Overview
- Critiques a range of contemporary communication researchers and theorists
- Blends historical theory with contemporary analysis
- Considers how rhetoric intersects with media, culture and society more broadly
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book addresses the convergence of sociology, communication and rhetoric, with particular reference to the contemporary expressive and social patterns of mass communication. Using rhetoric as a meta-conceptual apparatus for the sociology of communication, this book offers an original and comprehensive critique of historical social theory alongside 20th century communication researchers. The author demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between the rhetorical structures of the media-sphere and the new narrative formats in which cultural representation merges into social and civil observation. This book will be of interest to academics and students studying sociology, communication and cultural studies.
Reviews
—Peter Simonson, Professor Emeritus of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder, USA, and author of Refiguring Mass Communication: A History.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andrea Lombardinilo is Associate Professor in Sociology of Communicative and Cultural Processes at the “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University, Italy, where he teaches sociology and communication, communication and public safety, media and risk society. He has carried out institutional and research activities at the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), in the field of higher education and institutional communication.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Lure of Communication
Book Subtitle: Sociology through Rhetoric
Authors: Andrea Lombardinilo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-96084-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-96083-5Published: 01 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-96086-6Due: 01 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-96084-2Published: 29 February 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 363
Topics: Media Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociological Theory, Media and Communication, Media Studies, Sociology, general