Communication
Plato's Reasons
Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.
Global Rhetorics of Science
Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our
toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.
Yiddish Cinema
Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.
Works like a Charm
Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of “incentives” in public life from a Lacanian perspective.
Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea
Comprehensive examination of the goals, strategies, and motives of the six parties involved in North Korea denuclearization talks through the lens of negotiation theory.
Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication
This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.
The Scene of the Voice
Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of contemporary critical theory.
Following the Ticker
Traces the influence of the stock market on Americans' beliefs about politics.
Tradition and the Deliberative Turn
Reframes the discussion of deliberative democracy in a unique fashion, approaching the debate as a historical conversation.
Technical Communication for Environmental Action
This collection engages scholars and practicioners in a conversation about the ways that Technical Communication has contributed to pragmatic and democratic actions to address climate change.
Technologies of Human Rights Representation
Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it.
Transnational Research in Technical Communication
Transnational Research in Technical Communication: Stories, Realities, and Reflections offers unique story-based insights into the complexities and challenges of transnational and intercultural research.
Tasting Coffee
Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.
Welding Technical Communication
Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.
The Rorty-Habermas Debate
Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.
Screen Love
Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.
The Ideology of Civic Engagement
Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.
Convenient Criticism
Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.
Garbage in Popular Culture
Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism
Unique empirically grounded analysis of how audiences negotiate sexism and feminism across media, from popular television shows to dating apps.
Improv for Democracy
Explores how improv-based teaching and training methods can bridge differences and promote the communication, leadership, and civil skills our world urgently needs.
Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World
Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women’s lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.
Servant-Leadership and Forgiveness
A compelling gathering of perspectives on the intersection of servant-leadership and forgiveness.
Cub Reporters
Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.
Breaking Boundaries
Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making.
From News to Talk
Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.
One America?
Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.
Neo-race Realities in the Obama Era
Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.
I'll Be Home
Editorials, op-eds, and other writings by a memorable newspaperman.
Hearts and Minds
Uses Israel’s public diplomacy efforts during the second intifada (2000–2005) as a prime example of interactions between state security, diplomacy, and the media.
The Art of Gratitude
Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.
The Politics of Persuasion
Examines how the US media covers high-profile public policy issues in the context of competing claims about media bias.
Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity
Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.
Rhetorical Healing
Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.
Trendy Fascism
Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.
Tongue of Fire
Examines the influence of the notorious American anarchist “Red Emma” on the shifting social geography of sex and gender at the turn of the twentieth century.
Peaceful Persuasion
Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.
Lessons Learned from Popular Culture
Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.
Green Voices
Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.
Selling War, Selling Hope
Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.
Social Media in Iran
First comprehensive account of how the Internet has impacted life in Iran.
The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.
The Philosopher-Lobbyist
The history of John Dewey's leadership of the progressive People's Lobby.
Bikini-Ready Moms
Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work. "
A Rhetoric of Remnants
Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.
Conversations on Servant-Leadership
Some of the world’s foremost thought leaders consider the role of leadership, love, and power in the midst of political and social upheaval.
Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies, Second Edition
Updated with a timely literature review and new case studies from sports, international politics, and third party image repair.
The Everyday Atlantic
Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.
Doing Democracy
Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.
Endtimes?
A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.
Cities for Sale
Examines how US cities have adopted the tactics of public relations and marketing firms to “brand” themselves.
Struggles for Equal Voice
Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.
Zines in Third Space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Standing in the Intersection
Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another.
Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making
Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making.
The Obama Effect
Timely, multidisciplinary analysis of Obama’s presidential campaign, its context, and its impact.
Mothers Who Deliver
New directions in thinking about mothering.
Destination Dictatorship
Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.
Active Voices
Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.
Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis
Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches to scholarship and activism.
Composition and Copyright
Essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.
Non-discursive Rhetoric
Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.
Family Violence
Contributors engage the communication issues associated with violence in families, including interspousal violence and violent parents and children.
The Passionate Empiricist
Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.
The Obsessions of Georges Bataille
Considers Bataille’s work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.
Coming Home
Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.
City of Rhetoric
Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.
Global Neighborhoods
Looks at how contemporary Jewish neighborhoods interact with both local and transnational influences.
When Play Was Play
A celebration of childhood pick-up games.
Digital Diaspora
Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.
How the Gene Got Its Groove
Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.
Portable Communities
Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.
Taking South Park Seriously
Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.
Alterity and Narrative
Intertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history.
Negotiating Democracy
Explores the relationship between media and democracy against the broader background of globalization.
A Diary of Gastric Bypass Surgery
The story of one African American woman’s decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery.
Give and Go
A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.
Edible Ideologies
Contributors explore the relationship between food and the production of ideology.
Participation and Power
Takes a firsthand look at a case of public participation in environmental policy.
Listening and Voice
New and expanded edition of the now classic study in the phenomenology of sound.
Why Community Matters
Provides a fresh perspective on the undeniable relationship between education reform and democratic revitalization.
Taking on the Pledge of Allegiance
Explores atheist Michael Newdow’s constitutional challenge and how the news media marginalized him from the moment the Ninth Circuit handed down its controversial ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional.
Musical Democracy
How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.
Sins against Science
Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830 to 1880, about scientific and technological discoveries, and the effect these hoaxes had on readers and their trust in science.
Critical Power Tools
The first sourcebook for rethinking technical communication theory, practice, pedagogy, and research through a cultural studies lens.
The Function of Theory in Composition Studies
Offers an extended critique of key assumptions in composition theory and a new paradigm for thinking about writing in an increasingly globalized and textualized world.
Apprehending Politics
Using penetrating, in-depth interviews, examines the individual political development of young adults in post-1960s America, and the roles that news media play in that development.
From Ballroom to DanceSport
An insider explores the transformation of ballroom dance into an Olympic sport.
The First Presidential Communications Agency
The history of FDR's Office of Government Reports.
The Dao of Rhetoric
Examines the ways Daoist (Taoist) thought may contribute to an understanding of human communication.
Trauma and the Teaching of Writing
Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.
Speaking the Lower Frequencies
Shows how using texts from popular culture in the classroom can help young people to become critical consumers of media without losing the pleasure they derive from it.
The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives
Leading theorists explore how the Internet impacts privacy issues, sensitivity to wrongdoing, and cultural and personal identity.
Writing Environments
Including interviews with several of America's leading environmental writers, this volume addresses the intersections between writing and nature.
Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency
Links radical feminist writings of the 1960s and 1970s to contemporary online women's networks.
Convergence amidst Difference
Engages contemporary European thought on a variety of philosophical topics.
The Rebirth of Dialogue
Offers a fundamental rethinking of the rhetorical tradition as dialogue.
Punk Productions
A history and social psychology of punk music.
Being Made Strange
Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.
For Better or Worse?
Investigates the effects of political consultants on American democracy.