Overcoming Social Polarization

An Exploration of Deliberative Democracy, Communication Ethics, and Post-Truth America

Overcoming Social Polarization

An Exploration of Deliberative Democracy, Communication Ethics, and Post-Truth America

Jessica L. Neu (Author)

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In this book, Jessica Neu explores how to advance the discussion of deliberative democracy in an era defined by widespread social polarization and identity politics. By utilizing the communication ethics scholarship of Ronald C. Arnett as a theoretical framework and reference point for analysis, Neu analyzes several pop culture artifacts to demonstrate how communication ethics and narrative-driven perspectives can be applied pragmatically in order to reach dialogic civility in a post-truth era. Through recognizing each artifact's relationship with rhetoric, Neu highlights how they each represent ways in which discursive environment in physical space can be utilized to promote depolarization. Ultimately, this book provides a paradigmatic model that demonstrates how any individual can utilize this framework of communication ethics and deliberative democracy to enter a space of dialogic civility to depolarize our current post-truth world.

Chapter 1: An Introduction of Deliberative Democracy and Identity Politics
Chapter 2: An Exploration of Ronald C. Arnett's Scholarship
Chapter 3: An Arnettian Understanding of Philosophy of Communication
Chapter 4: What is the Post-Truth Era and How Did We Get Here?
Chapter 5: Our Current Historical Moment in the Post-Truth Era
Chapter 6: An Exploration of Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Chapter 7: How Themes in Heroes of the Fourth Turning Promote Democracy Through Engagement of Otherness
Chapter 8: What Are We Trying For? Exploring the Divisiveness of Jason Aldean's “Try That in a Small Town”
Chapter 9: Public Response to “Try That in a Small Town and Aldean's Defense
Chapter 10: Can Society Get Closer by Watching The Closer? How Comedy Functions as a Self-Reflective Tool in Developing a Deliberative Democratic Social Model
Chapter 11: A Rhetorical Turn - The Return of Stories and Virtues
Chapter 12: Conclusion: A Return Home

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Published	15 Dec 2024
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	188
ISBN	9781666967791
Imprint	Lexington Books
Dimensions	229 x 152 mm
Series	Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

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Jessica L. Neu

With political, cultural and social contestations at a fever pitch, Neu's book commendably realizes its goal of providing a rhetorical détente in an ever-increasing polarized world. As theoretically sound as it is practical, Neu offers a sanguine and aspirational approach to maintaining democracy through dialogic civility.

Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Professor Emerita of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Illinois College, USA
Neu's work on communication ethics and deliberative democracy in our 'post-truth' era is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the causes of and solution to the hyperpolarized public discourse.

Anthony M. Wachs, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Communication Ethics & the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, USA
In this book, Jessica L. Neu skillfully tackles the difficult subject of how to bring individuals together in conversation in a time of immense political polarization. This is a book that will get you thinking!

Valerie Lynn Schrader, Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences, Penn State Schuylkill, USA.