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Category Archives: Joshua M. Bentley
Representations of reliability: The rhetoric of political flip-flopping
Joshua Bentley published in 2019: One option when a politician changes positions is to simply announce the new position without acknowledging any change occurred. Ignoring the flip-flop may allow the politician to avoid awkward questions about it, if the issue … Continue reading
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The Professor Of Apologies (6-14-21)
00:00 My guest is professor Joshua M. Bentley, https://schieffercollege.tcu.edu/faculty_staff/josh-bentley/ 03:00 Talk radio 07:30 The role of radio in Joshua’s childhood 17:00 Not the Best: What Rush Limbaugh’s Apology to Sandra Fluke Reveals about Image Restoration Strategies on Commercial Radio, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139974 … Continue reading
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Shifting identification: A theory of apologies and pseudo-apologies
Joshua M. Bentley published in 2015: Highlights: Apologies let offenders identify with victims and distance themselves from offenses. Apologies let third parties identify with offenders but not with the offenses. Pseudo-apologies let offenders distance themselves from their offenses and victims. … Continue reading
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Ethnic/Racial, Religious, and Demographic Predictors of Organ Donor Registration Status
Seems like a good proxy for citizenship (a la you would expect the core of a society to be more pro-society than the fringe). From this 2017 study: “Race/ethnicity, religion, and educational attainment were significant predictors of ODRS. Non-Hispanic whites … Continue reading
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Portrayals of public relations practitioners in film
Joshua Bentley and two other academics writes in 2014: The public relations profession is often portrayed negatively in popular culture (Miller, 1999; Saltzman, 2011; Spicer, 1993). Television and movies have contributed to the impression that public relations practitioners are mostly … Continue reading
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A Uses and Gratifications Study of Contemporary Christian Radio Web Sites
Josh Bentley writes in 2012: * Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) is a style of music that arose out of the Jesus Movement in the 1970s (Lochte, 2007; Woods, 1999). Musically, it has become very similar to mainstream adult contemporary or … Continue reading
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Representations of reliability: The rhetoric of political flip-flopping
I just encountered a communications academic who’s consistently clear and fun to read — Joshua M. Bentley. His latest paper: “This study used a qualitative analysis of political flip-flops (N = 141) to create a typology of rhetorical strategies for … Continue reading
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Not the Best: What Rush Limbaugh’s Apology to Sandra Fluke Reveals about Image Restoration Strategies on Commercial Radio
From a 2012 paper: This study analyzes the rhetorical strategies used by Rush Limbaugh to rebuild his public image after he made offensive remarks about law student Sandra Fluke in early 2012. A close reading of Limbaugh’s public statements reveals … Continue reading
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