Full Description
This book provides an inside look at the discipline of Communication. In this collection of chapters, top scholars from a wide range of subfields discuss how they have experienced and how they study the crucial issues of our time.
The 2020s opened with a series of events with massive implications for the ways we communicate, from the COVID-19 pandemic, a summer of protests for social justice, and climate change-related natural disasters, to one of the most contentious presidential elections in modern U.S. history. The chapters in this book provide snapshots of many of these issues as seen through the eyes of specialists in the major subfields of Communication, including interpersonal, organizational, strategic, environmental, religious, social justice, risk, sport, health, family, instructional, and political communication. Written in an informal style that blends personal narrative with accessible explanation of basic concepts, the book is ideal for introducing students to the range and practical applications of Communication discipline.
This book comprises a valuable companion text for Introduction to Communication courses as well as a primary resource for Capstone and Introduction to Graduate Studies courses. Further, this collection provides meaningful insights for Communication scholars as we look ahead to the remainder of the 2020s and beyond.
Contents
Introduction: Christina S. Beck Section I: Through Communication, We Enact Identities and Reveal Priorities 2. Postcoloniality and Communication-- Ahme Atay 3. Communicating Gender and Sexuality— Ashley Noel Mack 4. Race and Communication: Keep Your Knees Off of Our Necks: Balck Girl Video Prowess Bearing Witness Against the Grisly Minnesota Police Murder of George Floyd—Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas 5. The Now and Not Yet: Reclaiming a Ritual View of Communication in Religious Communication Theory and Practice—Jennifer Scott Mobley 6. Disability and Communication-- Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock 7. Communication and Ethics: Considering the Conflicting Messages of COVID-19—Sarah Deiuliis and Pat Arneson 8. Risk Communication-- Timothy L. Sellnow Section II: Through Communication, We Relate to and Connect with Others and Our World 9. Interpersonal Communication—Kristina Scharp 10. Interpersonal Communication—Kristina M. Scharp 10. Group Communication in the 2020s: Rethinking Identity, Managing Shifting Boundaries, and Designing Dialogic Conversations—Laura W. Black 11. Family Communication: Talking Families into Being—Dawn O. Braithwaite 12. Into the Unknown: Instructional Communication in the 2020s—Tiffany R. Wang 13. The Rhetorical Situation and its Problems: Expanding the Discursive Elements of Educational Contexts, Disability, and Social Movements—Diana Isabel Martinez 14. Political Communication—Trevor Parry-Giles 15. Media Selection in the 2020s: An Unintential Experiment —Stephanie A. Tikkanen 16. Sports Communication-- Michael Butterworth Section III: Through Communication, We Can Transform What Has Been into What Can Be 17. On Bats, Breathing, and Bella Vita Verde: Refelections on Environmental Communication During COVID-19 —Phaedra Pezzullo 18. Health Communication, Gender Violence, and Inequality during COVID-19: A Critical Feminist Health Communication Perspective— Leandra Hinojosa Hernandez 19. Collapsing Contexts: Reconciling Technology Aplification and Human Agency in an Era of Surveillance Capitalism-- Prashant Rajan 20. Pandemic Refelections: Precarity, Solidarity, and Global Inequities in Organizational Communication Research-- Mahuya Patel and Beatriz Nieto-Fernandez 21. The End of the World as We Knew It: Strategic Communication in the 2020 Pandemic-- Deanna Sellnow 22. Communication Studies and Social Justice: 25 Years and Counting -- Amy Aldridge Sanford
