Communication Theories in a Multicultural World

ISBN-13: 9781433123061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 325 str.

Clifford G. Christians;KAARLE NORDENSTRENG

Opis

This volume is an up-to-date account of communication theories from around the world.
Authored by a group of eminent scholars, each chapter is a history and state-of-the-art description of the major issues in international communication theory.
While the book draws on an understanding of communication theory as a product of its socio-political and cultural context, and the challenges posed by that context, it also highlights each author s lifetime effort to critique the existing trends in communication theory and bring out the very best in each multicultural context."

Spis treści

Contents: Kaarle Nordenstreng: Preface: Toward a Better World - Robert A. White: Keeping the Public Sphere(s) Public - Brenda Dervin/Peter Shields: Talking Communicatively About Mass Communication in Communication Theories: Beyond Multiplicity, Toward Communicating - Denis McQuail: Social Scientific Theory of Communication Encounters Normativity: A Personal Memoir - Janet Wasko: Understanding the Critical Political Economy of the Media - Peter Golding/Karen Williamson: Power, Inequality, and Citizenship: The Enduring Importance of the Political Economy of Communications - Roger Bromley: Cultural Studies: Dialogue, Continuity, and Change - Michael Real/David Black: A Mutually Radicalizing Relationship: Communication Theory and Cultural Studies in the United States - Jesús Martin-Barbero: Thinking Communication in Latin America - Joseph Oládèjo Fáníran: Toward a Theory of African Communication - Keval J. Kumar: Theorizing About Communication in India: Sadharanikaran, Rasa, and Other Traditions in Rhetoric and Aesthetics - Thomas Tufte: Voice, Citizenship, and Civic Action: Challenges to Participatory Communication - Stewart M. Hoover: Media, Culture, and the Imagination of Religion - Pradip N. Thomas: Theorizing Development, Communication, and Social Change - Cees J. Hamelink: Human Rights and Communication: Reflections on a Challenging Relationship - Ruth Teer-Tomaselli/Keyan G. Tomaselli: Struggle, Vatican II, and Development Communication Practice - Paul A. Soukup, SJ: Media Ecology - Theodore L. Glasser/Isabel Awad: Journalism, Multiculturalism, and the Struggle for Solidarity - Clifford G. Christians: Media Ethics in Transnational, Gender Inclusive, and Multicultural Terms.

O autorze

Clifford Christians is Research Professor of Communications and Professor of Journalism Emeritus at the University of Illinois-Urbana.
Kaarle Nordenstreng is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere, Finland.