This paper arises out of an ongoing research project focussing on the cultural policies and rhetoric of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) under Jörg Haider. Initially, my thesis sought a socio-political ‘explanation’ for the remarkable rise of the far-right in Austria. However, most academic sources have very little to say about the FPÖ’s kulturpolitik . I took the opportunity of getting a diffe...

How do online social networks affect political tolerance in the highly polarized climate of post-coup Egypt? Taking advantage of the real-time networked structure of Twitter data, we find that greater network diversity is not only associated with lower levels of intolerance, but that spending an additional year in a diverse network results in a significant decrease in the use of intolerant rhet...

This project is about a form of corporate predation that entails both policy influence and cultural legitimation. Neoliberal explanations of the inability of citizens to thrive in the current socioeconomic condition typically rest on a combination of victim-blaming and appeals to the individualistic rhetoric that assumes we all enjoy equality of opportunity and freedom of choice. It is common f...

Although little is currently known of distance education in China, especially in Western educational circles, there is a long-standing wellestablished instructional television system of distance education that has flourished in China since the 1960s (Howells, 1989). In fact, one of the world’s largest education systems is the Dianda system in China, a combined radiotelevision university system ...

1. The State of Framing Research in Political Communication ............................................................................................................................................ The concept of framing embodies a context-sensitive explanation for shifts in political beliefs and attitudes. Framing defines a dynamic, circumstantially-bound process of opinion formation in whi...

This chapter defines professional communication in intercultural contexts. It presents a workable model of culture, connects that model to rhetoric, and provides a method to analyze rhetorics and cultures in intercultural contexts. It also contextualizes the model of intercultural rhetorical research in prevailing paradigms of rhetoric and professional communication, strongly criticizing the lo...

It seems like a day does not go by in the United States without hearing about immigration on televised news broadcasts, print news stories, radio talk shows, or Internet blogs. Immigration, more specifically “illegal immigration,” is a hot topic in the U.S., perhaps fueled by the fact that 2008 is a presidential election year. Furthermore, since the issue of illegal immigration tends to divide ...