105 Final Public discourse is clustering together ideas of a group of ideas. It has also been the main topic of discussion of the last half of the semester. The class has talked about gender, morality, class, economics, and success all as discourses. These ideas are all part of big ideas like institutions, media, cultural myths, and business.
Discourses are everywhere.
Discourses are in movies, in newspapers, on television, in the books we read, in politics, and many other places. Some of the readings in the book talk about discourse also. The Incredible Shrinking Sound bite written by Kiko Adatto talks about how news shows and radio take things out of context to make people sound good or really stupid. Bring You the News which is about how people sometimes know what is going on by going to their local movie theatre, or going down to the nearest record store. These are both good examples of discourse.