Transnational Research in Technical Communication: Stories, Realities, and Reflections offers unique story-based insights into the complexities and challenges of transnational and intercultural research.

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.

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.

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.

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.

Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.

Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.

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.

Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making.

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.

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.

Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.

Editorials, op-eds, and other writings by a memorable newspaperman.

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.

Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.

Examines how the US media covers high-profile public policy issues in the context of competing claims about media bias.

Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.

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.

Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.

Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.

Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.

Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.

First comprehensive account of how the Internet has impacted life in Iran.

The history of John Dewey's leadership of the progressive People's Lobby.

Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work. "

Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.

Some of the world’s foremost thought leaders consider the role of leadership, love, and power in the midst of political and social upheaval.

Updated with a timely literature review and new case studies from sports, international politics, and third party image repair.

Rethinks the concepts of nation, imperialism, and globalization by examining the everyday writing of the newspaper chronicle and blog in Spain and Latin America.

A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.

Examines how US cities have adopted the tactics of public relations and marketing firms to “brand” themselves.

Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.

Unpacks the myriad ways rhetorical and communication theories and feminist intersectional approaches impact one another.

Looks at the critical role of community members and other interested parties in environmental policy decision making.

Timely, multidisciplinary analysis of Obama’s presidential campaign, its context, and its impact.

New directions in thinking about mothering.

Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.

Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.

Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches to scholarship and activism.

Contributors engage the communication issues associated with violence in families, including interspousal violence and violent parents and children.

Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.

Essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.

Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.

Considers Bataille’s work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.

Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.

A celebration of childhood pick-up games.

Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.

Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.

Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.

Intertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history.

Explores the relationship between media and democracy against the broader background of globalization.

The story of one African American woman’s decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery.

Essays explore the contemporary contexts, activism, and cultural productions of queer youth and their communities.

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Contributors explore the relationship between food and the production of ideology.

Takes a firsthand look at a case of public participation in environmental policy.

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.

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.

The first sourcebook for rethinking technical communication theory, practice, pedagogy, and research through a cultural studies lens.

An in-depth look at the history of plagiarism in light of today’s Web-based plagiarism detection services.

Explores how recent presidents have managed communications with the American public.

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.

An insider explores the transformation of ballroom dance into an Olympic sport.

The history of FDR's Office of Government Reports.

Examines the ways Daoist (Taoist) thought may contribute to an understanding of human communication.

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.

Leading theorists explore how the Internet impacts privacy issues, sensitivity to wrongdoing, and cultural and personal identity.

Engages contemporary European thought on a variety of philosophical topics.

Offers a fundamental rethinking of the rhetorical tradition as dialogue.

Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.“Acknowledging the importance of the ‘middle voice’ of rhetoric is a worthwhile endeavor. For this, Vivian’s goals are to be applauded.” — Rhetoric and Public Affairs

Investigates the effects of political consultants on American democracy.

Leading scholars address the work of American philosopher Calvin O. Schrag.

Adds to our understanding of the powerful nature of texts and writing.

Analyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts.

Drawing on examples from contemporary life, Woodward explores rhetorical conditions that create powerful moments of identification.

Explores new ways to think about privacy and disclosure.

Tells the story of the relationship between two of the last century's foremost scholars of dialogue, philosopher Martin Buber and psychotherapist Carl Rogers.

Explores the relevance of Bakhtin's thought to social theory.

The first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and practice of kairos: that is of the role “timeliness” or “right-timing” plays in human deliberation, speech, and action.

Explores deep intimate personal relationships between men and women.

Provides cross-cultural perspectives on computer-mediated communication.

Advocates applying a spirit of play to everyday life.

Explores the notion of selfhood in the wake of the post-structuralist debates.

Proposes a new theory of communication called "comparative media theory. "

Argues that history is written from the present tense, meaning that its purpose is to construct convincing political arguments about who or what caused a current problem and how that problem should be addressed.

Offers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls.

Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.

Offers insight and practical guidance for people interested in improving their interpersonal relationships in an age of rampant cynicism.

Questions whether the logic of language underlying Habermas's theory of communicative action is in fact the defining feature of conversational practice.

Kenneth Burke was an influential thinker, literary critic, and rhetorician in the transition between the 20th and 21st centuries. This volume, edited by an influential Burkean scholar, addresses the question: Who was Burke and how can his work be helpful to those who must face new problems and challenges?

Presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective.

A critique of Rorty's own provocative political philosophy, as well as an in-depth look at both the issues concerning the relationship between the public and the private, and arguments on the role of reason in liberal political discourse generally.

A thought-provoking look at how silence is embedded in our language, society, and institutions. Sexual harassment is explored as an example.

Provides research applications of a rules theory of mate relationships to several American cultures and two non-American cultures.

Summarizes the important and promising emerging theories of human communication.

A corrected and extensively annotated version of the sole meeting between two of the most important figures in twentieth-century intellectual life.

The basic theme of this volume is excellent. Readers are treated to fascinating explorations of communication at the boundaries between discourses and selves. The essays address important theoretical ...

Enacts and evokes the changes and creative possibilities emerging from contemporary literary technologies (electronic media).

This practical guide for managers demonstrates when, where, and how to implement significant organizational change through teamwork.