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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213816403321

Autore

Couture Barbara

Titolo

Private, the Public, and the Published : Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric / / edited by Barbara Couture, Thomas Kent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

9786613267160

9781283267168

1283267160

9780874214949

0874214947

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KentThomas <1947->

CoutureBarbara

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Privacy, Right of

Written communication

Rhetoric

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric; PART ONE Public Expression Meets Private Experience; PART TWO Confronting the Public and the Private in Written Language; PART THREE Public and Private Identities in Popular and Mass Communication; PART FOUR The Public and the Private in the Discipline of Composition Studies; References; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

At the 2003 ""Rock the Vote"" debate, one of the questions posed by a student to the eight Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination was ""have you ever used marijuana?"" Amazingly, all but one of the candidates voluntarily answered the question. Add to this example the multiple ways in which we now see public intrusion into private lives (security cameras, electronic access to personal data, scanning and ""wanding"" at the airport) or private self-exposure in



public forums (cell phones, web cams, confessional talk shows, voyeuristic ""reality"" TV). That matters so private