1st Edition
Reimagining Communication: Meaning
Reimagining Communication: Meaning surveys the foundational theoretical and methodological approaches that continue to shape communication studies, synthesizing the complex relationship of communication to meaning making in a uniquely accessible and engaging way. The Reimagining Communication series develops a new information architecture for the field of communications studies, grounded in its interdisciplinary origins and looking ahead to emerging trends as researchers take into account new media technologies and their impacts on society and culture.
Reimagining Communication: Meaning brings together international authors to provide contemporary perspectives on semiotics, hermeneutics, paralanguage, corpus analysis, critical theory, intercultural communication, global culture, cultural hybridity, postcolonialism, feminism, political economy, propaganda, cultural capital, media literacy, media ecology and media psychology. The volume is designed as a reader for scholars and a textbook for students, offering a new approach for comprehending the vast diversity of communications topics in today’s globally networked world.
This will be an essential introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of communication, broadcast media, and interactive technologies, with an interdisciplinary focus and an emphasis on the integration of new technologies.
Table of Contents for Reimagining Communication: Meaning
Series Introduction (Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova)
Volume Introduction (Veronika Tzankova and Michael Filimowicz)
Chapter 1
Reimagining Semiotics in Communication
Paul Cobley
Chapter 2
Hermeneutics
Johan Fornäs
Chapter 3
Paralanguage (The Cracked Lookingglass of a Servant, or the Uses, Virtues, and Value of Liminality)
Michael Schandorf
Chapter 4
Corpus-methodology and discursive conceptualizations of depression
Kim Ebensgaard Jensen
Chapter 5
Communication in Critical Theory (Frankfurt School)
Olivier Voirol
Chapter 6
Reimagining communication in mediated participatory culture: An emerging framework
Usha Sundar Harris
Chapter 7
Global Culture
Tanner Mirrlees
Chapter 8
Cultural Hybridity, or Hyperreality in K-pop Female Idols?: Toward Critical, Explanatory Approaches to Cultural Assemblage in Neoliberal Culture Industry
Gooyong Kim
Chapter 9
Postcolonial Scholarship and Communication: Applications for Understanding Conceptions of the Immigrant Today
Adina Schneeweis
Chapter 10
Cyberhate, Communication, And Transdisciplinarity
Emma A. Jane And Nicole A Vincent
Chapter 11
Political Economy of Communication: The Critical Analysis of the Media’s Economic Structures
Christophe Magis
Chapter 12
The Propaganda Machine: Social Media Bias and the Future of Democracy
Sara Monaci
Chapter 13
From Fans to Followers to Anti-Fans: Young Online Audiences of Microcelebrities
Maria Murumaa-Mengel
Andra Siibak
Chapter 14
Reimagining Media Education: Technology Education as a Key Component of Critical Media Education in the Digital Era
Anne-Sophie Letellier
Normand Landry
Chapter 15
From Media Ecology to Media Evolution: Towards a Long-Term Theory of Media Change
Carlos A. Scolari
Chapter 16
Media Psychology
Emma Rodero
Biography
Michael Filimowicz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research is in the area of computer mediated communication, with a focus on new media poetics applied in the development of new immersive audiovisual displays for simulations, exhibition, games, and telepresence as well as research creation.
Veronika Tzankova is a PhD candidate in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University and a Communications Instructor at Columbia College–both in Vancouver, Canada. Her background is in human-computer interaction and communication. Sports shape the essence of her research which explores the potential of interactive technologies to enhance bodily awareness in high-risk sports activities.
