Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization: Developments in Communication and the Politics of Everyday Life (Suny Series in Speech Communication)
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791408647 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 412 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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McPhee, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeAccording to Deetz, our obsolete understanding of communication processes and power relations prevents us from seeing the corporate domination of public decision making. "This book is sophisticated, powerful, lucid, and pointed in style and organization. It fills a gap in research on social institutions and human emancipation by centering communication as a way of understanding/conceptualizing the institutions and social relations under investigation." -- Stephen P. Banks, University of Idaho. This work reclaims the politics of personal identity and experience within the work environment as a first step to a democratic form of public decision-making appropriate to the modern context."The topic is extremely important and timely. For most people issues of democracy, representation, freedom of speech, and censorship pertain to the State and its relationship to individuals and groups, and are linked to occas
Stephen P. Robert D. Banks, University of Idaho" . It fills a gap in research on social institutions and human emancipation by centering communication as a way of understanding/conceptualizing the institutions and social relations under investigation. McPhee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The topic is extremely important and timely. This book is sophisticated, powerful, lucid, and pointed in style and organization. In a field where general theoretic development is relatively rare, this book will certainly become a foundation for later research and theoretic argument. The book makes a significant contribution to the current debate about the place of discursive practices in social institutions by focusing on work organizations and relati
Organizations Are Everywhere Deetz is a scholars scholr, but relatively easy to read. In this particular book, he discusses what we all know, but have not been able to name. We are all part of organizations. We work in them. We play in them (think soccer leagues and such). We sleep on their products. We are surrounded, but corporate colonization is much more than just that.You have a friend that moved to keep or get a job? Corporate colonization. Your emplyer's HMO lets you only pick a couple speciali. Systematically Distorted Communication No, it's not anti-corporate. No, it's not anti-manager. Yes, it's anti-managerialism. In the process you will learn about Phenomenology, interpret Foucault's constructs of Power/Knowledge and Discursive formation, and should you manage to avoid brain-melt, come away feeling you "took the blue pill".
He is co-author of Managing Interpersonal Communication, and currently edits the Communication Yearbook series. Deetz is Professor of Communication at Rutgers University. . Stanley A