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Communication & culture : a comparative approach

Alex S. Edelstein, Youichi Ito, Hans Mathias Kepplinger ; foreword by Maxwell McCombs ; with the collaboration of Leonard Chu ... [et al.]

(Communications / Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania)

Longman, c1989

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Communication and culture

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Bibliography: p. 296-331

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This text uses the concept of problematic situation to explicate research on communication behaviour among students from the United States, Western Europe and Asia. A comparative study, it addresses how well communication theory travels and explores how students perceive messages, what elements in that perception are culturally delimited, and which are universal. The authors bring multicultural perspectives to bear upon issues relating to the nature of news, the social meaning of credibility, the users approach to mass communication, the agenda-setting role of media, intercultural communication and perceptions of public opinion. The book contains a discussion of four conceptually based fields of inquiry: comparative communication, intercultural (interpersonal) communication, cross-cultural (mass mediated and technology transferred) communication, and national (system) studies. There are also appraisals of youth cultures - to explain differences in communication behaviour.

Table of Contents

  • Communication and culture
  • sources of student values
  • the problematic situation as a multicultural concept
  • Walter Lippmann revisited
  • the problematic situation as motivation
  • multicultural perspectives on the credibility factor
  • perceptions and congnitions
  • the intercultural dimensions of interpersonal communication
  • agenda setting in the multicultural context
  • transcending the debate
  • a multicultural review and symposium.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA09880789
  • ISBN
    • 0801303354
  • LCCN
    88027599
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxvi, 342 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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