Communication

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4129-5942-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 205 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

Stressing the interrelatedness of the many facets of communication, this introductory text explores major theories by locating those ideas and concepts in the context of current, cultural issues. The authors' narrative approach helps students more easily see the connections to their daily lives, and public communication is reframed within this text as public advocacy, helping students become critical, active citizens in their communities. By recognizing that they are members of a complex system of power that both enables and constrains their actions, students are able to explore the ways their communication constitutes and frames their social world.

Communicating Culture provides a context to see communication as both productive of power and a productive way of envisioning social movement against unethical or unjust power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Warren, John T.

Fassett, Deanna L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
PART I: FIRST PRINCIPLES
1. Thinking Critically About Communication in Culture
The Foundations of Our Dialogue: Terms and Common Understandings
Words for Change: The Power of Communication
Public Advocacy: Process and Responsibilities
2. Communication and Power: A Cultural History
Part One: The Rhetorical Tradition
Part Two: The Elocution Era
Part Three: The Move to Science
Part Four: Social Constructionism
Part Five: The Critical/Cultural Turn
A Moral: Lessons From Our Story of a Discipline
Public Advocacy: Purpose, Audience, and Voice
3. Public Advocacy: Commitments and Responsibility
What Is Public Advocacy?
A Model for Advocacy: Paulo Freire
Listening as Public Advocacy
Public Advocacy: Integrity in Argumentation
PART II: COMMUNICATION PROCESSES AND SKILLS
4. Identity and Perception
Who Is Harper? Three Communication Paradigms
Public Advocacy: Perception and Audience Analysis
5. Language and Culture
Semiotics: Structure and Symbols
A Post-Semiotic Approach to Language
Language as Constitutive: Ideology and Everyday Speech
Public Advocacy: Inclusive Language
6. Embodied Knowing and Nonverbal Communication
Body Epistemology: Knowing
Body Identity: Being
Body Language: Communicating
Body Intentionality
Public Advocacy: The Body as a Resource
PART III: COMMUNICATION CONTEXTS
7. Language and Power in Our Cultural Lives
Myth 1: Culture Is Static
Myth 2: Culture and Power Are Separate
Myth 3: Stereotypes Are Built on Truths
Myth 4: Progress Is Progress
Myth 5: Colorblindness Is Progress
Myth 6: We're All Making a Big Deal Out of Nothing
From Myths to Critical Understanding
Public advocacy: Academic Integrity and Citationality
8. Cultural Relations: Relationships in Culture
Of Self and Other
Of Frames and Play
Of Patterns and Rituals
Of Change and Relational Dialectics
Of I and Thou
Public Advocacy: Building Relationships, Context, and Listening
9. Mediated Culture(s)
Con-constitution: Media in Our Cultural Lives
Consuming Mediated Messages
Your Mediated Self
Surveillance
Media Use, Culture(s) and Power
Resistance
Public Advocacy: Visual Aids and Organization
10. Communication as a Means of Social Action
Discipline
Simulacra
Difference
Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Nihilism
Public Avocacy: Tactics for Social Action
Glossary
Index
About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Fassett, Deanna L.
Deanna L. Fassett is Department Chair and professor of communication pedagogy at San José State University where she has, since 2002, mentored her department’s graduate student instructors. She is the author and editor of three other books: Coordinating the Communication Course: A Guidebook, Critical Communication Pedagogy, The SAGE Handbook of Communication and Instruction, and Communication: A Critical/Cultural Introduction, Second Edition. Her published research has appeared in a broad array of communication studies journals, including Basic Communication Course Annual, Communication Education, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and Text and Performance Quarterly.

Warren, John T.
John T. Warren (Late) was professor of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His major research and teaching centered in Communication Pedagogy, Performance Studies, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. He was the author of numerous books including Performing Purity: Whiteness, Pedagogy and the Reconstitution of Power; Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Contexts; Critical Communication Pedagogy; and the SAGE Handbook of Communication and Instruction. He also authored articles for several education and communication studies journals, including Educational Theory, Communication Education, and Text and Performance Quarterly.