Bruce E Gronbeck
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 198699 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bruce E Gronbeck |
| NOMBRES | Bruce E |
| APELLIDO | Gronbeck |
| FIRMA | GRONBECK B E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Iowa |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Presidential Campaigns and American Self Images
Symbols and Artifacts
"A selection of 18 papers from an international conference in Milan, June 1987, organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Details how corporate artifacts are invested with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural indicators in research. Among the topics are office design, housing modifications, computer systems, and the space shuttle. Fairly devoid of specialist jargon."--Provided by publisher
From Electioneering to Governing
This essay reviews Barack Obama's 2008-2009 transition from president-elect to president. Not only must the new and old presidents coordinate practical, bureaucratic matters, but in the United States, the president-elect is put through an 11-week legitimation ritual. As his status is transformed from campaigner to president, his words and actions in various situations are viewed as tests of strengths, weaknesses, vision, prudence, negotiative ski…
The Prettier Doll
This book examines political rhetoric at the grassroots level. Starting from a position that Democracy depends on details, or else remains a formal abstraction, editors Karen Tracy, James P. McDaniel, and Bruce Gronbeck argue that a true understanding of the democratic body politic becomes most intelligible through a close study of its parts. An academic preference for grandiose, abstract political theory, the editors contend, undervalues and mas…
Is Communication a Humanities Discipline
A 20th-century discipline in American universities, communication has struggled with questions of academic identity: generically, as to whether it is a 'humanities' or a 'social science', a 'practice' or a 'technology', and theoretically, as to what sorts of axioms, theorems, research methods or logics, and problems should form its core. This article explores some of the frames that have been borrowed and built to guide theorization of and resear…
The Repersonalization of Presidential Campaigning in 2004
This article examines the evolution of presidential campaigning in a digital era. The authors contend that changes in political processes brought on by an extended caucus system, voting initiatives, and advances in communication technology are inspiring the repersonalization of presidential elections. Cyberpolitics draw candidates, parties, and citizens into a tighter web of connections that reinvigorates the personalized style of campaigning pop…
Media Literacy and Television Criticism
This article argues that the concept of media literacy is strengthened when it is understood as media criticism. After briefly tracing the development from concerns about television in the early 1950s to the Aspen Institute's 1992 call for media literacy, the article overviews several types of television criticism to illustrate how criticism embraces and moves beyond mere literacy to provide a vehicle for citizen empowerment and engagement. The c…
De Jouvenel’s pure politics
Preference Poll Stories in the Last 2 Weeks of Campaign 2000
If campaigns are times for political representatives to consult or negotiate with a citizenry, then the ways that a public conversation is conducted matters. In this study, all campaign stories in two national newspapers over the last 2 weeks of Campaign 2000 were sorted by dominant issues and examined for public commentary on those issues. About 60% of the stories featured discussion of candidate images (within narratives of campaigning depicted…
Tradition and Technology in Local Newscasts
In Counter-Statement, Kenneth Burke distinguishs between the psychology of form and the psychology of information—meaning as brought by readers to a text and as supplied by a text. That distinction can help us understand local news as relevant, formalized, public information, where social standards of relevance (tradition) encounter technologically enhanced and restructured information (technology). These two competing presentational modes put in…
Negative narratives in 1988 presidential campaign ads
Narrative polispots are mini‐stories that participate in two narrative structures simultaneously: the story being told in the ad (énoncé,) and the story being told by the ad (énunciation). The relationships existing between those two structures can affect voters' positive or negative feelings about a campaign. This essay illustrates these ideas from presidential campaign ads used in 1988; conclusions about Campaign '88, the rhetorical aspects of …
Mythic Portraiture in the 1988 Iowa Presidential Caucus Bio-Ads
The academic practice of television criticism
AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH: PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN THE AGE OF SHOW BUSINESS. By Neil Postman. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986; pp. 184. $15.95; paper $6.95. REGARDING TELEVISION: CRITICAL APPROACHES—AN ANTHOLOGY. Edited by E. Ann Kaplan. American Film Institute Monograph Series, Vol. 2. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1983; pp. 147. $25.00; paper $10.00. INTERPRETING TELEVISION: CURRENT RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES. Edited by Willard D. R…
McLuhan as Rhetorical Theorist
Journal Article McLuhan as Rhetorical Theorist Get access Bruce E. Gronbeck Bruce E. Gronbeck 1Bruce E. Gronbeck is Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of lowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 117–128, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1981.tb00435.x Published: 07 February 2006
The functions of presidential campaigning
This essay describes a set of instrumental and consummatory functions served by presidential campaigning, and analyzes the objects and acts which manifest those functions
The rhetoric of political corruption
Although political corruption has been examined within a political‐institutional context by political scientists and economists, few scholars have investigated the social‐rhetorical roots, manifestations, and functions of the public discourse surrounding such acts. This essay argues that the ritualistic deposition of corrupters is based in a sociolinguistic process of assigning meanings to acts, a dialectical process of contrapositioning competin…
Gorgias on rhetoric and poetic
Students of ancient rhetoric and poetic generally are content to view Gorgias through the idealism of Plato. Such an examination of his sophistic theories does an injustice to him and blurs an important philosophical relationship between his thought and modern existential phenomenology.
