Title: Assistant Professor
University: University of Texas at Austin
Email: ssg@utexas.edu
Twitter: @easyrhetor
Website: sscottgraham.com
Description of your work
My research lives at the intersection of computational rhetoric and science, technology, and medicine studies. My current research is devoted to better understanding the rhetorical effects of industry funding and conflicts of interest in biomedical discourse. This work requires reconceptualizing the impacts of conflicts of interest as the aggregate effect of certain financial relationships on biomedical discursive systems. In pursuing these goals, my team and I are currently developing new computationally-assisted rhetorical methods that can extract financial relationships data from natural language and prepare it for network visualization. Ultimately, we hope this work will contribute to the ongoing development of robust humanistic inquiry into economic influences on biomedical research.