Criticism and Social Change

Power Lines: The Rhetoric of Maps as Social Change in the Post–Cold War Landscape

“…94 In the context of a crumbling Cold War, the Pluto maps arguably ''map'' themselves into this remaking process. The dynamic nature of power and space may find us in a world where states no longer have control over latitude and longitude, as more imperial leaders will come along to vie for the empty white space in the margins of the map.…”

Toward a discursive ontology of media

“…To say that experience is unified is not to deny polysemy, contradictions, or struggles over what experiences mean. It is simply to say that such struggles get settled from moment to moment (Lentricchia, 1983). People accept some meanings and refuse others, making the experience of the moment this or that as a result of negotiation, of rhetoric.…”

Language, Discourse and Identity: A Case Study of a Chinese University Student Learning English Through the Internet

“…This view has been underpinned by an educational agenda: "to enlighten students by revealing the ideologies in popular texts that hold them in thrall and so laying bare the falsity of the common sense offered in those texts" (Morgan & Misson, 2006, p. 11). These cultural critics encouraged people to change society through the interpretation of texts (Lentricchia, 1983). Contemporary critical literacy teaching in classrooms usually begins by problematizing the culture and knowledge in the textputting them up for critical debate, for weighing, judging, and critiquing (Lankshear, 1994;Lohrey, 1998;Morgan, 1997;Wallace, 1999).…”