Description:
In Threshold, Heather Suzanne Woods examines moments of transition--conceptual, cultural, and rhetorical--where meanings are unsettled and new possibilities emerge. Woods explores how thresholds function as sites of tension and transformation, shaping interpretation, identity, and power across texts, media, and lived experience. Threshold invites readers to consider what happens when boundaries are approached, crossed, or strategically maintained. This thought-provoking work will resonate with scholars and students across communication, cultural studies, and the humanities.
Review Quotes:
"Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out is compelling, well written, and engaged with a problem of significance to scholars of rhetoric. Dr. Woods's analysis of smart homes is timely, insightful, and sure to provide a useful toolkit for future analysis." --Nathan R. Johnson, author of Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age
"Threshold is a valuable addition to a novel generation of early-career researchers interested in building more responsible and just smart technologies while transitioning to a challenging future." --Social and Cultural Geography