Communication and community / edited by Gregory J. Shepherd, Eric W. Rothenbuhler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shepherd, Gregory J.

Rothenbuhler, Eric W.

Series:

LEA's communication series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal communication.

Communities.

Physical Description:

xv, 289 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Summary:

This volume addresses communication and its roles in the problems and prospects of community, and is intended for scholars in communiation, cultural studies, and social psychology.

Contents:

Community and communication : the conceptual background / David Depew and John Durham Peters

Community as the interpersonal accomplishment of communication / Gregory J. Shepherd

Prosocial bias in theories of interpersonal communication competence : must good communication be nice? / Carey H. Adams

Talking community at 911 : the centrality of communication in coping with emotional labor / Sherianne Shuler

Feminist organizing and the construction of "alternative" community / Karen Lee Ashcraft

Community as a means of organizational control/ Loril M. Gossett and Phillip K. Tompkins.

Forms of connection and "severance" in and around the Mondragón worker-cooperative complex / George Cheney

Revising communication research for working on community / Eric W. Rothenbuhler

Collective memory as "time out" : repairing the time-community link / Barbie Zelizer

Virtual-online communities : how might new technologies be related to community? / Howard E. Sypher and Bart Collins

Building an electronic community : a town-gown collaboration / Teresa M. Harrison ... [et al.]

Of what use civic journalism : do newspapers really make a difference in community participation? / Keith R. Stamm

Limits of community in public journalism / Christopher R. Martin

Why localism? Communication technology and the shifting scale of political community / Andrew Calabrese.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

080583138X

0805831398

OCLC:

43227482