Rhetoric and Writing in the Public Sphere: An Introduction

Overview

This wikibook was created as part of a course on Writing in the Public Sphere at James Madison University. It represents the focus and content of the course at this point. Future students of this course are invited to revise, rewrite, elaborate, and otherwise improve this text. Of course this invitation also extends beyond the community of the course or the university to anyone with interesting thoughts on the matter. Wikibooks are, after all, an important forum in the public sphere.

Table of contents

• Introduction: The Idea Behind this Book
• Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Public Sphere
• Chapter 2: The Role of Print Journalism in the Evolution of the Public Sphere
• Chapter 3: The Media and the Public Sphere
• Chapter 4: Transparency and the Public Sphere
• Chapter 5: Technology and the Public Sphere
• Chapter 6: Music and the Public Sphere
• Chapter 7: Celebrities and the Public Sphere
• Chapter 8: Higher Education and the Public Sphere
• Chapter 9: Sports in the Public Sphere
• Chapter 10: Politics and the Public Sphere
• Chapter 11: Film and the Public Sphere
• Chapter 12: Identity and the Public Sphere