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Item Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo(Informa UK Limited, 2023-07) Robinson, Bradley; Fassbender, William J.This article presents findings from a visual network analysis study mapping the collective response to digital disinformation and misinformation, or digital dismisinfo, in the United States. Inspired by the digital dismisinfo-driven 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the study has identified key public and private actors actively responding to digital dismisinfo, examined the nature of their responses, and traced how their responses interact with those of other actors. The study’s findings reveal how media literacy efforts have become embroiled in a proxy war between platforms and politicians over the causes and consequences of digital dismisinfo. The authors argue that through such dynamics emerges the figure of homo medialiteratus, the media consuming individual who must bootstrap their way to truth in the face of an unrelenting tide of digital dismisinfo.Item The Ecological Resonance of Imogen’s Journey in Montana’s Parks(Cambridge University Press, 2022-10) Minton, Gretchen E.; Gray, MikeyIn this article Gretchen Minton and Mikey Gray discuss an adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy Cymbeline that toured Montana and surrounding states in the summer of 2021. Minton’s sections describe the eco-feminist aims of this production, which was part of an international project called ‘Cymbeline in the Anthropocene’, showing how the costumes, set design, and especially the emphasis upon the female characters created generative ways of thinking about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human worlds. Gray’s first-person narrative at the end of each section reflects upon her role of Imogen as she participated in an extensive summer tour across the Intermountain West and engaged with audience members about their own relationship to both theatre and the natural world. This is a story of transformation through environmentally inflected Shakespeare performance during the time of a global pandemic. Gretchen E. Minton is Professor of English at Montana State University, Bozeman, and editor of several early modern plays, including Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and The Revenger’s Tragedy. She is the dramaturg and script adaptor for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and the co-founder of Montana InSite Theatre. Her directorial projects include A Doll’s House, Timon of Anaconda (see NTQ 145, February 2021), Shakespeare’s Walking Story, and Shakespeare for the Birds. Mikey Gray received her BA in Theatre and Performance from Bard College, New York, with a conservatory semester at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art) in Sydney. She has performed in four productions with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, while other actor engagements include Chicago Shakespeare Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Strawdog Theater Company, The Passage Theatre, and McCarter Theatre Center.Item Ecological Adaptation in Montana: Timon of Athens to Timon of Anaconda(Cambridge University Press, 2021-02) Minton, Gretchen E.In this article Gretchen E. Minton describes her adaptation of William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton’s 1606 play Timon of Athens. This adaptation, called Timon of Anaconda, focuses on the environmental legacy of Butte, Montana, a mining city that grew quickly, flourished, fell into recession, and then found itself labelled the largest Superfund clean-up site in the United States. Timon of Anaconda envisions Timon as a wealthy mining mogul whose loss of fortunes and friends echoes the boom-and-bust economy of Butte. The original play’s language about the poisoning of nature and the troubled relationship between the human and more-than-human worlds is amplified and adjusted in Timon of Anaconda in order to reflect upon ongoing environmental concerns in Montana. Minton explains the ecodramaturgical aims, site-specific locations, and directorial decisions of this adaptation’s performances, which took place in September 2019. Gretchen E. Minton is Professor of English at Montana State University, Bozeman. She has edited several early modern plays, including Timon of Athens, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and The Revenger’s Tragedy. She is the dramaturg for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and Bozeman Actors Theatre, and her directorial projects include A Doll’s House (2019), Timon of Anaconda (2019–20), and Shakespeare’s Walking Story (2020).Item Post-Fact Fact Sheets: Dissociative Framing as a Strategy to Work Past Climate Change Denial(Society for Technical Communication, 2021-05) Shirley, Beth J.Purpose: This article presents a new rhetorical model for science and technical communication—specifically climate change communication—which the author is calling dissociative framing, in which climate change can be dissociated from the behaviors necessary to mitigate the human contribution to climate change, while positive associations are formed with those behaviors. This model serves as an alternative to the knowledge deficit model still in use in much science communication and is applicable both for students and practitioners of technical communication. Method: The model was developed by examining Matthew Nisbet’s work on framing in conjunction with Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s work on dissociation. I conducted a coded rhetorical analysis of two fact sheets produced by the Utah State University Extension Office with information on how their audience can change personal behaviors to mitigate their personal impact on climate change. I suggest how a dissociative frame would present the information more effectively. Results: A dissociative framing model can provide practitioners in technical and professional communication (TPC) a way to work around science skepticism and motivate action, especially when working with short, community-based genres, and can provide teachers of technical communication with a heuristic for instructing students on how to best engage a skeptical audience. Conclusion: While rural communities in the United States are especially prone to climate skepticism, it is important that they be informed and empowered to make the necessary behavioral changes to mitigate the human impact on climate change. Fact sheets published