Full Description
Communication Yearbook 36 continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Charles T. Salmon presents a volume that is highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association. The contents include summaries of communication research programs that represent the most innovative work currently, with internationally renowned scholars serving as respondents to each chapter. Offering a blend of chapters emphasizing timely disciplinary concerns and enduring theoretical questions, this volume will be valuable to scholars throughout communication studies.
Contents
Editor's Introduction; 1. The Dissonant Self: Contributions from Dissonance Theory to a New Agenda in Studying Political Communication; 2. Commentary—Online News and the Demise of Political Disagreement; 3. Intergroup Contact: An Integration of Social Psychological and Communication Perspectives; 4. Commentary—Communication and the Contact Hypothesis; 5. The Relative Persuasiveness of Different Forms of Arguments-From-Consequences: A Review and Integration; 6. Commentary—What Makes Arguments-From-Consequences Convincing?; 7. Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association; 8. Commentary—Affordances, Effects and Technology Errors; 9. Reconsidering the Concept of Workplace Flexibility: Is Adaptability a Better Solution?; 10. Commentary—Enhancing Our Understanding of Work-Life Balance from a Communication Perspective; 11. Constructionist Social Problems Theory; 12. Commentary—The Industrial Construction of Audiences in Mass Media Industries: Notes Toward a Research Agenda; 13. Alcohol, Advertising, Media and Consumption Among Children, Teenagers and Young Adults; 14. Commentary— Challenging Ourselves to Advance Scholarship on Portrayals of Alcohol in the Media; 15. Linking Risk Messages to Information Seeking and Processing; 16. Commentary--Risk Communication in Context: Theories, Models, Research, and Future Endeavors; 17. On the Study of Process in Communication Research; 18. Commentary—Some Reflections on Quantitative Modeling of Communication Processes; 19. Assumptions Behind Inter-Coder Reliability Indices; 20. Commentary:A Dissenting View on So-Called Paradoxes Of Reliability Coefficients
