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Private, the Public, and the Published Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric / edited by Barbara Couture, Thomas Kent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Couture, Barbara, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Privacy, Right of.
- Written communication.
- Rhetoric.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At the 2003 ""Rock the Vote"" debate, one of the questions posed by a student to the eight Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination was ""have you ever used marijuana?"" Amazingly, all but one of the candidates voluntarily answered the question. Add to this example the multiple ways in which we now see public intrusion into private lives (security cameras, electronic access to personal data, scanning and ""wanding"" at the airport) or private self-exposure in public forums (cell phones, web cams, confessional talk shows, voyeuristic ""reality"" TV). That matters so private
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric; PART ONE Public Expression Meets Private Experience; PART TWO Confronting the Public and the Private in Written Language; PART THREE Public and Private Identities in Popular and Mass Communication; PART FOUR The Public and the Private in the Discipline of Composition Studies; References; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-263) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613267160
- 9781283267168
- 1283267160
- 9780874214949
- 0874214947
- OCLC:
- 476040012
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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