TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dalton,Philip
AU  - Kramer,Eric Mark
TI  - Coarseness in U. S. Public Communication
SN  - 9781611475043
AV  - P95.82.U6D35 2012 
U1  - 302.2 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
KW  - Communication--Political aspects--United States
KW  - Communication--Social aspects--United States
KW  - Vulgarity--Social aspects--United States
KW  - Communication and culture--United States
KW  - Mass media and culture--United States
KW  - Mass media--Social aspects--United States
KW  - United States--Civilization--21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Atlas Slouched -- 1 Noise, Fragmentation, and Absurdity in U.S. Public Communication -- 2 Coarseness in the Public Sphere -- 3 Coarseness in U.S. Politics -- 4 Coarseness and Reason -- 5 Art and Cultivated Vulgarity -- 6 Postdenominational Christianity and Coarseness -- 7 Entertainment and the Entertainment Market-as-Democracy Meme -- Conclusion: Our Age of Cynicism -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors
N2  - Proceeding from the assumption that all manner of public communication in the United States is becoming increasingly coarse, this book argues that shared cultural notions of decency are being eroded by market logic--a decision making calculus based solely upon the aggregate preferences of self-interested individuals
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