Communication and Community

by Shepherd, Gregory J.; Rothenbuhler, Eric W.; Rothenbuhler, Eric W.; Shepherd, Gregory J.

• ISBN13: 9780805831399
• ISBN10: 0805831398
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This distinctive volume combines synthetic theoretical essays and reports of original research to address the interrelations of communication and community in a wide variety of settings. Chapters address interpersonal conversation and communal relationships; journalism organizations and political reporting; media use and community participation; communication styles and alternative organizations; and computer networks and community building; among other topics. The contents offer synthetic literature reviews, philosophical essays, reports of original research, theory development, and criticism. While varying in theoretical perspective and research focus, each of the chapters also provides its own approach to the practice of communication and community. In this way, the book provides a recurrent thematic emphasis on the pragmatic consequences of theory and research for the activities of communication and living together in communities. Taken as a whole, this collection illustrates that communication and community cannot be adequately analyzed in any context without considering other contexts, other levels of analysis, and other media and modes of communication. As such, it provides important insights for scholars, students, educators, and researchers concerned with communication across the full range of contexts, media, and modes.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I Introduction	1	(22)
Community and Communication: The Conceptual Background	3	(20)
David Depew
John Durham Peters
Part II Interpersonal Relations, Organizations, and Community	23	(134)
Community as the Interpersonal Accomplishment of Communication	25	(12)
Gregory J. Shepherd
Prosocial Bias in Theories of Interpersonal Communication Competence: Must Good Communication be Nice?	37	(16)
Carey H. Adams
Talking Community at 911: The Centrality of Communication in Coping With Emotional Labor	53	(26)
Sherianne Shuler
Feminist Organizing and the Construction of ``Alternative'' Community	79	(32)
Karen Lee Ashcraft
Community as a Means of Organizational Control	111	(24)
Loril M. Gossett
Phillip K. Tompkins
Forms of Connection and ``Severance'' in and Around the Mondragon Worker-Cooperative Complex	135	(22)
George Cheney
Part III Media, the Public, and Community	157	(114)
Revising Communication Research for Working on Community	159	(22)
Eric W. Rothenbuhler
Collective Memory as ``Time Out'': Repairing the Time-Community Link	181	(10)
Barbie Zelizer
Virtual-Online Communities: How Might New Technologies be Related to Community?	191	(10)
Howard E. Sypher
Bart Collins
Building an Electronic Community: A Town-Gown Collaboration	201	(16)
Teresa M. Harrison
James P. Zappen
Timothy Stephen
Philip Garfield
Christina Prell
Of What Use Civic Journalism: Do Newspapers Really Make a Difference in Community Participation?	217	(18)
Keith R. Stamm
The Limits of Community in Public Journalism	235	(16)
Christopher R. Martin
Why Localism? Communication Technology and the Shifting Scale of Political Community	251	(20)
Andrew Calabrese
Author Index	271	(8)
Subject Index	279