Browsing Vannini, Phillip by Title
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The techne of making a ferry: a non-representational approach to passengers’ gathering taskscapes
(Journal of Transport Geography, 2011)Drawing upon ethnographic data collected in British Columbia’s ferry-dependent island and coastal communities, non-representational theory, and mobility studies literature this article examines the process of making, or ... -
Technologies of the sky: a socio-semiotic and critical analysis of televised weather discourse
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2007-04)We offer a critical reading of televised weather reporting and forecasting discourse. We analyze text obtained from a US affiliate station of The Weather Channel over three days when a winter front advanced through the ... -
To Die For: The Semiotic Seductive Power of the Tanned Body
(University of California Press, 2004-08)Human skin burns with prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light. This simple physiological process acquires meaning through social interaction—whereby tanned skin assumes symbolic and semiotic properties. In this article we ... -
Toward a Technography of Everyday Life: The Methodological Legacy of James W. Carey's Ecology of Technoculture as Communication
(SAGE Publications, 2009)This article identifies Carey's contributions to the concept of technoculture and attempts to systematize his writings on communication, culture, and technology in order to craft a methodological strategy for the study of ... -
Video methods beyond representation: Experimenting with multimodal, sensuous, affective intensities in the 21st century
(Routledge, 2014)I received Charlotte Bates’s kind request to write the conclusion to this fine and timely collection of essays as Jonathan Taggart and I were en route back home after a week spent filming and doing fieldwork on the East ... -
Wild walking: A twofold critique of the walk-along method
(Routledge, 2017)Over the last decade the mobile research method known as the “go-along” (in its various manifestations such as the “ride-along” and the “walk-along”) has become increasingly popular. The popularity of the go-along makes ... -
Will You Marry Me?: Spectacle and Consumption in the Ritual of Marriage Proposals
(John Wiley & Sons, 2004-07)This article examines the marriage proposal ritual in contemporary American society. A marriage proposal represents a critical shift in a romantic relationship; by formalizing one’s engagement through the exchange of ... -
Women and Their Clitoris: Personal Discovery, Signification, and Use
(University of California Press, 2007-05)Under continued, broad, and pervasive conditions of symbolic clitoridectomy—a bracketing of the clitoris by means of linguistic and discursive erasure—the carnal discovery of the clitoris poses circumstances where women ...
