#grabill

Forgive the terrible quality! My little Pico flew away this afternoon and I need help finding him! My sister has been watching over him while we’re in a rental house that doesn’t allow pets; while they were moving this afternoon (Dec 7, 2017), he slipped out of the bottom of his cage and flew off. 

He is a fully flighted normal grey cockatiel with grey patches on his head and yellow flight feathers. He is not finger friendly, but is social and may approach. Don’t attempt to catch him by hand as he’s not comfortable with human hands. He likes mirrors okay, feet and socks a great deal, and seeds an enormous amount.

He flew off from Grabill, IN. Nearby towns are Harlan, Leo, and Cedarville. Fort Wayne is the nearest metro area.

please PLEASE share this! We’re so scared for him!!

In this article, Grabill and Simmons focus on the social construction of risk and risk communication. Their study attempts to define risk as arhetorical by decontextualizing the concepts of risk and failure as something that is socially constructed. Grabill and Simmons define risk as currently having three aspects in the professional communication field: as something that “dissolves the separation between assessment and communication,” foregrounds the power in risk communication, and the technical communicator is the only person with the research and writing skills necessary for all of the processes involved in risk communication (360). Their goal was to define how important it is to examine both the disciplines and the institutions involved in risk communication to better understand how the various hierarchies of power are established and exercised in the communication of risk. These definitions of communication structure and power create a new meaning (at least for 1998) into how we as technical communicators are “supposed to” communicate with the “general public.”

Grabill and Simmons use Michel Foucault’s “The Subject and Power” as a lens through which to look at the concepts of risk and the power structures involved in the conversations surrounding risk. Foucault claims that “institutions exercise power through regulating and constraining knowledge making, production and consumption through rules and practices. Understanding how power is exercised, and looking for gaps, we can resist, even alter, unequal power relations” (as qtd. In Grabill and Simmons, 361-362). Foucault’s view (and Grabill and Simmon’s) shows that the power structures involved in document construction is one in which the power of decision making is given to “experts.” This choice of decision making, and distribution of information ends up masking the complex social connections and interactions that are involved in the creation of knowledge, therefor denying the citizens involved any real power in the creation of the knowledge and limiting the social needs of knowledge making. This, I (and Grabill and Simmons) would claim, would also weaken the message given by the “experts.”

Kicking Bear in Natural Costume, Grabill, 1880s, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Size: image: 23 x 19.6 cm (9 1/16 x 7 11/16 in.) mount: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

Indian Chiefs Who Counciled with Gen. Miles and Settled the Indian War, Grabill, 1880s, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Size: image: 16.2 x 22.6 cm (6 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.) mount: 17.3 x 25 cm (6 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)