When Communication Became a Discipline

William F. Eadie

doi:10.5771/9781498572163

Summary

When Communication Became a Discipline argues that speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication between 1964 and 1982. They changed the names of their scholarly societies and journals and revised their academic curricula. Five “strands” of scholarship became and remain central to this transformation. Communication is not a traditional academic discipline, but its scholars convinced their colleagues to understand and embrace it. When Communication Became a Discipline presents an argument with historical evidence that illustrates scholarly creativity at its finest.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-7215-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-7216-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 184
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. References No access
1. The Speech Story No access
2. The Journalism Story No access
3. The Communication Story No access
4. References No access
1. The National Society for the Study of Communication and The Journal of Communication No access
2. Berelson’s “The State of Communication Research” No access
3. Berlo’s The Process of Communication No access
4. The Death of Carl Hovland No access
5. The Professionalization of the SAA No access
6. 1964: AEJ Revises its Constitution No access
7. 1968: SAA Hosts a Conference on Communication No access
8. 1969: NSSC Becomes ICA No access
9. 1970: SCA Sponsors the National Developmental Project on Rhetoric No access
10. 1960s and 1970s: Journals Change Names, New Journals Begin No access
11. 1975: ICA Professionalizes No access
12. 1981–1982: AEJ Professionalizes and Changes Name No access
13. Summary: 1964–1982 No access
14. References No access
1. Public Opinion No access
2. Media and Agenda Setting No access
3. Media and Cultivation No access
4. Persuasion Research and the Formation and Change of Individual Attitudes No access
5. Leading Researchers in Persuasion No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. References No access
1. Concepts of Language and Meaning No access
2. Perception and Meaning No access
3. How Meaning has Been Conceptualized No access
4. Scholarly Articles Illustrating Approaches to the Study of Communication as Language Use No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
1. Nonsystem's Approaches to Information Transmission No access
2. Characteristics of and Misconceptions about Systems in Communication Scholarship No access
3. Listening Research: An Example of Scholarship Using an Information Theory Perspective No access
4. Uses and Gratifications as an Information Processing Approach to Mass Communication No access
5. An Evolutionary Theory of Organizing No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. References No access
1. An Example of “Non-Relational” Interpersonal Communication Research No access
2. Beginnings of Relational Communication as an Alternative to Interpersonal Communication No access
3. Phase Models of Relationship Development and Decay No access
4. The Media–Audience Relationship No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
1. Intercultural Communication No access
2. Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. References No access
1. Assessments of the Disciplinary Status of Communication No access
2. Examples of Contemporary Research for each of the Five “Strands” of Scholarship in Communication No access
3. Some Reflections on the Five Historical Strands of Communication Scholarship No access
4. Communication Became a Discipline, but Did it Remain One? No access
5. References No access
Bibliography No access Pages 161 - 174
Index of Names No access Pages 175 - 178
Index of Topics No access Pages 179 - 182
About the Author No access Pages 183 - 184