1st Edition
Echo Chambers and Epistemological Bubbles Communicative Flirtations with the End of Democracy
Chapter 1: Epistemes and echo chambers at the end of democracy, Chapter 2: Methods & Methodology, Chapter 3: Micro-Analyzing morality, Chapter 4: “Cockamamie, ridiculous, asinine stories!”: Trench warfare and (de)legitimization, Chapter 5: “do u have any self-awareness?” Slippery and not-so-slippery indexicality, Chapter 6: “Let the ‘pillow fight’ begin!”: Mockery in affirming moral-political worlds, Chapter 7: A party that does “the wrong thing, wickedly”: The “shoulds” of the post-January 6th moment, Chapter 8: “History will have a word”: Leftist scaling of moral-political declarations in response to January 6th, Chapter 9: A Battle for the Moral-Political Episteme of a Nation, Epilogue, Appendix A: Data codes, Appendix B: Presentation of Data, Index
Biography
Lauren Zentz is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Houston, USA. Her previous publications include Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity (2021).
