Description:
Public Modalities introduces a dynamic framework for understanding how publics are formed, transformed, and expressed. Through interdisciplinary case studies, the book explores how people engage in public life via protest, consumerism, and digital media--challenging static models of public discourse and offering new insights into identity, access, and political participation.
Review Quotes:
"The quality of the scholarship in this book is terrific. . . .[It] has the sort of unified vision a good scholarly volume requires, much like Brouwer and Asen's earlier counterpublics volume, which, to my mind, has become a classic in rhetorical studies."--James Arnt Aune, author of Rhetoric and Marxism and Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness