Lynda Olman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3420546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynda Olman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynda |
| FAMILY NAME | Olman |
| SIGNATURE | OLMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4377-5469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Global Forest Visualization
This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management. Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and form the grid within which forests become commodities. T…
The “Because Science” meme as virtual commonplace
Recent scholarship in virtual rhetorics has demonstrated that we must abandon static notions of place if we wish to account for the rhetorical effects of internet memes and other forms of virtual argumentation. However, displacing virtual rhetorics entirely effaces grounds for collective political action, particularly political resistance organized in virtual environments such as internet forums. We can restore this crucial grounding, without sac…
Techniques of Justice
This essay responds to recent calls for a closer examination of visualizations of race in multi-ethnic literature by revisiting the work of W. E. B. Du Bois in this area: particularly, the infographics he created for the 1900 Paris Exposition and the covers he commissioned for The Crisis during his editorship of that journal. Utilizing an approach derived from Foucault’s theories of panopticism, we consider how Du Bois engaged contemporary visual…
Into the Gateway
This is the Guest Editors’ Introduction to a themed issue that reflects on the inaugural Rhetoric Society of America Project, which, in 2019, hosted a range of rhetorical investigations into the University of Nevada, Reno’s Campus Master Plan and its Gateway Precinct. It argues that the recent field orientation to rhetoric pushes rhetoricians to think about how their scholarship might participate in immanent negotiations, mixing slow, deliberate,…
Techniques of Justice
This essay responds to recent calls for a closer examination of visualizations of race in multi-ethnic literature by revisiting the work of W. E. B. Du Bois in this area: particularly, the infographics he created for the 1900 Paris Exposition and the covers he commissioned for The Crisis during his editorship of that journal. Utilizing an approach derived from Foucault’s theories of panopticism, we consider how Du Bois engaged contemporary visual…
Into the Gateway
This is the Guest Editors’ Introduction to a themed issue that reflects on the inaugural Rhetoric Society of America Project, which, in 2019, hosted a range of rhetorical investigations into the University of Nevada, Reno’s Campus Master Plan and its Gateway Precinct. It argues that the recent field orientation to rhetoric pushes rhetoricians to think about how their scholarship might participate in immanent negotiations, mixing slow, deliberate,…
Techniques of Justice
This essay responds to recent calls for a closer examination of visualizations of race in multi-ethnic literature by revisiting the work of W. E. B. Du Bois in this area: particularly, the infographics he created for the 1900 Paris Exposition and the covers he commissioned for The Crisis during his editorship of that journal. Utilizing an approach derived from Foucault’s theories of panopticism, we consider how Du Bois engaged contemporary visual…
The “Because Science” meme as virtual commonplace
Recent scholarship in virtual rhetorics has demonstrated that we must abandon static notions of place if we wish to account for the rhetorical effects of internet memes and other forms of virtual argumentation. However, displacing virtual rhetorics entirely effaces grounds for collective political action, particularly political resistance organized in virtual environments such as internet forums. We can restore this crucial grounding, without sac…
Global Forest Visualization
This book project examines global forest monitoring as a means to understand the promises and problems of global visualization for climate management. Specifically, the book focuses on Global Forest Watch, the most developed and widely available forest-monitoring platform, created in 1997 by the World Resource Institute. Forest maps are always political as they visualize power relations and form the grid within which forests become commodities. T…
Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (2 works) · Rhetoric (2 works)