Penelope Ironstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penelope Ironstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penelope |
| FAMILY NAME | Ironstone |
| SIGNATURE | IRONSTONE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
You know Birds Aren’t Real isn’t real, right?” Working Through Communication and Media Studies Student Affect in the Critical Communication Classroom
Background: Increasing polarization around risk topics has required shifting pedagogical approaches to attend to affective responses of students. In this article, I reflect upon the ways in which anxiety, grief, uncertainty, science skepticism, and the circulation of misinformation are manifest as pedagogical challenges when teaching risk and communication. Analysis: Grounded in 25 years’ experience working with students in classes addressing aff…
Our Covid Conjuncture
On the second weekend of March 2020, just before the Canada-wide lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic was made official, we realized that we needed to take a snapshot of rapid changes that were unfolding around us The biopolitical dimensions of public health and governmental responses to the pandemic were already clear, so we contacted Canadian-based scholars working in field of biopolitics to contribute short, rapid-response essays on the first, e…
The Pandemic is (Extra) Ordinary
Covid-19
This essay is inspired by what has become a staple of cultural studies, the parsing of keywords that appear and crystallize during moments of social, cultural, political and economic change. It takes as its starting point a methodology based in the examples of Williams’ (1985) Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society and Grover’s (1987) “AIDS: Keywords” in order to trace the ways that the language of COVID-19 has served simultaneously to mak…
The Microbiome as TED Knows It
Background Although criticized for a variety of reasons, TED platforms and conventions have been engaged, often uncritically, as tools for popular science communication. This article critically examines four TED Talks that engage the relatively recent biomedical concept of the human microbiome. Analysis Neoliberal values underpin both the TED universe and the marketization of science. TED conventions produce a discursive regularity that brings to…
Me, my self, and the multitude
The human microbiome has become one of the dominant biomedical frameworks of the contemporary moment that may be understood to be post-Pasteurian. The recognitions the human microbiome opens up for thinking about the biological self and the individual have ontological and epistemological ramifications for considering what and who the human being is. As this article illustrates, the microbiopolitics of the human microbiome challenges the immunitar…
The Ethics of Care
Alan Blum and Stuart J. Murray’s 2017 volume, The Ethics of Care , may seem an odd title to review in the Canadian Journal of Communication . More than a contribution to research on caregiving for those who work in the field or a text for those who view health communication through a narrow lens that only considers interpersonal communication around death, The Ethics of Care challenges readers from a variety of backgrounds to consider what is at …
Me, my self, and the multitude
The human microbiome has become one of the dominant biomedical frameworks of the contemporary moment that may be understood to be post-Pasteurian. The recognitions the human microbiome opens up for thinking about the biological self and the individual have ontological and epistemological ramifications for considering what and who the human being is. As this article illustrates, the microbiopolitics of the human microbiome challenges the immunitar…
The Ethics of Care
Alan Blum and Stuart J. Murray’s 2017 volume, The Ethics of Care , may seem an odd title to review in the Canadian Journal of Communication . More than a contribution to research on caregiving for those who work in the field or a text for those who view health communication through a narrow lens that only considers interpersonal communication around death, The Ethics of Care challenges readers from a variety of backgrounds to consider what is at …
The Microbiome as TED Knows It
Background Although criticized for a variety of reasons, TED platforms and conventions have been engaged, often uncritically, as tools for popular science communication. This article critically examines four TED Talks that engage the relatively recent biomedical concept of the human microbiome. Analysis Neoliberal values underpin both the TED universe and the marketization of science. TED conventions produce a discursive regularity that brings to…
Me, my self, and the multitude
The human microbiome has become one of the dominant biomedical frameworks of the contemporary moment that may be understood to be post-Pasteurian. The recognitions the human microbiome opens up for thinking about the biological self and the individual have ontological and epistemological ramifications for considering what and who the human being is. As this article illustrates, the microbiopolitics of the human microbiome challenges the immunitar…
Our Covid Conjuncture
On the second weekend of March 2020, just before the Canada-wide lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic was made official, we realized that we needed to take a snapshot of rapid changes that were unfolding around us The biopolitical dimensions of public health and governmental responses to the pandemic were already clear, so we contacted Canadian-based scholars working in field of biopolitics to contribute short, rapid-response essays on the first, e…
The Pandemic is (Extra) Ordinary
Covid-19
This essay is inspired by what has become a staple of cultural studies, the parsing of keywords that appear and crystallize during moments of social, cultural, political and economic change. It takes as its starting point a methodology based in the examples of Williams’ (1985) Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society and Grover’s (1987) “AIDS: Keywords” in order to trace the ways that the language of COVID-19 has served simultaneously to mak…
You know Birds Aren’t Real isn’t real, right?” Working Through Communication and Media Studies Student Affect in the Critical Communication Classroom
Background: Increasing polarization around risk topics has required shifting pedagogical approaches to attend to affective responses of students. In this article, I reflect upon the ways in which anxiety, grief, uncertainty, science skepticism, and the circulation of misinformation are manifest as pedagogical challenges when teaching risk and communication. Analysis: Grounded in 25 years’ experience working with students in classes addressing aff…
Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Pandemic (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works) · Internal Medicine (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works)