Jason C. Thompson

Publications:

Forthcoming:

Edited Books:

Thompson, Jason C., and Marc Ouellette, eds. The Game Culture Reader. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholar’s Press. Under contract.

Articles:

Thompson, Jason C. “Rhetoric and Rising Sun: The Emergence of the War-Brother Topos.” The Game Culture Reader.

Book Reviews:

Thompson, Jason C. “Four Ways of Looking at Eleven Ways of Looking: Review of Clarke Rountree’s The Chameleon President: The Curious Case of George W. Bush.” K.B. Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society. Web.

Published Works:

Edited Journals:

Ouellette, Marc, and Jason C. Thompson, eds. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 12.2 (2012): Special Issue: Playing for Keeps: Games and Cultural Resistance. July 11, 2012. Web.

Articles:

Thompson, Jason. “Magic for a People Trained in Pragmatism: Kenneth Burke, Mein Kampf, and the Early 9/11 Oratory of George W. Bush.” Rhetoric Review 30.4 (2011): 350-71. Print.

Thompson, Jason, Ken McAllister, and Judd Ruggill. “Onward Through the Fog: Computer Game Collection and the Play of Obsolescence.” M/C Journal 12.3 (Jul. 2009). Web.

Brown, Stuart, Theresa Enos, David Reamer, and Jason Thompson. “Portrait of the Profession: The 2007 Survey of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition” Rhetoric Review 27.4 (Fall 2008): 331-40. Print.

Chapters in Books:

Thompson, Jason, and Theresa Enos. “The Rhetoric of Obfuscation and Technologies of Hidden Writing: Poets and Palimpsests, Painters and Purposes.” On the Blunt Edge: Technology in our Pedagogy and History.  Ed. Shane Borrowman. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2011. 152-72. Print.

Thompson, Jason, “New Media Texts of WWII: Kenneth Burke’s Intersection with Computer Culture.” The Computer Culture Reader. Ed. Judd Ruggill, Ken McAllister, and Joseph R. Chaney.  Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2009. 73-89. Print.

Introductions:

Ouellette, Marc A., and Jason C. Thompson. “Editor’s Introduction: Games and/as Resistance.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 12.2 (2012): Special Issue: Playing for Keeps: Games and Cultural Resistance. 11 Jul. 2012. Web.

Book Reviews:

Thompson, Jason.  “‘The Birth of Burke’s Dramatism’: Review of M. Elizabeth Weiser’s Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing Dramatism.” JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics. 30.1&2 (2010): 358-63. Print.

Interviews:

Ouellette, Marc A., and Jason C. Thompson. “An Interview with Francisco Ortega, Creator of Crossing the Bridge, Observance: The Board Game, and H1-B: The Board Game.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 12.2 (2012): Special Issue: Playing for Keeps: Games and Cultural Resistance. 11 July 2012. Web.