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Communication as ...
Perspectives on Theory
Edited by:
- Gregory J. Shepherd - University of Miami, USA
- Jeffrey St. John - University of Maine, USA
- Ted Striphas - University of Colorado, USA
August 2005 | 296 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Communication As... is a collection of 27 essays by leading thinkers in the field of communication theory. Each author in the volume has chosen a particular stance on communication and forwarded it as a primary or essential way of viewing communication with decided benefits over other views. The chapters in the book are brief, argumentative, and forceful; together they explore the wide range of theorizing about communication, cutting across all lines of traditional divisions in the field.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Making
Celeste M. Condit
1. Relationality
Eric W. Rothenbuhler
2. Ritual
Gregory J. Shepherd
3. Transcendence
Katherine Miller
4. Constructive
Robert T. Craig
5. A Practice
Part II: Materializing
Carole Blair
6. Collective Memory
Cara A. Finnegan
7. Vision
Carolyn Marvin
8. Embodiment
Judith N. Martin & Thomas K. Nakayama
9. Raced
Jake Harwood
10. Social Identity
Jonathan Sterne
11. Techne
Part III: Contextualizing
Leslie A. Baxter
12. Dialogue
Arthur P. Bochner & Carolyn S. Ellis
13. Autoethnography
Eric E. Peterson & Kristin M. Langellier
14. Storytelling
James R. Taylor
15. Complex Organizing
David R. Seibold & Karen Kroman Myers
16. Structuring
Part IV: Politicizing
Todd Kelshaw
17. Political Participation
John Gastil
18. Deliberation
James W. Dearing
19. Diffusion
Frank Boster
20. Social Influence
Robert C. Rowland
21. Rational Argument
Daniel C. Brouwer
22. Counterpublic
Part V: Questioning
John Durham Peters
23. Dissemination
Jennifer Daryl Slack
24. Articulation
Ted Striphas
25. Translation
Briankle G. Chang
26. Communicability
Jeffrey St. John
27. Failure
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
"Communication as… is an excellent way to introduce students to various perspectives in the discipline. It makes the point that there is no right or wrong way to study communication but that the different perspectives are all legitimate and useful."
--Sonja K. Foss, University of Colorado at Denver
University of Colorado at Denver
"This book provides incomparably unique and original perspectives explained by core scholars in their fields."
University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Too abstract
Communication Studies Dept, University Of Rhode Island
October 3, 2014
Very useful for graduate level theory course
Communication Arts Dept, Gonzaga University
May 17, 2012
Not a slog through one theory after another as is standard in most communication theory textbooks. Each author argues for the stakes involved in choosing to work through the framework of a given theoretical approach.
Communication Dept, St Mary's College of California
May 26, 2010
