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 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.
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.
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.
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.
