Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Genre Turn to Public Turn: Navigating the Intersections of Public Sphere Theory, Genre Theory, and the Performance of Publics - Mary Jo Reiff and Anis Bawarshi -- Part I: The Interdiscursivity of Public Genres: Dynamics of Uptakes, Agency, and the Performances of Public Life -- 1. Genre as Interdiscursive Performance in Public Space - Vijay K. Bhatia -- 2. Between Genres: Uptake, Memory, and US Public Discourse on Israel-Palestine - Anis Bawarshi -- 3. Disambiguating Uptake: Toward a Tactical Research Agenda on Citizens' Writing - Dylan B. Dryer -- Part II: Historicizing Public Genres: Invention, Evolution, and Embodiment of Public Performances -- 4. Defining Moments: Genre Beginnings, Genre Invention, and the Case of the English-Language Dictionary - Lindsay Rose Russell -- 5. Geographies of Public Genres: Navigating Rhetorical and Material Relations of the Public Petition - Mary Jo Reiff -- 6. Bodily Scripts, Unruly Workers, and Public Anxiety: Scripting Professional Embodiment in Interwar Vocational Guides - Risa Applegarth -- Part III: Intermediary Public Genres: Mobilizing Knowledge across Genre Boundaries -- 7. Uncovering Occluded Publics: Untangling Public, Personal, and Technical Spheres in Jury Deliberations - Amy J. Devitt -- 8. Discourse Coalitions, Science Blogs, and the Public Debate over Global Climate Change - Graham Smart -- 9. Multiple Intertextual Threads and (Un)likely Uptakes: An Analysis of a Canadian Public Inquiry - Tosh Tachino -- Part IV: Digital Public Genres: Mediating Public Engagement and Expanding Public Participation -- 10. Appropriating Genre, "Taking Action" against Obesity: The Rhetorical Work of Digital Genre Systems in Public Discourse - Monica M. Brown 11. Exigencies, Ecologies, and Internet Street Science: Genre Emergence in the Context of Fukushima Radiation-Risk Discourse - Jaclyn Rea and Michelle Riedlinger -- 12. Spreadable Genres, Multiple Publics: The Pixel Project's Digital Campaigns to Stop Violence against Women - Jennifer Nish -- About the Authors -- Index
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