Communication : An Introduction

by Karl Erik Rosengren

• ISBN13: 9780803978379
• ISBN10: 0803978375
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-11
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Written as an introduction for beginning students, this book offers a thorough, yet lively, overview of human communication in all its aspects.Accessibly written and assuming no prior knowledge of the discipline Communication: An Introduction: offers a thorough, yet lively, examination of all aspects of human communication, including: a summary of its nature, form and function; a detailed analysis of all the levels of communication; a description and overview of the different traditions of communication studies; and a consideration of the future of communication - as a phenomenon and as a field of research.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
Preface	xi
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION	1	(26)
Communication: Elusive Phenomenon, Emergent Discipline	1	(26)
On communication	1	(1)
On science and scholarship	2	(3)
Concepts and terms, types and typologies	2	(1)
Typologies of science and scholarship	3	(2)
On society and individuals	5	(3)
Four basic approaches in the humanities and social sciences	8	(2)
The cube of humanities and social sciences	10	(6)
Communication studies located	16	(1)
Three different perspectives on communication studies	17	(1)
Theories, models and data	18	(2)
Theories and models in three traditions of communication research	20	(3)
Uses and gratifications research	21	(1)
Lifestyle research	21	(1)
Reception analysis	22	(1)
The study of communication: an historical perspective	23	(2)
On the rest of the book	25	(2)
PART TWO: FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNICATION	27	(43)
Forms and Levels of Communication: Some Elementary Distinctions	27	(26)
A communicating animal	27	(8)
On our history	27	(2)
On signs, symptoms and symbols	29	(1)
On codes and languages	30	(3)
On human language	33	(2)
Interaction and communication	35	(3)
Forms of communication	38	(6)
Verbal and non-verbal communication	38	(2)
Mediated communication	40	(1)
On the number of human languages	41	(1)
From writing to printing to computing	42	(2)
Functions and acts of human communication	44	(2)
Levels of communication	46	(2)
Patterns of communication	48	(3)
Communication between levels	51	(2)
Culture and Society, Media and Communication	53	(17)
The human group regarded as a system of three systems	53	(1)
The value system of society	54	(4)
Socialization	58	(3)
Introduction	58	(1)
The meaning of meaning	59	(1)
Agents of socialization	60	(1)
Agency and structure	61	(4)
Continuity and change	65	(5)
The rate of societal change	65	(1)
Indicators of societal change and continuity	66	(4)
PART THREE: LEVELS OF COMMUNICATION	70	(129)
Individual Communication: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal and Group Communication	70	(35)
Individuals in groups and societies	70	(4)
Introduction	70	(1)
Factors influencing individual communication	71	(3)
Intrapersonal and interpersonal communication: some preliminaries	74	(4)
Interpersonal communication	78	(8)
Introduction	78	(2)
Individual communication differentiated	80	(2)
Variation and stability in individual communication	82	(3)
Taking turns and other norms of reciprocity	85	(1)
Does the exception prove the rule?	86	(1)
Group communication	86	(7)
Introduction	86	(2)
Group structure	88	(1)
Societally institutionalized groups	89	(2)
Group leadership	91	(1)
Socialization and the family communication climate	91	(2)
Functions of group communication	93	(2)
The strength of the weak tie	95	(3)
The concept of the weak tie	95	(1)
Some functions of the weak tie	96	(2)
Mediated individual and group communication	98	(7)
Introduction	98	(1)
Telephone communication	99	(2)
Individual communication by computer	101	(4)
Organizational Communication	105	(33)
Organizations, groups and networks: an introduction	105	(4)
Some historical examples of organization and organizational communication	109	(3)
Theories and models of organization and organizational communication	112	(4)
Formal and informal organizational communication	116	(2)
Models of organization	118	(7)
Introduction	118	(1)
Three models of organization	119	(2)
`Adhocracy'	121	(3)
Academic adhocracies	124	(1)
Organizations in time and space	125	(1)
The climate of organizational communication	125	(4)
Organizations especially designed for communication	129	(2)
Research on innovation and diffusion	131	(4)
Organizations for furthering adoption and diffusion	135	(3)
The general pattern	135	(1)
Lobbying	135	(3)
Societal Communication, Mass Communication	138	(32)
Types of societies, types of communication	138	(2)
A necessary precondition	140	(1)
Media of sounds and pictures	141	(2)
From society to individual and back again	143	(6)
Different perspectives of time	143	(3)
Gate-keeping and access	146	(3)
Homogeneity and heterogeneity	149	(3)
Individual use made of mass media: quantity and quality, causes and consequences	152	(18)
The study of individual media use	152	(1)
Media use among young people - how much?	153	(5)
Relations between viewers and the content viewed	158	(5)
Effects of television viewing	163	(7)
International and Intercultural Communication	170	(29)
International and intercultural communication: an introduction	170	(3)
Ways and means of international communication	173	(2)
The origins	173	(1)
Migration in an historical perspective	173	(2)
High politics and international communication: a brave new world?	175	(3)
Peace and conflict	175	(1)
International propaganda	176	(2)
Levels of international and intercultural communication	178	(12)
On time, space and personality	178	(1)
International communication at the interpersonal level	179	(3)
International communication at the organizational level	182	(2)
International communication at the mass media level	184	(6)
International news: intra and extra media data	190	(1)
International popular culture	191	(5)
Popular culture as innovation	191	(1)
Popular music	192	(4)
Computerized international communication: the global village green?	196	(3)
PART FOUR: THE FUTURE OF COMMUNICATION	199	(7)
The Future of Communication and Communication Research	199	(7)
Some general tendencies	199	(2)
Scholarship and research in the area of computerized communication	201	(5)
References	206	(6)
Name Index	212	(2)
Subject Index	214