ABSTRACT

This volume provides a graduate-level introduction to communication science, including theory and scholarship for masters and PhD students as well as practicing scholars. The work defines communication, reviews its history, and provides a broad look at how communication research is conducted. It also includes chapters reviewing the most frequently addressed topics in communication science. This book presents an overview of theory in general and of communication theory in particular, while offering a broad look at topics in communication that promote understanding of the key issues in communication science for students and scholars new to communication research. The book takes a predominantly "communication science" approach but also situates this approach in the broader field of communication, and addresses how communication science is related to and different from such approaches as critical and cultural studies and rhetoric. As an overview of communication science that will serve as a reference work for scholars as well as a text for the introduction to communication graduate studies course, this volume is an essential resource for understanding and conducting scholarship in the communication discipline.

part 1|110 pages

Communication Theory

chapter 1|15 pages

An Introduction to Theory

chapter 2|19 pages

What is Communication?

chapter 3|21 pages

History of Communication

chapter 5|17 pages

Positivism/Causality/Explanation

part 2|237 pages

Communication Research

chapter 7|25 pages

Mass Media Effects Models

chapter 8|16 pages

Media Use Models

chapter 9|23 pages

Message Processing

chapter 10|17 pages

Interpersonal Communication

chapter 11|18 pages

Small Group and Organizational Communication

chapter 12|32 pages

Persuasion

chapter 13|24 pages

Political Communication

chapter 14|18 pages

Social Media

chapter 15|31 pages

Health Communication

chapter 17|12 pages

The Future of Communication