Communication
Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology
Explores Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of understanding and puts this theory into conversation with several social epistemologies, including feminist epistemology.
Amplifying Voices in UX
Designers can create stronger products by considering multiple users with varied perspectives and thus create balance, termed equilibriUX, in their designs.
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.
Yiddish Cinema
Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.
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.
Tradition and the Deliberative Turn
Reframes the discussion of deliberative democracy in a unique fashion, approaching the debate as a historical conversation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Screen Love
Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.
Garbage in Popular Culture
Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.
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.
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.
I'll Be Home
Editorials, op-eds, and other writings by a memorable newspaperman.
The Art of Gratitude
Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.
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.
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.
The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.
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.
Endtimes?
A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.
Zines in Third Space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Struggles for Equal Voice
Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.
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.
Mothers Who Deliver
New directions in thinking about mothering.
Active Voices
Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.
Composition and Copyright
Essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.
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.
Non-discursive Rhetoric
Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.
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.
Coming Home
Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.
When Play Was Play
A celebration of childhood pick-up games.
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.
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 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.
The Rebirth of Dialogue
Offers a fundamental rethinking of the rhetorical tradition as dialogue.
Punk Productions
A history and social psychology of punk music.
Mediation
Takes mediation beyond the family arena into a broader context.
Being Made Strange
Offers a revised understanding of human subjectivity that avoids the extremes of both traditional humanism and cultural relativism.
Talking Problems
Presents a theory of discursive co-construction of problems, or how characters are portrayed in the telling of events.
Experiences between Philosophy and Communication
Leading scholars address the work of American philosopher Calvin O. Schrag.
Communication Best Practices at Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, and Monsanto
Highlights successful communication practices at Dell, General Electric, Microsoft, and Monsanto.
Writing Power
Adds to our understanding of the powerful nature of texts and writing.
The Idea of Identification
Drawing on examples from contemporary life, Woodward explores rhetorical conditions that create powerful moments of identification.
Moments of Meeting
Tells the story of the relationship between two of the last century's foremost scholars of dialogue, philosopher Martin Buber and psychotherapist Carl Rogers.
Counterpublics and the State
Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both individuals and groups, and governments.
Culture, Technology, Communication
Provides cross-cultural perspectives on computer-mediated communication.
If Life Is a Game, How Come I'm Not Having Fun?
Advocates applying a spirit of play to everyday life.
Spurious Coin
Offers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls.
Acts of Arguing
Approaches recent innovations in argumentation theory from a primarily rhetorical perspective.
Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age
Offers insight and practical guidance for people interested in improving their interpersonal relationships in an age of rampant cynicism.
One-Sided Arguments
A practical manual for evaluating bias that will be useful to anyone who has to deal with arguments, whether in academic reading or writing, or in everyday conversation.
Order Without Rules
Questions whether the logic of language underlying Habermas's theory of communicative action is in fact the defining feature of conversational practice.
User-Centered Technology
Presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective.
The Mate Relationship
Provides research applications of a rules theory of mate relationships to several American cultures and two non-American cultures.
Electronic Discourse
Investigates the new world of computer conferencing and details how writers use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens.
Emerging Theories of Human Communication
Summarizes the important and promising emerging theories of human communication.
The Martin Buber - Carl Rogers Dialogue
A corrected and extensively annotated version of the sole meeting between two of the most important figures in twentieth-century intellectual life.
Developing Communication Theories
Leading scholars present the principal findings and conclusions of a long-term program of research into the nature and dynamics of human communication.
Bookend
Enacts and evokes the changes and creative possibilities emerging from contemporary literary technologies (electronic media).
Appeal to Pity
A useful contribution to theories of argumentation and public address criticism, this book uses a pragmatic approach to understanding conversation as a way of elucidating the use of appeals to pity and sympathy.
Memory, Identity, Community
This multidisciplinary volume documents the resurrection of the importance of narrative to the study of individuals and groups and argues that narrative may become a lingua franca of future debates in the human sciences.
Rhetorical Hermeneutics
Examines the nature of rhetorical theory and criticism, the rhetoric of science, and the impact of poststructuralism and postmodernism on contemporary accounts of rhetoric.
Conflict Resolution
Reviews classic and contemporary theories of conflict, focusing on five main ways people try to resolve their conflicts--coercion, negotiation, adjudication, mediation, and arbitration.
Self and Deception
Distinguished scholars discuss the problem of self-deception, or rather, self and deception.