Rhetorical invention in the regency crisis pamphlets
Rhetorical invention represents a significant problem for the propagandist assigned to produce public discourse during a protracted political controversy. What postures should he assume and how should he time his material? The British Regency Crisis of 1788–89, in which Pittites and Foxites fought for office when George III went insane, saw political propagandists write eighty pamphlets for public consumption, pamphlets which illustrate invention…
The functions of presidential campaigning
This essay describes a set of instrumental and consummatory functions served by presidential campaigning, and analyzes the objects and acts which manifest those functions
Negative narratives in 1988 presidential campaign ads
Narrative polispots are mini‐stories that participate in two narrative structures simultaneously: the story being told in the ad (énoncé,) and the story being told by the ad (énunciation). The relationships existing between those two structures can affect voters' positive or negative feelings about a campaign. This essay illustrates these ideas from presidential campaign ads used in 1988; conclusions about Campaign '88, the rhetorical aspects of …
Mythic Portraiture in the 1988 Iowa Presidential Caucus Bio-Ads
Preference Poll Stories in the Last 2 Weeks of Campaign 2000
If campaigns are times for political representatives to consult or negotiate with a citizenry, then the ways that a public conversation is conducted matters. In this study, all campaign stories in two national newspapers over the last 2 weeks of Campaign 2000 were sorted by dominant issues and examined for public commentary on those issues. About 60% of the stories featured discussion of candidate images (within narratives of campaigning depicted…
The rhetoric of political corruption
Although political corruption has been examined within a political‐institutional context by political scientists and economists, few scholars have investigated the social‐rhetorical roots, manifestations, and functions of the public discourse surrounding such acts. This essay argues that the ritualistic deposition of corrupters is based in a sociolinguistic process of assigning meanings to acts, a dialectical process of contrapositioning competin…
Tradition and Technology in Local Newscasts
In Counter-Statement, Kenneth Burke distinguishs between the psychology of form and the psychology of information—meaning as brought by readers to a text and as supplied by a text. That distinction can help us understand local news as relevant, formalized, public information, where social standards of relevance (tradition) encounter technologically enhanced and restructured information (technology). These two competing presentational modes put in…
Rhetorical invention in the regency crisis pamphlets
Rhetorical invention represents a significant problem for the propagandist assigned to produce public discourse during a protracted political controversy. What postures should he assume and how should he time his material? The British Regency Crisis of 1788–89, in which Pittites and Foxites fought for office when George III went insane, saw political propagandists write eighty pamphlets for public consumption, pamphlets which illustrate invention…
Gorgias on rhetoric and poetic
Students of ancient rhetoric and poetic generally are content to view Gorgias through the idealism of Plato. Such an examination of his sophistic theories does an injustice to him and blurs an important philosophical relationship between his thought and modern existential phenomenology.
