Wednesday November 15, 2006 - National Communication ...

and virtual reality.20442 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm Convention Center River Level Room 006 DAFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN AND HEALTH: IDENTITY, AUDIENCE, AND EMPOWERMENT.Sponsor: African American Communication and Culture DivisionChair: Kelly Happe, Northern Illinois UnivRespondent:Karla Scott, St Louis UniversityThis panel addresses the topic of African-American women and health. In particular, it focuses on how African-American women areconfigured and addressed as consumers of health information and whether health communication practices expand or restrict choices blackwomen believe are available to them. To what extent do messages about health empower—or disenfranchise—black women? What are someof the assumptions about race that make possible the production of these rhetorics? Likewise, what are some of the assumptions about racethat make these rhetorics intelligible to African-American women? And how do these processes of addressivity and reception impact the healthof black women? The panelists will address these questions through four case studies of different media—magazines, scientific discourse, andthe internet.20443 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm Convention Center River Level Room 007 ATHE STATE OF THEORY/IZING IN INTERPERSONAL AND FAMILY COMMUNICATION.Sponsors: Interpersonal Communication Division, Family Communication DivisionChair: Dawn Braithwaite, Univ of Nebraska, LincolnScholars have recently returned our focus to family and interpersonal and communication theories (Berger, 2005, Braithwaite & Baxter, 2006,Stamp, 2004). Prominent scholars will reflect on the broader state of theorizing in interpersonal and family communication and will address thestatus of theory, how context affects theorizing, paradigmatic implications, concerns over modest percentages of theoretical presence in databasedresearch, and to what extent is a "grand theory" of interpersonal and family communication desirable and/or possible?20444 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm Convention Center River Level Room 007 BSponsor: American Society for the History of RhetoricChair: David Dzikowski, Penn State UniversityRespondent:Ned O'Gorman, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTYPOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, AND THE TOPOI OF REASON IN ANCIENT ATTIKA.This panel examines specific sites for rhetoric in and around Ancient Athens. Along with the familiar terrain of the Pnyx, the Courts, and theAgora, the authors consider other, diverse rhetorical sites, situations, and practices: general's speeches, physical surroundings and weather,private and political practices, and conquest and exchange. These essays consider the specific sites in which the ancient Greeks took rhetoricalaction and the influences of those sites on the rhetoric.20445 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm Convention Center River Level Room 007 CARGUING THE ARGUMENTATIVE PERSPECTIVE IN FORENSIC ORAL INTERPRETATION: THE CASES FOR LITERARY AND ARGUMENTATIVECONNECTIONS.Sponsor: Argumentation and Forensics DivisionChair: Richard Paine, North Central CollegeRespondent:Richard Paine, North Central CollegeThe program consists of papers that argue either for or against the need for argumentation in interpretive pieces.20446 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm Convention Center River Level Room 007 DGOOD, BAD, AND UGLY: VISUAL RHETORIC IN ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNS.Sponsors: Environmental Communication Division, Visual Communication DivisionChair: Jennifer Peeples, Utah State UnivRespondent: