{"product_id":"public-modalities-daniel-c-brouwer-9780817355852","title":"Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold rethinking of public discourse, Public Modalities explores how people shape civic life through protest, media, and identity in an ever-evolving public sphere.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of \"the public\" or \"public life,\" and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map various practices. This volume proposes a new metaphor--modalities--to suggest that publics are forever in flux, and much more fluid and dynamic than the static models of systems or spheres would indicate--especially in the digital age, where various publics rapidly evolve and dissipate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors to the volume--employing approaches from the fields of communication studies, English, sociology, psychology, and history--explore a broad range of texts and artifacts that give rise to publics, and discuss what they reveal about conceptualizations of social space. By focusing on process in public engagement, these scholars highlight questions of how people advance their interests and identities, and how they adapt to situational constraints.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together scholars in rhetorical, cultural, and media studies, this collection of new case studies illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics. These case studies explore the implications of different ways of forming publics, including alternative means of expression (protests, culture jamming); the intersection of politics and consumerism (how people express their identities and interests through their consumer behavior); and online engagement (blogs as increasingly important public fora). In doing so, they raise important questions of access, community, and political efficacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel C. Brouwer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817355855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817355852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Daniel C. Brouwer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096756396287,"sku":"9780817355852","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/public-modalities-daniel-c-brouwer-9780817355852","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}