Robert Mejia
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Mejia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Mejia |
| SIGNATURE | MEJIA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Brockport |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The liberation theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez
The philosopher and Catholic theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez offers rhetoricians a sophisticated transnational theory of liberation rooted in a hermeneutic of hope. Grounded in his experience with racism, classism, ableism, and positionality within the historical and geopolitical realities of South America, Gutiérrez’s writings articulate a novel theoretical and methodological orientation centered in humility, hope, solidarity, and social action and…
A Rhetoric that Breathes, a Rhetoric that Heals
Rhetoric and the Abolitionist Horizon
This essay introduces the special issue, “Rhetoric and the Abolitionist Horizon,” which features essays from emerging communication and composition rhetorical studies scholars Shereen Yousuf, Ashley Ferrell, Dustin Greenwalt, and Gabriella Wilson. Together, they gesture to a diverse set of tools, concepts, critiques, case studies, and approaches that might help to expand rhetorical studies in ways that opens space for abolitionist thought and pra…
The Covid-19 sensorium and its vectors, victims, and violators
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted relationships between hegemonic sensory perceptions and disease epistemologies. The affective pedagogies of the COVID-19 sensorium signal vectors and victims of disease through racialized, classed, and gendered assemblages of sensory presence and absence. Present sounds of weaponized coughing suture white consumerist entitlement to violate public health imperatives. The coughs in the film Corona critique the rise of …
Forum introduction
Survival has always been intersectional—raced, classed, gendered, sexed, (dis)abled, and colonized—and if we are to survive this twenty-first century, we need scholars with the experience and training to be at the forefront of the field of communication and critical/cultural studies. Hence, the field needs to take seriously the production of organic intellectuals, which means making space for and supporting scholars who operate at these intersect…
Making Science Fiction Real
In this paper, we argue that EVE Online is a fruitful site for exploring how the representational and political-economic elements of science fiction intersect to exert a sociocultural and political-economic force on the shape and nature of the future-present. EVE has been oft heralded for its economic and sociocultural complexity, and for employing a free market ethos and ethics in its game world. However, we by contrast seek not to consider how …
White lies
In the aftermath of the 2016 election of President Trump, a veritable cottage industry of opinion pieces, blogs, and articles emerged overnight, most of which seemed to agree that only the post-truth could explain how a racist, misogynistic, neo-nationalist member of the economic elite could win a presidential election. This article, in contrast, is inspired by Barbara Christian’s injunction that we question why a given statement, concept, or the…
A Pressure Chamber of Innovation
the United States Federal Communications Commission identified broadband as "the great infrastructure challenge of the early twenty-first century."One month earlier, on February 10, 2010, in anticipation of the FCC's announcement, Google announced its intent to build ultra-high-speed broadband networks across the United States to serve as a model for overcoming this challenge.Since then, Google Fiber, as it is called, has succeeded in being recog…
Governance through Philitainment
This article analyzes Free Rice within the context of "the rise of the ludic sublime," where video games are hailed as the solution to highly sophisticated political problems. As part of what we call practices of "philitainment," Free Rice, we argue, functions within the political domain of what Jodi Dean has termed "communicative capitalism" and therefore both captures resistance and actually solidifies global capitalism. Ultimately, this case s…
Posthuman, postrights
Project LifeLike refers to the efforts to create a ‘realistic avatar supported by an intelligent engine capable of online learning’. In essence, this means the encoding of the intelligence of presently living individuals in order to preserve the persons’ epistemological structures beyond their ontological death. To do this, the team must distil those ‘humanistic’ elements that are deemed essential to the human experience, and thus this process re…
A qualitative analysis of power‐based entrainment and interactional synchrony in couples
Interpersonal synchrony is a communicative lubricant that is associated with harmonious communication among conversational participants and is believed to be evidence of like‐mindedness and interpersonal solidarity. In this secondary analysis of an existing data set of both power‐equal and power‐unequal couples working through a discussion task, the content and form of their conversations were qualitatively examined for evidence of synchrony and …
White lies
In the aftermath of the 2016 election of President Trump, a veritable cottage industry of opinion pieces, blogs, and articles emerged overnight, most of which seemed to agree that only the post-truth could explain how a racist, misogynistic, neo-nationalist member of the economic elite could win a presidential election. This article, in contrast, is inspired by Barbara Christian’s injunction that we question why a given statement, concept, or the…
Governance through Philitainment
This article analyzes Free Rice within the context of "the rise of the ludic sublime," where video games are hailed as the solution to highly sophisticated political problems. As part of what we call practices of "philitainment," Free Rice, we argue, functions within the political domain of what Jodi Dean has termed "communicative capitalism" and therefore both captures resistance and actually solidifies global capitalism. Ultimately, this case s…
