Publications & Presentations
Articles
Stewart, C. O. (in press). How a media controversy can influence a scientific publication: The case of Spitzer's 'reparative therapy' study. In B. Johnstone & C. Eisenhart (Eds.), Rhetoric in detail. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Stewart, C. O. (in press). Socioscientific controversies: A theoretical and methodological framework. Communication Theory.
Stewart, C. O., Dickerson, D. L., & Hotchkiss, R. (in press). Beliefs about science and news frames in audience evaluations of embryonic and adult stem cell research. Science Communication.
Stewart, C. O. (2008). Social cognition and discourse processing goals in the analysis of 'ex-gay' rhetoric. Discourse & Society, 19, 63-83.
Stewart, C. O., Setlock, L. D., & Fussell, S. R. (2007). Conversational argumentation in decision-making: Chinese and U.S. participants in face-to-face and instant messaging interactions. Discourse Processes, 44, 113-139.
Stewart, C. O. (2005). A rhetorical approach to news discourse: Media representations of a controversial study on "reparative therapy." Western Journal of Communication, 69, 147-166.
Stewart, C. O., & Kreuz, R. J. (2003). On the communicative function of exaggeration: How to be a million times clearer. Communication Research Reports, 20, 331-340.
Conference Proceedings
Stewart, C. O. (2004). Framing, discursive recontextualizations, and scientific topoi: Representing a study of "reparative therapy" for homosexuality in the media. In W. F. Chiang, E. Chun, L. Mahalingappa, & S. Mehus (Eds.), SALSA 11 Proceedings/Texas Linguistic Forum (Vol. 47, pp. 197-208). Austin: University of Texas.
Graesser, A. C., Hu, X., Person, N. K., Stewart, C., Toth, J., Jackson, G. T., Susarla, S., & Ventura, M. (2002). Learning about the ethical treatment of human subjects in experiments on a web facility with a conversational agent and ITS components. In S.A. Cerri, G. Gourardères, and F. Paraguaçu (Eds.), Proceedings of ITS 2002/Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 2363, pp. 972-981). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Person, N. K., Gholson, B., Craig, S., Hu, X., Stewart, C. O., & Graesser, A. C. (2001). HURAA: An interactive web-based agent that optimizes information retrieval in a multi-media environment. In C. Montgomerie and J. Viteli (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2001 (pp. 1476-1481). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education.
Stewart, C. O., & Kreuz, R. J. (2000). Are you trying to be funny? The importance of exaggeration on discourse goal clarity. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse (pp. 126-127). Lyon, France: Université Lumière 2.
Book Reviews
Stewart, C. O. (in press). [Review of the book Language, discourse & social psychology]. Language in Society.
Stewart, C. O. (2006). [Review of the book Conversation analysis and discourse analysis: A comparative and critical introduction]. Language in Society, 35, 624-628.
Conference Presentations (2003-Present)
Stewart, C. O., Dickerson, D. L., & Hotchkiss, R. (2008, July). Beliefs about science and news frames in audience evaluations of embryonic and adult stem cell research. Society for Text & Discourse, Memphis, TN.
Stewart, C. O. (2008, May). Socioscientific controversies: A theoretical and methodological framework. International Communication Association (Language & Social Interaction Division), Montreal.
Dickerson, D. L., Stewart, C. O., & Cutshaw, D. V. (2008, March-April). Rhetorical analysis of global warming and other socioscientific issues in popular news media. National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Baltimore, MD.
Dickerson, D. L., Stewart, C. O., & Cutshaw, D. V. (2008, January). Rhetorical analysis of socioscientific issues in popular news media. Association for Science Teacher Education, St. Louis, MO.
Stewart, C. O. (2007, November). Social cognition and discourse processing goals in the analysis of 'ex-gay' rhetoric. National Communication Association (Communication & Social Cognition Division), Chicago.
Stewart, C. O. (2007, August). Ill communication: Arguing the status of homosexuality in DSM-III, 1976-1978. Presented at the NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah.
Stewart, C. O. (2006, November). Boundary-making and boundary-breaking: Rhetorical and discursive influences of media controversy on a scientific publication. National Communication Association (AARST sponsored panel), San Antonio, TX.
Stewart, C. O., Setlock, L. D., & Fussell, S. R. (2006, November). Task-oriented argumentation in dyads: Differences across cultures and communication media. National Communication Association (Human Communication & Technology Division), San Antonio, TX.
Stewart, C. O., Setlock, L. D., & Fussell, S. R. (2006, June). A cross-cultural comparison of Chinese and U.S. students' argumentation in collaboration: Implications for classroom discourse. 2nd Annual Carnegie Mellon Communication Symposium: Teaching English Globally, Pittsburgh, PA.
Stewart, C. O. (2006, May). Investigating the role of 'science' in social controversies: A rhetorical/discourse analytic approach. Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis, TN.
Fussell, S. R., Setlock, L. D., Stewart, C., Kayan, S. & Chand, A. (2006, February). Effects of culture on synchronous computer-mediated communication: Implications for the design of cross-cultural communication tools. Human Computer Interaction Consortium, Frasier, CO.
Stewart, C. O., Baumgardt, D., & Werner, N. K. (2005, November). News frames and the reporting of a campus controversy: A critical discourse analysis. National Communication Association (Student Section), Boston.
Setlock, L. D., Stewart, C. O., Fussell, S. R., & Neuwirth, C. (2005, July). Effects of cultural background and communication medium on conversational grounding and persuasion. Society for Text & Discourse, Amsterdam.
Stewart, C. O. (2003, November). Gay/Ex-Gay: The dissociation of concepts in ex-gay testimonies. National Communication Association (Rhetorical & Communication Theory Division), Miami Beach.
Stewart, C. O. (2003, November). The World Wide Web and the public sphere: Framing debate on Google and Yahoo! National Communication Association (Human Communication & Technology Division), Miami Beach.
Stewart, C. O. (2003, July). Scientific ethos and strategies of argumentation in the rhetoric of reparative therapists and creation scientists. Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, State College, PA.
Stewart, C. O. (2003, April). Framing, discursive recontextualization, and scientific topoi: Representing a study of "reparative therapy" for homosexuality in the media. Symposium About Language and Society-Austin (SALSA), Austin, TX.
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