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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 23 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Michael Puttonen. |
| Summary |
- New edition is 25% revised and updated with a new prologue, epilogue and a brand-new chapter - Previous edition sold 6,500 copies - A provocative look at the sorry state of public discourse and how it discourages people from taking action and causes them to disengage with the discussion of issues. - Discusses what can be done about the over-the-top advocacy, corrupted conversations, and propaganda that pervade and pervert public discourse around issues that matter - Offers techniques and insights that will help readers connect better with each other, overcome conflict, understand their fellow human beings, and achieve compassionate resolutions - This book is a distillation of more than 60 interviews conducted with everyone from a NASA space scientist to a deep-sea oceanographer, from cognitive researchers to authorities on systems thinking. - Hoggan is the author of the popular book, Climate Cover Up (Greystone Books) which has sold over 20,000 copies. - Hoggan is the past chair of the David Suzuki Foundation and founder of one of Canada's most successful PR firms. - Hoggan has gathered together an unsurpassed group of thinkers from a vast range of fields and disciplines, to look at today's most challenging communication questions. - founded the influential website DeSmogBlog, to expose misinformation campaigns polluting the public debate around climate change and the environment - I'm Right and You're and Idiot is the antidote to the problems outlined in Assholes: A Theory Intended Audience: Students, politicians, journalists, activists, anyone involved in conversations in the public arena, academics teaching public policy and communications |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Interpersonal communication.
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Debates and debating.
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Polarization (Social sciences)
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Litwin, Grania, author.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
I am right and you are an idiot |
| ISBN |
9781897408339 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1897408331 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13541235 |
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