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Public Modalities
. Ed(S): Brouwer, Daniel C.; Asen, Robert
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Description for Public Modalities
Paperback. Employing approaches from the fields of communication studies, English, sociology, psychology, and history, this title explores a range of texts and artifacts that give rise to publics, and discuss what they reveal about conceptualizations of social space. It includes case studies that illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics. Editor(s): Brouwer, Daniel C.; Asen, Robert. Series: Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of 'the public' or 'public life', and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map various practices. This volume proposes a new metaphor - modalities - to suggest that publics are forever in flux, and much more fluid and dynamic than the static models of systems or spheres would indicate - especially in the digital age, where various publics rapidly evolve and dissipate. Contributors to the volume - employing approaches ... Read more
This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of 'the public' or 'public life', and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map various practices. This volume proposes a new metaphor - modalities - to suggest that publics are forever in flux, and much more fluid and dynamic than the static models of systems or spheres would indicate - especially in the digital age, where various publics rapidly evolve and dissipate. Contributors to the volume - employing approaches ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817355852
SKU
V9780817355852
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About . Ed(S): Brouwer, Daniel C.; Asen, Robert
Daniel C. Brouwer is Associate Professor of Human Communication at Arizona State University and coeditor of Counterpublics and the State. Robert Asen is Associate Professor in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, coeditor of Counterpublics and the State, and author of Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination.
Reviews for Public Modalities
"The quality of the scholarship in this book is terrific....[It] has the sort of unified vision a good scholarly volume requires, much like Brouwer and Asen's earlier counterpublics volume, which, to my mind, has become a classic in rhetorical studies." - James Arnt Aune, author of Rhetoric and Marxism and Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness"