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Title Soundbite culture : the death of discourse in a wired world / edited by David Slayden and Rita Kirk Whillock
Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1999]
©1999

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Description xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction / David Slayden and Rita Kirk Whillock -- Pt. I. Smoke and Mirrors: Markets, Publics, and Citizen-Consumers. 1. Giant Sucking Sounds: Politics as Illusion / Rita Kirk Whillock. 2. Call and Response: Sports, Talk Radio, and the Death of Democracy / David Theo Goldberg. 3. Democratic Delusions: The Town Meeting in an Electronic Age / Dale Herbeck -- Pt. II. Censored and Silenced: Acts of Resistance and Populism. 4. Reading the Writing on the Wall: Graffiti in the Racialized City / Les Back, Michael Keith and John Solomos. 5. The Art of Subversive Image Making / Carol Becker. 6. Resisting Whiteness: Revolutionary Multiculturalism as Counterhegemonic Praxis / Peter L. McLaren -- Pt. III. Borders and Boundaries: The Academy at the Edge of Discourse. 7. The Death of Discourse in Our Own (Chat) Room: "Sextext," Skillful Discussion, and Virtual Communities / Peter M. Kellett and H. L. Goodall, Jr. 8. Performing Cultural Studies as a Pedagogical Practice / Henry A. Giroux
9. Rethinking Harmful Words: The Demise of the Critical Education Model and Discourse in the Schoolhouse / Charles N. Davis -- Pt. IV. Master and Slave: Popular Media and the Shaping of Behavior. 10. Negotiable Realities: Chaotic Attractors of Our Understanding / David Everett Whillock. 11. Worlds at GWAR: Celebrations of Juvenile Resistance in Post-Punk Pop / Glenn C. Geiser-Getz. 12. Vicarious Realities: Internet Discourses and Narratives of the Future / David Slayden
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
Communication -- Social aspects.
Language and culture.
Language and education.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Postmodernism.
Author Slayden, David.
Whillock, Rita Kirk.
LC no. 98040180
ISBN 0761908714 (cloth : alk. paper)
0761908722 (paperback: alk. paper)
Other Titles Death of discourse in a wired world