{"id":138,"name":"Don Waisanen","url":"","description":"Dr. Waisanen is an assistant professor of communication at Baruch College, and received his PhD in Communication from the University of Southern California, where he was a Walter Fisher Fellow. He has published work on rhetoric and public affairs, deliberative democracy in the digital age, political comedy, civil-religious controversies, and communication education. He is currently completing a book on political conversion narratives in the last half century of American politics, and has some new articles coming out in various journals and edited volumes on the political dimensions of social networking sites, and the rhetoric of irony, parody, and satire in public discourse. Dr. Waisanen was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, and has worked in radio and television. His other experiences include speechwriting, political campaign coordination, and teaching courses in public speaking, debate, persuasion, and communication theory and criticism. He is a frequent contributor to Thick Culture, a blog formed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars (found at http:\/\/contexts.org\/thickculture\/), and has long enjoyed and been informed in his professional work by hobbies in the performing arts.","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/author\/dwaisane\/","slug":"dwaisane","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f139c1d80679dcce1ee279ab4f0df1ad39c4e1dbe00d9d549697c632ae4d22e?s=24&d=identicon&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f139c1d80679dcce1ee279ab4f0df1ad39c4e1dbe00d9d549697c632ae4d22e?s=48&d=identicon&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6f139c1d80679dcce1ee279ab4f0df1ad39c4e1dbe00d9d549697c632ae4d22e?s=96&d=identicon&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}