Aaron Hess

(Select Publications)

Hess, A. & Kjeldsen, J. E. (Eds.). (2025). Ethos, technology, and AI in contemporary society: The character in the machine. Routledge.

Kjeldsen, J. E. & Hess, A. (2025). An ecology of ethos. Western Journal of Communication, 89, 515-536.  

Chevrette, R., Hanchey, J., Lechuga, M., Hess, A., & Middleton, M.  (2023, August 23). Rhetorical Field Methods/Rhetorical Ethnography. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication.

Kjeldsen, J. & Hess, A. (2021). Experiencing multimodal rhetoric and argumentation in political advertisements: A study of how people respond to the rhetoric of multimodal communication. Visual Communication, 20, 327-352. doi: 10.1177/14703572211013399 

Hess, A., Senda-Cook, S., Middleton, M. K., & Endres, D. (2020). (Participatory) critical rhetoric: Critiqued and reconsidered. International Journal of Communication, 14, 870-884. doi: 1932–8036/20200005

Senda-Cook, S., Hess, A., Middleton, M. K., & Endres, D. (2018). Readings in rhetorical fieldwork. New York: Routledge.

Booth, P., Davisson, A., Hess, A., & Hinck, A. (2018). Poaching politics: Online communication during the 2016 US Presidential Election. New York: Peter Lang. 

Hess, A. & Davisson, A. (Eds.) (2017). Theorizing digital rhetoric. New York: Routledge.

Middleton, M. K., Hess, A., Endres, D., & Senda-Cook, S.  (2015). Participatory critical rhetoric: Theoretical and methodological foundations for studying rhetoric in situ. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press. 

Hess, A. & Flores, C. (2016). Simply more than swiping left: A critical analysis of toxic masculine performances on Tinder Nightmares. New Media & Society. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1461444816681540 

Endres, D., Hess, A., Senda-Cook, S., & Middleton, M. K. (2016). In situ rhetoric: Intersections between qualitative inquiry, fieldwork, and rhetoric. Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies, doi: 10.1177/1532708616655820 

Hess, A. (2016). Embodied judgment: A call for a phronetic orientation in rhetorical ethnography. In S. McKinnon, R. Asen, K. Chavez, & R. G. Howard (Eds.), Text + field: Innovations in rhetorical method (pp. 86-100). University Park, PA: Penn State Press.

Hess, A. (2015). The selfie assemblage. International Journal of Communication, 9, 1629-1646. Retrieved from http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3147/1389

Hess, A., & Herbig, A. (2013). Recalling the ghosts of 9/11: Convergent memorializing at the opening of the National 9/11 Memorial. International Journal of Communication, 7, 2207-2230. Retrieved from http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1733/997

Herbig, A., & Hess, A. (2012). Convergent critical rhetoric at the Rally to Restore Sanity: Exploring the intersection of rhetoric, ethnography, and documentary production. Communication Studies, 63, 269-289. doi:10.1080/10510974.2012.674617

Hess, A. (2011). Critical-rhetorical ethnography: Rethinking the place and process of rhetoric. Communication Studies, 62, 127-152. doi:10.1080/10510974.2011.529750 

Hess, A. (2009). Resistance up in smoke: Analyzing the limitations of deliberation on YouTube. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26, 411-434. doi: 10.1080/15295030903325347

Hess, A. (2007). In digital remembrance: Vernacular memory and the rhetorical construction of web memorials. Media, Culture & Society, 29, 812-830. doi: 10.1177/0163443707080539