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Communication: Views from the Helm for the 21st Century
Judith S. Trent, Editor, University of Cincinnati

ISBN-10: 0205281672
ISBN-13: 9780205281671

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 1998
Format: Paper; 417 pp
Published: 09/30/1997

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Intended to provide a “century's end” overview of where the entire field of communication is heading, the speeches reprinted here were given at the 1996 national convention of the Speech Communication Association. Some of the most prominent researchers active in the discipline were asked to review the state of the art in their area of specialization, to limn new areas promising for study, and to help chart the course for the further study into the next century. Commissioned by Judith S. Trent, president of the National Communication Association, the speeches reprinted here include valuable and insightful overviews from such diverse areas as interpersonal communication studies, to examinations of the volatile realms of politics and organizations, to discussions of emerging issues like gender, health, and education, to descriptions of the contributions provided by critical lenses like social theory and cultural studies. All provide a broad look at where the field is, where it has emerged from, and, most importantly, where it is going.

A joint venture of the National Communication Association and Allyn & Bacon, this volume will serve both as a text for graduate and undergraduate students taking courses like Communication Theory, Communication Education, and Introduction to Communication Studies and as a valuable resource for scholars and teachers in the field. While Allyn & Bacon will make this volume broadly available to its customers and to interested members of the profession free of charge, the text will also be available for course adoption at a reasonable price. Proceeds from sales of the text for class adoption will be placed in a special fund, administered by the National Communication Association, and used to sponsor professional activities for graduate students at future annual national conventions.

  • The list of scholars whose speeches are reproduced here reads like a “Who's Who” of the discipline and will provide students and teachers with an essential overview of the emerging currents of thought in topical areas of central concern to the discipline.
  • Each section is introduced by a scholar who puts the different speeches in context of each other and of the trends in the field.
  • Written with a sense of the past and an eye toward the future, these perspectives should prove valuable for years to come as the field evolves and keeps pace with changing theories and areas of study.



Preface.


Contributors.


1.Perspectives in Communication Theory: Taking the Helm in the Twenty-First Century.

Introduction, Jimmie D. Trent.

Communication Theory for a Globalizing World, Peter R. Monge.

Visions of Order in Human Communication Theory, Donald P. Cushman.

Big Questions and Communication Theory: Finding the Cure for Communication, Charles R. Berger.

Communication Theory for the Twenty-First Century: Cleaning Up the Wreckage of the Psychology Project, Vernon E. Cronen.



2.At the Helm in Interpersonal Communication: Relational Communication.

Introduction, Teresa Sabourin.

Interpersonal Communication on the Starship Enterprise: Resilience, Stability and Change in Relationships in the Twenty-First Century, Mary Anne Fitzpatrick.

Helms and Bridges: Relational Communication as Conceptual and Personal Linkage, Steve Duck.

It Takes Two to Tango: Interpersonal Adaptation and Implications for Relational Communication, Judee K. Burgoon.

Locating the Social in Interpersonal Communication, Leslie A. Baxter.



3.At the Helm in Interpersonal Communication: Social Cognitive Approaches.

Introduction, Paul A. Mongeau.

How People Make Sense of Everyday, Interpersonal Events: Examining the Perceived Connections among Conflict Episodes, Michael E. Roloff.

The Dawning of a New Conception of the Social Actor, John O. Greene.

Similarities in Social Skills, Interpersonal Attraction, and the Development of Personal Relationships, Brant R. Burleson.



4.At the Helm in Social Influence and Groups.

Introduction, Paul E. Nelson.

Social Influence Research, at the Helm, on the Edge or over the Abyss? (Quod enim malvut homo verum est id potius credit) Michael Burgoon.

The Small Group Should Be the Fundamental Unit of Communication Research, Marshall Scott Poole.

The Signs of Cognitive, Affiliative, and Egocentric Constraints in Patterns of Interaction in Decision-Making and Problem-Solving Groups and Their Potential Effects on the Outcome, Dennis S. Gouran.

“Put the Helm Over!” and Steer a New Heading: Communication and “Social Influence,” Robert N. Bostrom.



5.At the Helm in Political Communication.

Introduction, Kathleen E. Kendall.

Rhetoric, Hope and American Politics, Roderick P. Hart.

Research Trends in Political Campaign Communication, Linda Lee Kaid.

Trends in Political Television Advertising, L. Patrick Devlin.

Narrowcast Media and Political Campaigns: Trends and Implications, Robert V. Friedenberg.



6.At the Helm in Organizational Communication.

Introduction, Dennis K. Mumby.

International Developments in Theory: Conversations, Networks, Texts, Solidarity and Virtual Organizations, Phillip K. Tompkins.

