The Digital Closet argues that social media is a dominant force in the lives of LGBT*Q individuals. Through examining archives, talking with individuals, and analyzing social media feeds, the author highlights the many ways that social media acts as both a freeing as well as an oppressive environment for many within the LGBT*Q community.
This book analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices, and the relations among them, with a focus on Brazils national health system. With the help of an ethnographic lens, the book analyzes several discourses and uses of texts, including multimodal texts.
A Guide to Religious Fervor in the Advertising of Goods and the Good New
This book discusses the advertising technique of using religious symbols, themes, and rhetoric in the promotion of secular consumer goods and services and, inversely, the use of nonreligious themes in the promotion of religious goods, institutions, and services.
This book uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, including autoethnography, interpersonal communication, and large-scale societal conflicts, to explore how humans both observe and confront our differences with one another and with the world around us.
Like every discipline, Rhetorical Studies relies on a technical vocabulary to convey specialized concepts, but few disciplines rely so deeply on a set of terms developed so long ago. Pathos, kairos, doxa, topos-these and others originate from the so-called classical world, which has conferred on them excessive authority. Without jettisoning these ......
The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation is a sociological analysis of the similarities between the elections of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, based on biographies, academic sources, newspaper, television, and internet reports published in the United States and Brazil between 2014 and 2021.
Campaign Fundraising in the 2020 Presidential Election
Money in Politics explores the political fundraising of the 2020 presidential election from the primaries through the General Election, illustrating the importance of campaign fundraising and examining how campaign contributions are now a political topic in the 2020s.
The Stories of Building the Black Beach Community of Ocean City, North Carolina shares a provocative story about a small Black beach community on North Topsail Island, North Carolina. Ocean City residents radically created a safe harbor for Blacks to visit, live, worship and recreate in the midst of de facto segregation.
This book investigates how a victim's voice, identity, and credibility are established in the current sexual misconduct crisis. Using rhetorical analysis, gender studies, and law and society perspectives, the author examines victim impact statements, campus sexual assault investigations, workplace sexual harassment parameters, and new activism.
