1st Edition

Communication Yearbook 12

Edited By James A. Anderson Copyright 2012
    706 Pages
    by Routledge

    706 Pages
    by Routledge

    In Communication Yearbook 11 major contributions from leading scholars in a variety of communication fields are presented and then critiqued by other authorities (often representing complementary or competing schools of thought). Topics addressed and commented on include the mass media audience, the theory of mediation, effective policy for health care communication and feminist criticism of television.

    Section 1: Discourse and Relationships  1. Structures of Discourse and Structures of Power Teun A. Van Dijk  Commentaries: Power, Discourse, and Ideology: The Micropractices of Common Sense Leonard C. Hawes  The Irrationality of Power Ruth Wodak  2. Coherence: A Meaningful Adhesive for Discourse Kathy Kellermann and Carra Sleight  Commentaries: On Coherence Judgements and Their Multiple Causes: A View from the Message-Variable Paradigm James J. Bradac  About Coherence Sally Jackson and Scott Jacobs  3. A Dialectical Analysis of the Tensions, Functions and Strategic Challenges of Communication in Young Adult Friendships William K. Rawlins  Commentaries: Further Dialectics: Strangers, Friends, and Historical Transformations David R. Maines  What is Friendship? A Hermeneutical Quibble Allen Scult  4. Second-Guessing Theory: Review and Extension Dean E. Hewes and Maudie L. Graham  Commentaries: On Second-Guessing the Theory of Second-Guessing: A Comment Michael E. Roloff  Second-Guessing Second-Guessing: Yet Another Comment Gerald R. Miller  Section 2: Intercultural Relationships and Cultural Identity  5. Intercultural Communication Revisited: Conceptualisation, Paradigm Building, and Methodological Approaches Fred L. Casmir and Nobleza C. Asuncion-Lande  Commentary: Ceterius Paribus in the Global Village: A Research Agenda for Intercultural Communication Theory Building William J. Starosta  6. Culture and the Development of Interpersonal Relationships William B. Gudykunst  Commentaries: Uncertainty in Interpersonal Relationships: A Predicted Outcome Value Interpretation of Gudykunst’s Research Program Michael Sunnafrank  Culture and Interpersonal Relationship Development: Some Conceptual Issues Stella Ting-Toomey  7. Cultural Identity and Modes of Communication Jan Servaes  Commentaries: The Relationship Between Cultural Identity and Modes of Communication  Cees J. Hamelink  Poststructuralist Concepts in Culture and Communication Syed A. Rahim  Section 3: Technology and Communication Systems  8. Issues and Concepts in Research on Computer-Mediated Communication Systems Ronald E. Rice  Commentaries: Classifying Mediated Communication Systems Carrie Heeter  Commentary on Issues and Concepts in Research on Computer-Mediated Communication Systems Jerome Johnston  9. Designing Communication Systems for Human Systems: Values and Assumptions of "Socially Open Architecture" Stephen R. Acker  Commentaries: Interactions Communication Systems, Values, and the Requirement of Self-Reflection Eric S. Fredin  Toward an Open Architecture and User-Centered Approach to Media Design Diana Gagnon  Section 4: Media Cultural Studies  10. The Return of the "Critical" and the Challenge of Radical Dissent: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and American Mass Communication Research Hanno Hardt  Commentaries: Cultural Studies: From Old World to New World Farrell Corcoran  Critical Theory and Empirical Critique in Mass Communication Research: Some Methodological Considerations Slavko Splichal  Section 5: Organizations and Gifts  11. One-Way Communication Transfers in Loosely Coupled Systems Larry Davis Bronwing and Sheila C. Henderson  Commentaries: Social Indicators of One-Way Transfers in Organizations Kenneth E. Boulding  One-Way Transfers and Organizational Cohesion Karl E. Weick and J. Douglas Orton

    Biography

    James A. Anderson