by extension services provide an excellent opportunity to inform and empower. A dissociative framing model provides a clear way to empower these communities with knowledge of how to mitigate their impact on climate change without diving into the political issues embroiled in climate science.Item Domestic Entrapment and Supernatural Protection: Mapping the Ambiguous Relationship Between Female Subject and Domestic Space in Shirley Jackson's "House Novels"(Montana State Univeristy, 2022-05-13) Moosbrugger, Meghan MacKenzieShirley Jackson’s three “house novels” offer new ways of understanding the tensions between women and their domestic spaces in the post-World War II American society. Studying The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and The Sundial through the lenses of Gothic literature and spatial theory gives literary critics and scholars valuable insights into Jackson’s representation of women and how they interact with and form relationships to their public and private spheres. This paper will apply Robert Tally’s mapping concept to consider each of the houses represented within Jackson’s novels as a map portraying the ambiguous relationship between female subject and domestic space.Item WRIT 201 COVID extra credit - Massey(Montana State University, 2020-05) Massey, Kelly; Backer, Harrison; Heydenberk, Emma; Johnson, Anthony C.Assignment: We are living in a surreal time for most of us who have never experienced this sort of disruption to our daily lives. It is something that many in the past have documented as they lived through it. Since this is a writing course, I would like to encourage you to document your thoughts and feelings as you work your way through the challenges in your life and how this pandemic has disrupted what you do and what you know. It’s certainly given us a time for reflection of what we consider to be most important in our lives, and even what we take for granted.Item WRIT 326 COVID assignment(Montana State University, 2020-04) Branch, Kirk; Albrecht, Madison; Burnham, Julia; Calloway, Jamie; Coniglio, Noelle; Couch, Anna; Devers, Jordan; Massey, Hannah; O'Connor, Emma; O'Hagan, Lucille; Orr, Katie; Ross, Abigail; Saurey, Adia; Sylvia, Alyssa; Valentine, Patrick; Zwolfer, TrixieThis is a course assignment collected as part of the MSU COVID-19 Special Collection in response to the pandemic of 2020.Item Presupposition as investigator certainty in a police interrogation: The case of Lorenzo Montoya's false confession(2018-07) Gaines, PhilipThis article presents an analysis of the use by police investigators of presupposition-bearing questions (PBQs) in interrogation as a process for communicating certainty of guilt. Among the techniques of interrogational maximization employed by police is the communication to the suspect of the interrogators’ certainty of the suspect’s guilt. While social science research notes that such communication of certainty is given directly, for example by statements that they ‘know’ the suspect is guilty or by direct accusations such as ‘you did it’, this analysis shows that certainty of guilt can also be communicated by presuppositions embedded in interrogation questions. Discourse analysis of the complete transcript of the interrogation of a 14-year-old suspect reveals further that through the use of 117 PBQs, interrogators are able to accrue inadvertent admissions to three crucial global ‘facts’ about the suspect’s involvement in the crime – each of which is composed of multiple subsidiary ‘facts’. In addition to identifying the role of PBQs in eliciting inadvertent admissions, the analysis also notes how PBQs serve as ‘a powerful instrument in the implicit assertion of debatable propositions’ as part of the interrogational record.Item Science Writing as Applied to Deep Time(Montana State Univeristy, 2017-04) Rubin, SarahThis two-part internship through the Smithsonian Institution was a unique, one-in-a-lifetime experience that brought together every aspect of museum work from the research before the fieldwork to the publicizing of scientific articles. The two weeks of fieldwork, facilitated by Dr. Dale Greenwalt, near Glacier National Park integrated paleoecology with critical thinking when finding insects and fish in the Eocene’s Kishenehn Formation. This formation is world-renowned for its spectacular preservation of these specimens, with many new species being found every year, and the discovery of all of the specimens brings to light questions such as what the conditions were to preserve the insects so well and what are the mineralogical differences in the layers containing insects and those containing fish. This same critical thinking transitioned into the second portion of the internship, which took place this past Spring break. At the Smithsonian, John Barrat, the lead science writer and creator of the Smithsonian’s Insider website, oversaw the writing of articles to be published on the site museum’s Facebook page that made scientific articles more accessible to the lay community. Articles ranging from Earth-based radar and cutting down on ivory smugglers, to new art techniques and aerial photography were the subjects for the translated articles, which required a mindset that allowed for filtering the original articles through the public’s lens and condensing them appropriately. Both parts of the internship provided invaluable skills and experience that encourages critical thinking in scientific and creative ways, joining the two to create a complete museum experience.Item The voice of a generation : an exploration of Lena Dunham's multi-modal personae(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2016) Lynch, Torrey Rae; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Linda KarellLena Dunham has been coined as the voice of the Millennial generation. Her multi-modal career, varying from her HBO sitcom Girls, best-selling memoir Not That Kind of Girl, to her online website/e-newsletter Lenny, has provided Dunham a platform to discuss her opinions on political, economic, and social issues, specifically pertaining to the feminist discourse. What becomes problematic in positioning a figure to represent an entire generation is it, consequently, silences and continues to marginalize the voices she is intended to represent. Particularly focusing on her memoir Not That Kind of Girl, and her website/e-newsletter Lenny, I view Dunham's personae as a microcosm for the larger issues I find in third-wave feminism and the Millennial generation.