Overcoming Social Polarization - An Exploration of Deliberative Democracy, Communication Ethics, and

This book explores how to advance the discussion of deliberative democracy through the inclusion of communication ethics and popular culture artifacts. These artifacts serve as case studies on how to engage in a type of dialogic civility that acknowledges identity politics without allowing it to become a barrier to progress in a post-truth society.

List of contents

Chapter 1: An Introduction of Deliberative Democracy and Identity Politics
Chapter 2: An Exploration of Ronald C. Arnett's Scholarship
Chapter 3: An Arnettian Understanding of Philosophy of Communication
Chapter 4: What is the Post-Truth Era and How Did We Get Here?
Chapter 5: Our Current Historical Moment in the Post-Truth Era
Chapter 6: An Exploration of Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Chapter 7: How Themes in Heroes of the Fourth Turning Promote Democracy Through Engagement of Otherness
Chapter 8: What Are We Trying For? Exploring the Divisiveness of Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town"
Chapter 9: Public Response to "Try That in a Small Town and Aldean's Defense
Chapter 10: Can Society Get Closer by Watching The Closer? How Comedy Functions as a Self-Reflective Tool in Developing a Deliberative Democratic Social Model
Chapter 11: A Rhetorical Turn - The Return of Stories and Virtues
Chapter 12: Conclusion: A Return Home

About the author

Jessica L. Neu

Product details

• Authors: Jessica L Neu, Jessica L. Neu
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666967791
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-779-1
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Lexington Studies in Political Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc