fallacy of Sweeping Generalization 65. Exhortation in Interpersonal Discussion 66. Writing about Serial Arguments: The Effects of Manipulating Argument Perspective 67. Argumentativeness and Verbal Aggressiveness Are Two Things Apiece 68. Is Fact-checking Biased? A Computerized Content Analysis 69. Building Arguments and Attending to Face in Small Claims Court: Distinctive Features of the Genre 70. Argumentation as a Practical Discipline 71. Networks, Norms, and the Problem of Capable Arguers 72. The Micropolitics of Control: Fascism, Desire, and Argument in President Trump’s America Evaluating Debating Networks 73. Networking Debate and Civic Engagement: Measuring the Impact of High School Debate Camps 74. Designing Public Debates to Facilitate Dynamic Updating in a Network Society 75. Community-Based Participatory Debate: A Synthesis of Debate Pedagogy, Practice, and Research 76. Text, Talk, Argue: How to Improve Text-Driven Political Conversations 77. Gender Diversity in Debate in Japan: An Examination of Debate Competitions at the Secondary and Tertiary Levels 78. Conceptualizing Academic Debate in Japan: A Study of Judging Philosophy Statements 79. Big in Japan?: A Note on the Japanese Reception of American Policy Debate 80. Evolutions and Devolutions in Practice: Theory Arguments in Recent English-speaking College Policy Debate in Japan 81. Notes on the Humor of Translation: American Policy Debate Theory and Comic Translations