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

Robert Asen



Spotlighted Theories and Practices of Networking Argument



2. Substance: An Exploration of the State of Argument in the Post-Fact Era

James F. Klumpp



3. Ideology, Argument, and the Post-Truth Panic

Dana L. Cloud



4. A Materialist Perspective on Argument Networks as Contentious Politics

Ronald Walter Greene



5. More Disingenuous Controversy: Hashtags, Chants, and an Election

John Fritch and Catherine Helen Palczewski



6. How Technoliberals Argue

Damien Smith Pfister



7. Network Matters: Black Lives and Blue Lives Advocacy in On and Offline Settings

Maegan Parker Brooks



8. Networked Public Argument as Terrain for Statecraft

Craig Hayden



Strategic Use of Definition in Networked Argument



9. Ideological Conservatism vs. Faux Populism in Donald Trump's Inaugural Address

David Zarefsky



10. Populists Argue, but Populism Is Not an Argumentation (And Why the Distinction Matters for Argumentation Theory)

David M. Cheshier



11. Contrasting Ideological Networks: Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump

Robert C. Rowland



12. The Cyber Imperative: Ligatures as Ordering Devices

Ilon Lauer



13. The Agentic Earth Topos: Figuring a Violent Earth at the End of the Anthropocene

Joshua P. Ewalt



14. What Makes a Woman a Woman? The I.O.C.'s Deliberation over Sex in International Sport

Jaclyn Nolan



15. The Discursive Construction of the Anti-Nuclear Activist

Ian Summers, Alley Agee, Monica Renae Scott, and Danielle Endres



16. The Visible and the Invisible: Arguing about Threats to Loyalty in the Internet Age

Adam Blood and Ronald Lee



17. When Do Perpetrators Count: A Longitudinal Analysis of News Definitions of Deceased Mass Shooters

Dakota Park-Ozee and Jason Jordan



18. Defining "Birth Rape": Networked Argument Resources for Mothers' Advocacy

Beth L. Boser



19. When They Found Her: Networked Argument and Contested Memory

Sarah T. Partlow Lefevre



Strategic Use of Association and Dissociation in Networked Argument



20. Reading Freaks: Trump in an Analogical Hermeneutic Network

Angela G. Ray and Robert Elliot Mills



21. Petitioning a Mormon God: Analogical Argument as a Means of Revelation in

the Ordain Women Movement

Brian Heslop



22. Extinguished Dissent: Norman Morrison's Self-immolation as Argument by Sacrifice

Meredith Neville-Shepard



23. Timescape 9/11: Networked Memories

Jeremy David Johnson



24. Analogy and Argument in the Rhetoric of Science

Jay Frank



25. Specification, Dissociation, and Voting Rights in the United States

James Jasinski



26. Hispanic Politicians on the Rise: Argumentation Strategies of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio

Ann E. Burnette and Wayne L. Kraemer



27. Escaping the "Broken Middle": Establishing Argumentative Presence within Association and Disassociation

Aaron Dicker



28. Challenges of Networked Circulation within Advocacy Campaigns

Ruth J. Beerman



29. Accumulating Affect and Visual Argument: The Case of the 2015 Japanese Hostage Crisis

Naoki Kambe



30. Analyzing Public Diplomacy for Japan-U.S. Reconciliation

Hiroko Okuda



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

R. Brandon Anderson



32. The Visual Depiction of Statehood in Daesh's Dabiq Magazine and al-Naba' Newsletter

Kareem El Damanhoury



33. Networked Argumentation via Collective Rhetorics at the Women's March on the Utah State Capitol and the Women's March on Washington

Alley Agee, Dakota Park-Ozee, and Allison Blumling



34. Climate Change Argumentation: Subnational Networks, Interest Convergence, and Multiple Publics

William Mosley-Jensen



35. Networking, Circulation, and Publicity of Climate Change Discourses and Arguments: An Examination of Leonardo Dicaprio's Climate Change Advocacy

Andrew J. Hart



36. Arguments for Women's Banks and the Possibilities and Limits of Corporate Structural Mimesis as Private-Public Argument Networks

David B. Hingstman



37. Administrative Arguments and Network Governance: The Case of Women's Health

Zornitsa Keremidchieva



38. Networks of Violence: Converging Representations of the Eric Garner Lynching

Samuel P. Perry



39. Performing Hegemonic Masculinity: Trump's Framing of U.S. Foreign Policy

Heidi Hamilton



40. Argument and the Foundations of Social Networks: Affective Argument and Popular American History

Michael Janas



41. Data Cannot Speak for Themselves: Unreasonable Claims within the Big Social Data Community

Candice L. Lanius



42. Scientific Argument Networks and the Polytechtonic Art of Rhetoric

L. Paul Strait



Argument Circulation in Online Networks



43. Arguments of a New Virtual Religion: How Athenism "Clicks" New Members and Reimagines the Mind-Body Dualism

Emma Frances Bloomfield



44. "Nasty Women": "Dialectical Controversy," Argumentum Ad Personam, and Aggressive Rebuttals

