1st Edition
The Handbook of Communication and Security
The Handbook of Communication and Security provides a comprehensive collection and synthesis of communication scholarship that engages security at multiple levels, including theoretical vs. practical, international vs. domestic, and public vs. private. The handbook includes chapters that leverage communication-based concepts and theories to illuminate and influence contemporary security conditions. Collectively, these chapters foreground and analyze the role of communication in shaping the economic, technological, and cultural contexts of security in the 21st century. This book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars in the numerous subfields of communication and security studies.
Introduction: Conceptualizing Communication ← → Security
Bryan C. Taylor and Hamilton Bean
Part I: Communication Contexts and Genres
1. Communication History and Security
Ian E. J. Hill
2. Crisis/Emergency Communication and Security
Timothy L. Sellnow and Matthew W. Seeger
3. Ecological Communication and Security
William J. Kinsella
4. Discourse and Security
Patricia L. Dunmire
5. Group Communication and Security
Justin Reedy and Chris Anderson
6. Health Communication and Security
Matthew W. Seeger and Timothy L. Sellnow
7. Intercultural Communication and Security
David Boromisza-Habashi and Bingjuan Xiong
8. Organizational Communication and Security
Hamilton Bean and Rebecca M. Rice
9. Political Communication and Security
Andrew Rojecki
10. Rhetoric and Security
Kevin J. Macy-Ayotte
11. Strategic Communication and Security
Craig Hayden and Emily T. Metzgar
12. Visual Communication and Security
Axel Heck
Part II: Special Topics
13. Biosecurity and Communication
Lisa Keränen
14. Communicatively Countering Violent Extremism Online
Kurt Braddock
15. Cybersecurity and Communication
Sean Lawson and Michael K. Middleton
16. Communicative Dimensions of Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Militarism
Phil Graham
17. Memory, Security, and Communication
Lisa Silvestri
18. Nuclear Deterrence and Communication
Bryan C. Taylor
19. Rituals of Communication and Security
Shoshana Magnet
20. Strategic Narrative and Security
Raphaël Zaffran
21. Surveillance and Communication
Joshua Reeves
22. Communicating Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Carol K. Winkler and Ayse Deniz Lokmanoglu
Part III: The Futures of Communication ← → Security
23. Commentary: Communication and Security Creep
Robert L. Ivie
Biography
Bryan C. Taylor is Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Director of its Peace, Conflict, and Security Program. His research interests include the communicative status of nuclear weapons, and the role of mimesis in articulations of media and security. His related research has been published in journals including Annals of the International Communication Association, Communication Theory, Critical Studies of Media Communication, and elsewhere. He is co-editor of the volume Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex.
Hamilton Bean is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver, where he conducts research at the intersection of communication, organization, and security. Since 2005, he has been affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. He is the author of No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence.
