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EasyRhetor.com is the online home of Scott Graham. This site attempts to straddle a fine line between playfully professional and professionally playful. In short, it is a construction of my academic identity and a repository for rhetorical and theoretical musings. Exploring this site will expose you to my current scholarship, teaching, and reading as well as make available my curriculum vita and other professional documents for any interested parties. Should anyone become a regular visitor, expect many changes and evolutions to EasyRhetor.com. As my scholarly activities change and develop so too will this avatar of my academic identity.
Scott Graham is currently enrolled in the rhetoric and professional communication doctoral program at Iowa State University. There he studies rhetorics of technoscience and thought under the direction of Carl G. Herndl. Scott has particular interests in incommensurability studies, actor-network theory, and new media studies. And, as you may have already guessed, Scott has a strong interest in independent film.
Rhetoric of Technoscience is the academic field of inquiry that studies the communicative and persuasive work of science and technology. Rhetoricians of technoscience explore how scientists and inventors convince others to accept, investigate, or invest in their theories and new technologies. Technoscience studies takes as one of its core assumptions the idea that scientists and technologists have in the past and are currently participating in an integrated network of cultural phenomena founded in a very particular set of historically-situated epistemologies and ideologies that arose out of European "enlightenment" philosophy.