Become a more effective and powerful communicator in today's highly polarized and polluted public squareThe most pressing problem we face today is not climate change.
The author of The Circle of Simplicity "e;joyfully invites us to discover a robust and real personal expansion with each other as we remake our society"e; (Mark Lakeman, cofounder, The City Repair Project).
What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism's leading contemporary scholars.
Reinventing Rhetoric Scholarship: Fifty Years of the Rhetoric Society of America collects essays reflecting on the history of the Rhetoric Society of America and the organization's 18th Biennial Conference theme, "e;Reinventing Rhetoric: Celebrating the Past, Building the Future,"e; on the occasion of the Society's 50th anniversary.
Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.
A guide to productive dialogue across ideological divides with practical tools for building trust, defusing hostility, and approaching hot-button topics.
The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no attempt to assess its fundamental nature and consequences.
The author of The Circle of Simplicity "e;joyfully invites us to discover a robust and real personal expansion with each other as we remake our society"e; (Mark Lakeman, cofounder, The City Repair Project).
With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent.
With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains.
An examination of how intellectuals and artists conceptualized rhetoric as a medium of power in a dynamic age of democracy and empireIn Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its transformation into a rational discipline with Aristotle in a time of literacy and empire.
We live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight.
The authors report research that considers writing in all levels of schooling, in science, in the public sphere, and in the workplace, as well as the relationship among these various places of writing.
"e;Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey.
