Jennie Keohane

Flyer announcing a forum on "Rhetoric in Motion" in blue color palette

Lovers of rhetorical history! Come on by the American Society for the History of Rhetoric first Friday forum (3/6) to hear these wonderful scholars (and me) talk about rhetoric in motion.

God bless whatever past Jennie went through and put alt text on my course images on Canvas.

I do not remember doing this, but it's making course prep in advance of the DOJ digital accessibility rule so much easier.

Cover of a book called Auto/biography and Reputation Politics. The cover has brightly colored circles.

This book FINALLY exists in print. It's based on papers from a 2020 (eeep) conference, the last place I traveled before everything changed. It was expertly and meticulously edited and improved, mostly by Nadja. Trust me, it's a beautiful volume. Have your libes buy it.

I had forgotten the time-honored Midwestern tradition of everyone being sick at Christmas, with Boomer parents insisting they aren't sick at all! Happy holidays from this germ-infested house to yours! (I'm also fine so far!)

Sweet potatoes are so gross.

I love that Gritty article. Probably because I love Gritty.

Really bummed to be a Northwestern alum right now.

New adult milestone unlocked: getting generic holiday messages from your mortgage lender in addition to your dentist.

Amen.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

a grilled cheese sandwich and bowl of tomato soup captioned “this and never opening Microsoft Outlook again”

all I need in the world

I've spent the last 6 mos working with faculty on a curriculum overhaul for our comm program. Today, the documents go to our curriculum committee! This would probably feel like a bigger moment if I wasn't also the chair of our curriculum committee.

A book cover with an iPhone encased in chains. The book is called "Platforming Cancel Culture."

I'm excited to finally have this book in my hand. My chapter is about how digital maps resist a simple cancel culture narrative when statues fall, like this to Confederate soldiers. Let me know if you want to read it. It seems...prescient at a time when history is a central battle.

9am on 10/10. Sigh. That's a relevant detail.

@carpresearch.bsky.social is hosting a webinar to help launch @alessandronai.bsky.social and colleague's new book. Join us at 9am (Eastern) to learn about attack politics and their impacts. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-psycho...

"Today's models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right."

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

I know y'all know I hate Microsoft Teams with every fiber of my being. But, seriously. Whoever just called me and didn't tell me who you were [or what you wanted], Teams just lists "Wireless Caller" so I literally am not calling you back since I don't know who you are.

Platforming Cancel Culture: Digital Media, Identity and Cultural Intersections Platforming Cancel Culture: Digital Media, Identity and Cultural Intersections delves into one of the most polarizing phenomena of the digital age. Bringing together global, intersectional, and interd...

Platforming Cancel Culture, a new edited collection with Routledge, is available to pre-order! My chapter asks whether taking down Confederate statues is cancel culture and ways activists intervene digitally to remember differently. Get the book for your libe! www.routledge.com/Platforming-...

This long post is worth reading as we reckon with AI generated writing in the classroom and beyond.

The government wants AI to fight wars and review your taxes The Trump administration is pushing the Pentagon, IRS and other federal agencies to rapidly adopt AI tools to improve efficiency, an idea championed by Elon Musk.

"There is 'a fundamental mismatch' between what AI can do and what citizens expect from government, she said."

YES.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bespoke or prescribed? The myth of personalised learning Personalised learning is AI’s promise in education—but who defines what’s personal, and does it nurture strengths or just fix what algorithms see as flaws?

"When every learner is placed on their own “optimised” track, where is the shared experience of learning –– the chance to debate, to disagree, to collaborate, and to co-construct knowledge with peers?"
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Yes. This 100%.

This. 100%.

Thank you!

Oooh, this actually looks perfect. Thanks for sharing these resources!

Thanks!

Hey #TeamRhetoric! I'm revising my syllabus for my undergrad course on digital rhetoric. Do you have any readings on circulation (broadly construed) that are accessible and informative? I want students to think about the importance and challenges of studying how rhetoric circulates.

Judge’s order to stop the dismantling of the Department of Ed is from a lawsuit filed by @aft.org

Higher ed faculty….join your local @aaup.bsky.social who fights alongside @aft.org to protect education.

Opinion | What exactly does Trump think is in the Smithsonian? Following his most recent executive order, I went in search of some “corrosive ideology.”

Worth a read. Not a lot in here will be surprising to rhetorical critics and others who have studied public memory, but I do love seeing these arguments make their way to the public. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...