Jennifer Mercieca
Biographic Data
| ID | 5594877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Mercieca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Mercieca |
| SIGNATURE | MERCIECA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2276-9729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Putting the “Public” in Rhetoric & Public Affairs
We argue that part of Rhetoric & Public Affairs’ future should center public-facing scholarship in rhetorical studies. We begin by chronicling some of the work colleagues are doing to bridge expert and lay publics: podcasts, popular and trade press interviews, social media content development and management, and activist engagements. Centering public-facing scholarship creates several notable shifts: (1) it changes the “so what?” for traditional …
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship
Jennifer R. MerciecaTexas A&M University© 2015, Jennifer R. Mercieca
Did the 2008 Election Change Everything
Book Review| December 01 2012 Did the 2008 Election Change Everything? Electing the President 2008: The Insiders’ View. Kathleen Hall Jamieson.The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign. Heather E. Harris, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Catherine R. Squires.The Performance of Politics: Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power. Jeffery C. Alexander.Who Should Be First? Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Ca…
A Nation of Speechifiers
What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café
In early December of 2010, the virtual doors of the CM Cafe were swung open. Seven scholars were invited to the opening—Sarah Dempsey (University of North Carolina), Mohan Dutta (Purdue University)
A Discovered Dissembler Can Achieve Nothing Great”; Or, Four Theses on the Death of Presidential Rhetoric in an Age of Empire
Because of the explosion of mass media, we have entered a new age of white noise; because of the disastrous extension of U.S. imperial ambitions, we have entered a new age of political deception; when these two historical factors are combined with the peculiar communicative habits of President George W. Bush, Americans are left with what we call a post‐rhetorical presidency. This is an anti‐democratic condition wherein presidential discourse is n…
A Vernacular Republican Rhetoric
Our analysis of farmer and tavern-keeper William Manning's 1798 Key of Libberty extends the concept of American republican rhetoric to include both elite and vernacular forms. We find that the key components of Manning's vernacular republicanism are: an aggressive use of the rhetoric of critique; the demand for transparency in public argument; the rejection of elite leadership; and the belief that decisions must be made in the interest of the com…
A Discovered Dissembler Can Achieve Nothing Great”; Or, Four Theses on the Death of Presidential Rhetoric in an Age of Empire
Because of the explosion of mass media, we have entered a new age of white noise; because of the disastrous extension of U.S. imperial ambitions, we have entered a new age of political deception; when these two historical factors are combined with the peculiar communicative habits of President George W. Bush, Americans are left with what we call a post‐rhetorical presidency. This is an anti‐democratic condition wherein presidential discourse is n…
What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café
In early December of 2010, the virtual doors of the CM Cafe were swung open. Seven scholars were invited to the opening—Sarah Dempsey (University of North Carolina), Mohan Dutta (Purdue University)
A Vernacular Republican Rhetoric
Our analysis of farmer and tavern-keeper William Manning's 1798 Key of Libberty extends the concept of American republican rhetoric to include both elite and vernacular forms. We find that the key components of Manning's vernacular republicanism are: an aggressive use of the rhetoric of critique; the demand for transparency in public argument; the rejection of elite leadership; and the belief that decisions must be made in the interest of the com…
A Discovered Dissembler Can Achieve Nothing Great”; Or, Four Theses on the Death of Presidential Rhetoric in an Age of Empire
Because of the explosion of mass media, we have entered a new age of white noise; because of the disastrous extension of U.S. imperial ambitions, we have entered a new age of political deception; when these two historical factors are combined with the peculiar communicative habits of President George W. Bush, Americans are left with what we call a post‐rhetorical presidency. This is an anti‐democratic condition wherein presidential discourse is n…
What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café
In early December of 2010, the virtual doors of the CM Cafe were swung open. Seven scholars were invited to the opening—Sarah Dempsey (University of North Carolina), Mohan Dutta (Purdue University)
Did the 2008 Election Change Everything
Book Review| December 01 2012 Did the 2008 Election Change Everything? Electing the President 2008: The Insiders’ View. Kathleen Hall Jamieson.The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign. Heather E. Harris, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Catherine R. Squires.The Performance of Politics: Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power. Jeffery C. Alexander.Who Should Be First? Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Ca…
A Nation of Speechifiers
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship
Jennifer R. MerciecaTexas A&M University© 2015, Jennifer R. Mercieca
Putting the “Public” in Rhetoric & Public Affairs
We argue that part of Rhetoric & Public Affairs’ future should center public-facing scholarship in rhetorical studies. We begin by chronicling some of the work colleagues are doing to bridge expert and lay publics: podcasts, popular and trade press interviews, social media content development and management, and activist engagements. Centering public-facing scholarship creates several notable shifts: (1) it changes the “so what?” for traditional …
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Rhetoric (4 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works)