Overcoming Social Polarization
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Overcoming Social Polarization

An Exploration of Deliberative Democracy, Communication Ethics, and Post-Truth America

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eBook - ePub

Overcoming Social Polarization

An Exploration of Deliberative Democracy, Communication Ethics, and Post-Truth America

About this book

In this book, Jessica Neu explores how to advance the discussion of deliberative democracy in an era defined by widespread social polarization and identity politics. By utilizing the communication ethics scholarship of Ronald C. Arnett as a theoretical framework and reference point for analysis, Neu analyzes several pop culture artifacts to demonstrate how communication ethics and narrative-driven perspectives can be applied pragmatically in order to reach dialogic civility in a post-truth era. Through recognizing each artifact's relationship with rhetoric, Neu highlights how they each represent ways in which discursive environment in physical space can be utilized to promote depolarization. Ultimately, this book provides a paradigmatic model that demonstrates how any individual can utilize this framework of communication ethics and deliberative democracy to enter a space of dialogic civility to depolarize our current post-truth world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: A Framework for Dialogic Civility
  9. 1 An Introduction of Deliberative Democracy and Identity Politics
  10. 2 An Exploration of Ronald C. Arnett’s Scholarship
  11. 3 An Arnettian Understanding of Philosophy of Communication
  12. 4 What Is the Post-truth Era and How Did We Get Here?
  13. 5 Our Current Historical Moment in the Post-truth Era
  14. 6 An Exploration of Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning
  15. 7 How Themes in Heroes of the Fourth Turning Promote Democracy through Engagement of Otherness
  16. 8 What Are We Trying For? : Exploring the Divisiveness of Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town”
  17. 9 Public Response to “Try That in a Small Town” and Aldean’s Defense
  18. 10 Can Society Get Closer by Watching The Closer? : How Chappelle’s Work Functions as a Self-Reflective Tool in Developing a Deliberative Democratic Social Model
  19. 11 A Rhetorical Turn : The Return of Stories and Virtues
  20. Conclusion: A Return Home
  21. References
  22. Index
  23. About the Author