03836nam 2200649 a 450 991045921930332120200520144314.00-8173-8361-1(CKB)2670000000030171(EBL)547635(OCoLC)648711526(SSID)ssj0000458431(PQKBManifestationID)11318622(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458431(PQKBWorkID)10422360(PQKB)10712571(MiAaPQ)EBC547635(MdBmJHUP)muse9154(Au-PeEL)EBL547635(CaPaEBR)ebr10408246(EXLCZ)99267000000003017120090908d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPublic modalities[electronic resource] rhetoric, culture, media, and the shape of public life /edited by Daniel C. Brouwer and Robert AsenTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20101 online resource (289 p.)Rhetoric, culture, and social critiqueDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1693-0 0-8173-5585-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Public modalities, or the metaphors we theorize / by Daniel C. Brouwer and Robert Asen -- Pragmatist publicity : W.E.B. Du Bois and the New Negro Movement / Eric King Watts -- "VIII. lowghost publicity, or, my vocabulary did this to me" : an excerpt from the Seminar of Jack Spicer, book III : on dead letters, freakish noises, necropolitics, fire-engines, and the missing couch as channeled by and dictated to Dale Smith and Joshua Gunn -- Everyday life and death in a nuclear world : stories from Fernald / Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Stephen P. Depoe -- The ownership society, or bourgeois publicity revisited / Robert Asen -- (In)hospitable publics : theorizing modalities of access to U.S. publics / Sara McKinnon -- Eyeing new publics : veiling and the performance of civic visibility / Radha S. Hegde -- Mediating modalities : practicing popular politics / Helene A. Shugart -- Citizenship, freedom, and the family : public access through private modalities / John M. Sloop -- Risibility politics : camp humor in HIV/AIDS zines / Daniel C. Brouwer -- The vernacular mode : locating the non-institutional in the practice of citizenship / Robert Glenn Howard. This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of "the public" or "public life," and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map various practices. This volume proposes a new metaphor-modalities-to suggest that publics are forever in flux, and much more fluid and dynamic than the static models of systems or spheres would indicate-especially in the digital age, where various publics rapidly evolve and dissipate.Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.Politics and cultureUnited StatesRhetoricPolitical aspectsUnited StatesMass mediaSocial aspectsUnited StatesMass mediaPolitical aspectsUnited StatesElectronic books.Politics and cultureRhetoricPolitical aspectsMass mediaSocial aspectsMass mediaPolitical aspects306.20973Brouwer Daniel C.1970-1036118Asen Robert1968-961289MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459219303321Public modalities2456261UNINA