A Pressure Chamber of Innovation
the United States Federal Communications Commission identified broadband as "the great infrastructure challenge of the early twenty-first century."One month earlier, on February 10, 2010, in anticipation of the FCC's announcement, Google announced its intent to build ultra-high-speed broadband networks across the United States to serve as a model for overcoming this challenge.Since then, Google Fiber, as it is called, has succeeded in being recog…
A qualitative analysis of power‐based entrainment and interactional synchrony in couples
Interpersonal synchrony is a communicative lubricant that is associated with harmonious communication among conversational participants and is believed to be evidence of like‐mindedness and interpersonal solidarity. In this secondary analysis of an existing data set of both power‐equal and power‐unequal couples working through a discussion task, the content and form of their conversations were qualitatively examined for evidence of synchrony and …
Posthuman, postrights
Project LifeLike refers to the efforts to create a ‘realistic avatar supported by an intelligent engine capable of online learning’. In essence, this means the encoding of the intelligence of presently living individuals in order to preserve the persons’ epistemological structures beyond their ontological death. To do this, the team must distil those ‘humanistic’ elements that are deemed essential to the human experience, and thus this process re…
A qualitative analysis of power‐based entrainment and interactional synchrony in couples
Interpersonal synchrony is a communicative lubricant that is associated with harmonious communication among conversational participants and is believed to be evidence of like‐mindedness and interpersonal solidarity. In this secondary analysis of an existing data set of both power‐equal and power‐unequal couples working through a discussion task, the content and form of their conversations were qualitatively examined for evidence of synchrony and …
Governance through Philitainment
This article analyzes Free Rice within the context of "the rise of the ludic sublime," where video games are hailed as the solution to highly sophisticated political problems. As part of what we call practices of "philitainment," Free Rice, we argue, functions within the political domain of what Jodi Dean has termed "communicative capitalism" and therefore both captures resistance and actually solidifies global capitalism. Ultimately, this case s…
A Pressure Chamber of Innovation
the United States Federal Communications Commission identified broadband as "the great infrastructure challenge of the early twenty-first century."One month earlier, on February 10, 2010, in anticipation of the FCC's announcement, Google announced its intent to build ultra-high-speed broadband networks across the United States to serve as a model for overcoming this challenge.Since then, Google Fiber, as it is called, has succeeded in being recog…
Making Science Fiction Real
In this paper, we argue that EVE Online is a fruitful site for exploring how the representational and political-economic elements of science fiction intersect to exert a sociocultural and political-economic force on the shape and nature of the future-present. EVE has been oft heralded for its economic and sociocultural complexity, and for employing a free market ethos and ethics in its game world. However, we by contrast seek not to consider how …
White lies
In the aftermath of the 2016 election of President Trump, a veritable cottage industry of opinion pieces, blogs, and articles emerged overnight, most of which seemed to agree that only the post-truth could explain how a racist, misogynistic, neo-nationalist member of the economic elite could win a presidential election. This article, in contrast, is inspired by Barbara Christian’s injunction that we question why a given statement, concept, or the…
Forum introduction
Survival has always been intersectional—raced, classed, gendered, sexed, (dis)abled, and colonized—and if we are to survive this twenty-first century, we need scholars with the experience and training to be at the forefront of the field of communication and critical/cultural studies. Hence, the field needs to take seriously the production of organic intellectuals, which means making space for and supporting scholars who operate at these intersect…
The Covid-19 sensorium and its vectors, victims, and violators
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted relationships between hegemonic sensory perceptions and disease epistemologies. The affective pedagogies of the COVID-19 sensorium signal vectors and victims of disease through racialized, classed, and gendered assemblages of sensory presence and absence. Present sounds of weaponized coughing suture white consumerist entitlement to violate public health imperatives. The coughs in the film Corona critique the rise of …
Rhetoric and the Abolitionist Horizon
This essay introduces the special issue, “Rhetoric and the Abolitionist Horizon,” which features essays from emerging communication and composition rhetorical studies scholars Shereen Yousuf, Ashley Ferrell, Dustin Greenwalt, and Gabriella Wilson. Together, they gesture to a diverse set of tools, concepts, critiques, case studies, and approaches that might help to expand rhetorical studies in ways that opens space for abolitionist thought and pra…
A Rhetoric that Breathes, a Rhetoric that Heals
The liberation theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez
The philosopher and Catholic theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez offers rhetoricians a sophisticated transnational theory of liberation rooted in a hermeneutic of hope. Grounded in his experience with racism, classism, ableism, and positionality within the historical and geopolitical realities of South America, Gutiérrez’s writings articulate a novel theoretical and methodological orientation centered in humility, hope, solidarity, and social action and…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)