Areas of Research
Rhetorical theory
The conditions of possibility for suasion and responsibility
Affect theory
The constraints and affordances of negative viscera
Critical surveillance
The asymmetrical power dynamics of discipline and control, esp. in information networks
National security rhetoric
The creation of (in)secure subjects and perceived threats
Publications
To read a publication, please feel free to email me (ritchiem@plu.edu) for a copy. You can also find my work here: Academia.edu, Google Scholar, Research Gate.
Single-Authored Essays
Ritchie, M. (2023). War misguidance: Visualizing quagmire in the US War in Afghanistan. Media, War & Conflict, 16(1), 63-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750635220985272
Ritchie, M. (2021). Gasping for war drama: The “about to die moment” of the Osama bin Laden assassination, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 38(3), 240-254.
Ritchie, M. (2020). Fusing race: The phobogenics of racializing surveillance. Surveillance & Society, 18(1), 12-29. Available online: https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/13131. Lead article. Recipient of Early Career Researcher Award from the Surveillance Studies Network.
Ritchie, M. (2018). Spectacular resilience: Visualizations of endurance in “Beyond 9/11.” Visual Communication Quarterly, 25(3), 168-180.
Ritchie, M. (2018). Regurgitative reading. Capacious: A Journal of Emerging Affect Inquiry, 1(3),25-48. Available online: http://capaciousjournal.com/article/regurgitative-reading.
Ritchie, M. (2017). Security stupidity. Journal of Multicultural Discourses [Special Issue "Multicultural Discourses of 'Security,'" edited by Hamilton Bean and Bryan C. Taylor], 12(4), 349-365.
Ritchie, M. (2015). Feeling for the state: Affective labor and anti-terrorism training in US hotels. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 12(2), 179-197.
Encyclopedia Entries
Ritchie, M. (2021). Rhetoric and critical affect theory. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ritchie, M. (2019). Brian Massumi and communication. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies. Oxford University Press.
Book Reviews
Ritchie, M. (2021). Review of Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision by Brendan McQuade. Crime, Media, Culture, 18(1), 150-152.
Ritchie, M. (2015). Review of Poverty in common: The politics of community action during the American Century by Alyosha Goldstein. E3W Review of Books, 15.
Select Conference Presentations
“Occupied Emoting: The Black Face as Misrecognized Medium in Affective AI,” Individual Paper Presentation for Faces and Facial Recognition Panel, Surveillance Studies Network Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2022
“Sousveillant Students: Digitally Mapping Campus Security Surveillance,” Individual Paper for Panel “Digital Spatiality and/as Power and Resistance,” Media Ecology Association, National Communication Association Convention, remote presentation, 2020
”Fusing Race: The Phobogenics of Racializing Surveillance,” Communication, Identities, and Difference Division, Inaugural Top Paper Award, Western States Communication Association Convention, 2019
“‘Bureau of Hurt Feelings’: The Anguished Affective Labor of National Security,” Capacious: Affect Inquiry/Making Space, Millersville University, 2018