Communication
When Play Was Play
A celebration of childhood pick-up games.
Digital Diaspora
Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.
The Future of Invention
Examines the concept of rhetorical invention from an affirmative, nondialectical perspective.
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.
Negotiating Democracy
Explores the relationship between media and democracy against the broader background of globalization.
Alterity and Narrative
Intertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history.
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.
Dispatches from the Color Line
Explores contemporary news media coverage of multiracial people and identities.
Musical Democracy
How music functions as a metaphor and model for democracy.
Critical Power Tools
The first sourcebook for rethinking technical communication theory, practice, pedagogy, and research through a cultural studies lens.
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.
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.
The First Presidential Communications Agency
The history of FDR's Office of Government Reports.
From Ballroom to DanceSport
An insider explores the transformation of ballroom dance into an Olympic sport.
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.