Rethinking communication : keywords in communication research

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Rethinking communication : keywords in communication research

edited by Stuart Allan

(The international communication association : conference theme book series)

Hampton Press, c2010

  • : [pbk.]

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents of Works
  • Communication as a cultural category / Tamar Katriel
  • Communication and intercultural/intergroup relationships / Cindy Gallois
  • Communication and globalization / James Curran
  • Communication: an African perspective / Winston Mano
  • The political message : a history of public discourse in three short chapters / W. Lance Bennet
  • The redemption of media messages / Daniel Dayan
  • Redefining public spheres / Michael X. Delli Carpini
  • A family of public spheres / Michael Schudson
  • City dreams / William Ayers
  • Public spaces / Don Mitchell
  • Cities : a frontline space for major threats / Saskia Sassen
  • Aesthetic experience in the digital era / Mark B. Andrejevic
  • Authenticity and strategic communication research / Juan-Carolos Molleda
  • Evolving citizenship : "the right to protest and the right to dance" / John Hartley
  • Diversity, inc. : the politics of difference in academic and state-managerial discourses / Vincent Doyle
  • Discourse and mediation / Lilie Chouliaraki
  • Beyond effects : conceptualizing communication as dynamic, complex, nonlinear, and fundamental / Annie Lang & David Ewoldsen
  • Frames in political communication : toward clarification of a research program / Jörg Matthes
  • Renegotiating identity in the field of communication / Cerise L. Glenn & Ronald L. Jackson II
  • Technology as place / Marko M. Skoric ... [et al.]
  • The use of urban keywords to revisit, renew, and revive research roots of communication / Gene Burd
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To observe that certain words are central to communication research is to prompt interesting questions about their influence. In taking such key words-or keywords-as its organising theme, this book invites a careful reconsideration of several premises underpinning the vocabulary we use to document, describe and critique the world around us. Under close scrutiny here is a selection of keywords-including aesthetics, authenticity, citizenship, city, communication, difference, discourse, effects, framing, identity, message, public sphere, technology and urban, among others-criss-crossing the terrain of the field in a manner that is subtly complex and consistently intriguing. Each of the book's contributors makes the case for an enhanced awareness of the ways in which words shape the nature of our inquiries. Their shared aim is to illuminate unexpected contours of our otherwise familiar terms in order to encourage fresh perspectives, and thereby reinvigorate current thinking. Words matter, these contributors show us, and sometimes for reasons that prove to be rather surprising.

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