Metaphors and Images of Organizational Communication, Linda L. Putnam.

Stakeholders and Negotiating the New Social Contracts: A Communication Theory Perspective, Stanley A. Deetz.

Groups and Organizations: Premises and Perspectives, David R. Seibold.



7.At the Helm in Gender Studies in Communication.

Introduction, Cynthia Berryman-Fink.

Relationships between Rhetorical and Critical/Cultural Studies of Discourse by and about Women, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell.

Gender Diversity: A Theory of Communication for the Postmodern Era, Celeste M. Condit.

From Isolation to Integration: Gender’s Place in the Core of Knowledge, Julia T. Wood.



8.At the Helm in Communication Education.

Introduction, Rebecca B. Rubin.

The Future of Communication Education: Communication as a Content of Discipline, James C. McCroskey.

On Nets, Webs, Scaffolds and Tightropes: Changing Conceptions of Instructional Communication in the Postinformation Age, Jo Sprague.

Communication Education's Integrative Role: Providing an Intersection for Multiple Constituencies, Douglas M. Trank.

If Communication Matters So Much, Why Don't We Get the Attention We Deserve?, John A. Daly.



9.At the Helm in Health Communication.

Introduction, Scott C. Ratzan.

Awareness, Attention, and the Tug of Our Primal Past: Rethinking Our Target Audiences for the Design of Health Messages, Lewis Donohew

Health Communication as the “Invisible Helping Hand:” Just How Much Do We “Help?” Teresa L. Thompson.

Reframing Health Care Agendas: Voices of Activist Survivors as a Focus of Study, Barbara F. Sharf.



10. At the Helm in Rhetorical Analyses of Public Discourse.

Introduction, Dan F. Hahn.

Taking the Helm? Rhetorical Analysis? Public Discourse? David Zarefsky.

From Criticism to Critique to ..., Walter R. Fisher.

“The Mind’s I,” “The Minds We,” “The Mind’s Them,” A Cognitive Approach to the Rhetorical Analysis of Public Discourse, Richard B. Gregg.

Tacks in Rhetorical Analysis, Edwin Black.



11. At the Helm in Mass Communication.

Introduction, Nancy Signorielli.

Personal Involvement with the Media, Alan M. Rubin.

Trends in Mass Communication Theory and Research: Differences that Make a Difference, Jennings Bryant.

Critical Issues in Communication Ethics, Clifford G. Christians.

When the Mass Media Have Strong Effects: Intermedia Processes, Everett M. Rogers.



12. At the Helm in Media Studies.

Introduction, David Swanson.

Reconceptualizing the Visual in Media Studies, Bruce E. Gronbeck.

Everything that Rises Must Diverge: Notes on Communication, Technology and the Symbolic Construction of the Self, James W. Carey.

Media as Symbolic and Cognitive Systems, James W. Chesebro.



13. At the Helm in Performance Studies.

Introduction, Sheron J. Dailey.

Articulating Performance/Performativity: Disciplinary Tasks and the Contingencies of Practice, Mary S. Strine.

Witness to the Self: The Autobiographical Impulses in Performance Studies, Lynn C. Miller.



14. At the Helm in Social Theory.

Introduction, Jimmie D. Trent.

“Do No Harm” or “Make It Better?” Some Implications of Transcending the False Dichotomy between Theory and Practice, W. Barnett Pearce.

Social Interpretations, Social Theories, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz.

Social Theory and Dialogue, John Stewart.

Storied Lives: Recovering the Moral Importance of Social Theory, Arthur R. Bochner.



15. At the Helm in Ethnography and Communication.

Introduction, Thomas R. Lindlof.

A Matter of Time: The Case for Ethnographies of Communication, Stuart J. Sigman.

From Ethnographic Occupations to Ethnographic Stances, William K. Rawlins.

Transforming Communications in Studies through Ethnography, H. L. Goodall, Jr.



16. At the Helm in Intercultural and Cross Cultural Communication.

Introduction, Deborah F. Atwater.

“At the Helm” in Graduate Education: Service as Preparation for and Practice of Intercultural Communication Theory, Dolores V. Tanno.

Cheer the Weary Traveler: Reframing Conversation and Ethnicity, Carolyn Calloway-Thomas.

My Back Pages: Confessions of a Fugitive Interculturalist, Alberto Gonzalez.



17. At the Helm in Cultural Studies and Communication.

Introduction, Thomas Rosteck.

Doing Without Culture, or Cultural Studies in Helm's Country, Lawrence Grossberg.

Performance, Feminist Subjects, Cultural Studies, Della Pollock.

Freeing A Leafhopper: A Note on Rhetorical Contextualization and Cultures, Philip C. Wander.

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