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MIT Press Media Technologies Essays on Communication
Book SynopsisScholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena.In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in science and technology studies (STS), while some STS scholars interested in information technologies have linked their research to media studies inquiries into the symbolic dimensions of these tools. In this volume, scholars from both fields come together to advance this view of media technologies as complex sociomaterial phenomena. The contributors first address the relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such topics as the
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Pennsylvania State University Press Appeals to Interest Language Contestation and the
Book SynopsisExplores the theoretical and political implications of self-interest within the context of neoliberal political, theoretical, and methodological imperatives.Trade Review“For some political theorists, interests are the nitty-gritty of political life, the bedrock beneath the airy fantasies of culture and identity. For others, interest-talk is a sign of the corruption of the political by a crass, narrow rationalism that can't do justice to the larger stakes of life in common. Dean Mathiowetz's new book—as meticulous in its readings as it is revolutionary in its consequences—challenges both sides of this all-too-familiar argument by showing that appeals to interest have always been about much more than their most influential defenders and critics have thought. Erudite and gripping, Appeals to Interest is an exemplary bridge between the history of political thought and critical engagement with contemporary political problems.”—Patchen Markell,University of Chicago“In a feat of conceptual restoration, Dean Mathiowetz rescues a genuinely political language of interest from its confinement as calculating self-regard in (neo)liberal political science and political theory. The scholarship of Appeals to Interest is truly impressive, and its surprising findings will engage audiences across law, social science, and the humanities.”—Stephen Engelmann,University of Illinois at Chicago“A stunning accomplishment, and a great read. Mathiowetz shows us the hidden ‘juridical and plural’ side of the concept of interest.”—Elisabeth Ellis,Texas A&M University“A stunning accomplishment, and a great read. Mathiowetz shows us the hidden ‘juridical and plural’ side of the concept of interest. Appeals to Interest reveals our world as the product of the past as never before.”—Elisabeth Ellis,Texas A&M University“A stunning accomplishment, and a great read. Mathiowetz shows us the hidden ‘juridical and plural’ side of the concept of interest, and how the model of self-regarding rational calculation has illegitimately supplanted alternatives. Appeals to Interest reveals our world as the product of the past as never before.”—Elisabeth Ellis,Texas A&M University“Appeals to Interest is a stunning accomplishment, a deeply scholarly and highly original work of historical analysis and political theory. It is also a great read. Combining wisdom culled from the linguistic turn with an astonishingly high level of scholarship, Dean Mathiowetz shows us the hidden ‘juridical and plural’ side of the concept of interest as it develops over centuries of political arguments. We learn how the concept of interest as self-regarding rational calculation has illegitimately supplanted alternative uses of the word. Appeals to Interest reveals our world as the product of the past as never before.”—Elisabeth Ellis,Texas A&M University“Appeals to Interest is a stunning accomplishment, a deeply scholarly and highly original work of historical analysis and political theory that will provoke intellectual controversy for years to come. It is also a great read. Bringing the insights associated with Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Foucault together with impressive expertise in the fields of economic history and the intellectual history of liberal political thought, Mathiowetz shows us the hidden ‘juridical and plural’ side of the concept of interest as it develops over centuries of political arguments. We learn how the concept of interest as self-regarding rational calculation has illegitimately supplanted alternative uses of the word, and we experience the unfortunate consequences of the suppression of these alternatives. Combining wisdom culled from the linguistic turn with an astonishingly high level of scholarship, Appeals to Interest reveals our world as the product of the past as never before.”—Elisabeth Ellis,Texas A&M University“Appeals to Interest is a stunning accomplishment, a deeply scholarly and highly original work of historical analysis and political theory that will provoke intellectual controversy for years to come. It is also a great read. Bringing the insights associated with Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Foucault together with impressive expertise in the fields of economic history and the intellectual history of liberal political thought, Dean Mathiowetz shows us the hidden ‘juridical and plural’ side of the concept of interest as it develops over centuries of political arguments. We learn how the concept of interest as self-regarding rational calculation has illegitimately supplanted alternative uses of the word, and we experience the unfortunate consequences of the suppression of these alternatives. Appeals to Interest makes substantial contributions to the intellectual history of liberalism, to the methodology of the history of concepts, and to the study of politics generally. Combining wisdom culled from the linguistic turn with an astonishingly high level of scholarship, Appeals to Interest reveals the present world to us by redescribing familiar events and ideas. We understand our world as the product of the past as never before.”