Communication : An Introduction

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ISBN: 9780803978362 | 0803978367
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Copyright: 2/11/2000

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Written as an introduction for beginning students, this book offers a thorough, yet lively, overview of human communication in all its aspects.Accessibly written and assuming no prior knowledge of the discipline Communication: An Introduction: offers a thorough, yet lively, examination of all aspects of human communication, including: a summary of its nature, form and function; a detailed analysis of all the levels of communication; a description and overview of the different traditions of communication studies; and a consideration of the future of communication - as a phenomenon and as a field of research.

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Preface

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

(26)

Communication: Elusive Phenomenon, Emergent Discipline

(26)

On communication

(1)

On science and scholarship

(3)

Concepts and terms, types and typologies

(1)

Typologies of science and scholarship

(2)

On society and individuals

(3)

Four basic approaches in the humanities and social sciences

(2)

The cube of humanities and social sciences

(6)

Communication studies located

(1)

Three different perspectives on communication studies

(1)

Theories, models and data

(2)

Theories and models in three traditions of communication research

(3)

Uses and gratifications research

(1)

Lifestyle research

(1)

Reception analysis

(1)

The study of communication: an historical perspective

(2)

On the rest of the book

(2)

PART TWO: FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNICATION

(43)

Forms and Levels of Communication: Some Elementary Distinctions

(26)

A communicating animal

(8)

On our history

(2)

On signs, symptoms and symbols

(1)

On codes and languages

(3)

On human language

(2)

Interaction and communication

(3)

Forms of communication

(6)

Verbal and non-verbal communication

(2)

Mediated communication

(1)

On the number of human languages

(1)

From writing to printing to computing

(2)

Functions and acts of human communication

(2)

Levels of communication

(2)

Patterns of communication

(3)

Communication between levels

(2)

Culture and Society, Media and Communication

(17)

The human group regarded as a system of three systems

(1)

The value system of society

(4)

Socialization

(3)

Introduction

(1)

The meaning of meaning

(1)

Agents of socialization

(1)

Agency and structure

(4)

Continuity and change

(5)

The rate of societal change

(1)

Indicators of societal change and continuity

(4)

PART THREE: LEVELS OF COMMUNICATION

(129)

Individual Communication: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal and Group Communication

(35)

Individuals in groups and societies

(4)

Introduction

(1)

Factors influencing individual communication

(3)

Intrapersonal and interpersonal communication: some preliminaries

(4)

Interpersonal communication

(8)

Introduction

(2)

Individual communication differentiated

(2)

Variation and stability in individual communication

(3)

Taking turns and other norms of reciprocity

(1)

Does the exception prove the rule?

(1)

Group communication

(7)

Introduction

(2)

Group structure

(1)

Societally institutionalized groups

(2)

Group leadership

(1)

Socialization and the family communication climate

(2)

Functions of group communication

(2)

The strength of the weak tie

(3)

The concept of the weak tie

(1)

Some functions of the weak tie

(2)

Mediated individual and group communication

(7)

Introduction

(1)

Telephone communication

(2)

Individual communication by computer

101

(4)

Organizational Communication

105

(33)

Organizations, groups and networks: an introduction

105

(4)

Some historical examples of organization and organizational communication

109

(3)

Theories and models of organization and organizational communication

112

(4)

Formal and informal organizational communication

116

(2)

Models of organization

118

(7)

Introduction

118

(1)

Three models of organization

119

(2)

`Adhocracy'

121

(3)

Academic adhocracies

124

(1)

Organizations in time and space

125

(1)

The climate of organizational communication

125

(4)

Organizations especially designed for communication

129

(2)

Research on innovation and diffusion

131

(4)

Organizations for furthering adoption and diffusion

135

(3)

The general pattern

135

(1)

Lobbying

135

(3)

Societal Communication, Mass Communication

138

(32)

Types of societies, types of communication

138

(2)

A necessary precondition

140

(1)

Media of sounds and pictures

141

(2)

From society to individual and back again

143

(6)

Different perspectives of time

143

(3)

Gate-keeping and access

146

(3)

Homogeneity and heterogeneity

149

(3)

Individual use made of mass media: quantity and quality, causes and consequences

152

(18)

The study of individual media use

152

(1)

Media use among young people - how much?

153

(5)

Relations between viewers and the content viewed

158

(5)

Effects of television viewing

163

(7)

International and Intercultural Communication

170

(29)

International and intercultural communication: an introduction

170

(3)

Ways and means of international communication

173

(2)

The origins

173

(1)

Migration in an historical perspective

173

(2)

High politics and international communication: a brave new world?

175

(3)

Peace and conflict

175

(1)

International propaganda

176

(2)

Levels of international and intercultural communication

178

(12)

On time, space and personality

178

(1)

International communication at the interpersonal level

179

(3)

International communication at the organizational level

182

(2)

International communication at the mass media level

184

(6)

International news: intra and extra media data

190

(1)

International popular culture

191

(5)

Popular culture as innovation

191

(1)

Popular music

192

(4)

Computerized international communication: the global village green?

196

(3)

PART FOUR: THE FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION

199

(7)

The Future of Communication and Communication Research

199

(7)

Some general tendencies

199

(2)

Scholarship and research in the area of computerized communication

201

(5)

References

206

(6)

Name Index

212

(2)

Subject Index

214

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