Barbara Warnick
Professor of Communication
PhD, University of Michigan
1117 Cathedral of Learning
Phone: 412-624-1564
E-mail: bwarnickatpitt.edu
Barbara Warnick’s interests include the study of persuasion and other forms of appeal on the World Wide Web and the study of contemporary argumentation theory. In regard to the first of these topics, she is interested specifically in how the modes of communication in new media environments are shaped and constrained by the media in which they are communicated.
Courses Taught
- Argument (COMMRC 0500)
- Special Topics: Public Argument on Current Issues (COMMRC 1730)
- Rhetorical Process (COMMRC 0310)
Selected Publications
Warnick, Barbara. 2007. Rhetoric Online: Persuasion and Politics on the World Wide Web. New York: Peter Lang.
Warnick, Barbara; second author with Kirsten Foot and Steve Schneider. 2005. "Web-based Memorializing after September 11: Toward a Conceptual Framework." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 4.
Warnick, Barbara. 2005. "Looking to the Future: Electronic Texts and the Deepening Interface." Technical Communication Quarterly, 14(3), 327-333.
Warnick, Barbara. 2004. "Online Ethos: Source Credibility in an 'Authorless Environment.'" American Behavioral Scientist, 48(2), 256-265.
Warnick, Barbara. 2004. "The Ethos of Rhetorical Criticism: Enlarging the Dwelling Place of Critical Praxis.” In The Ethos of Rhetoric, Ed. Michael J. Hyde. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, pp. 56-74.