Igor Vamos, associate professor of electronic media and culture jammer-- along with Andy Bichlbaum--has premiered their new movie, THE YES MEN. FIX THE WORLD and received media attention for holding a faux news conference on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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2004
Cheryl Geisler This innovative guide to analyzing verbal data provides a step-by-step methodology for exploring and describing streams of language. Ideal as a main text or as a reference manual for researchers, this flexible book teaches students how to approach language systematically, focusing on building a descriptive analysis that can be articulated and is logical and reliable. Accessible and comprehensive, this guide takes students through the entire analytic process—from exploring the literature through designing the analysis, coding the data, examining patterns, evaluating their significance, and presenting the results—using simple, jargon-free terminology. The methodology presented develops a foundation that can be applied across disciplines, meeting the needs of students at a variety of stages of research. Contact:Cheryl Geisler |
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The Life of the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street 2007 John P. Harrington John P. Harrington is the Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Professor in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication. He has written extensively on Irish literature and culture, including The English Traveler in Ireland (1990); and The Irish Beckett (1991). He edited W.W. Norton's anthology Modern Irish Drama (1991) and, most recently, co-edited with the sociologist Elizabeth Mitchell a collection of interdisciplinary essays published as Politics and Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland (1999). In his most recent book, Dr. Harrington explores the the Neighborhood Playhouse, improbably located in the heart of the Jewish ghetto on the Lower East side of Manhattan, and its brief yet influential tenure offers a fascinating story from the annals of theater history. From 1915 to 1927, this progressive theater, along with the better-known Provincetown Players and the Theatre Guild, inaugurated the Little Theater movement in America. In John P. Harrington's detailed account of the Neighborhood Playhouse's remarkable history, readers learn not only about its notable productions but also about its gradual shift in mission, and the tensions between art and social work. The story of this entirely female-led company is told through the biographies of the "New Playhouse Women." With vivid detail, this book provides a vital, yet often overlooked, piece of theater history and a lost key to understanding the growth of theater arts in New York City. Dr. Harrington's book has been nominated for Theatre Book of the Year, an award made by the Theatre Historical Society of America. Contact: John P. Harrington |
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Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle 2003 Ekatarina Haskins In academic histories of philosophy and rhetoric, Isocrates occupies a much less illustrious place than Aristotle does. Our understanding of the very terms philosophy and rhetoric is largely indebted to the legacy of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle presents Isocrates' vision of discourse as a worthy rival, rather than a mere precursor, of Aristotle's Rhetoric. Casting Isocrates and Aristotle as opponents in a debate over the character, resources, and ends of rhetorical education, Katya Haskins argues that much of what Aristotle had to say about the status of rhetoric and the role of discourse in the life of a Greek city-state may have been an implicit reaction to Isocrates. Contact: Katya Haskins |
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Better Game Characters by Design
2006 Better Game Characters provides professional game developers and aspiring designers with a helpful and concise overview of concepts from psychology with direct relevance to game character design. Topics include facial expressions, body language, first impressions, social roles, and more. The book offers targeted design suggestions, mapped to the development process, and techniques for building character evaluation into the development cycle, as well as a DVD with video clips from games that illustrate points in the book. Better Game Characters includes interviews with industry experts on great character design, including Marc Laidlaw ( of Half Life fame) and Tim Schafer. The book also includes interviews with researchers pushing the boundaries of social character design, and suggestions for incorporating their work into next-generation games. |
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2006
The first composition rhetoric to integrate the visual dimension into the writing process in a meaningful way. Writing in a Visual Age shows students how words, visuals, and design are the building blocks of composition today. It teaches students to think about how visuals -- from photographs to charts to diagrams -- along with layout, color, and the other elements of design, work together to create effective texts. |
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Rhetorical Scope and Performance: The Example of Technical Communication 2000 Merrill Whitburn Merrill Whitburn examines the history of the narrowness of goals, social structures, and methodologies associated with the field of technical communication in the second half of the 20th century. It traces some of the roots of this narrowness back to a philosophical tradition stemming from Plato, Aristotle, the religious philosophers, and the apologists for science. As an alternative to the narrowness of the philosophical tradition, this work traces a rhetorical tradition stemming from Isocrates, Cicero, Quintilian, and the Renaissance that promotes greater scope in the engagement of problems and provides a theoretical construct more appropriate for many of today's needs than the philosophical tradition. Using the history of technical communication as an example, this book shows how an Isocratean rhetoric can broaden and therefore improve our approaches to decision-making in the 21st century, prompting a revolution in modern society. |
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The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical Tradition 2004
James P. Zappen Dialogue has suffered a long eclipse in the history of philosophy and the history of rhetoric but has enjoyed a rebirth in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Buber, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Among twentieth-century figures, Bakhtin took a special interest in the history of the dialogue form. This book explores Bakhtin's understanding of Socratic dialogue and the notion that dialogue is not simply a way of persuading others to accept our ideas, but a way of holding ourselves, and others, accountable for all of our thoughts, words, and actions. Contact:James Zappen |