Rhetoric, Knowledge and the Public Sphere

Agnieszka Kampka is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW).Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English, Opole University, Poland.

• Contents: Agnieszka Kampka/Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska: Rhetoric and the public sphere: Making a case for a knowledge society – Cezar M. Ornatowski: Knowledge and surveillance society – Christine Isager: A poor show of knowing: the horror and comedy of unsuccessful writers on film – Marcus Gottschling: Lend me your eyes: Creating immediate understanding through Prezi – Martijn Wackers/Jaap de Jong/Bas Andeweg: Structure strategies for a memorable speech: the use of rhetorical retention techniques by scholars and politicians – Louise Schou Therkildsen: Becoming a citizen: Knowledge and identity in European textbooks for citizenship tests – David Isaksen: From calutrons to Congress: The democratic challenge of specialized knowledge – Gabriela Scripnic: Emotion-invoking strategies in the presentation of Roşia Montană Project in the Romanian public sphere – Hilde van Belle: Polemics and paradoxes in the media: The case of the Dutch TV-show Pauw – Ludmilla A’Beckett: Stigmatizing female oppositionists in Russia: Stances toward comparisons with Joan of Arc – Maureen Daly Goggin: Preparing students for the emergent knowledge society: Rethinking learning and pedagogy in rhetoric – Ove Bergersen: Kindergartens and the civic art of rhetoric: Citizens, character and knowledge – Anne E. Porter: «Responsibilizing» the youth: The rhetoric of civic participation in the World Bank’s 2009 climate change essay competition.