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Volume 44, Number 1, March 2024 Olac Newsletter, Meg Wang, Nerissa Lindsey, Amanda Mack, Alex Whelan, Tanesa King, Emily Creo, Lisa Romano, Sarah Hovde, Meghan Bergin, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Kelley Mcgrath, Michelle Cronquist, Jami Almeida, Bryan Baldus Mar 2024

Volume 44, Number 1, March 2024 Olac Newsletter, Meg Wang, Nerissa Lindsey, Amanda Mack, Alex Whelan, Tanesa King, Emily Creo, Lisa Romano, Sarah Hovde, Meghan Bergin, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Kelley Mcgrath, Michelle Cronquist, Jami Almeida, Bryan Baldus

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized March 2024 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.


Power Grid Politics: Winter Storm Uri And Texas Governor Greg Abbott's Image Repair Discourse, Matthew Gerber, Breann Bates, Chloe Caballero, Adán De La Garza, Erica Kolson Dec 2023

Power Grid Politics: Winter Storm Uri And Texas Governor Greg Abbott's Image Repair Discourse, Matthew Gerber, Breann Bates, Chloe Caballero, Adán De La Garza, Erica Kolson

Speaker & Gavel

Winter storm Uri hit the state of Texas on February 14, 2021. Bringing record amounts of snow, ice, and prolonged sub-zero temperatures, the storm caused widespread power outages which led to hundreds of deaths, and created a complex rhetorical situation for Governor Greg Abbott. This article examines the image repair discourse engaged in by Abbott, and ultimately concludes that his use of blame-shifting, corrective action, and defeasibility strategies were ultimately effective, but to varying degrees based on each respective strategy. We argue herein that Abbott’s strategy of shifting the blame for the debacle to ERCOT was his most effective tactic, …


Volume 43, Number 4, December 2023 Olac Newsletter, Meg Wang, Nerissa Lindsey, Amanda Mack, Alex Whelan, Tanesa King, Lisa Romano, Sarah Hovde, Michelle Cronquist, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Kelley Mcgrath, Morris Levy Dec 2023

Volume 43, Number 4, December 2023 Olac Newsletter, Meg Wang, Nerissa Lindsey, Amanda Mack, Alex Whelan, Tanesa King, Lisa Romano, Sarah Hovde, Michelle Cronquist, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Kelley Mcgrath, Morris Levy

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2023 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.


An Analysis Of Communication For Foster Parents: Interpersonal, Small Group, And Public Speaking Skills Necessary For Foster Parenting, Kaitlyn Randall Oct 2023

An Analysis Of Communication For Foster Parents: Interpersonal, Small Group, And Public Speaking Skills Necessary For Foster Parenting, Kaitlyn Randall

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Communication is a core aspect of what foster parents do every day. However, communication research focusing on foster parents is limited. Foster parents should understand interpersonal communication, small group communication, and public speaking. Understanding the basic principles of these communication disciplines will help foster parents succeed in their role. Interpersonal communication creates relationships between the foster parent and child through inclusion, control, and affection. Small group communication aspects of group roles, meeting facilitation, and conflict management are used in interactions with caseworkers. The public speaking skills of preparation and practice are used during court proceedings, orientations, and support groups. Providing …


Volume 46, 2023 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Oct 2023

Volume 46, 2023 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 46) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 43, Number 3, September 2023 Olac Newsletter, Meg Wang, Nerissa Lindsey, Amanda Mack, Tanesa King, Marcia Barrett, Julie Renee Moore, Lisa Romano, Paige Andrew, Alex Whelan, Sarah Hovde, Autumn H. Faulkner, Morris Levy, Jay Weitz Sep 2023

Volume 43, Number 3, September 2023 Olac Newsletter, Meg Wang, Nerissa Lindsey, Amanda Mack, Tanesa King, Marcia Barrett, Julie Renee Moore, Lisa Romano, Paige Andrew, Alex Whelan, Sarah Hovde, Autumn H. Faulkner, Morris Levy, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized September 2023 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.


Resisting And Persisting Through Organizational Exit: An Autoethnographic Exploration Of Disclosing Sexual Harassment In Collegiate Debate, M. A., Tennley A. Vik Dec 2022

Resisting And Persisting Through Organizational Exit: An Autoethnographic Exploration Of Disclosing Sexual Harassment In Collegiate Debate, M. A., Tennley A. Vik

National Forensic Journal

Collegiate debate has documented extensive problems with sexual harassment. This manuscript uses the first author’s layered account of sexual harassment experienced as a collegiate debater, her transition to a different university, and the management of private information with her family. Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory and a plethora of studies provide a theoretical lens of the first author’s autoethnographic experience. We advance CPM theory by examining how young adult children manage their privacy through constructing more rigid privacy boundaries than their adolescent counterparts and provide the first look at how disclosure can both enable and constrain victims/survivors of sexual harassment, …


Volume 58, Issue 1, Summer 2022 Speaker & Gavel Jul 2022

Volume 58, Issue 1, Summer 2022 Speaker & Gavel

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Forensics In Times Of Crisis. Reframing Citizenship And Social Change As "Winning", Justin Gus Foote Jul 2022

Forensics In Times Of Crisis. Reframing Citizenship And Social Change As "Winning", Justin Gus Foote

Speaker & Gavel

This article extends the challenge I offered at the National Communication Associate (NCA) Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah in November 2018. During the conference I posed the following challenge: The Speech and Debate community should shift our idea of “winning” from solely competition success, and trophy accumulation, towards a renewed sense of citizenship—primarily, by engaging social change, as an outcome, throughout the competition season. This challenge arose from a perceived malaise about gun control discourse. I argue competitive speech and debate provides a robust venue to engage current discussion on gun control and the community to embrace our …


2020 General Presidential Debates: The Coronavirus Clash, William L. Benoit, Kevin A. Stein Jul 2022

2020 General Presidential Debates: The Coronavirus Clash, William L. Benoit, Kevin A. Stein

Speaker & Gavel

In the run up to the 2020 election on November 3, 2020, two presidential and one vice presidential debate were held (another planned presidential debate was cancelled because of coronavirus). The presidential debates used attacks more than acclaims – and more than previous debates (the vice presidential debate was fairly similar to previous VP debates). Biden and Trump discussed policy more than character (as did the VP debate and previous presidential and vice presidential debates). Unlike most previous encounters, conflicting with the theoretical prediction and in contrast to the vice presidential debate, the two Biden Trump debates in 2020 attacked …


Volume 45, 2022 Communication And Theatre Association Of Minnesota Journal Jul 2022

Volume 45, 2022 Communication And Theatre Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 45) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Review Of Small Group Communication: Forming And Sustaining Teams, Justin Walton Jul 2022

Review Of Small Group Communication: Forming And Sustaining Teams, Justin Walton

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Review of Small group communication: Forming and sustaining teams (2021) by Jasmine Linabary and Moon Castro found at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/small-group-communication-forming-sustaining-teams.


Review Of Humans R Social Media, Alicen Rushevics Jul 2022

Review Of Humans R Social Media, Alicen Rushevics

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Review of Humans r social media by iVoices Media Lab and Diana Daly (2021) from the University of Arizona found at https://opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/hrsm/.


Review Of Communication In The Real World, Kelsey Denton Jul 2022

Review Of Communication In The Real World, Kelsey Denton

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Review of Communication in the Real World (2016) by the University of Minnesota found at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/communication-in-the-real-world-an-introduction-to-communication-studies.


An Ethical Revelation Of The American Revolution: An Analysis Of Communication Ethics And Hypertextuality In The Musical Hamilton, Jessica Neu Jul 2022

An Ethical Revelation Of The American Revolution: An Analysis Of Communication Ethics And Hypertextuality In The Musical Hamilton, Jessica Neu

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Since debuting in 2016, Hamilton has generated much scholarship on such topics as race relations and public memory. However, this article uses concepts of communication ethics and hypertextuality to situate the retelling of America’s past for America’s present. Connecting Hamilton to communication ethics proves paramount because it helps to situate the moral ground under which the characters stand, thereby serving as the epicenter for the show’s ultimate message. Viewers are brought into a hypertextual world of two historical moments, America ‘then’ and America ‘now,’ and consider the juxtaposition of past and current ideas, tradition, culture and narrative commitments that all …


Volume Xiv, 1987 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal Feb 2022

Volume Xiv, 1987 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 14, 1987) of Speech Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume Xii, 1985 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal Feb 2022

Volume Xii, 1985 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 12, 1985) of Speech Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume Vii, 1980 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal Feb 2022

Volume Vii, 1980 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 7, 1980) of Speech Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume Vi, 1979 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal Feb 2022

Volume Vi, 1979 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 6, 1979) of Speech Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume Iii, 1976 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal Feb 2022

Volume Iii, 1976 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 3, 1976) of Speech Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume Ii, 1975 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal Feb 2022

Volume Ii, 1975 Speech Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 2, 1975) of Speech Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 19, Summer 1992 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 19, Summer 1992 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 19, Summer 1992) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 20, Summer 1993 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 20, Summer 1993 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 20, Summer 1993) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 21, Summer 1994 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 21, Summer 1994 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 21, Summer 1994) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 33, Summer 2006 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal Dec 2021

Volume 33, Summer 2006 Communication And Theater Association Of Minnesota Journal

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

Complete digitized volume (volume 33) of Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal.


Volume 40, 2003 Speaker And Gavel Nov 2021

Volume 40, 2003 Speaker And Gavel

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized volume (volume 40, 2003) of Speaker & Gavel.


Volume 39, 2002 Speaker And Gavel Nov 2021

Volume 39, 2002 Speaker And Gavel

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized volume (volume 39, 2002) of Speaker & Gavel.


Volume 41, Number 3, September 2021 Olac Newsletter, Laura Kane Mcelfresh, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano Sep 2021

Volume 41, Number 3, September 2021 Olac Newsletter, Laura Kane Mcelfresh, Jennifer M. Eustis, Richard N. Leigh, Jan Mayo, Yoko Kudo, Jay Weitz, Lisa Romano

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized September 2021 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.


Volume 35, 1998 Speaker And Gavel Aug 2021

Volume 35, 1998 Speaker And Gavel

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized volume (volume 35, 1998) of Speaker & Gavel.


Volume 33, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, Fall 1995/Winter 1996/Spring 1996/Summer 1996 Speaker And Gavel Aug 2021

Volume 33, Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, Fall 1995/Winter 1996/Spring 1996/Summer 1996 Speaker And Gavel

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized volume (volume 33, numbers 1-4, Fall 1995/Winter 1996/Spring 1996/Summer 1996) of Speaker & Gavel.