Aaron Dicker
Alumni- Education
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication. He earned his master’s degree in Communication Liberal Arts and Sciences from Ball State University and his B.A. in Political Science from DePauw University.
- Specializations
Argumentation, anti-Semitism, visual rhetoric, social movements, and terrorism
- Biography
Aaron Dicker was a Presidential Fellow with the TCV from 2015 to 2017. His research interests include argumentation, anti-Semitism, visual rhetoric, social movements, and terrorism.
Dicker’s background also includes teaching courses in Communication and coaching intercollegiate debate at multiple universities.
He also previously worked for the Quality Enhancement Plan at Wiley College where he implemented curriculum utilizing academic debate as a conflict resolution and educational tool. He’s a current member of the National Communication Association (NCA), the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), and the Southern States Communication Association (SSCA).
- Publications
El Damanhoury, K., Winkler, C., Kaczkowski, W., & Dicker, A., (2018). Examining the military-media nexus in ISIS’s provincial photography campaign. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 1-20.
Winkler, C., El Damanhoury, K., Dicker, A., & Lemieux, A.F. (2018). Images of death and dying in ISIS media: A comparison of English and Arabic print publications. Media, War, & Conflict, 1-15.
Winkler, C.K., El Damanhoury, K., Dicker, A., & Lemieux, A.F. (2016). The medium is terrorism: Transformation of the about to die trope in Dabiq. Terrorism and Political Violence, 1-20.
Presentations:
Dicker, A. (2018). Escaping the “broken middle”: Arguments for particular audiences using dissociative disruption. National Communication Association Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
Dicker, A. (2018). Toward the affective turn in social movement theory. Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
Dicker, A. (2017). Defending the “Domestic Foreigner”: Jews and Muslims as “Un- American”. ACA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT.
Dicker, A. (2017). #UCIntifada: The Future of BDS on American College Campuses. Morehouse College Interdisciplinary Symposium on Social Justice, Social Movements, and Activism at Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
Dicker, A. (2017). Counterpublics and the Universal Audience. Southern States Communication Association Annual Conference, Greenville, SC.
Dicker, A. (2016). Visual interpellation in Dabiq’s “Selected 10”. National Communication Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Lemieux, A.F., Winkler, C., Simati, M., El Damanhoury, K., & Dicker, A. (2016). An analytical comparison of behavioral change appeals in Al-Shabaab’s Gaidi Mtaani and ISIL’s Dabiq. National Communication Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
Winkler, C., Dicker, A., & El Damanhoury, K. (2016). Visual and sound strategies in ISIS Propaganda. VOX-POL Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
Winkler, C., Lemieux, A., Dicker, A., & El Damanhoury, K. (2016). Validating Extremism: Daesh’s use of authority in al-Naba’ infographics. International Society for the Study of Argument/Wake Forest University Biennial Argumentation Conference, Venice, Italy.
Dicker, A. (2016). Reducing recidivism: Prison reform through higher education. 6th Annual Conference on Scholarly Teaching, Atlanta, GA.
Winkler, C., Lemieux, A., Dicker, A., & El Damanhoury, K. (2016). Visual communication strategies of ISIL’s Dabiq magazine. International Studies Association – International Communication Conference, Atlanta, GA.