Communication Theory Today

Notes on Contributors.
<p>Acknowlegements.</p>
<p>Communication in a Post–Mass Media World: David Crowley and David Mitchell.</p>
<p>Part I: Communication and the Mediation of Social Worlds:.</p>
<p>1. Social Theory and the Media: John B Thompson.</p>
<p>2. Medium Theory: Joshua Meyrowitz.</p>
<p>3. A Recursive Theory of Communication: Klaus Krippendorff.</p>
<p>Part II: Messages, Meanings, Discourse:.</p>
<p>4. Discourse and Cognition in Society: Teun A Van Dijk.</p>
<p>5. Risk Communication and Public Knowledge: William Leiss.</p>
<p>6.Talk, Text and History: Conversation Analysis and Communication Theory: Deidre Boden.</p>
<p>Part III: Contingency, Reflexivity, Post–Modernity:.</p>
<p>7. The Mode of Information and Postmodernity: Mark Poster.</p>
<p>8. In the Realm of Uncertainty: The Global Village and Capitalist Postmodernity: Ien Ang.</p>
<p>9. By Whose Authority? Accounting for Taste in Contemporary Popular Culture: James M Collins.</p>
<p>Part IV: Communication and Public Interests:.</p>
<p>10. Mass Communication and the Public Interest: Denis McQuail.</p>
<p>11. Electronic Networks, Social Relations and the Changing Structure of Knowledge: William Melody.</p>
<p>12. Communication and Development: Majid Tehranian.</p>
<p>Index.</p>