{"id":304,"date":"2020-09-06T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T13:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/?page_id=304"},"modified":"2020-09-06T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T13:35:28","slug":"scott-weedon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/participants\/scott-weedon\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Weedon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Scott Weedon<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-305 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-06-at-9.34.15-AM-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-06-at-9.34.15-AM-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-06-at-9.34.15-AM.png 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">PhD Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Texas Tech<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of Work:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My work is in technical and scientific communication and RHM. I have a forthcoming article in Poroi at the intersection of RHM and the rhetoric of technology on ultrasound and speech and display laws, and this summer, I composed a conference proceeding for the IEEE ProComm conference on belief in pseudoscience and science communication. Currently, I am interested in the phenomenon of wellness culture and the role it plays in the beliefs people have about science. Some important components of wellness are taste and aesthetics, which I believe also play an influential part in the science and medical information people take up. My research this year has been preoccupied with finding in-roads to that dynamic through the topics of aesthetics, affect, health and consumerism, and health and science communication. In the paper I have submitted for the symposium, I am looking at the rhetorical strategies one wellness brand (goop) employees to both align and distance itself from science. I argue that the goop Lab series serves as a kind of propaeduetic for viewers\/consumers to learn to reconcile a dichotomy between scientific evaluation and wellness therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Weedon PhD Assistant Professor Texas Tech Description of Work: My work is in technical and scientific communication and RHM. I have a forthcoming article in Poroi at the intersection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/participants\/scott-weedon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scott Weedon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-304","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/304\/revisions\/306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}