This compelling text is a careful examination of the rhetoric of dissent. The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control provides a framework for the study of agitation and responses to that agitation. The third edition offers a profile of past and current movements, such as the street theatre of Chicago in 1968 and the innovative and technological rhetorical techniques found in the Battle in Seattle. The modus operandi of today's protests continues to evolve from that of the 1960s and 1970s. As BlackBerries and the Internet replace tie-dyed shirts and flower power, contemporary students and scholars alike will find this edition of The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control to be a helpful tool in studying the progression of social and protest movements.
Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Borchers, Persuasion in the Media Age, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577668268); Holmes-Gan, Nonviolence in Theory and Practice, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577667605); Stewart et al., Persuasion and Social Movements, Sixth Edition (ISBN 9781577667773); and Woodward-Denton, Persuasion and Influence in American Life, Seventh Edition (ISBN 9781478607892).
