Madison A Krall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madison A Krall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madison A |
| FAMILY NAME | Krall |
| SIGNATURE | KRALL M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seton Hall University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5649-3081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Union Carbide’s “Hand in Things to Come”
Due to the booming U.S. chemical industry and the proliferation of new media, the mid-twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a distinct public vocabulary of chemistry. This vocabulary played a role in constituting U.S. consumer culture and establishing a narrative groundwork for upholding and shaping ideologies about progress, colonialism, and the value of U.S. corporate science – and the justification of corresponding large-scale environme…
Indirect audiences and conflicting narratives about oral contraception
When the first oral contraceptive pill was approved in the United States in 1960, scientific information for potential users was scant. Newspapers were one of the few sources of lay pill-related content. This study offers a critical-rhetorical analysis of the earliest New York Times coverage of the oral contraceptive pill ( N = 292), to assess how audiences were guided to understand and interpret this new technology. Findings reveal that, of the …
Targeted Invitations to Tailor
The United States faces troubling fertility trends that include high percentages of unintended pregnancies, as well as record-low fertility rates and individuals having fewer offspring than they desire. To address these problems, scholars and public health advocates have argued for the implementation of fertility information into existing sex-education curricula. In this study, we draw from 32 semi-structured interviews with secondary school sex …
It’s my favorite kind of cake. Gigantic.”
This article examines the romantic situation comedy program The Mindy Project as a conventional site where popular discourse about healthism appears. Despite a woman of color as the lead actor in the postfeminist television series, the rhetorics of healthism in The Mindy Project nevertheless strengthen postfeminist thinking and disguise dominant logics of racism and sexism. The series moralizes health to “other” women of color using three rhetori…
Chemistry in the mail
Postage stamps are designed to convey messages that reverberate symbolically with broad swaths of the public, and their content has been employed as a window into how members of the public understand the ideas represented therein. In this rhetorical analysis, we analyze Philadelphia’s Science History Institute’s Witco Stamp Collection, which features 430 stamps from countries around the globe dating from 1910 to 1983, to identify how chemistry is…
Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program
This article investigates place-making—a process involving appeals to embodiment, materiality, and spatial arrangement—as a means for building communicative relationships between technical scientific communities and lay publics. Drawing from discourses related to the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program’s 89 landmarks, we illustrate how the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program builds different types of relationships with nonexperts …
Mapping Nature ’s scientist
Nature, the journal that in 1953 published James Watson and Francis Crick’s double-helix model of DNA, also published numerous pieces about crystallographer Rosalind Franklin. Franklin’s coverage, however, was published largely after her death in 1958 and dealt with the fact that, without her knowledge, Franklin’s colleague Maurice Wilkins gave Watson her crystallographic images of DNA and thereby supplied him with the key data upon which his mod…
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Mapping Nature ’s scientist
Nature, the journal that in 1953 published James Watson and Francis Crick’s double-helix model of DNA, also published numerous pieces about crystallographer Rosalind Franklin. Franklin’s coverage, however, was published largely after her death in 1958 and dealt with the fact that, without her knowledge, Franklin’s colleague Maurice Wilkins gave Watson her crystallographic images of DNA and thereby supplied him with the key data upon which his mod…
Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program
This article investigates place-making—a process involving appeals to embodiment, materiality, and spatial arrangement—as a means for building communicative relationships between technical scientific communities and lay publics. Drawing from discourses related to the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program’s 89 landmarks, we illustrate how the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program builds different types of relationships with nonexperts …
Chemistry in the mail
Postage stamps are designed to convey messages that reverberate symbolically with broad swaths of the public, and their content has been employed as a window into how members of the public understand the ideas represented therein. In this rhetorical analysis, we analyze Philadelphia’s Science History Institute’s Witco Stamp Collection, which features 430 stamps from countries around the globe dating from 1910 to 1983, to identify how chemistry is…
It’s my favorite kind of cake. Gigantic.”
This article examines the romantic situation comedy program The Mindy Project as a conventional site where popular discourse about healthism appears. Despite a woman of color as the lead actor in the postfeminist television series, the rhetorics of healthism in The Mindy Project nevertheless strengthen postfeminist thinking and disguise dominant logics of racism and sexism. The series moralizes health to “other” women of color using three rhetori…
Targeted Invitations to Tailor
The United States faces troubling fertility trends that include high percentages of unintended pregnancies, as well as record-low fertility rates and individuals having fewer offspring than they desire. To address these problems, scholars and public health advocates have argued for the implementation of fertility information into existing sex-education curricula. In this study, we draw from 32 semi-structured interviews with secondary school sex …
Indirect audiences and conflicting narratives about oral contraception
When the first oral contraceptive pill was approved in the United States in 1960, scientific information for potential users was scant. Newspapers were one of the few sources of lay pill-related content. This study offers a critical-rhetorical analysis of the earliest New York Times coverage of the oral contraceptive pill ( N = 292), to assess how audiences were guided to understand and interpret this new technology. Findings reveal that, of the …
Union Carbide’s “Hand in Things to Come”
Due to the booming U.S. chemical industry and the proliferation of new media, the mid-twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a distinct public vocabulary of chemistry. This vocabulary played a role in constituting U.S. consumer culture and establishing a narrative groundwork for upholding and shaping ideologies about progress, colonialism, and the value of U.S. corporate science – and the justification of corresponding large-scale environme…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Rhetorical question (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)