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This volume chronicles the development of communication studies as
a discipline, providing a history of the field and identifying
opportunities for future growth. Editors Pat J. Gehrke and William
M. Keith have assembled an exceptional list of communication
scholars who, in the thirteen chapters contained in this book,
cover the breadth and depth of the field. Organized around themes
and concepts that have enduring historical significance and wide
appeal across numerous subfields of communication, A Century of
Communication Studies bridges research and pedagogy, addressing
themes that connect classroom practice and publication. Published
in the 100th anniversary year of the National Communication
Association, this collection highlights the evolution of
communication studies and will serve future generations of scholars
as a window into not only our past but also the field's collective
possibilities.
This book discusses the results and implications of a two-year
public engagement program on nanotechnology. Led by eleven diverse
civic groups across the United States, the program events covered a
wide range of applications and sparked robust discussions
concerning risk and regulation. Through computer-assisted
qualitative data analysis, video recordings of the events were
coded for expressed levels of knowledge, positive and negative
audience responses, perceptions of risk, views on regulation, and
speakers' communication behaviors. These results add richness,
nuance, and complexity to our perception of the public's
understanding of nanotechnology, its support for regulation, and
effective practices of science communication in the context of
nanotechnology and other emerging technologies. Nano-Publics also
offers further guidance for public engagement research, the
regulation of emerging technologies, and potential science
communication campaigns.
This book advances organic public engagement methods based on
ecological thinking. The authors draw on rich multi-disciplinary
literature in ecological thinking as well as research from public
engagement with science events held over the past several years
across the United States. Through this combination of ecology
theory and case studies, this book provides both the conceptual
foundations and the proven practical applications of public
engagement grounded in ecological thinking. It offers engagement
scholars an effective and efficient means of carrying out their
missions, while simultaneously building a more ecologically valid
method for studying actually existing publics.
This volume chronicles the development of communication studies as
a discipline, providing a history of the field and identifying
opportunities for future growth. Editors Pat J. Gehrke and William
M. Keith have assembled an exceptional list of communication
scholars who, in the thirteen chapters contained in this book,
cover the breadth and depth of the field. Organized around themes
and concepts that have enduring historical significance and wide
appeal across numerous subfields of communication, A Century of
Communication Studies bridges research and pedagogy, addressing
themes that connect classroom practice and publication. Published
in the 100th anniversary year of the National Communication
Association, this collection highlights the evolution of
communication studies and will serve future generations of scholars
as a window into not only our past but also the field's collective
possibilities.
Western culture is in a moment when wholly new kinds of personal
transformations are possible, but authentic transformation requires
both personal testimony and public recognition. In this book, Adam
Ellwanger takes a distinctly rhetorical approach to analyzing how
the personal and the public relate to an individual’s
transformation and develops a new vocabulary that enables a
critical assessment of the concept of authenticity. The concept of
metanoia is central to this project. Charting the history of
metanoia from its original use in the classical tradition to its
adoption by early Christians as a term for religious conversion,
Ellwanger shows that metanoia involves a change within a person
that results in a truer version of him- or herself—a change in
character or ethos. He then applies this theory to our contemporary
moment, finding that metanoia provides unique insight into modern
forms of self-transformation. Drawing on ancient and medieval
sources, including Thucydides, Plato, Paul the Apostle, and
Augustine, as well as contemporary discourses of
self-transformation, such as the public testimonies of Caitlyn
Jenner and Rachel Dolezal, Ellwanger elucidates the role of
language in signifying and authenticating identity. Timely and
original, Ellwanger’s study formulates a transhistorical theory
of personal transformation that will be of interest to scholars
working in social theory, philosophy, rhetoric, and the history of
Christianity.
Western culture is in a moment when wholly new kinds of personal
transformations are possible, but authentic transformation requires
both personal testimony and public recognition. In this book, Adam
Ellwanger takes a distinctly rhetorical approach to analyzing how
the personal and the public relate to an individual's
transformation and develops a new vocabulary that enables a
critical assessment of the concept of authenticity. The concept of
metanoia is central to this project. Charting the history of
metanoia from its original use in the classical tradition to its
adoption by early Christians as a term for religious conversion,
Ellwanger shows that metanoia involves a change within a person
that results in a truer version of him- or herself-a change in
character or ethos. He then applies this theory to our contemporary
moment, finding that metanoia provides unique insight into modern
forms of self-transformation. Drawing on ancient and medieval
sources, including Thucydides, Plato, Paul the Apostle, and
Augustine, as well as contemporary discourses of
self-transformation, such as the public testimonies of Caitlyn
Jenner and Rachel Dolezal, Ellwanger elucidates the role of
language in signifying and authenticating identity. Timely and
original, Ellwanger's study formulates a transhistorical theory of
personal transformation that will be of interest to scholars
working in social theory, philosophy, rhetoric, and the history of
Christianity.
Director of some of the most controversial films of the twentieth
century, Stanley Kubrick created a reputation as a Hollywood
outsider as well as a cinematic genius. His diverse yet relatively
small oeuvre--he directed only thirteen films during a career that
spanned more than four decades--covers a broad range of the themes
that shaped his century and continues to shape the twenty-first:
war and crime, gender relations and class conflict, racism, and the
fate of individual agency in a world of increasing social
surveillance and control.
In "Depth of Field," leading screenwriters and scholars analyze
Kubrick's films from a variety of perspectives. They examine such
groundbreaking classics as "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space
Odyssey" and later films whose critical reputations are still in
flux. "Depth of Field "ends with three viewpoints on Kubrick's
final film, "Eyes Wide Shut," placing it in the contexts of film
history, the history and theory of psychoanalysis, and the
sociology of sex and power. Probing Kubrick's whole body of work,
"Depth of Field" is the first truly multidisciplinary study of one
of the most innovative and controversial filmmakers of the
twentieth century.
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