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ARSTM members Lynda Olman and Dani DeVasto’s 2020 ARSTM@NCA preconference presentation “Hybrid Collectivity: Hacking Environmental Risk Visualization for the Anthropocene” was recently published open-access in Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) under the same name. Congratulations to Lynda and Dani! Read the abstract: In this essay, we propose a hack of existing models of… Read More »Olman and DeVasto’s ARSTM@NCA 2020 precon presentation published in CDQ

ARSTM members Shannon Butts and Madison Jones’ 2020 ARSTM@NCA preconference presentation “Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design” was recently published open-access in Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) under the same name. Congratulations to Shannon and Madison! Announcing the publication, CDQ communications manager Luke Thominet wrote: This article shares lessons from designing EcoTour (ecotourapp.com), a multimedia… Read More »Butts and Jones’ ARSTM@NCA 2020 precon presentation published in CDQ

ARSTM members Amanda Pratt, Anny Ortiz, Alberto Vargas Prieto’s 2020 ARSTM@NCA preconference presentation, “Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Engagement to Enact Social Justice,” was recently cited in The Progressive. The Madison-based non-profit publishes a bimonthly magazine as well as daily online articles focused on national politics, culture, and events including U.S. foreign policy. The story,… Read More »ARSTM members Pratt, Ortiz, and Vargas Prieto cited in The Progressive

The 2020 ARSTM@NCA Virtual Preconference on Social Justice was a huge success, with over 70 registered attendees, 3 distinguished keynote speakers, and 17 papers by 25 authors. The asynchronous content provided by authors as well as recordings of their paper discussion sessions are available to registered ARSTM members through December… Read More »Social Justice Keynote Panel, Other Preconference Materials Now Available for Viewing

This past summer, the ARSTM leadership team committed to undertaking a series of actions in support of structurally integrating anti-racism into our organization. One of our early proposals was to rededicate funds from the 2020 ARSTM@RSA preconference, which was cancelled due to COVID, to providing micro-grants to members of the… Read More »Financial Changes to Increase Inclusivity of ARSTM’s Membership and Preconferences

The ARSTM Book Award Committee is pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 ARSTM Book Award: The Origins of Bioethics: Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong by John A. Lynch (Michigan State University Press, 2019) The Origins of Bioethics is a focused and nuanced engagement with the rhetoric of biomedicine.  It… Read More »John Lynch Wins 2020 ARSTM Book Award

As the chair of the 2020 ARSTM@NCA Virtual Preconference on Social Justice, I am thrilled to announce our distinguished keynote speakers: The keynote panel will open the synchronous preconference events, and will set the stage for our ongoing conversations about RSTM and social justice, both during the preconference and beyond,… Read More »Keynote Speakers Announced for the 2020 ARSTM@NCA Virtual Preconference on Social Justice

The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine (ARSTM) members are invited to nominate candidates for the following offices: Second Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Social Media Officer, and Web Administrator. Self-nominations are encouraged, and incumbents are encouraged to run again, if interested. As a small organization, ARSTM relies on an active, enthusiastic, and… Read More »Call for Nominations: ARSTM Leadership Elections

Guest post by ARSTM@NCA 2020 preconference chair, Dr. Lauren Cagle Academic conferences are often notoriously inaccessible. Rooms without mics, long hikes between meeting rooms, echoing acoustics, hidden elevators, uncaptioned talks, visuals without audio descriptions, a dearth of childcare, lactation stations tucked away in distant bathrooms–the list of barriers to full… Read More »Putting Accessibility First at the ARSTM@NCA 2020 Virtual Preconference