Research
I investigate questions of invention and cross-audience communication to better articulate how new ideas are created, revised, and circulated so that they may travel outside of and gain recognition beyond the particular audiences who initially imagine and introduce them. All of my projects explore ways that rhetorical theory can help us build or expand community by improving communication and creating situations where dialogue is more deliberative, interactions are more integrative, and collaborations result in more equal participation.
To learn more about my current projects follow the links below:
- Arguing Black Jewish Identity: Hatzaad Harishon and Interruptive Invention This single-authored monograph focuses on communication problems stemming from interactions among Jews of all races in New York and is forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press (Series in Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critque) in Fall 2013.
- Designing for User Engagement This collaboratively- authored book project is forthcoming from Taylor and Francis Press in March 2013 and written with Cheryl Geisler, Roger Grice, Audrey Bennet, Robert Krull, Jim Zappen, and Pat Search, presents a set of heuristics developed to guide the design of tech-mediated communication and a set of metrics for evaluating their effectiveness.
- Jewish Rhetorical Studies
- Networks of Rhetorical Action and Resistance: Fela and Chaim Perelman’s Social Sphere
- EAGER: Using the Web for Science and Society (NSF Grant)
- Jewish Life at UK