Theorizing Communication

Theorizing Communication
Title Theorizing Communication PDF eBook
Author Robert T. Craig
Publisher SAGE
Pages 548
Release 2007-04-05
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781412952378

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Presents the collection of primary-source readings built around the idea that communication theory is a field with an identifiable history and has developed within seven main traditions of thought - the rhetorical, semiotic, phenomenological, cybernetic, sociopsychological, sociocultural, and critical traditions.

Theorizing Communication

Theorizing Communication
Title Theorizing Communication PDF eBook
Author Dan Schiller
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 296
Release 1996
Genre Communication
ISBN 0195101995

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This is the first book to offer a detailed intellectual history of communication study over the last century. Schiller looks at the relationship between early communication theory and contextualizing social and economic changes, and finds that the evolving dualism between intellectual and manual labor became deeply embedded in the work of theorists, even into our own time. Close attention is paid to leading thinkers in the field, including John Dewey, C. Wright Mills, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, and Daniel Bell.

Theorizing Communication

Theorizing Communication
Title Theorizing Communication PDF eBook
Author Dan Schiller
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 296
Release 1996-10-24
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0195356284

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This book offers the first detailed intellectual history of communication study, from its beginnings in late nineteenth-century critiques of corporate capitalism and the burgeoning American wireline communications industry, to contemporary information theory and poststructuralist accounts of communicative activity. Schiller identifies a problematic split between manual and intellectual labor that outlasts each of the field's major conceptual departures, and from this vital perspective builds a rigorous critical survey of work aiming to understand the nexus of media, ideology, and information in a society. Looking closely at the thought of John Dewey, C. Wright Mills, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Daniel Bell, and others, Schiller carefully maps the transformation of ideas about communication and culture as issues of corporate power, mass persuasion, cultural imperialism, and information expansion succeed one another in prominence. Bringing his analysis of communication theory into the present, Schiller concludes by limning a unitary model of society's cultural/informational production, one that broadens the concept of "labor" to include all forms of human self-activity. Powerful, challenging, and original, Theorizing Communication: A History offers a brilliantly constructed overview of the history of communication study, and will interest scholars working in the field as well as those working in critical theory, cultural studies, and twentieth-century intellectual history.

Theorizing About Intercultural Communication

Theorizing About Intercultural Communication
Title Theorizing About Intercultural Communication PDF eBook
Author William B. Gudykunst
Publisher SAGE
Pages 489
Release 2005
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0761927492

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Second, theories can be designed to describe how communication varies across cultures.

Dialogue

Dialogue
Title Dialogue PDF eBook
Author Rob Anderson
Publisher SAGE
Pages 344
Release 2004
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780761926719

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Readers of Dialogue will be able to frame different influential conceptions of dialogue, establish the concepts' history in communication studies, and trace both common and unique threads that connect different theorists. This volume is recommended for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in Communication Theory, Interpersonal Communication, and Organizational Communication

Communication as ...

Communication as ...
Title Communication as ... PDF eBook
Author Gregory J. Shepherd
Publisher SAGE
Pages 300
Release 2006
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9781412906586

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In Communication as...: Perspectives on Theory, editors Gregory J. Shepherd, Jeffrey St. John, and Ted Striphas bring together a collection of 27 essays that explores the wide range of theorizing about communication, cutting across all lines of traditional division in the field. The essays in this text are written by leading scholars in the field of communication theory, with each scholar employing a particular stance or perspective on what communication theory is and how it functions. In essays that are brief, argumentative, and forceful, the scholars propose their perspective as a primary or essential way of viewing communication with decided benefits over other views.

Latina/o Communication Studies

Latina/o Communication Studies
Title Latina/o Communication Studies PDF eBook
Author Bernadette Marie Calafell
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 172
Release 2007
Genre Art
ISBN 9780820481821

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This is the first book within the field of communication studies to map the terrain of Latina/o performance. Using rhetorical criticism and performance ethnography, the book examines performance from a variety of perspectives: from identity and community in everyday life, to how it intersects with popular culture. Discussions - from Ricky Martin to Chicana feminist pilgrimages to issues of diaspora - contribute to the book's argument that the relationship between rhetorical scholarship and emerging performance work has largely been ignored. Latina/o Communication Studies aims to challenge this split by creating a more complex and less Eurocentric understanding of rhetoric. This rich and informative book contributes to a more nuanced understanding of race and ethnicity and attests to the importance of Latina/o studies in the field of communication.