John W Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5594940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Profanity from the heart as exceptional civic rhetoric
During a televised ceremony celebrating the Boston Marathon bombing heroes, Red Sox star David Ortiz used profanity in his unscripted message of support for the city. The rhetorical significance of this incident lies not just with his language, but also the reactions to it. That many deemed Ortiz's profanity inoffensive—even appropriate—prompts a reconsideration of profanity's role in civic rhetoric. This essay examines the public engagements wit…
Reshaping the “Pillow Angel”
This essay uses the controversial “Ashley Treatment” to argue that normative body rhetorics have become untethered from and more influential than traditional medical perspectives in determinations about surgical intervention. While disagreeing greatly over the ethics of the “Treatment,” both its supporters and critics construct rhetorics of a “healthy” body against which pre- and post-Treatment bodies can be evaluated. These rhetorics demonstrate…
Disciplining the Virtual Home Front
Considered by many to be the first war of the Information Age, the 2003 War in Iraq provided a unique opportunity for observing how the American mainstream press defined the Web's journalistic value and how it reacted to the competition from alternative online news sources. In an attempt to exert control over the Web as a journalistic space, the mainstream press used rhetorics of “professionalism” to discipline online news seekers into conforming…
The rhetorical limits of the “plastic body”
This essay analyzes the “plastic body” as it is produced in the discourse of plastic surgery. The contemporary industry has constructed a popular image of plastic surgery as a readily available and personally empowering means to resolve body image issues, on the presumption that any body can become a “better” body. The ideology underlying the industry emerges out of analysis of the rhetoric of surgeons and patients. The rhetorical efforts of ampu…
Sabotage or Performed Compliance
This essay analyzes contemporary temporary employment texts and the competing rhetorical definitions that shape the meanings of employment and identity in the contingent economy. Arguing against resistant labor rhetoric that is ill-suited to present conditions of temp work, the author locates and advocates a rhetoric of "performativity" that enables temps to carve out their own definitional territory and seek advantage within an oppressive manage…
Contexts and critiques in contemporary internet scholarship
ELECTRONIC WHISTLE‐STOPS: THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON AMERICAN POLITICS. By Gary W. Selnow. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998; pp. xxiii + 221. $67.00 cloth; $20.95 paper. republic.com. By Cass Sunstein. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001; pp. iii + 224. $19.95. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE INTERNET? By Mark Poster. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001; pp. ix + 214. $44.95 cloth; $17.95 paper
Recipes or blueprints for our genes? How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors
In the 1990s, critics of public discourse about genetics urged the replacement of the "blueprint" metaphor with the "recipe" metaphor. The subsequent appearance of the "recipe" metaphor in the mass media did not carry the expected reduction of genetic determinism, however. To account for the failure of the critical predictions, this essay extends Josef Stern's contextually based semantic theory of metaphor to a polyvocal theory of how metaphors d…
Where Politicians Fear to Tread
As Congress continues to struggle to create effective means for governing the Internet, some software companies have sidestepped civic processes and taken the debate into the commercial sphere. To sell their software security products, computer companies recast Internet security strictly as private, not public, concerns, in a way that generates as much fear as the ads claim to eliminate. This article examines the rhetoric advertisements employ to…
The rhetorical limits of the “plastic body”
This essay analyzes the “plastic body” as it is produced in the discourse of plastic surgery. The contemporary industry has constructed a popular image of plastic surgery as a readily available and personally empowering means to resolve body image issues, on the presumption that any body can become a “better” body. The ideology underlying the industry emerges out of analysis of the rhetoric of surgeons and patients. The rhetorical efforts of ampu…
Sabotage or Performed Compliance
This essay analyzes contemporary temporary employment texts and the competing rhetorical definitions that shape the meanings of employment and identity in the contingent economy. Arguing against resistant labor rhetoric that is ill-suited to present conditions of temp work, the author locates and advocates a rhetoric of "performativity" that enables temps to carve out their own definitional territory and seek advantage within an oppressive manage…
Profanity from the heart as exceptional civic rhetoric