—Elisabeth Ellis,Texas A&M University“Why don't citizens vote in their interests? On what grounds can anyone other than the citizen herself say what her interest might be? Mathiowetz’s eloquent book breaks through this stalemated debate, explaining the seeming intransigence of these questions as a conceptual confusion rooted in the dominant individualist and psychological conception of interest as calculating self-regard. Bringing the linguistic turn to the study of interest, Mathiowetz recovers the ‘juridical,’ contestatory, and action-oriented uses of the word that make appeals to interest a site of contests over identity rather than a fixed ground of political demands. This insightful, exciting work brings interest to the center of democratic political thought.”—Lisa Disch,University of Michigan“Dean Mathiowetz’s careful and creative reconstruction of the history of the related, but evolving, concepts to which the word ‘interest’ has been applied provides an effective critical perspective on the contemporary narrow understanding of this crucial element of our political language. At the same time, he reveals the richer possibilities that have been immanent in earlier formulations.”—John G. Gunnell,State University of New York at Albany and University of California, Davis“Appeals to Interest is a meticulous work, compelling and full of insight. It provides a resoundingly astute analysis of how and why appeals to interest depend on agency, specifically in terms of ‘who’ an agent is. There is no doubt that this book has the potential to add substantially to our understanding of the ever-evolving realm of politics.”—Akinbola E. Akinwumi Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments1. Introduction: The Politics of Interest2. Property, Usury, and the Juridical Subject of Interest3. Appeals to Interest in Seventeenth-Century England4. Contesting Sovereignty: Interest in Thomas Hobbes5. A Historiography of Liberal Interest and the Neoliberal Self 6. Interest in Political Studies: Action, Grouping, and GovernmentEpilogue: The Language of Interest as a Critical Theory of PoliticsSelected BibliographyIndex
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Pennsylvania State University Press Embodiment Relation Community A Continental
Book SynopsisIntegrates the perspectives of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Lacanian psychoanalysis to distinguish communication theory from the philosophy of communication.Trade Review“Garnet C. Butchart convincingly shows that we are always in communication and that one of its primary operative functions is immunization, a concept Butchart borrows from Roberto Esposito. Communication, paradoxically, is what restricts and enables, what is both threat and defense, exposure and shoring up, contamination and protection. An indispensable book for those wanting to understand the contribution of contemporary continental philosophy to our understanding of the communicative constitution of reality.”—François Cooren,author of Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism“Unlike work that has been published in cultural studies, Butchart’s study is not ‘post-phenomenology’ or in any way antagonistic to the tradition of thought that preceded it. It is, simply, the future of the field. It carefully explores some of the most important thematic and problematic concerns in the philosophy of human communication.”—Frank J. Macke,author of The Experience of Human Communication: Body, Flesh, and Relationship“This is a wonderful book. Drawing upon thinkers such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and others, Garnet Butchart reflects on communication and communicates his reflection in a most honest and graceful manner. As we read this text, our experiences of communication, of being in common with others, are brought back to their very foundation.”—Briankle G. Chang,author of Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange“Embodiment, Relation, Community succeeds in enlivening the philosophy of communication by inventively crossing traditions and squarely facing the uncertainties of communication. The book's three major strengths are its nuanced interrogation of the imperative to communicate, fluid demonstration of the relation between immunization and communication, and trenchant analysis of the ontologically communicative body.”—Gary Genosko,author of Remodeling Communication: From WWII to the WWW“This exciting book brings philosophy of communication up to speed with cutting-edge debates in contemporary continental philosophy. Traditional questions of community, body, dialogue, and human contact receive here new and urgent meanings. Butchart’s work is an important contribution to the understanding of communication as an embodied and at the same time collectively shared existential concern.”—Amit Pinchevski,author of By Way of Interruption: Levinas and the Ethics of Communication“Embodiment, Relation, Community is a philosophical investigation of human communication aimed at resolving the epistemological problematic presented by Communication Studies’ inability to deal adequately with the longstanding problem of the impossibility of non-communication and the destabilizing effect of this problem on the communicative subject. More specifically, Butchart resolves this longstanding problematic with an ontological account in which the possibility of human community in communicative practices is laid bare.”—Kurt Pabst Canadian Society for Continental PhilosophyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Wager of Communication (as Revealed by Psychoanalysis)2 The Ban of Language and Law of Communication3 Of Communication and-as Immunization4 Body as Index5 What Remains to Be Thought: Community, or Being-WithEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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Penn State University Press The Paradoxes of Posterity
