Soundbite Culture
The Death of Discourse in a Wired World
Edited by:
- David Slayden - Southern Methodist University, USA
- Rita Kirk Whillock - Southern Methodist University, USA
December 1998 | 312 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Drawing on the insights of a distinguished group of international scholars from a variety of disciplines, Soundbite Culture combines theory with case analysis to describe and account for the environment within which discourse has declined, and what has replaced it and why. The authors explore the implications of their premise by investigating various media, their methods, and their social, cultural and political implications. Topics include targeted direct mail campaigns, polling, infomercials, Internet identities, radio talk shows, and film depictions.
David Slayden and Rita Kirk Willock
Introduction
PART ONE: SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Rita Kirk Whillock
Giant Sucking Sounds
David Theo Goldberg
Call and Response
Dale Herbeck
Democratic Delusions
PART TWO: CENSORED AND SILENCED
Les Back, Michael Keith and John Solomos
Reading the Writing on the Wall
Carol Becker
The Art of Subversive Image Making
Peter L McLaren
Resisting Whiteness
PART THREE: BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
Peter M Kellet and H L Goodall Jr
The Death of Discourse in Our Own (Chat)Room
Henry N Giroux
Performing Cultural Studies as a Pedagogical Practice
Charles N Davis
Rethinking Harmful Words
PART FOUR: MASTER AND SLAVE
David Everett Whillock
Negotiable Realities
Glenn C Geiser-Getz
Worlds at GWAR
David Slayden
Vicarious Realities