1st Edition

Connections and Inclusions Intercultural Communication in Communication Studies Scholarship

Edited By Ahmet Atay, Alberto Gonzalez Copyright 2020
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents different aspects of intercultural communication research as they connect to and intersect with sub-disciples such as media studies, communication education, international communication, rhetorical studies, gender and sexuality studies, popular culture, and organizational communication. Intercultural communication (IC) scholars in the CSCA region have often been questioned,... Read more

Introduction: Intercultural Studies within Central States

Ahmet Atay & Alberto González

1. Intercultural Communication: Taking Stock of the Domain

Young Yun Kim

2. Interiority as Epistemology: Situating Myself in the Central States Communication Association

Dorthy Lee Pennington

3. Intercultural Communication Scholarship in the U.S. Heartland

Mark P. Orbe

4. A Methodological Nomad and an Accidental Scholar

John R. Baldwin

5. Intercultural Communication and the Central States Region

Alberto González

6. Crossing Paths: Intercultural Collaborations

Ahmet Atay & Satoshi Toyosaki

7. Rethinking "Difficult" Conversations in Communication Instruction From an Intercultural Lens: Pedagogical Strategies for "SWAP-ping" the Communication Classroom

Yea-Wen Chen & Brandi Lawless

8. Identifying Dominant Group Communication Strategies: A Phenomenological Study

Robert J. Razzante

9. A Feminist Postsocialist Approach to the Intercultural Communication of Rape at the ICTY

Jennifer A. Zenovich & Leda Cooks

10. Can Detroiters Dream Again? The Imagined Dialectics of Urban Decline in Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown—Detroit

Eun Young Lee & Chad Nelson

11. Sensemaking in Turbulent Contexts: African Student Leadership in a Postcolonial Context

Eric Karikari & Christopher Brown

Biography

Ahmet Atay (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University- Carbondale) is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster. His research revolves around media studies and critical intercultural communication. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of 10 books.

Alberto González (PhD, The Ohio State University) is Distinguished University Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. He is a co-editor of The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai: Planting the Future (2018) and Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, 6th Edition (2016).