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Paradoxes of Posterity
Book SynopsisExamines the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity.Trade Review“In addition to providing a fascinating examination of how writers such as Diderot, Casanova, and Sartre confronted the possibility of ‘writing from the grave,’ Hoffmann’s provocative and well-written book asks all writers to reflect on their own intentions (and personal mythmaking) when they themselves take up the pen.”—Andrew Curran,author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
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Pennsylvania State University Press Beyond Civility The Competing Obligations of
Book SynopsisExamines the problem of social change in a modern, mediated democracy. Argues that civility is not simply a virtue but a functional set of tools that must be adapted to specific situations.Trade Review“In a much needed and thought-provoking study, William Keith and Robert Danisch examine the concepts of civility and incivility, offering both critique and justification for civility as a norm of political discourse. They reconceive civility as a kind of discourse that can help us solve political problems in a way that is more equal, less conditioned by economic, political, or social power, and more respectful of mutual humanity. This study offers a timely assessment of our broken public sphere.”—Jennifer Mercieca,coeditor of The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency“One consequence of the current challenges to democracy is reconsideration of democratic institutions, norms, and habits. Beyond Civility is a model for how that can be done. While engaging strong critiques of the concept, Keith and Danisch demonstrate why [civility] remains an important commitment for both political sustainability and progressive change. By focusing on its paradoxical character, they show how civility and incivility negotiate deep problems of relationality. This is a thoughtful study of public communication for this turbulent time.”—Robert Hariman,author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power “William Keith and Robert Danisch offer a provocative and interesting take on democracy as a ‘wicked problem.’”—Mary E. Stuckey,author of Voting Deliberatively: FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign“Beyond Civility is a defense of civility and an argument for its centrality to democratic culture. It engages in topics that will be of great interest to rhetorical scholars. The authors’ breakdown of civility into weak/strong/pseudo and the argument stances in the ‘theater’ of public discourse are novel and important.”—Jeremy Engels,author of The Politics of Resentment: A Genealogy“Challenging the regular hand-wringing over a decline of civility in public discourse, William Keith and Robert Danisch take political divisiveness as a given in Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship.”—Scott McLemee Inside Higher EdTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Civility Matters1. Civility as a Moral Quandary and a Political Necessity2. Imagining the Politics of Civility3. Civility in the Discursive Public Sphere4. The Structure, Uses, and Limitations of Incivility5. Strong Civility for Social JusticeNotesReferencesIndex
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Pennsylvania State University Press Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas 25
Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining the rhetorics that underlie democratic politics in Latin America and the United States.Trade Review“Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas offers a valuable lesson. When contending with the Americas, rhetoric, and/or democracy, an investigation of the Idea of the Americas is fundamental to an understanding of what haunts us in the present, essential to the projects of unsettling the ‘settler’ as a system, and consubstantial for rethinking rhetoric [and] democracy.”—Romeo García The Quarterly Journal of Speech“With an impressive diversity of both topics and authors, Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas invites readers to consider the structural determinants as well as living habits of twenty-first-century politics. Angel, Butterworth, and Gómez demonstrate leadership in intellectual and disciplinary ways, bringing scholars together and suggesting with notable hope the future of international collaborations. This rich and deeply grounded collection courageously directs attention to the racial and class-based struggles that continue to challenge the Americas.”—E. Johanna Hartelius,editor of The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness“Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas is a shining example of why we need to think about god-concepts like democracy across space and time through transnational analysis. Rather than assume the naturalness of the nation-state borders in South, Central, and North America, the authors denaturalize them, telling the stories of their emergence and of how the presence of borders and the relationalities between these borders now shapes what democracy looks like and can be.”—Sara McKinnon,author of Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics
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Pennsylvania State University Press On Expertise
Book SynopsisThere is a deep distrust of experts in America today. Influenced by populist politics, many question or downright ignore the recommendations of scientists, scholars, and others with specialized training. It appears that expertise, a critical component of democratic life, no longer appeals to wide swaths of the body politic. On Expertise is a robust defense of the expert class. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher examines modern and ancient theories of expertise through the lens of rhetoric and interviews some forty professionals, revealing how they understand their own expertise and how they came to be known as experts. She shows that expertise requires not only knowledge and skill but also, crucially, an acknowledgment by othersboth specialists and laypeoplethat one is a credible authority. At its heart, expertise is a rhetorical construct, and to be persuasive, experts must have the ability to apply their knowledge and skills rightlyin the right way, at the right time, to achieve the right end.Trade Review“On Expertise is an important and well-executed project, combining theoretical discussions with qualitative data collections such as surveys and interviews to answer the question of whether we can change the public’s attitude toward expertise and its ability to participate in discourses of expertise for the better. With cautious optimism, it enters into a crisis with a long and sordid history of a public's deep distrust and skepticism.”—E. Johanna Hartelius,author of The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons“Mehlenbacher's expansive understanding of the conceptualization, application, and reception of expertise is much needed—even essential—in the present cultural moment.”—L. H. Taylor Jr. Choice
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Pennsylvania State University Press Rhetoric in Debt RSA Series in Transdisciplinary
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between rhetoric and debt, arguing that they are fundamentally entangled in producing and disciplining who is deemed worthy of credit and how debt materializes differentially: as a credit to some and condemnation of others. Trade Review“To those interested in affect studies, this book offers an original application of two concepts: stickiness and circulation. To those interested in debt, this study offers a close analysis of how indebted subjectivity is created through everyday assumptions and rhetorical artifacts. Rhetoric in Debt gets to the granular level, explaining not only how indebted subjectification happens but also how we might look for indebted subjectification in other places. To those interested in the rhetoric of economics, this book offers a new topic and a fresh analytical method.”—Mark Garrett Longaker,author of Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue: Capitalism and Civil Society in the British Enlightenment
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Penn State University Press Used Abused and Sidelined
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Pennsylvania State University Press KeywordsKeyimages in Graphic Medicine
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Pennsylvania State University Press Sensory Rhetorics
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Pennsylvania State University Press Sensory Rhetorics
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ABC-CLIO No Comment
Book SynopsisThe title of Donald Blohowiak's engrossing and highly informative new book reflects the often strained relationship between two of America's most powerful institutions: the news media and business.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Business/Media Primer OmniMedia Corporate America: Under the Microscope Understanding This Business of News Action News: The Life of Journalists Good, Bad News! Devine Right Media Bias Objectivity and The Parallax Factor They Lean Left, Right? Champions of the Proletariat Half-Truths, Smoke Screens, and Other Corporates Policies What Is Public Relations? Kamikaze Public Relations Taking Responsibility for PR: Whose Job Is It Anyway? Meeting the Media The Media Are Coming, the Media Are Coming! "Sir, Mr. Mike Wallace Is Here to See You" or How to Remain Cool While on the Hot Seat Practicing What's Been Preached Crisis! Planning for the Unthinkable Communicating Control amid Chaos Rumors: A Crisis in Communications Soothing the Postcrisis Hangover Fighting Back: When Public Wrongs Need Righting Fighting Fire with Fire Advocacy Advertising: Feeding the Hand That Bites You Filing Suite: Using the law of Libel for Satisfaction Toward a Better Understanding: Closing Thoughts on Improving the Business/Media Relationship Selected Bibliography Index
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs
Book SynopsisA collection of essays addressing the role of rhetoric for inquiries of all kinds in various disciplines, ranging from sociology and political science, through anthropology and psychology, to mathematics and economics. It also explores communications in women's issues, religion and law.
