Title Coarseness in U.S. public communication / Philip Dalton and Eric Kramer.

Publication Info.	Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2012]
	©2012

Online access
Online eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this eBook

Item Status

Description	1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies ; 7
	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies ; 7.
Note	"Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: Atlas Slouched; 1 Noise, Fragmentation, and Absurdity in U.S. Public Communication; 2 Coarseness in the Public Sphere; 3 Coarseness in U.S. Politics; 4 Coarseness and Reason; 5 Art and Cultivated Vulgarity; 6 Postdenominational Christianity and Coarseness; 7 Entertainment and the Entertainment Market-as-Democracy Meme; Conclusion: Our Age of Cynicism; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors.
Summary	Proceeding from the assumption that all manner of public communication in the United States is becoming increasingly coarse, this book argues that shared cultural notions of decency are being eroded by market logic - a decision making calculus based solely upon the aggregate preferences of self-interested individuals. The instrumentality of communication in this paradigm eclipses communication's expressive potential, leaving our culture to value only communication's capacity to achieve individual ends. <br />
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Communication -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Communication -- Political aspects.
	United States.
	Communication -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Communication -- Social aspects.
	Vulgarity -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Vulgarity.
	Social aspects.
	Communication and culture -- United States.
	Communication and culture.
	Mass media and culture -- United States.
	Mass media and culture.
	Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Mass media -- Social aspects.
	United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.
	Civilization.
Chronological Term	21st century
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Kramer, Eric Mark, author.
Other Form:	Print version: Dalton, Philip. Coarseness in U.S. public communication. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2012] v, 225 pages ; 24 cm. The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in communication studies ; 7 9781611475036
ISBN	9781611475043 (e-book)
	161147504X (e-book)
	1322328390 (e-book)
	9781322328393 (e-book)
	9781611475036 (cloth alkaline paper)

Title Coarseness in U.S. public communication / Philip Dalton and Eric Kramer.

Item Status

Library Links

Search Tools