[ecrea] New book: 'Communication theories in a multicultural world'

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Christians, Clifford / Nordenstreng, Kaarle (eds.) Communication 
Theories in a Multicultural World
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 
2014. 325 pp., num. ill. Intersections in Communications and Culture: 
Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol. 31 General 
Editors: Cameron McCarthy and Angharad N. Valdivia

Print: ISBN  978-1-4331-2305-4  pb.  (Softcover) SFR 40.00 / €* 35.30 / 
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Book synopsis This volume is an up-to-date account of communication 
theories from around the world. Authored by a group of eminent scholars, 
each chapter is a history and state-of-the-art description of the major 
issues in international communication theory. While the book draws on an 
understanding of communication theory as a product of its 
socio-political and cultural context, and the challenges posed by that 
context, it also highlights each author’s lifetime effort to critique 
the existing trends in communication theory and bring out the very best 
in each multicultural context.

Contents: Kaarle Nordenstreng: Preface: Toward a Better World – Robert 
A. White: Keeping the Public Sphere(s) Public – Brenda Dervin/ Peter 
Shields: Talking Communicatively About Mass Communication in 
Communication Theories: Beyond Multiplicity, Toward Communicating – 
Denis McQuail: Social Scientific Theory of Communication Encounters 
Normativity: A Personal Memoir – Janet Wasko: Understanding the Critical 
Political Economy of the Media – Peter Golding/Karen Williamson: Power, 
Inequality, and Citizenship: The Enduring Importance of the Political 
Economy of Communications – Roger Bromley: Cultural Studies: Dialogue, 
Continuity, and Change – Michael Real/David Black: A Mutually 
Radicalizing Relationship: Communication Theory and Cultural Studies in 
the United States – Jesús Martin-Barbero: Thinking Communication in 
Latin America – Joseph Oládèjo Fáníran: Toward a Theory of African 
Communication – Keval J. Kumar: Theorizing About Communication in India: 
Sadharanikaran, Rasa, and Other Traditions in Rhetoric and Aesthetics – 
Thomas Tufte: Voice, Citizenship, and Civic Action: Challenges to 
Participatory Communication – Stewart M. Hoover: Media, Culture, and the 
Imagination of Religion – Pradip N. Thomas: Theorizing Development, 
Communication, and Social Change – Cees J. Hamelink: Human Rights and 
Communication: Reflections on a Challenging Relationship – Ruth 
Teer-Tomaselli/Keyan G. Tomaselli: Struggle, Vatican II, and Development 
Communication Practice – Paul A. Soukup, SJ: Media Ecology – Theodore L. 
Glasser/Isabel Awad: Journalism, Multiculturalism, and the Struggle for 
Solidarity – Clifford G. Christians: Media Ethics in Transnational, 
Gender Inclusive, and Multicultural Terms.

About the author(s)/editor(s) Clifford Christians is Research Professor 
of Communications and Professor of Journalism Emeritus at the University 
of Illinois-Urbana. Kaarle Nordenstreng is Professor Emeritus of 
Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere, Finland.


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