https://harlotofthearts.org/ojs-3.3.0-11/index.php/harlot/issue/feed Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion 2016-05-02T17:29:54-04:00 Harlot Editors editors@harlotofthearts.org Open Journal Systems <script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[ var a=new Date,b=a.getUTCHours();if(0==a.getUTCMonth()&&2012==a.getUTCFullYear()&&((18==a.getUTCDate()&&13<=b)||(19==a.getUTCDate()&&0>=b)))window.location="http://sopastrike.com/strike"; // ]]></script> https://harlotofthearts.org/ojs-3.3.0-11/index.php/harlot/article/view/340 Editors' Letter: Call for Solutions 2016-05-02T17:29:54-04:00 Editors of Harlot tim.jensen@oregonstate.edu 2016-05-01T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) https://harlotofthearts.org/ojs-3.3.0-11/index.php/harlot/article/view/322 Dear Parents of the Child who Yelled Hey Runner at Me 2016-05-02T17:22:54-04:00 Andrew Rihn monkey6079@gmail.com An epistle, this open letter considers ways in which we read and write a body by way of public harrassment, sexuality, and homophobia. 2016-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) https://harlotofthearts.org/ojs-3.3.0-11/index.php/harlot/article/view/244 Ignoring Ethics with Style: Writing Sentences for "Non U.S. Persons" 2016-05-02T17:22:54-04:00 Ryan Smith Madan ryanmadan@wpi.edu Ignoring Ethics with Style: Writing Sentences for 'Non U.S. Persons'" argues for the importance of understanding the ethical dimensions of sentence writing. To illustrate I cite the stylistic features of a recent public exchange about the legality of government surveillance between Director of Intelligence James Clapper and U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall. I also discuss my own experience teaching writing to college students in order to reflect on need for a new generation of writers to recognize the relationship between clarity and ethics. 2016-03-09T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) https://harlotofthearts.org/ojs-3.3.0-11/index.php/harlot/article/view/234 From Product Reviews to Political Commentary: Performances in Amazon.com Reviews 2016-05-02T17:25:42-04:00 Brenda M. Helmbrecht bhelmbre@calpoly.edu Meredith A. Love mlove@fmarion.edu <p class="normal">NOTE: We would like the abstract to mimic the conventions of an Amazon.com review, which includes both the language and the visual presentation. Please see the abstract on page 1 of our manuscript.</p><p class="normal"><strong>Do you want products or politics? Or BOTH?!</strong></p> <p class="normal">By LoveHelm on March 15, 2015</p> <p class="normal"><em>If you’ve been searching for an article that combines rhetoric, politics, and shopping… this is it! The authors address the rhetorical and political nature of Amazon.com product reviews. More specifically, they focus on Amazon reviews circulating shortly after Mitt Romney talked about his “binders full of women” during the 2012 Presidential Campaign (who says that?!), and reviews written after Texas State Senator Wendy Davis filibustered for 11-hours in her sassy pink Mizuno running shoes in summer 2013 (I seriously want those shoes!). The authors argue that we need to look for argumentation in unlikely spaces—like Amazon.com. I mean, I buy all kinds of stuff on Amazon, but I don’t get all political while I am there….but apparently some people do. Weird, right? But for reals: the authors include examples of Amazon reviews that while pretty hilarious, actually deal with serious political issues. As always, battery life could be better, but still worth checking out.</em></p> 2016-04-29T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) https://harlotofthearts.org/ojs-3.3.0-11/index.php/harlot/article/view/327 Writing in the Moment: Social Media, Digital Identity, and Networked Publics 2016-05-02T17:22:54-04:00 Jacob Babb babbj@ius.edu This article examines the impact of social media on digital identity. Social media reaffirms the values of communities through the repetition and reflection of those communities. The article addresses different examples of social media usage, such as the recent Internet outrage regarding Cecil the Lion, to explore the complexities of developing and maintaining digital identities. 2016-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) https://harlotofthearts.org/ojs-3.3.0-11/index.php/harlot/article/view/323 Inside Voices: Collaborative Writing in a Prison Environment 2016-05-02T17:22:54-04:00 Alexandra J Cavallaro cavallaro@csusb.edu Melissa K Forbes larabee2@illinois.edu Larry Barrett cavallaro@csusb.edu Robert Garite cavallaro@csusb.edu Chris Harrison cavallaro@csusb.edu Reginald Jones cavallaro@csusb.edu Igor Kazakovs cavallaro@csusb.edu Otilio Rosas cavallaro@csusb.edu Luis Saucedo cavallaro@csusb.edu Tobias Thurman cavallaro@csusb.edu Agustin Torres cavallaro@csusb.edu Antonio Walker cavallaro@csusb.edu <span><span>This article explores how notions of collaboration in the writing classroom are challenged and altered when that classroom is located in a medium-security prison. Based on a for-credit multimodal writing course co-taught by the lead authors, this text (itself a collaboration between the instructors and ten of our incarcerated students) unpacks the processes and practices through which communication is regulated by the institutional authority of the prison (collectively termed the Carceral Communication Framework, or CCF) and places them in conversation with the innovations demanded by the prison’s technological constraints. </span></span><span>Contending that collaboration in a prison setting tactically subverts the CCF and provides agency to people who are systematically disenfranchised, we focus on two different dimensions of that process: collaborations between students and teachers and collaborations between the students themselves.</span> 2016-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) https://harlotofthearts.org/ojs-3.3.0-11/index.php/harlot/article/view/228 Deconstructing Trailheads: Six Frames for Wilderness and a Rhetorical Intervention for Ecology 2016-05-02T17:22:54-04:00 Casey R. Schmitt crschmitt@wisc.edu <p><span style="color: #000000;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span>This essay applies rhetorical analysis to the semantically loaded locations at trailheads, parks, and nature preserve entryways. Using the trailhead markers of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore as a field-based case study, I identify six common rhetorical frames in the trailhead location—distinction, danger, sacrifice, stewardship, prescribed activity, and tactical disruption—and discuss how each perpetuates a problematic everyday nature-culture divide. In analyzing the rhetorical functions of physical places, I advocate for embodied critical methods and revisions to the rhetorics of nature preserves and conservancies. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> 2016-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c)