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Alexander McVey

- Verified email at ed.ac.uk - Cited by 648

James Alexander McVey

- Verified email at ksu.edu - Cited by 74

[HTML][HTML] General calibration of microbial growth in microplate readers

K Stevenson, AF McVey, IBN Clark, PS Swain… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Optical density (OD) measurements of microbial growth are one of the most common
techniques used in microbiology, with applications ranging from studies of antibiotic efficacy to …

[HTML][HTML] A growing bacterial colony in two dimensions as an active nematic

…, FDC Farrell, JS Lintuvuori, AF McVey… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
How a single bacterium becomes a colony of many thousand cells is important in biomedicine
and food safety. Much is known about the molecular and genetic bases of this process, …

Characterization of the effects of n-butanol on the cell envelope of E. coli

E Fletcher, T Pilizota, PR Davies, A McVey… - Applied microbiology …, 2016 - Springer
Biofuel alcohols have severe consequences on the microbial hosts used in their biosynthesis,
which limits the productivity of the bioconversion. The cell envelope is one of the most …

Growth‐dependent heterogeneity in the DNA damage response in Escherichia coli

S Jaramillo‐Riveri, J Broughton, A McVey… - Molecular Systems …, 2022 - embopress.org
In natural environments, bacteria are frequently exposed to sub‐lethal levels of DNA damage,
which leads to the induction of a stress response (the SOS response in Escherichia coli). …

Rhetoric, race, and resentment: Whiteness and the new days of rage

…, ML McPhail, DA Frank, RC Jackson, JA McVey… - Rhetoric …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
With the 2008 election of the first African American president of the US, race as both subject
and object has infiltrated national conversations in myriad ways. As the reality of his …

Get Gritty with it: Memetic icons and the visual ethos of antifascism

DA Greenwalt, JA McVey - Communication and Critical/Cultural …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This essay tracks how Gritty, the new mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team, emerged
as a memetic icon for antifascism and the sometimes-contradictory ethos of far-left online …

Point and shoot: Police media labor and technologies of surveillance in End of Watch

JA McVey - Crime, Media, Culture, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article analyzes the 2012 found-footage buddy-cop film End of Watch. The author
analyzes the film’s production, plot, para-textual materials, audience reviews, and audience-…

[PDF][PDF] Anti-racist activism and the transformational principles of hashtag publics: from# HandsUpDontShoot to# PantsUpDontLoot

JA McVey, HS Woods - Present Tense, 2016 - presenttensejournal.org
On August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, MO, unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot to
death by police officer Darren Wilson. The aftermath of the shooting was marked by intense …

[PDF][PDF] # BlackLivesMatter as A Case Study in the Politics of Digital Media: Algorithms, Hashtag Publics, and Organizing Protest Online

H Woods, JA McVey - Teaching Media Quarterly, 2016 - pubs.lib.umn.edu
The hashtag# BlackLivesMatter was first circulated by Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse
Cullors in the summer of 2013 in response to the unpunished death of Florida teenager …

The left can meme

DA Greenwalt, JA McVey - Explorations in Media Ecology, 2023 - intellectdiscover.com
While the use of memes as a persuasive strategy by the alt-right in the 2016 election gave
rise to the notion that the left had been thoroughly outflanked in the meme wars, this project …