Microhistories of Communication Studies: Mapping the Future of Communication Through Local Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780367028398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Pat J. Gehrke

Opis

Using twelve histories of micro-dimensions of communication studies, this volume shows how sometimes small decisions, single scholars, individual departments, and marginalized voices can have dramatic roles in the history and future of an academic field. It offers rich detail, missing links, and local narratives that fully flesh out the communication studies discipline. No education in communication studies is complete without an understanding of the themes, challenges, and triumphs embodied by the twelve micro-histories offered in this book. This book was originally published as two special issues of Review of Communication.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Hundred Paths, a Shared Journey  1. A Well-Trained Tongue: The Origins of the Public Speaking Curriculum at the University of Minnesota, 1890-1910  2. Herbert A. Wichelns at the Discipline’s Centennial Mark: Re-Reading a Prospectus for Rhetoric As an Independent Discipline  3. Lambda Pi Eta: The Founding and Evolution of Communication’s Undergraduate Honor Society from a Systems Perspective  4. The Rhetoric of James J. Murphy: Continuity, Commitment, Community  5. Anonymity, Confidentiality, Privacy, and Identity: The Ties That Bind and Break in Communication Research  6. Narrative Theory and Criticism: An Overview Toward Clusters and Empathy  7. Exploring Organizational Communication (Micro) History Through Network Connections  8. Mapping a History of Applied Communication Research: Themes and Concepts in the Journal of Applied Communication Research  9. Forging a Path: Past and Present Scope of Critical Race Theory and Latina/o Critical Race Theory in Communication Studies  10. An LCSD & La Raza Microhistory: The Latina/o Communication Studies Division & La Raza Caucus of the National Communication Association  11. Experience Is the Best Teacher: the NCA Experiential Learning in Communication Division  12. Disciplining Communication Study at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 1973-2007

O autorze

Pat J. Gehrke is Associate Professor, and Director of Speech Communication and Rhetoric, in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. He is the author of The Ethics and Politics of Speech (2009) and co-editor of A Century of Communication Studies (2014).