G. Thomas Goodnight



45. The Rage Network: Form, Affective Arguments, and Toxic Masculinity in Digital Space

Casey Ryan Kelly



46. Polemic Platforms and the "Woman Card": Trumping Truth with Enthymemes in the Twitterverse

Joan Faber McAlister



47. Following Affective Winds Over Panmediated Networks: Image-Drive Activism in Chengdu, China

Elizabeth Brunner



48. Je (Ne) Suis...: Exploring the Performative Contradiction in Anti-Clicktivism Arguments

Aaron Hess



49. Memes as Commonplace: Ted Cruz, Serial Killers, and the Making of Networked Multitudes

Jonathan S. Carter



50. Critical Deliberation Under Fire: Milblogging, Free Speech, and the "Soldiers' Protocol to Enable Active Communication Act"

Michael K. Middleton and Kevin A. Johnson



51. Embedded Argumentation in Digital Media Networks: On "Native" Advertising

Seth Fendley



52. Too Srat to Care: Participatory Culture and the Information Economy of Total Sorority Move

Amber Davisson and Kelsey Jackson



53. Social Physics and the Moral Economy of Spreadable Media: An Integrated Model for Communication Networking

Zachary Sheldon



Argument Circulation in Offline Networks



54. Networks of Argument and Relationality in the Contemporary Use of Auschwitz Numbers in the New England Holocaust Memorial

Linda Diane Horwitz and Daniel C. Brouwer



55. Networked Reconciliation

Tyler Hiebert, Randall A. Lake, and Chris Robbins



56. To Tell Our Own Truths: Settler Postcolonialism as an Antecedent to Native American Argumentation Studies

Margret McCue-Enser



57. Rhetorical Rumors: Hauntology in International Feminicidio Discourse

Jose Angel Maldonado



58. Networked Memories: Remembering Barbara Jordan in 21st Century Immigration Debates

Carly S. Woods



59. Remembering Roosevelt: Arguing for Memory Through Public and Private Networks

Chandra A. Maldonado



60. Appearance Trumps Substance: The Enduring Legacy of the Great Debate of September 26, 1960

Sara A. Mehltretter Drury and Dale A. Herbeck



61. "Morning in America": Ronald Reagan's Legacy of Population as Argument

Paul Elliott Johnson



62. Networking Legal Arguments: Prudential Accommodation in National Federation v. Sebelius

M. Kelly Carr



Evaluating Argumentation Networks



63. Rising to the Defense of Ad Hominem Arguments

David Cratis Williams and Dale Hample



64. The Fallacy of Sweeping Generalization

David Botting



65. Exhortation in Interpersonal Discussion

Susan L. Kline



66. Writing about Serial Arguments: The Effects of Manipulating Argument Perspective

Amy Janan Johnson, Ioana A. Cionea, Eryn N. Bostwick, Megan A. Bassick,

and Nathan J. Lindsey



67. Argumentativeness and Verbal Aggressiveness Are Two Things Apiece

Dale Hample



68. Is Fact-checking Biased? A Computerized Content Analysis

Jeffrey W. Jarman



69. Building Arguments and Attending to Face in Small Claims Court: Distinctive Features of the Genre

Karen Tracy



70. Argumentation as a Practical Discipline

Robert T. Craig



71. Networks, Norms, and the Problem of Capable Arguers

Timothy Barouch



72. The Micropolitics of Control: Fascism, Desire, and Argument in President Trump's America

George F. (Guy) McHendry, Jr. and Nicholas S. Paliewicz



Evaluating Debating Networks



73. Networking Debate and Civic Engagement: Measuring the Impact of High School Debate Camps

Brian Lain and Karen Anderson-Lain



74. Designing Public Debates to Facilitate Dynamic Updating in a Network Society

Justin Eckstein and Gordon R. Mitchell



75. Community-Based Participatory Debate: A Synthesis of Debate Pedagogy, Practice, and Research

John J. Rief and Rachel Wilson



76. Text, Talk, Argue: How to Improve Text-Driven Political Conversations

Don Waisanen, Allison Hahn, and Eric Gander



77. Gender Diversity in Debate in Japan: An Examination of Debate Competitions at the Secondary and Tertiary Levels

Junya Morooka



78. Conceptualizing Academic Debate in Japan: A Study of Judging Philosophy Statements

Kaori Miyawaki and Katsuya Koresawa



79. Big in Japan?: A Note on the Japanese Reception of American Policy Debate

Satoru Aonuma and Kazuhiko Seno



80. Evolutions and Devolutions in Practice: Theory Arguments in Recent English-speaking College Policy Debate in Japan

Noriaki Tajima



81. Notes on the Humor of Translation: American Policy Debate Theory and Comic Translations

Brian Lain