The Art of Communication in a Polarized World

• Main Author: Conway, Kyle
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Athabasca University Press 2020; AU Press
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: books about dealing with difficult people; Communication and culture; Communication studies; debate; doublethink; education; ethics; George Orwell; government; how to change someone’s mind; Intercultural communication; Interdisciplinary studies; Interpersonal communication; Language and culture; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies; media; newspeak; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; semiotics; theory; Translating and interpreting; debate; how to change someone’s mind; newspeak; education; government; doublethink; books about dealing with difficult people; media; George Orwell; ethics; semiotics; theory
• ISBN: 1771992948; 9781771992954; 1771992956; 9781771992947; 9781771992930; 177199293X; 1771990198; 177199018X; 9781771990172; 9781771990196; 1771990171; 9781771990189
• DOI: 10.15215/aupress/9781771992930.01

People’s minds are hard to change. In North America and elsewhere, communities are fractured along ideological lines as social media and algorithms encourage individuals to seek out others who think like they do and to condemn those that don’t. This social and political polarization has resulted in...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface: What This Book Is, and What It Isn't -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: People's Minds Are Hard to Change -- 1 Communication Is Translation (So Please Mind the Gap) -- 2 Newspeak as a Manual for Translation -- 3 Translational Invention, Inventive Translation -- 4 Fake News and Perspective Unmoored -- Conclusion: Jumping In -- Appendix: Notes on Teaching -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
• Introduction: people's minds are hard to change -- Communication is translation (so please mind the gap) -- Newspeak as a manual for translation -- Translational invention, inventive translation -- Fake news and perspective unmoored -- Conclusion: jumping in -- Appendix: notes on teaching.
• Frontmatter