Browsing Vannini, Phillip by Issue Date
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Interpreting George W. Bush: A socio-semiotic illustration and a performance extension
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2004)In this article I analyze the official portrait of U.S. President George W. Bush to exemplify my previous theoretical elaboration of an interpretive analytics of the sign based on socio-semiotics and symbolic interactionism. ... -
The Meanings of a Star: Interpreting Music Fans' Reviews
(University of California Press, 2004-02)This article both elaborates on and empirically supports Norman Denzin's thesis on the political aesthetics of interpretation. Through a reading of consumer reviews, I discuss both the image and the music of the contemporary ... -
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 ... -
Nonrepresentational Theory and Symbolic Interactionism: Shared Perspectives and Missed Articulations
(University of California Press, 2004-08)Nigel Thrift’s Non-RepresentationalTheory is the latest—and more coherently and thoroughly formed—of his recent attempts to develop the ontological foundations and the practical agenda of an interdisciplinary theoretical ... -
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 ... -
Body-Ekstasis: Socio-Semiotic Reflections on Surpassing the Dualism of Body-Image
(Ashgate, 2006)The body and experiences of embodiment have generated a rich and diverse sociological literature. This volume articulates and illustrates one major approach to the sociology of the body: symbolic interactionism, an ... -
Home/Self/Ecology/Politics
(SAGE Publications, 2006)Building on Deleuzian philosophy, deep ecology, Carol Ronai's model of the layered text, andWendell Berry's post-9/11 writings, the author recollects his story of ourWest and reflects on the meanings of home for the self ... -
The Changing Meanings of Authenticity: An Interpretive Biography of Professors’ Work Experiences
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2006)This paper contributes to the symbolic interactionist literature on authenticity and the self by drawing from ethnographic research conducted with 46 faculty members at an American public research university. I offer an ... -
Symbolic Interaction as Music: The Esthetic Constitution of Meaning, Self, and Society
(University of California Press, 2006-02)Analytical frameworks such as dramaturgy and narrative analysis are respectively grounded in metaphors of life as theater and life as a story. In related fashion, in this article the authors argue for the creation of another ... -
Dead Poets' Society: Teaching, Publish-or-Perish, and Professors' Experiences of Authenticity
(University of California Press, 2006-05)Within social psychology, the concept of authenticity of the self has traditionally suffered from lack of definitional clarity. In this article, after conceptualizing authenticity as the phenomenological emotional experience ... -
Island Time: The Media Logic and Ritual of Ferry Commuting on Gabriola Island, BC
(Canadian Journal of Communication, 2007)Gabriola Island, British Columbia, this article analyzes the meanings associated with the movement of the MV Quinsam—the primary means of transportation onto and off the island—and with the ritual of ferry commuting. By ... -
Social Semiotics and Fieldwork: Method and Analytics
(SAGE Publications, 2007-01)Drawing from recent analytical developments in semiotics and postmodern ethnography, this article exposes and assesses the combination of social semiotics and fieldwork as a form of qualitative inquiry. Approaches to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Symbolic spaces in dirty work: academic service as authentic resistance
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008)Drawing from in-depth ethnographic interviews conducted at an American public research university with 46 professors I analyze the meanings that faculty in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities assign to ... -
The geography of disciplinary amnesia: Eleven scholars reflect on the international state of symbolic interactionism
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008)Both the history and the historiography of SI show that multiple “different definitions and boundaries” have been applied to the subject of study (Atkinson & Housley, 2003, p. vii). Yet, despite the commonly agreed-upon ... -
Of Walking Shoes, Boats, Golf Carts, Bicycles, and a Slow Technoculture: A Technography of Movement and Embodied Media on Protection Island, BC
(SAGE Publications, 2008)Drawing on participant observation conducted on Protection Island, British Columbia, this article examines the significance of technologies of movement and, in particular, embodied media. It advances the argument that ... -
Smell, Odor, and Somatic Work: Sense-Making and Sensory Management
(American Sociological Association, 2008)Sensation (noun) is emergent in joint acts of sensing (verb). To sense, in other words, is to make sense, and sense making entails what we call "somatic work." We investigate these dynamics in the context of olfaction, ... -
Recontinentalizing Canada: Arctic ice’s liquid modernity and the imagining of a Canadian archipelago
(Island Studies Journal, 2009)Studying mobile actor networks of moving people, objects, images, and discourses, in conjunction with changing time-spaces, offers a unique opportunity to understand important, and yet relatively neglected, “relational ... -
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 ...
