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Soundbite Culture
The Death of Discourse in a Wired World
Edited by:
- David Slayden - Southern Methodist University, USA
- Rita Kirk Whillock - Southern Methodist University, USA
Other Titles in:
Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis
February 1999 | 312 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Drawing on the insights of a distinguished group of international scholars from a variety of disciplines, Soundbite Culture combines theory with case analysis to describe and account for the environment within which discourse has declined, and what has replaced it and why. The authors explore the implications of their premise by investigating various media, their methods, and their social, cultural and political implications. Topics include targeted direct mail campaigns, polling, infomercials, Internet identities, radio talk shows,and filmic depictions.
David Slayden and Rita Kirk Willock
Introduction
PART ONE: SMOKE AND MIRRORS
MARKETS, PUBLICS, AND CITIZEN-CONSUMERS
Rita Kirk Whillock
Giant Sucking Sounds
Politics as Illusion
David Theo Goldberg
Call and Response
Sports, Talk Radio and the Death of Democracy
Dale Herbeck
Democratic Delusions
The Town Meeting in an Electronic Age
PART TWO: CENSORED AND SILENCED
ACTS OF RESISTANCE AND POPULISM
Les Back, Michael Keith and John Solomos
Reading the Writing on the Wall
Grafitti in the Racialized City
Carol Becker
The Art of Subversive Image Making
Peter L McLaren
Resisting Whiteness
Revolutionary Multiculturalism as Counterhegemonic Praxis
PART THREE: BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
THE ACADEMY AT THE EDGE OF CIVIL DISCOURSE
Peter M Kellet and H L Goodall Jr
The Death of Discourse in Our Own (Chat)Room
"Sextext", Skillful Discussion and Virtual Communities
Henry N Giroux
Performing Cultural Studies as a Pedagogical Practice
Charles N Davis
Rethinking Harmful Words
The Demise of the Critical Education Model and Discourse in the Schoolhouse
PART FOUR: MASTER AND SLAVE
POPULAR MEDIA AND THE SHAPING OF BEHAVIOR
David Everett Whillock
Negotiable Realities
Chaotic Attractors of Our Understanding
Glenn C Geiser-Getz
Worlds at GWAR
Celebrations of Juvenile Resistance in Post-Punk Pop
David Slayden
Vicarious Realities
Internet Discourses and Narratives of the Future