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3 books match the query 'Political Communication'
Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric
Experimental Fictionality on Digital PlatformsStefan Iversen
The Ohio State University Press, 2026
Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric investigates how experimental uses of fictionality on digital platforms transform public storytelling, with political and ethical consequences. Focusing on communication that initially misleads only to provoke reflection, Stefan Iversen explores how narrative rhetoric—stories used to persuade within public discourse—can be strategically disrupted to produce what he terms “metanoic reflexivity”: a distinctive mode of afterthought triggered when audiences realize they have read wrong. Drawing from narrative theory, fictionality studies, rhetorical criticism, and digital platform studies, Iversen develops a model for analyzing narratives that play with the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction to motivate action or reconsideration on urgent public issues. These narrative practices—found in humanitarian campaigns, presidential rhetoric, political trolling, and synthetic media—use the digital affordances of platforms like Instagram, X, Reddit, and YouTube to reorient audience expectations and provoke social engagement. Combining theory and close reading, Disrupting Narrative Rhetoric offers a compelling interdisciplinary framework for understanding how narrative experiments can either deepen democratic discourse or contribute to its fragmentation in today’s platformed public spheres.
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The Political Poe
Michael Blouin
University of Iowa Press, 2026
The Political Poe examines the collective works of Edgar Allan Poe through a political lens. While others have gestured toward Poe’s gloomy conservatism, Michael J. Blouin argues that Poe’s reaction against Jacksonian America—with its drift into populism, demagoguery, and what Poe felt was an unhinged politicization of everyday life—mirror the concerns of contemporary American life. Poe consistently denounced democracy. He leveraged racist and misogynistic tendencies. But despite these politics, Blouin uncovers lessons for a world where political thought is antagonistic and every truth has become a battleground for partisan bickering. Here, horror isn’t just a heartbeat beneath the floorboards; it’s a lack of political imagination for what can be created.
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The Professionalisation of Political Communication
Edited by Ralph Negrine, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Paolo Mancini, Stylianos Papatha
Intellect Books, 1995
Long before a politician opens his mouth to speak in public, his words have been filtered through a team of public relations experts, communications consultants, and campaign assistants. When did politicians’ speeches stop being their own? And who are these professional communicators who fine-tune messages to suit the demands of electoral strategy? In The Professionalization of Political Communication, renowned contributors explore the effect of such consciously manipulated discourse on European politics; the resulting volume is essential for anyone interested in the changing political dialect.
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