Research Interests
Scott's research interests include rhetorics of technoscience, and biomedicine. He also has a strong interest in new media literacy theory. Look to JBTC January 2008 for his article Mode, Medium, and Genre: A Case Study in New Media Design Decisions.(With Brandon Whalen).
Abstract: Recently scholars of new media have been exploring the relationships between genre theory and new media (Miller and Sheperd, 2004; Kress, 2003; Spinuzzi, 1999; Crowston and Williams, 2000; Yates, Orlikowski, and Okamura, 1999). While this work has provided a great deal of insight into the nature of e-genres and how they function in professional contexts, few address the relationship between genre and new media theory from a designer’s perspective. This article presents the results of an ethnographic-style case study exploring the practice of a professional new media designer. This study offers results that: 1) confirm that the role of dynamic rhetorical situations and hybridity during the new media design process, 2) suggest that current new media and genre theory underestimates the complexity of the relationships among mode, medium, genre and rhetorical exigencies, and 3) suggest that a previously unrecognized form of hybridity exists in contemporary e-genres.
Current Projects
The Rhetoric of √-1: The Discourse of Imaginary Numbers and the Rhetoric of Mathematics Presentation/Article Manuscript. (With David Niedergeses).
Typogracy: Seven Essential Principles of Typographic Literacy. Book Chapter Manuscraipt (With Quinn Warnick).
The Rhetorical Semiotics of Agency in the Discourse of Pain Medicine. Article Manuscript.
Talking Off Label: A Nonmodern Science of Pain in the Medical-Industrial Complex Ethnography of interdisciplinary pain management healthcare providers. (with Carl G. Herndl)(under review)
The Abductive Inference: A Rhetoric for Paradigm Revolutions. Article manuscript