ISBN:
0805851216
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 479 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Communication Yearbook 28
DDC:
302.2
Keywords:
Communication
;
Communities
;
Sociology
;
Community life
Abstract:
Communities are composed of connected individuals. The communication that exists within, about, and between these communities is at the heart of Communication Yearbook 28. This book draws from the broad range encompassed by the communication discipline to review literature that has something to say about community and what the communication discipline has to contribute to understanding this human connection
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Communication and Community: An Introduction; 1. How to Do Things With Relationships. . . and How Relationships Do Things With Us; 2. Romantic and Parent-Child Relationships at a Distance; 3. Alternative Organizing Communities: Collectivist Organizing, Telework, Home-Based Internet Businesses, and Online Communities; 4. Meetings: Discursive Sites for Building and Fragmenting Community; 5. Transcending Tolerance: Pragmatism, Social Capital, and Community in Communication; 6. Ideal Collaboration: A Conceptual Framework of Community Collaboration
Description / Table of Contents:
7. ""Community"" as a Foundation for Public Relations Theory and Practice8. Visual Images of Community: Implications for Communication Research; 9. Personal Mediated Communication and the Concept of Community in Theory and Practice; 10. Communication in the Community of Sport: The Process of Enacting, (Re)Producing, Consuming, and Organizing Sport; 11. Speech Community: Reflections Upon Communication; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors
Note:
"Published annually for the International Communication Association
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