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Yale University Press The Politics of Medical Encounters
Book SynopsisExamining the interactions between patients and doctors, this book aims to show how physicians' focus on physical complaints often fails to address patients' underlying concerns and also reinforces the societal problems that cause or aggravate these maladies.
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Yale University Press The Wired Neighborhood
Book SynopsisThis exploration of the nature of cyberspace and increasing virtualization of everyday life argues that electronic neighbourhoods should be less important to us than our geophysical neighbourhoods, speaking in favour of civic networking.
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Balance Dont Say Um
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Zondervan Love Talk Workbook for Men
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Russian Reading Revolution Print Culture in the Soviet and PostSoviet Eras Studies in Russia and East Europe
Book SynopsisOf all of Soviet cultural myths, none was more resilient than the belief that the USSR had the world's greatest readers.Trade Review"Readers seeking to understand the current turbulence in post-Soviet culture will be well served by Lovell's comprehensive study of the Soviet reading public." - Choice "...a valuable account of the evolution of print culture under Soviet rule." - Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Russia's Reading Myth The Creation of the Soviet Reader The Arrival of the New Reader: The Post-Stalin Period Reading Revitalized? The Perestroika Project and its Aftermath The Periodical Press: Background and Case Studies Reading in Post-Soviet Russia Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Little, Brown Spark Presence Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your
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Back Bay Books Talking to Strangers What We Should Know about
Book SynopsisMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers, and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author.A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free PressHow did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, and the death of Sandra Bland&md
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Little, Brown Spark Presence
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Media in Global Context
Book SynopsisThis Reader combines classic work in the field with a series of overview essays written by leading scholars, to offer a comprehensive and illuminating overview of this key area in contemporary media studies.Trade Review'... a comprehensive selection of essays ... this book is recommended.' The LecturerTable of ContentsConceptualising the global; nation, culture and media; global media actors; regulating the means of global communication; challenge and resistance in the global media system; transnational media texts and audiences.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Get Me a Murder a Day
Book SynopsisKevin Williams is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Swansea University.Trade Review'Anyone wanting to gain an understanding of what the media are like today, and how they came to be like this, should read this book' Colin Sparks, University of Westminster, UKTable of ContentsHistory of mass communication in Britain - timeline; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgements; Readers, rioters and rick burners: an introduction to the history of mass communication in Britain. PART 1 The age of print: The 'naughty and lewd world': the birth of mass communication in Britain; Right against might: the rise and fall of the radical press; Get me a murder a day: the Northcliffe Revolution and the rise of the popular press. PART 2 Sound and vision: Rescued by Rover: British cinema before the Second World War; The golden age of the wireless: the early years of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); Sing as we go: representing British society in the 1930s; Their finest hour: the Second World War and the British way of censorship. PART 3 The television era: The cosy duopoly: the development of television; Crisis? What crisis? The demise of British broadcasting in the 1980s and 1990s; Carrying on: The British film industry since 1945; Goodbye to Fleet Street: the slow decline of the British press since the he Second World War. PART 4 The digital world: Dumbing down? Declining standards and structural change in the contemporary media; Living in a digital world: experiencing mass communication in the twenty-first century; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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W. W. Norton & Company Authority
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History ICT and Learning in the Secondary School
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric
