Ted Striphas

Communication as…: Perspectives on Theory

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Making 1. Relationality - Celeste M. Condit 2. Ritual - Eric W. Rothenbuhler 3. Transcendence - Gregory J. Shepherd 4. Constructive - Katherine Miller 5. A Practice - Robert T. Craig Part II: Materializing 6. Collective Memory - Carole Blair 7. Vision - Cara A. Finnegan 8. Embodiment - Carolyn Marvin 9. Raced - Judith N. Martin & Thomas K. Nakayama 10. Social Identity - Jake Harwood 11. Techne - Jonathan Sterne Part III: Contextualizing 12. Dialogue - Leslie A. Baxter 13. Autoethnography - Arthur P. Bochner & Carolyn S. Ellis 14. Storytelling - Eric E. Peterson & Kristin M. Langellier 15. Complex Organizing - James R. Taylor 16. Structuring - David R. Seibold & Karen Kroman Myers Part IV: Politicizing 17. Political Participation - Todd Kelshaw 18. Deliberation - John Gastil 19. Diffusion - James W. Dearing 20. Social Influence - Frank Boster 21. Rational Argument - Robert C. Rowland 22. Counterpublic - Daniel C. Brouwer Part V: Questioning 23. Dissemination - John Durham Peters 24. Articulation - Jennifer Daryl Slack 25. Translation - Ted Striphas 26. Communicability - Briankle G. Chang 27. Failure - Jeffrey St. John Index About the Editors About the Contributors

The Abuses of Literacy: Amazon Kindle and the Right to Read

This paper focuses on the Amazon Kindle e-readers two-way communications capabilities on the one hand and on its parent companys recent forays into data services on the other. I argue that however convenient a means Kindle may be for acquiring e-books and other types of digital content, the device nevertheless disposes reading to serve a host of inconvenient—indeed, illiberal—ends. Consequently, the technology underscores the growing importance of a new and fundamental right to counterbalance the illiberal tendencies that it embodies—a “right to read,” which would complement the existing right to free expression.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Communist, or, a Critical Dialogue with Empire

1The title of this piece is adapted from the last line of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard U.P.): 413.

Cultural Studies, “So‐Called”

(2000). Cultural Studies, “So‐Called”. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 27-45.