Eric King Watts

TL;DR: In this article, the authors implicitly ask communication theorists and critics to read important poets and novelists, not just in the sense of reading more, but by reading more alertly, and they call us to glimpse connections across terrains of knowing, to build our own lessons from them, to confirm others' concrete presence even as we must stand up to them, and to recognize deeper and more organic links.

TL;DR: It is argued that cyberspace can be conceptualized as a discursive space, and calls for a textual/discursive/rhetorical analysis focusing on the eloquence of representation as a principal means by which people and institutions voice themselves in this space.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study is presented in which a notion of "voice" is posited that is constitutive of the public acknowledgment of the ethical and emotional dimensions of public discourse.

TL;DR: This paper argued that the spectacular consumption of "Whassup?!" Budweiser advertising is constitutive of white American ambivalence toward "authentic" blackness and pointed out that the meaning of black life and culture is partly generative of mediated and mass marketed images.

TL;DR: The authors revisited the exchanged dialogues among participants at the roundtable and further explored the meaning of post-in-post-America in an era of immense sociopolitical challenges, and suggested ways to be critical of assertions of "post" and elaborated ways to encounter new dimensions of identification.