The volume engages scholars in a systematic, collective, and multi-disciplinary exercise in renaissance thinking that showcases the breadth, scope, theories, methods, and potentialities of positive communication. The volume creates new links between the field of positive communication and allied concepts/fields/agencies (e.g. Johns Hopkins Universitys Center for a Livable Future). Contributions also connect the theory and practice of positive communication to the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Finally, the work showcases scholars design-thinking connecting positive communication topic areas to the concept of livable futures.
Part
1. Positive Communication Foundations.-
1. Designing Positive
Communication for a Livable Future.-
2. Defining Livable Futures Through
Rhetorical Figurations.-
3. The Positive Communication Network: A Dialogue of
Dreams, Hopes, and Wishes for a Livable Future.- 4.The Critical Need for a
Positive Communication Ontology in Human Rights Practice and Social Justice
Research.-
5. Ethical Humans.-
6. Positive Communication and Resilience.-
7.
Research Methods for Positive Communication.- Part
2. Positive Relational
Communication Processes.-
8. Barefoot Listening.-
9. Savoring Communication
and Human Interaction.-
10. Affectionate Communication as an Antidote to
Loneliness.- 11.Playful Communication, Positive Communication.-
12.
Leadership from a Positive Communication Perspective.- Part
3. Positive
Communication Contexts.-
13. Positive Communication Teaching Effectiveness as
Positive Education.-
14. Successful and Positive Aging: Intergenerational
Communication and Older Adults.-
15. Maintaining Meaningful and Positive
Romantic and Family Relationships.-
16. Positive Communication and
Mother-Daughter Relationship Research.-
17. Positive Family Communication as
an Engine of Potentiality: Encouraging Good Dreams and Dealing with Bad
Ones.-
18. Prosocial Interpersonal Communication and Its Consequences for
Health Across People and Contexts.-
19. Positive Working Humans.- Part
4.
Positive Communication Outcomes.-
20. Positive Communication in the Context
of Poverty: Personal Transformation in Heifer Participants in Uganda,
Africa.-
21. Towards Positive Food Communication Systems.-
22. Stir the Pot:
Active Visions of Kustawi Maishani for Black Boys in Their Positive
Development to Manhood.-
23. Positive Communication in Action: Communication,
Community, and Resilience.- Part
5. Looking Ahead.-
24. In Our Wildest
Dreams: A Positive Communication Agenda.
Thomas J. Socha is Professor of Communication and ODU University Professor (Distinguished Teaching) at Old Dominion University, USA.
