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Taylor, Bryan C.

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  • My research interests include critical security studies, organizational culture, communication technology, and qualitative research methods. My mission is to help scholarly, professional, and public audiences better appreciate the role of communication in conceptualizing and practicing 'security.' Specifically, my work focuses on how political, military, and scientific groups debate competing images and narratives of 'security,' as they create, administer, and revise related policies, programs, and operations. This work considers how democratic interaction within and between security elites and publics may contribute to the development of more accurate, just, and successful security narratives. I am currently completing on a book project involving the role of simulation, imitation, and mutual adaptation (i.e., mimesis) in post-9/11 U.S. media culture.

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  • communication theory, critical-cultural studies, qualitative research methods, nuclear weapons, national security, critical security studies, mimesis

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Teaching

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  • ARSC 5040 - Arts and Sciences Special Topics
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020
    Same as ARSC 4040. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours.
  • COMM 2650 - Business and Professional Communication
    Secondary Instructor - Spring 2022
    Develops knowledge of concepts and skills required for successful participation in contemporary workplace communication. Focuses on communication processes associated with contexts such as sales, leadership, diversity, teamwork, customer service, and conflict. Facilitates students conduct of self-assessment, networking, interviewing, and other career-development strategies. Provides students training in informative and persuasive business presentations. Recommended prerequisites: COMM 1300 and COMM 1600.
  • COMM 3610 - Communication, Technology, and Society
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    Examines how electronic media influence our communication in relationships and communities. Focuses on how we use technology to create shared meanings, express identities, and coordinate interaction, and why such efforts succeed and fail. Also focuses on political and ethical questions concerning the development of communication technology in a global society characterized by conflict and inequality. Recommended prerequisites: COMM 1210 and COMM 1600.
  • COMM 4300 - Senior Seminar: Rhetoric
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021
    Reviews current theory and research on rhetoric and culture on topics such as environmental rhetoric, rhetoric of racism, and rhetoric of storytelling.
  • COMM 4600 - Senior Seminar: Organizational Communication
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2020
    Reviews current theory and research on topics such as communication and organizational decision making, organizational culture, gender relations, communication technology, and power and control in organizations. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as COMM 5600.
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