Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture
What It Feels Like interrogates an underexamined reason for our failure to abolish rape in the United States: the way we communicate about it. Using affective and feminist materialist approaches to rhetorical criticism, Stephanie Larson examines how discourses about rape and sexual assault rely on strategies of containment, denying the felt ......
Experiencing firsthand President Trump's disregard for truth, rogue government employees took to social media with anonymized outrage, fact-checking, and a call to action. The #ALTGOV Twitter movement subverted official statements to remind Americans that all was not well in the White House but that there was something they could do about it.
When being a team-player at work meant lying to the American people, brave civil servants took to social media to share the inside scoop. Government employees expect some changes with each new election, but adjusting to the Trump administration was different. The new president was banning Muslim immigrants, repealing Net Neutrality and deleting ......
This collection applies critical communication methods and perspectives to examine how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice. Case examples consider oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony, and other rhetorical appeals.
Journalistic Writing and Editing for the Digital Age
In print for over twenty years, Watch Your Words is a brief and accessible handbook for mastering best practices for journalistic writing, including tips from experts with experience across the journalistic spectrum. These best practices predate the digital age while resonating within it. The fifth edition updates its core content on language ......
Journalistic Writing and Editing for the Digital Age
In print for twenty years, Watch Your Words is a brief and accessible handbook for mastering best practices of journalistic writing. This new, fifth edition includes tips from experts with experience across the journalistic spectrum on best practices that predate the digital age while resonating within it.
An Introduction to Nonviolent Struggles for Justice
"This introduction to nonviolent movements analyzes fourteen classic and contemporary cases to show how nonviolent strategies can work where violent warfare has failed. Drawing on practitioner knowledge and diverse philosophical and religious texts, Michael K. Duffey offers a multifaceted argument for embracing nonviolent resolutions to ......
An Introduction to Nonviolent Struggles for Justice
"This introduction to nonviolent movements analyzes fourteen classic and contemporary cases to show how nonviolent strategies can work where violent warfare has failed. Drawing on practitioner knowledge and diverse philosophical and religious texts, Michael K. Duffey offers a multifaceted argument for embracing nonviolent resolutions to ......
Harnessing the Power of Conversational AI to Drive Customer Engagement
Voice Marketing is filled with real-world examples and behind-the-scenes stories, grounded in research-based theory and clear-eyed practice on how to use conversational AI. The ideas are immediately implementable, so marketers can get the most out of voice right from the start.
