Jason Hannan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4484919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Hannan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Hannan |
| SIGNATURE | HANNAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winnipeg |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-4358-0037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making Submission Sexy Again
Tradwife influencers reflect a curious paradox in the conservative digital sphere. While their branded aesthetic is seemingly apolitical, their ideology insists a woman’s happiness is conditional upon submission. In this paper, we ask whether tradwife discourse is different from other forms of conservative rhetoric by tracing its underlying discursive patterns and rhetorical strategies. We argue that tradwife rhetoric exemplifies reactionary spee…
Reactionary speech in the digital age
It has been over thirty years since the publication of Albert Hirschman’s The Rhetoric of Reaction . Hirschman’s tripartite model – the perversity, futility and jeopardy theses – offers a powerful lens through which to read the historical corpus of conservative thought. Yet we must ask whether a new model of reactionary rhetoric is needed today, given the very different political atmosphere and media environment from the ones in which Hirschman o…
Trolling Ourselves to Death
Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman’s classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Yet, how do we expla…
Solidarity
Virtual Menageries
A Blind Spot in Political Theory
This article examines the thought of two prominent political theorists: John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both Rawls and Habermas take deliberation to be central to the theory of justice. In their view, deliberation provides a necessary alternative to paternalistic models of power and authority. The deliberative turn has been celebrated as one of the great frontiers of political theory. But what are its limitations? What are its blind spots? This a…
Ethics under Capital
We in the West are living in the midst of a deadly culture war. Our rival worldviews clash with increasing violence in the public arena, culminating in deadly riots and mass shootings. A fragmented left now confronts a resurgent and reactionary right, which threatens to reverse decades of social progress. Commentators have declared that we live in a"post-truth world," one dominated by online trolls and conspiracy theorists. How did we arrive at t…
Trolling ourselves to death? Social media and post-truth politics
There are at least two ways of framing the problem of post-truth politics. One is to focus on the media, or journalism. A second is to focus on media, or technologies of communication. Between the two, which can be said to be the driver of our post-truth world? This paper follows the second framework, locating the problem of post-truth politics in social media. It further suggests that trolling has gone mainstream, shaping politics and even legis…
M ead, G eorge H erbert
George Herbert Mead was one of the seminal figures of modern communication theory, best known for his concept of the social self. This entry provides a brief account of Mead's life and thought. It covers his social progressivism, his distinctions between the “I” and the “me,” the nature of the social self, and his legacy in the field of communication theory.
Philosophy
Philosophy was once hailed as the “queen of the sciences,” a form of inquiry so basic and fundamental that it was thought to be the foundation of every major field and discipline. Yet, for all its magnanimity and dramatic history, philosophy as an idea is curiously difficult to define and more difficult still to make sense of. This has everything to do with the many different ways of approaching the multifaceted thing we call “philosophy.” This e…
Moral Discourse Without Foundations
This article seeks to understand the challenges of formulating a postfoundational model of moral discourse. Invoking Richard Bernstein's vision of pragmatism as a philosophy of communication and rational choice without foundations, it compares and contrasts two theorists of moral discourse: Jürgen Habermas and Alasdair MacIntyre. The article explores the strengths and weaknesses of their respective models of moral discourse and offers some reflec…
Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication
Contents: Jason Hannan: Hannah Arendt: Public Action, Sociality, and Permanence in the World - Stuart Poyntz: Seyla Benhabib: Foundations for Critical Communication Theory and Praxis - Andrew R. Smith: Richard J. Bernstein: Engaged Pluralist and Dialogical Exemplar - Vincent Colapietro: Robert Brandom: Inference and Meaning - Kevin Scharp: Martin Buber: Bearing Witness to an Experience - Rob Anderson/Kenneth N. Cissna: Ernst Cassirer: Communicati…
By Way of Interruption
The Intellectual Legacy of George Herbert Mead
His mind was germinative and seminal. One would have to go far to find a teacher of our own day who started in others so many fruitful lines of thought; I dislike to think what my own thinking migh
Trolling ourselves to death? Social media and post-truth politics
There are at least two ways of framing the problem of post-truth politics. One is to focus on the media, or journalism. A second is to focus on media, or technologies of communication. Between the two, which can be said to be the driver of our post-truth world? This paper follows the second framework, locating the problem of post-truth politics in social media. It further suggests that trolling has gone mainstream, shaping politics and even legis…
Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication
Contents: Jason Hannan: Hannah Arendt: Public Action, Sociality, and Permanence in the World - Stuart Poyntz: Seyla Benhabib: Foundations for Critical Communication Theory and Praxis - Andrew R. Smith: Richard J. Bernstein: Engaged Pluralist and Dialogical Exemplar - Vincent Colapietro: Robert Brandom: Inference and Meaning - Kevin Scharp: Martin Buber: Bearing Witness to an Experience - Rob Anderson/Kenneth N. Cissna: Ernst Cassirer: Communicati…
By Way of Interruption
The Intellectual Legacy of George Herbert Mead
His mind was germinative and seminal. One would have to go far to find a teacher of our own day who started in others so many fruitful lines of thought; I dislike to think what my own thinking migh
Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication
Contents: Jason Hannan: Hannah Arendt: Public Action, Sociality, and Permanence in the World - Stuart Poyntz: Seyla Benhabib: Foundations for Critical Communication Theory and Praxis - Andrew R. Smith: Richard J. Bernstein: Engaged Pluralist and Dialogical Exemplar - Vincent Colapietro: Robert Brandom: Inference and Meaning - Kevin Scharp: Martin Buber: Bearing Witness to an Experience - Rob Anderson/Kenneth N. Cissna: Ernst Cassirer: Communicati…
Moral Discourse Without Foundations
This article seeks to understand the challenges of formulating a postfoundational model of moral discourse. Invoking Richard Bernstein's vision of pragmatism as a philosophy of communication and rational choice without foundations, it compares and contrasts two theorists of moral discourse: Jürgen Habermas and Alasdair MacIntyre. The article explores the strengths and weaknesses of their respective models of moral discourse and offers some reflec…
M ead, G eorge H erbert
George Herbert Mead was one of the seminal figures of modern communication theory, best known for his concept of the social self. This entry provides a brief account of Mead's life and thought. It covers his social progressivism, his distinctions between the “I” and the “me,” the nature of the social self, and his legacy in the field of communication theory.
Philosophy
Philosophy was once hailed as the “queen of the sciences,” a form of inquiry so basic and fundamental that it was thought to be the foundation of every major field and discipline. Yet, for all its magnanimity and dramatic history, philosophy as an idea is curiously difficult to define and more difficult still to make sense of. This has everything to do with the many different ways of approaching the multifaceted thing we call “philosophy.” This e…
Trolling ourselves to death? Social media and post-truth politics
There are at least two ways of framing the problem of post-truth politics. One is to focus on the media, or journalism. A second is to focus on media, or technologies of communication. Between the two, which can be said to be the driver of our post-truth world? This paper follows the second framework, locating the problem of post-truth politics in social media. It further suggests that trolling has gone mainstream, shaping politics and even legis…
A Blind Spot in Political Theory
This article examines the thought of two prominent political theorists: John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Both Rawls and Habermas take deliberation to be central to the theory of justice. In their view, deliberation provides a necessary alternative to paternalistic models of power and authority. The deliberative turn has been celebrated as one of the great frontiers of political theory. But what are its limitations? What are its blind spots? This a…
Ethics under Capital
We in the West are living in the midst of a deadly culture war. Our rival worldviews clash with increasing violence in the public arena, culminating in deadly riots and mass shootings. A fragmented left now confronts a resurgent and reactionary right, which threatens to reverse decades of social progress. Commentators have declared that we live in a"post-truth world," one dominated by online trolls and conspiracy theorists. How did we arrive at t…
Solidarity
Virtual Menageries
Trolling Ourselves to Death
Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman’s classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Yet, how do we expla…
Reactionary speech in the digital age
It has been over thirty years since the publication of Albert Hirschman’s The Rhetoric of Reaction . Hirschman’s tripartite model – the perversity, futility and jeopardy theses – offers a powerful lens through which to read the historical corpus of conservative thought. Yet we must ask whether a new model of reactionary rhetoric is needed today, given the very different political atmosphere and media environment from the ones in which Hirschman o…
Making Submission Sexy Again
Tradwife influencers reflect a curious paradox in the conservative digital sphere. While their branded aesthetic is seemingly apolitical, their ideology insists a woman’s happiness is conditional upon submission. In this paper, we ask whether tradwife discourse is different from other forms of conservative rhetoric by tracing its underlying discursive patterns and rhetorical strategies. We argue that tradwife rhetoric exemplifies reactionary spee…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Reactionary (3 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works)