The private, the public, and the published : reconciling private lives and public rhetoric / edited by Barbara Couture, Thomas Kent.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Couture, Barbara.

Kent, Thomas, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Written communication.

Privacy, Right of.

Physical Description:

xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2004]

Summary:

The multiple ways in which we now see public intrusion into private lives (security cameras, electronic access to personal data, "wanding" at the airport), as well as private self-exposure in public forums (cell phones, web cams, "reality" TV), demand understanding. Reverse examples exist as well. Around the world, public authorities look the other way while individual rights are abused -- calling it a private matter -- or officials appeal to sectarian mores to justify discrimination in public policies. That matters so private could be treated as legitimate -- in some cases vital -- for public discourse indicates how intertwined the realms of private and public have become in our era. The authors of The Private, the Public, and the Published argue that there are consequences of conflating public and private -- consequences that have implications especially for what is known as the public good. The essays collected here unfold the changing distinctions between "private" and "public," explore the various practices of private and public expression, and argue that they must be addressed in the college writing, rhetoric, and communication classroom. Scholars must work to create the conditions in public -- in classrooms and meeting rooms, in Congress and international forums -- that respect and defend the ethical treatment of private lives.

Contents:

Reconciling private lives and public rhetoric : what's at stake? / Barbara Couture

Ain't nobody's business? A public personal history of privacy after Baird v. Eisenstadt / Nancy Welch

Virtuosos and ensembles : rhetorical lessons from jazz / Gregory Clark

Keeping the world safe for class struggle : revolutionary memory in a post-Marxist time / John Trimbur

Mary Putnam Jacobi and the speaking picture / Susan Wells

The collective privacy of academic language / David Bleich

The essayist in

and behind

the essay : vested writers, invested readers / Lynn Z. Bloom

Upon the public stage : how professionalization shapes accounts of composing in the academy / Cheryl Geisler

Ethical deliberation and trust in diverse-group collaboration / Geoffrey A. Cross

Identity and the Internet : the telling case of Amazon.com's top fifty reviewers / Douglas Hesse

The influence of expanded access to mass communication on public expression : the rise of representatives of the personal / David S. Kaufer

Private witness and popular imagination / Marguerite Helmers

Mixing it up : the personal in public discourse / Bruce Horner

Cultural autobiographics : complicating the "personal turns" in rhetoric and composition studies / Krista Ratcliffe

Going public : locating public/private discourse / Sidney I. Dobrin

Public writing and rhetoric : a new place for composition / Christian R. Weisser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-263) and index.

ISBN:

0874215773

OCLC:

53903750