Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Making
1. Relationality - Celeste M. Condit
2. Ritual - Eric W. Rothenbuhler
3. Transcendence - Gregory J. Shepherd
4. Constructive - Katherine Miller
5. A Practice - Robert T. Craig
Part II: Materializing
6. Collective Memory - Carole Blair
7. Vision - Cara A. Finnegan
8. Embodiment - Carolyn Marvin
9. Raced - Judith N. Martin & Thomas K. Nakayama
10. Social Identity - Jake Harwood
11. Techne - Jonathan Sterne
Part III: Contextualizing
12. Dialogue - Leslie A. Baxter
13. Autoethnography - Arthur P. Bochner & Carolyn S. Ellis
14. Storytelling - Eric E. Peterson & Kristin M. Langellier
15. Complex Organizing - James R. Taylor
16. Structuring - David R. Seibold & Karen Kroman Myers
Part IV: Politicizing
17. Political Participation - Todd Kelshaw
18. Deliberation - John Gastil
19. Diffusion - James W. Dearing
20. Social Influence - Frank Boster
21. Rational Argument - Robert C. Rowland
22. Counterpublic - Daniel C. Brouwer
Part V: Questioning
23. Dissemination - John Durham Peters
24. Articulation - Jennifer Daryl Slack
25. Translation - Ted Striphas
26. Communicability - Briankle G. Chang
27. Failure - Jeffrey St. John
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
