Communication Yearbook 32

Edited by Christina S. Beck

  • Price: $150.00
  • Binding/Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-98859-9
  • Publish Date: July 14th 2008
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • Pages: 436 pages

    Description

    The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse, state-of-the-art literature reviews across the field of communication. Sponsored by the International Communication Association, volumes offer insightful descriptions of research as well as reflections on the implications of those findings for other areas of the discipline. Editor Christina S. Beck presents a diverse, international selection of articles that highlight empirical and theoretical intersections in the communication discipline.

    Contents

    Editor’s Introduction -- Christina S. Beck, Ohio University

    Social Construction in Communication: Revisiting the Conversation -- Mariaelena Bartesaghi, University of South Florida, & Theresa Castor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

    Theorizing Resistance in a Global Context: Processes, Strategies, and Tactics in Communication Scholarship -- Mahuya Pal and Mohan J. Dutta, Purdue University

    Theoretical Contributions of Interpretive and Critical Research in Health Communication -- Heather M. Zoller, University of Cincinnati, & Kimberly N. Kline, University of Texas at San Antonio

    Meaningful Work and Personal/Social Well-being: Organizational Communication

    Engages the Meanings of Work -- George Cheney, University of Utah and University of Waikato, Theodore E. Zorn, University of Waikato, Sally Planalp, University of Utah, & Daniel J. Lair, University of Denver

    Reconceptualizing Virtual Teaming from a Constitutive Perspective: Review, Redirection, and Research Agenda -- Jennifer L. Gibbs, Dina Nekrassova, Svetlana V. Grushina, Sally Abdul Wahab, Rutgers University

    "Oxygen of Publicity" and "Lifeblood of Liberty": Communication Scholarship on Mass Media Coverage of Terrorism for the Twenty-First Century -- Lisa Keränen and Virginia Sanprie, University of Colorado

    Exposing the Spectrum of Whiteness: Rhetorical Conceptions of White Absolutism -- Michael Lacy, DePaul University

    How Media Literacy is Defined: A Review -- Judith E. Rosenbaum, Albany State University, Johannes W. J. Beentjes, & Ruben P. Konig, Radboud University of Nijmegen

    Explaining variation in the effects of supportive messages: A dual-process framework -- Graham D. Bodie and Brant R. Burleson, Purdue University

    Author Bio

    Christina Beck is professor of communication at Ohio University. She has been editing the Communication Yearbook series for 3 years. CY 33 will be her final volume.

     

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