Description
Employing approaches from the fields of communication studies, English, sociology, psychology, and history, this title explores a range of texts and artifacts that give rise to publics, and discuss what they reveal about conceptualizations of social space. It includes case studies that illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics.
"The quality of the scholarship in this book is terrific....[It] has the sort of unified vision a good scholarly volume requires, much like Brouwer and Asen's earlier counterpublics volume, which, to my mind, has become a classic in rhetorical studies." - James Arnt Aune, author of Rhetoric and Marxism and Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness"
Daniel C. Brouwer is Associate Professor of Human Communication at Arizona State University and coeditor of Counterpublics and the State. Robert Asen is Associate Professor in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, coeditor of Counterpublics and the State, and author of Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination.