Author : Donna LeCourt
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822991365
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Book Synopsis Social Mediations by : Donna LeCourt
Download or read book Social Mediations written by Donna LeCourt and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric and composition scholar Donna LeCourt combines theoretical inquiry, qualitative research, and rhetorical analysis to examine what it means to write for the “public” in an age when the distinctions between public and private have eroded. Public spaces are increasingly privatized, and individual subjectivities have been reconstructed according to market terms. Part critique and part road map, Social Mediations begins with a critical reading of digital public pedagogies, then turns to developing a new theory that can guide a more effective writing pedagogy. LeCourt offers a theory based in embodied relationality that uses information economies to develop public spheres. She highlights how information commodities generate value through circulation, orchestrate relationships among people, and support unequal power structures. By demonstrating how we can use information capital for social change rather than market expansion, writers and readers are encouraged to seek out encounters with cultural and political impact.