During a televised ceremony celebrating the Boston Marathon bombing heroes, Red Sox star David Ortiz used profanity in his unscripted message of support for the city. The rhetorical significance of this incident lies not just with his language, but also the reactions to it. That many deemed Ortiz's profanity inoffensive—even appropriate—prompts a reconsideration of profanity's role in civic rhetoric. This essay examines the public engagements wit…
Disciplining the Virtual Home Front
Considered by many to be the first war of the Information Age, the 2003 War in Iraq provided a unique opportunity for observing how the American mainstream press defined the Web's journalistic value and how it reacted to the competition from alternative online news sources. In an attempt to exert control over the Web as a journalistic space, the mainstream press used rhetorics of “professionalism” to discipline online news seekers into conforming…
Recipes or blueprints for our genes? How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors
In the 1990s, critics of public discourse about genetics urged the replacement of the "blueprint" metaphor with the "recipe" metaphor. The subsequent appearance of the "recipe" metaphor in the mass media did not carry the expected reduction of genetic determinism, however. To account for the failure of the critical predictions, this essay extends Josef Stern's contextually based semantic theory of metaphor to a polyvocal theory of how metaphors d…
Where Politicians Fear to Tread
As Congress continues to struggle to create effective means for governing the Internet, some software companies have sidestepped civic processes and taken the debate into the commercial sphere. To sell their software security products, computer companies recast Internet security strictly as private, not public, concerns, in a way that generates as much fear as the ads claim to eliminate. This article examines the rhetoric advertisements employ to…
Contexts and critiques in contemporary internet scholarship
ELECTRONIC WHISTLE‐STOPS: THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON AMERICAN POLITICS. By Gary W. Selnow. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998; pp. xxiii + 221. $67.00 cloth; $20.95 paper. republic.com. By Cass Sunstein. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001; pp. iii + 224. $19.95. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE INTERNET? By Mark Poster. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001; pp. ix + 214. $44.95 cloth; $17.95 paper
Recipes or blueprints for our genes? How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors
In the 1990s, critics of public discourse about genetics urged the replacement of the "blueprint" metaphor with the "recipe" metaphor. The subsequent appearance of the "recipe" metaphor in the mass media did not carry the expected reduction of genetic determinism, however. To account for the failure of the critical predictions, this essay extends Josef Stern's contextually based semantic theory of metaphor to a polyvocal theory of how metaphors d…
Sabotage or Performed Compliance
This essay analyzes contemporary temporary employment texts and the competing rhetorical definitions that shape the meanings of employment and identity in the contingent economy. Arguing against resistant labor rhetoric that is ill-suited to present conditions of temp work, the author locates and advocates a rhetoric of "performativity" that enables temps to carve out their own definitional territory and seek advantage within an oppressive manage…
The rhetorical limits of the “plastic body”
This essay analyzes the “plastic body” as it is produced in the discourse of plastic surgery. The contemporary industry has constructed a popular image of plastic surgery as a readily available and personally empowering means to resolve body image issues, on the presumption that any body can become a “better” body. The ideology underlying the industry emerges out of analysis of the rhetoric of surgeons and patients. The rhetorical efforts of ampu…
Disciplining the Virtual Home Front
Considered by many to be the first war of the Information Age, the 2003 War in Iraq provided a unique opportunity for observing how the American mainstream press defined the Web's journalistic value and how it reacted to the competition from alternative online news sources. In an attempt to exert control over the Web as a journalistic space, the mainstream press used rhetorics of “professionalism” to discipline online news seekers into conforming…
Reshaping the “Pillow Angel”
This essay uses the controversial “Ashley Treatment” to argue that normative body rhetorics have become untethered from and more influential than traditional medical perspectives in determinations about surgical intervention. While disagreeing greatly over the ethics of the “Treatment,” both its supporters and critics construct rhetorics of a “healthy” body against which pre- and post-Treatment bodies can be evaluated. These rhetorics demonstrate…
Profanity from the heart as exceptional civic rhetoric
During a televised ceremony celebrating the Boston Marathon bombing heroes, Red Sox star David Ortiz used profanity in his unscripted message of support for the city. The rhetorical significance of this incident lies not just with his language, but also the reactions to it. That many deemed Ortiz's profanity inoffensive—even appropriate—prompts a reconsideration of profanity's role in civic rhetoric. This essay examines the public engagements wit…
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