Book SynopsisReengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges facing the study of rhetoric today. With contributions from today's leading rhetorical scholars, Reengaging tje Prospects of Rhetoric offers response essays to each chapter of the original work. Each scholar uses his/her essay as a forum in which to address three questions: As a historical document, why is this essay important? In terms of contemporary theory and/or practice, what is the significance of the essay? How can the issues raised therein be profitably addressed in the future? These provocative engagements suggest that, while the study of rhetoric has gained much ground in the intervening decades, there is more wTable of ContentsPROLOGUE: THE PROSPECT AS PROSPECTUS by Thomas O. SloaneCHAPTER 1: KARL WALLACE: BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE; A Response to Karl Wallace’s "The Fundamentals of Rhetoric" by Stephen Howard BrowneCHAPTER 2: PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: EVENTAL RHETORIC; A Response to Samuel L. Becker’s "Rhetorical Studies for the Contemporary World" by Barbara A. BieseckerCHAPTER 3: REVISITING RICHARD MCKEON’S ARCHITECTONIC RHETORIC; A Response to Richard McKeon’s "The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts" by David DepewCHAPTER 4: OUR PREMATURE BURIAL; A Response to Lawrence W. Rosenfield’s "An Autopsy of the Rhetorical Tradition" by Robert S. IltisCHAPTER 5: THE PROSPECTS FOR PHILOSOPHICAL RHETORIC; A Response to Henry Johnstone’s "Some Trends in Rhetorical Theory" by Steve FullerCHAPTER 6: A POLEMICAL EXCURSION THROUGH "THE SCOPE OF RHETORIC TODAY"; A Response to Wayne Booth’s "The Scope of Rhetoric Today: A Polemical Excursion" by Paul KameenCHAPTER 7: CHAIM PERELMAN’S PROLEGOMENON TO A NEW RHETORIC: HOW SHOULD WE FEEL? A Response to Chaim Perelman’s "The New Rhetoric" by Celeste Michelle ConditCHAPTER 8: A CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF RHETORIC: HUGH DUNCAN’S FORGOTTEN CORPUS; A Response to Hugh Dalziel Duncan’s "The Need for Clarification in Social Models of Rhetoric" by Peter SimonsonCHAPTER 9: RHETORIC AND THE THIRD CULTURE: SCIENTISTS AND ARGUERS AND CRITICS; A Response to Wayne Brockriede’s"Trends in the Study of Rhetoric: Towards a Blending of Criticism and Science" by John LyneCHAPTER 10: ‘THE CULT OF UNINTELLIGIBILITY’: CONTINUED QUERIES ABOUT THE NATURE OF OUR DISCOURSE(S); A Response to Barnet Baskerville’s "Responses, Queries, and A Few Caveats" by Mark J. PorrovecchioCHAPTER 11: READING THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE: CHANGING DISCIPLINARY IDENTITIES IN RHETORICAL STUDIES; A Response to Edward P. J. Corbett’s "Rhetoric in Search of a Past, Present, and Future" by Steven MaillouxEPILOGUE: THE PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC AND THE PROSPECTS FOR RHETORIC by Herbert W. Simons
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Breaking Records
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Parents and Children Communicating with Society
Book SynopsisThe volume opens a new frontier in parent-child communication research as it brings together veteran researchers and newcomers to explore the communication of parents and children as they create relationships outside the family. The chapters herein examine communication processes and problems of parents and children as they interact with childcare, healthcare, education, and youth sports; investigate the unique challenges facing various types of families as they communicate outside the family (e.g., stepfamilies and gay/lesbian/bisexual families); and consider the role of media in family relationships outside of home.The primary audiences for the volume includes scholars, researchers and graduate students studying communication in families, children's communication, communication in personal relationships, organizational communication, group communication, and health communication. It will also be of interest to psychologists who study families, children, and organizations; sTable of ContentsSection 1: Childcare & Education Section 2: Health & Wellness Section 3: Parent-Child-Society Relationships and Media Section 4: Evolving Caregiving Roles and Relationships
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Trust Complexity and Control
Book SynopsisAn increasing reliance on the Internet and mobile communication has deprived us of our usual means of assessing another party's trustworthiness. This is increasingly forcing us to rely on control. Yet the notion of trust and trustworthiness is essential to the continued development of a technology-enabled society. Trust, Complexity and Control offers readers a single, consistent explanation of how the sociological concept of trust' can be applied to a broad spectrum of technology-related areas; convergent communication, automated agents, digital security, semantic web, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, e-government, privacy etc. It presents a model of confidence in which trust and control are driven and limited by complexity in one explanatory framework and demonstrates how that framework can be applied to different research and application areas. Starting with the individual's assessment of trust, the book shows the reader how application of the framework can clarify misTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction. Part I. Confidence: trust and control. 1. Setting the scene. 2. The model of confidence. 3. Measuring confidence. 4. Comparative analysis of the model of confidence. 5. The dynamics of confidence. 6. The dark side. Part II. Confidence and technology. 7. Impact of digital technology. 8. Digital security. 9. Confidence and networks. 10. Attacks on confidence. 11. Trust Enhancing Technologies. Part III. Confidence in a convergent world. 12. Convergence and confidence. 13. Confidence creation in e-business. 14. Privacy and authentication. 15. Trust management. 16. Economy of confidence. Index.
