Reimagining Communication: Meaning

Reimagining Communication: Meaning surveys the foundational theoretical and methodological approaches that continue to shape Communication Studies, synthesizing the complex relationship of communication to meaning making in a uniquely accessible and engaging way.

Autorentext

Michael Filimowicz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research is in the area of computer mediated communication, with a focus on new media poetics applied in the development of new immersive audiovisual displays for simulations, exhibition, games, and telepresence as well as research creation.

Veronika Tzankova is a PhD candidate in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University and a Communications Instructor at Columbia Collegeboth in Vancouver, Canada. Her background is in human-computer interaction and communication. Sports shape the essence of her research which explores the potential of interactive technologies to enhance bodily awareness in high-risk sports activities.

Klappentext

Reimagining Communication: Meaning surveys the foundational theoretical and methodological approaches that continue to shape communication studies, synthesizing the complex relationship of communication to meaning making in a uniquely accessible and engaging way. The Reimagining Communication series develops a new information architecture for the field of communications studies, grounded in its interdisciplinary origins and looking ahead to emerging trends as researchers take into account new media technologies and their impacts on society and culture. Reimagining Communication: Meaning brings together international authors to provide contemporary perspectives on semiotics, hermeneutics, paralanguage, corpus analysis, critical theory, intercultural communication, global culture, cultural hybridity, postcolonialism, feminism, political economy, propaganda, cultural capital, media literacy, media ecology and media psychology. The volume is designed as a reader for scholars and a textbook for students, offering a new approach for comprehending the vast diversity of communications topics in today's globally networked world. This will be an essential introductory text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of communication, broadcast media, and interactive technologies, with an interdisciplinary focus and an emphasis on the integration of new technologies.

Inhalt

Series Introduction (Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova); ; Volume Introduction (Veronika Tzankova and Michael Filimowicz); ; Chapter 1 Reimagining Semiotics in Communication; Chapter 2 Hermeneutics; ; Chapter 3 Paralanguage (The Cracked Lookingglass of a Servant, or the Uses, Virtues, and Value of Liminality) ; ; Chapter 4 Corpus-methodology and discursive conceptualizations of depression; Chapter 5 Communication in Critical Theory (Frankfurt School); Chapter 6 Reimagining communication in mediated participatory culture: An emerging framework; ; Chapter 7 Global Culture ; Chapter 8 Cultural Hybridity, or Hyperreality in K-pop Female Idols?: Toward Critical, Explanatory Approaches to Cultural Assemblage in Neoliberal Culture Industry; ; Chapter 9 Postcolonial Scholarship and Communication: Applications for Understanding Conceptions of the Immigrant Today; ; ; Chapter 10 Cyberhate, Communication, And Transdisciplinarity; ; Chapter 11 Political Economy of Communication: The Critical Analysis of the Media's Economic Structures; ; ; Chapter 12 The Propaganda Machine: Social Media Bias and the Future of Democracy ; ; Chapter 13 From Fans to Followers to Anti-Fans: Young Online Audiences of Microcelebrities; ; Chapter 14 Reimagining Media Education: Technology Education as a Key Component of Critical Media Education in the Digital Era; Chapter 15 From Media Ecology to Media Evolution: Towards a Long-Term Theory of Media Change; Chapter 16 Media Psychology