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Theories help to troubleshoot gaps in our understanding, and to
make sense of a world that is constantly changing. What this book
tries to do, in part, is blur the lines between the differences
between today's college students - the millennial generation - and
their professors, many of whom hail from the Boom Generation and
Generation X. In the following chapters, contributors build upon
what both parties already know. Writing in a highly accessible yet
compelling style, contributors explain communication theories by
applying them to "artifacts" of popular culture. These "artifacts"
include Lady Gaga, Pixar films, The Hunger Games, hip hop, Breaking
Bad, and zombies, among others. Using this book, students will
become familiar with key theories in communication while developing
creative and critical thinking. By experiencing familiar popular
culture artifacts through the lens of critical and interpretive
theories, a new generation of communication professionals and
scholars will hone their skills of observation and interpretation -
pointing not just toward better communication production, but
better social understanding. Professors will especially enjoy the
opportunities for discussion this book provides, both through the
essays and the "dialogue boxes" where college students provide
responses to authors' ideas.
Theories help to troubleshoot gaps in our understanding, and to
make sense of a world that is constantly changing. What this book
tries to do, in part, is blur the lines between the differences
between today's college students - the millennial generation - and
their professors, many of whom hail from the Boom Generation and
Generation X. In the following chapters, contributors build upon
what both parties already know. Writing in a highly accessible yet
compelling style, contributors explain communication theories by
applying them to "artifacts" of popular culture. These "artifacts"
include Lady Gaga, Pixar films, The Hunger Games, hip hop, Breaking
Bad, and zombies, among others. Using this book, students will
become familiar with key theories in communication while developing
creative and critical thinking. By experiencing familiar popular
culture artifacts through the lens of critical and interpretive
theories, a new generation of communication professionals and
scholars will hone their skills of observation and interpretation -
pointing not just toward better communication production, but
better social understanding. Professors will especially enjoy the
opportunities for discussion this book provides, both through the
essays and the "dialogue boxes" where college students provide
responses to authors' ideas.
This volume occasions a dialogue between major authors in the field
who engage in a conversation on cosmopolitanism and provinciality
from a communication ethics perspective. There is no consensus on
what constitutes communication ethics, cosmopolitanism, or
provinciality: the task is more modest and diverse and began with
contributors being asked what the bias of their work suggests or
offers for understanding the theme Communication Ethics: Between
Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality. Rather than responding
authoritatively, each essay acknowledges the contributor's own
work. This book offers no answers, but invites a conversation that
is more akin to a beginning, a joining, an admission that there is
more than "me," "us," or "my kind" of people, theory, or wisdom.
The book will be an excellent resource for instructors and for
upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in communication.
Roberts argues that identity and the history of alterity in the
West can be understood more clearly through narrative motifs. She
provides analyses of these motifs, including infanticide,
universalism, the Tower of Bbael, the warrior Other, the noble
savage entropology, and the trickster.
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