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Wiley King Arthurs Round Table How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations
Book SynopsisRenowned Harvard professor David Perkins uses King Arthur's roundtable as a metaphor to suggest a new method for effective communication in today's intelligent business organizations. Through that metaphor, he examines the way businesses communicate and ways to isolate and eliminate elements that foster negativity and stall progress.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. CHAPTER 1: KING ARTHUR'S DREAM. A Smarter Table. Putting Our Heads Together. Power to the People. Cooling Down Conflict. Team Intelligence. From Camelot to Reality. CHAPTER 2: ORGANIZATIONS ARE MADE OF CONVERSATIONS. Ernesto's Truth. ImageTech and VisionTech. How Round Is Your Table? Process Smart and Deciding Smart. People Smart and the Language of Actions. The Usual Suspects. Two Archetypes of Negotiation. Contact Architecture. CHAPTER 3: YAKETY YAK AND FEEDBACK. Yakety Yak, 1958. The Dilemma of Feedback. Three Faces of Feedback. Which Style When? A Feedback Camelot. Four Brands of Better Feedback. Findings from the Feedback Front. Who to Whom. Here There Be Dragons. CHAPTER 4: THE DIFFICULTIES OF BEING OF ONE MIND. Mind Melds. What Is Intelligence? Difficulty 1: The Five-Brain Backlash. Difficulty 2: Cognitive Oversimplification. Difficulty 3: Emotional Oversimplification. Difficulty 4: Regression in the Face of Stress. Difficulty 5: The Domino Effect. Difficulty 6: The Power Advantage. Are We Ready to Give Up Yet? CHAPTER 5: FROM LORDSHIP TO LEADERSHIP. Policy 113. What Leaders Do. Four Forms of Leadership. Leadership for Intelligence. Man with a Horn. Streetwise Street by Street. Here There Be Dragons. CHAPTER 6: ANTS, WEATHER, AND ORGANIZATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. King Arthur's Ants. Common Scents. Knowledge Weather. Why Should I Buy This? Yes, But, Rebut. The Asian Executive's Question. Making the Weather. CHAPTER 7: COLLABORATION, NOT COBLABORATION. One of Seven. Three Faces of Coblaboration. What Facilitation Does and Why It Is Not Enough. The Good: What Collaboration Means, How It Helps, and When It Helps. The Bad: The Pitfalls of Problem Sharing. The Rules of Which. The Ugly: The Challenge of Collaborative Citizenship. The Art of Citizenship. Here There Be Dragons. CHAPTER 8: CREATIVE CONFLICT, TRAGIC TRUST. A Tragedy of Trust. Calm as a Clam. Three Ways of Settling Conflict. Regressive and Progressive Conflict. How Trust Works. Trust in the Land of Lear. Better Conflict through Trust. Here There Be Superdragons. CHAPTER 9: CLIMBING TOWARD CAMELOT. Presto Change-o. Poetry in Motion. The One-Eyed Woman. Pocket Change. How Change Takes Flight. The Dragon Unlearning. The Three Arts of Unlearning. The Road to Camelot. EPILOG: ROUNDING THE WORLD. NOTES. INDEX.
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Penguin Young Readers Connect Building Exceptional Relationships with
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