Scholars
Lauren E Cagle
University of Kentucky
Based in
United States
North America
Lauren E. Cagle is an Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies and Director of the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment at the University of Kentucky, as well as the co-founder and Director of the Kentucky Climate Consortium (KYCC). Her research focuses on overlaps among digital rhetorics, research ethics, and scientific, environmental, and technical communication, frequently in collaboration with organizations such as the Kentucky Division for Air Quality, the Kentucky Geological Survey, the UK Recycling Program, and The Arboretum, State Botanical Garden of Kentucky. She is currently writing a book on slide charts for the Parlor Press X-Series.
Country(ies) of Specialty
United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Communications research Behavioral action Public opinion Social MediaHow to Connect
Publications
Articles
Cagle, Lauren E., and Denise Tillery. “Climate Change Research across Disciplines: The Value and Uses of Multidisciplinary Research Reviews for Technical Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, 2015, pp. 147–63. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2015.1001296.
Cagle, Lauren E. “‘A Proficiency in What We Call Rhetoric’: A Role for Community-Engaged Technical Cmmunicators in Interpretive Planning Processes.” Technical Communication Quarterly, July 2023. world, www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.uky.edu, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10572252.2023.2240856.
Cagle, Lauren E. “Becoming ‘Forces of Change’: Making a Case for Engaged Rhetoric of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine.” Poroi, vol. 12, no. 2, Feb. 2017. CrossRef, https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1260.
Cagle, Lauren E. “Doing Science Digitally.” The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication, by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch et al., 1st ed., Routledge, 2021, pp. 307–23. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043782-29.
Cagle, Lauren E. “Climate Change and the Virtue of Civility: Cultivating Productive Deliberation around Public Scientific Controversy.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 37, no. 4, Oct. 2018, pp. 370–379. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2018.1497882.
Cagle, Lauren E., and Carl G. Herndl. “Shades of Denialism: Discovering Possibilities for a More Nuanced Deliberation about Climate Change in Online Discussion Forums.” Communication Design Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, 2019, pp. 22–39.
Cagle, Lauren E., and Denise Tillery. “Tweeting the Anthropocene: #400ppm as Networked Event.” Scientific Communication: Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies, edited by Han Yu and Kathryn M. Northcut, Routledge, 2017. Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture. Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Cana, et al. “To Community with Care: Enacting Positive Barriers to Access as Good Relations.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Oct. 2022. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.25148/CLJ.17.1.010652.
Walker, Kenneth, and Lauren E Cagle. Resilience Rhetorics in Science, Technology, and Medicine. 2020, p. 12.