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Volume 1 of Theater(s) and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital
Society inquires the fundamental contribution that artistic and
cultural forms bring to social dynamics and how these can
consolidate cohabitation and create meaningfulness, in addition to
fulfilling economic and regulatory needs. As symbolic forms of
collective social practices, artistic and cultural forms weave the
meaning of a territory, a context, and a people, but also of the
generations who traverse these same cultures. These forms of
meaning interact with the social imagery, mediate marginalization,
transform barriers into bridges, and are the indispensable tools
for any social coexistence and its continuous rethinking in
everyday life. The various epistemic approaches present here, refer
to sociology, theatre studies, cultural studies, psychology,
economy of culture, and social statistics which observe theatre as
a social phenomenon. Contributors are: Claudio Bernardi, Marco
Bernardi, Massimo Bertoldi, Martina Guerinoni, Mara Nerbano, Chiara
Pasanisi, Benedetta Pratelli, Roberto Prestigiacomo, Ilaria
Riccioni, Daniela Salinas Frigerio, Eleonora Sparano, Emanuele
Stochino, Matteo Tamborrino, Tiziana Tesauro, Katia Trifiro,
Alessandro Tolomelli, and Andrea Zardi.
The sociology of sport is a relatively new scientific discipline,
which has spread rapidly and developed in different directions
across the world. It investigates social behavior, social
processes, and social structures in sport, as well as the
relationship between sport and society. The book Introduction to
the Sociology of Sport aims to give its readers a comprehensive
overview of this fascinating topic. For this purpose, it shows the
interrelations between sport and identity, social class, gender,
socialization, social groups, (mass) communication, the economy,
and politics. In addition, the book introduces a new, innovative
theory that helps readers understand the social specificity and
worldwide popularity of sport.
Democracy has long been fetishized. Consequently, how we speak
about democracy and what we expect from democratic governance are
at odds with practice. With unflinching resolve, this book probes
the theory of democracy and how the left and right are fascinated
by it. In this innovative multidisciplinary study, Ralph Cintron
provides sustained analysis of our political discourse. He shows
not only how the rhetoric of democracy produces strong desires for
social order, global wealth, and justice but also how these desires
cannot be satisfied. Throughout his discussion, Cintron includes
ethnographic research from fieldwork conducted over the course of
twenty years in the Latino neighborhoods of Chicago, where he
observes both citizens and the undocumented looking to democracy to
fulfill their highest aspirations. Politicians hand out favors to
the elite, developers strong-arm aldermen, and the disenfranchised
have little redress. The problem, Cintron argues, is that the
conditions required to put democracy into practice-territory, a
bordered nation-state, citizens, property-are constituted by
inequality and violence, because there is no inclusivity that does
not also exclude. Drawing on ethnography, economics, political
theory, and rhetorical analysis, Cintron makes his case with
tremendous analytic rigor. This challenge to reassess the
discourses on democracy and to consider democratic politics as
always compromised by oligarchy will be of particular interest to
political and rhetorical theorists.
Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in
performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols
independent of language, Maggie M. Werner explores the signs and
signals of erotic dance, audience responses to these codes, and how
this exchange creates embodied rhetoric. Informed by her own
ethnographic research conducted in strip clubs and theaters, Werner
analyzes the movement, dress, and cosmetic choices of topless
dancers and neo-burlesque performers. Drawing on critical methods
of analysis, she develops approaches for interpreting embodied
erotic rhetoric and the marginal cultural practices that construct
women's public erotic bodies. She follows these bodies out into the
streets-into the protest spaces where sex workers and anti-rape
activists challenge discourses about morality and victimhood and
struggle to remake their own identities. Throughout, Werner
showcases the voices of these performers and in the analyses shares
her experiences as an audience member, interviewer, and paying
customer. The result is a uniquely personal and erudite study that
advances conversations about women's agency and erotic performance,
moving beyond the binary that views the erotic body as either
oppressed or empowered. Theoretically sophisticated and
delightfully intimate, Stripped is an important contribution to the
study of the rhetoric of the body and to rhetorical and performance
studies more broadly.
Drawing on the concept of resilient healthcare, this book explores
multimodally embedded everyday practices of healthcare
professionals in the UK and Japan, utilising novel technology, such
as eye-tracking glasses, to inform what constitutes good practice.
Providing an interdisciplinary examination of the theories and
rationales of resilient healthcare, the book engages with a range
of case studies from a variety of healthcare settings in the UK and
Japan and considers the application of advanced technologies for
visualising healthcare interactions and implementing virtual
healthcare simulation. In doing so, it showcases a number of
multimodal approaches and highlights the potential benefits of
multimodal and multidisciplinary approaches to healthcare
communication research for enhancing resilience in their local
contexts.
Studying narratives is an ideal method to gain a good understanding
of how various aspects of human information are organized and
integrated. The concept and methods of a narrative, which have been
explored in narratology and literary theories, are likely to be
connected with contemporary information studies in the future,
including those in computational fields such as AI, and in
cognitive science. This will result in the emergence of a
significant conceptual and methodological foundation for various
technologies of novel contents, media, human interface, etc.
Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches
explores the new possibilities and directions of narrative-related
technologies and theories and their implications on the innovative
design, development, and creation of future media and contents
(such as automatic narrative or story generation systems) through
interdisciplinary approaches to narratology that are dependent on
computational and cognitive studies. While highlighting topics
including artificial intelligence, narrative analysis, and rhetoric
generation, this book is ideally designed for designers, creators,
developers, researchers, and advanced-level students.
Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap is the sixth volume
in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series.
This cross-disciplinary series, from the International Leadership
Association, enhances leadership knowledge and improves leadership
development of women around the world. The purpose of this volume
is to highlight connections between the fields of communication and
leadership to help address the problem of underrepresentation of
women in leadership. Readers will profit from the accessible
writing style as they encounter cutting-edge scholarship on gender
and leadership. Chapters of note cover microaggressions, authentic
leadership, courageous leadership, inclusive leadership, implicit
bias, career barriers and levers, impression management, and the
visual rhetoric of famous women leaders. Because women in
leadership positions occupy a contested landscape, one goal of this
collection is to clarify the contradictory communication dynamics
that occur in everyday interactions, in national and international
contexts, and when leadership is digital. Another goal is to
illuminate the complexities of leadership identity,
intersectionality, and perceptions that become obstacles on the
path to leadership. The renowned thinkers and scholars in this
volume hail from both Leadership and Communication disciplines. The
book begins with Sally Helgesen and Brenda J. Allen. Helgesen,
co-author of The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work,
discusses the two-fold challenge women face as they struggle to
articulate their visions. Her chapter offers six practices women
can use to relieve this struggle. Allen, author of the
groundbreaking book, Difference Matters: Communicating Social
Identity, discusses the implications of how inclusive leadership
matters to women and what it means to think about women as people
who embody both dominant and non-dominant social identity
categories. She then offers practical communication strategies and
an intersectional ethic to the six signature traits of highly
inclusive leaders. Each chapter includes practical solutions from a
communication and leadership perspective that all readers can
employ to advance the work of equality. Some solutions will be of
use in organizational contexts, such as leadership development and
training initiatives, or tools to change organizational culture.
Some solutions will be of use to individuals, such as how to
identify and respond productively to micro-aggressions or how to be
cautious rather than optimistic about practicing authentic
leadership. The writing in this volume also reflects a range of
styles, from in-depth scholarship that produces new knowledge to
shorter forums that feature interesting ideas worth considering.
The loss of credibility of traditional media and democratic
institutions points to the important challenges for the democratic
system. Social networks have allowed new political and social
actors to disseminate their messages, which has raised diversity.
However, it has also lowered the standards for the circulation of
messages and has increased disinformation and hate speech.
Contemporary Politics, Communication, and the Impact on Democracy
addresses communication and politics and the impact on democracy.
This book offers a valuable contribution regarding the challenges
and threats faced by traditional and stable democracies while
disinformation, polarization, and populism have a main role in the
present hybrid communicative scenario. Covering topics such as
digital authoritarianism, emotional and rational frames, and
political conflict on social media, this is an essential resource
for political scientists, communication specialists, analysts,
policymakers, politicians, critical media scholars, graduate
students, professors, researchers, and academicians.
Mass shootings have become the "new normal" in American life. The
same can be said for the public debate that follows a shooting:
blame is cast, political postures are assumed, but no meaningful
policy changes are enacted. In After Gun Violence, Craig Rood
argues that this cycle is the result of a communication problem.
Without advocating for specific policies, Rood examines how
Americans talk about gun violence and suggests how we might discuss
the issues more productively and move beyond our current, tragic
impasse. Exploring the ways advocacy groups, community leaders,
politicians, and everyday citizens talk about gun violence, Rood
reveals how the gun debate is about far more than just guns. He
details the role of public memory in shaping the discourse, showing
how memories of the victims of gun violence, the Second Amendment,
and race relations influence how gun policy is discussed. In doing
so, Rood argues that forgetting and misremembering this history
leads interest groups and public officials to entrenched positions
and political failure and drives the public further apart. Timely
and innovative, After Gun Violence advances our understanding of
public discourse in an age of gridlock by illustrating how public
deliberation and public memory shape and misshape one another. It
is a search to understand why public discourse fails and how we can
do better.
Synthesising diverse research avenues for politics, discourse, and
political discourse, this cutting-edge Handbook examines the
formative traditions, current theoretical and methodological
landscape, and genres and domains over which political discourse
extends. Drawing on rich and dynamic models in critical cognitive
linguistics, pragmatics, metaphor analysis, context, and
multimodality studies, leading scholars provide tools to analyse a
broad range of traditional and modern genres of political
communication. Taking a historical dive into formative traditions
in political discourse, including rhetoric and social and
poststructuralist theories, this Handbook revises these classical
models of political communication against new empirical contexts,
to offer the most fruitful, objective and universal methodologies
to date. Examining propaganda, advertising, political speeches and
election campaigns, this Handbook pays particular attention to
newly arising genres and discourses which reflect the momentous
changes in the public domain, fuelled by recent and developing
events including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Drawing diverse insights from a wide array of disciplines, this
Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of
political theory, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, discourse
analysis and communication studies who are looking for innovative
methodologies with which to analyse political discourse.
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