Rhetorical invention in the regency crisis pamphlets
Rhetorical invention represents a significant problem for the propagandist assigned to produce public discourse during a protracted political controversy. What postures should he assume and how should he time his material? The British Regency Crisis of 1788–89, in which Pittites and Foxites fought for office when George III went insane, saw political propagandists write eighty pamphlets for public consumption, pamphlets which illustrate invention…
The functions of presidential campaigning
This essay describes a set of instrumental and consummatory functions served by presidential campaigning, and analyzes the objects and acts which manifest those functions
The rhetoric of political corruption
Although political corruption has been examined within a political‐institutional context by political scientists and economists, few scholars have investigated the social‐rhetorical roots, manifestations, and functions of the public discourse surrounding such acts. This essay argues that the ritualistic deposition of corrupters is based in a sociolinguistic process of assigning meanings to acts, a dialectical process of contrapositioning competin…
McLuhan as Rhetorical Theorist
Journal Article McLuhan as Rhetorical Theorist Get access Bruce E. Gronbeck Bruce E. Gronbeck 1Bruce E. Gronbeck is Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of lowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 117–128, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1981.tb00435.x Published: 07 February 2006
The academic practice of television criticism
AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH: PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN THE AGE OF SHOW BUSINESS. By Neil Postman. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986; pp. 184. $15.95; paper $6.95. REGARDING TELEVISION: CRITICAL APPROACHES—AN ANTHOLOGY. Edited by E. Ann Kaplan. American Film Institute Monograph Series, Vol. 2. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1983; pp. 147. $25.00; paper $10.00. INTERPRETING TELEVISION: CURRENT RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES. Edited by Willard D. R…
Mythic Portraiture in the 1988 Iowa Presidential Caucus Bio-Ads
Negative narratives in 1988 presidential campaign ads
Narrative polispots are mini‐stories that participate in two narrative structures simultaneously: the story being told in the ad (énoncé,) and the story being told by the ad (énunciation). The relationships existing between those two structures can affect voters' positive or negative feelings about a campaign. This essay illustrates these ideas from presidential campaign ads used in 1988; conclusions about Campaign '88, the rhetorical aspects of …
Tradition and Technology in Local Newscasts
In Counter-Statement, Kenneth Burke distinguishs between the psychology of form and the psychology of information—meaning as brought by readers to a text and as supplied by a text. That distinction can help us understand local news as relevant, formalized, public information, where social standards of relevance (tradition) encounter technologically enhanced and restructured information (technology). These two competing presentational modes put in…
Preference Poll Stories in the Last 2 Weeks of Campaign 2000
If campaigns are times for political representatives to consult or negotiate with a citizenry, then the ways that a public conversation is conducted matters. In this study, all campaign stories in two national newspapers over the last 2 weeks of Campaign 2000 were sorted by dominant issues and examined for public commentary on those issues. About 60% of the stories featured discussion of candidate images (within narratives of campaigning depicted…
De Jouvenel’s pure politics
Media Literacy and Television Criticism
This article argues that the concept of media literacy is strengthened when it is understood as media criticism. After briefly tracing the development from concerns about television in the early 1950s to the Aspen Institute's 1992 call for media literacy, the article overviews several types of television criticism to illustrate how criticism embraces and moves beyond mere literacy to provide a vehicle for citizen empowerment and engagement. The c…
Is Communication a Humanities Discipline
A 20th-century discipline in American universities, communication has struggled with questions of academic identity: generically, as to whether it is a 'humanities' or a 'social science', a 'practice' or a 'technology', and theoretically, as to what sorts of axioms, theorems, research methods or logics, and problems should form its core. This article explores some of the frames that have been borrowed and built to guide theorization of and resear…
The Repersonalization of Presidential Campaigning in 2004
This article examines the evolution of presidential campaigning in a digital era. The authors contend that changes in political processes brought on by an extended caucus system, voting initiatives, and advances in communication technology are inspiring the repersonalization of presidential elections. Cyberpolitics draw candidates, parties, and citizens into a tighter web of connections that reinvigorates the personalized style of campaigning pop…
The Prettier Doll
This book examines political rhetoric at the grassroots level. Starting from a position that Democracy depends on details, or else remains a formal abstraction, editors Karen Tracy, James P. McDaniel, and Bruce Gronbeck argue that a true understanding of the democratic body politic becomes most intelligible through a close study of its parts. An academic preference for grandiose, abstract political theory, the editors contend, undervalues and mas…
From Electioneering to Governing
This essay reviews Barack Obama's 2008-2009 transition from president-elect to president. Not only must the new and old presidents coordinate practical, bureaucratic matters, but in the United States, the president-elect is put through an 11-week legitimation ritual. As his status is transformed from campaigner to president, his words and actions in various situations are viewed as tests of strengths, weaknesses, vision, prudence, negotiative ski…
Symbols and Artifacts
"A selection of 18 papers from an international conference in Milan, June 1987, organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Details how corporate artifacts are invested with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural indicators in research. Among the topics are office design, housing modifications, computer systems, and the space shuttle. Fairly devoid of specialist jargon."--Provided by publisher
Presidential Campaigns and American Self Images
Political science (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Politics (12 obras) · Literature (8 obras) · Media studies (8 obras) · Media Studies and Communication (8 obras) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras)