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Congratulations to Kevin Barnhurst who is now the new Chair of Communication in the Digital Era at U of Leeds.
Strategic Communication Assistant Professor Jason Del Gandio of the School of Media and Communication at Temple U in Philadelphia, Pa., was interviewed by Nicole Radzievich of the (Allentown) Morning Call newspaper (“Penn State Trustee Campaign Heats Up,” 8 April 2013, p. A1). Prof. Del Gandio was asked to comment on the advocacy efforts of Penn State alumni in the wake of the Jerry Sanduksy scandal.
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NEW BOOK: Mediation and Social Movements
Mediation and Protest Movements
Edited by Bart Cammaerts, Alice Mattoni, and Patrick McCurdy
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4917/
Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread. Correcting that imbalance, Mediation and Protest Movements explores the nature of the relationship between protest movements, media representation, and communication strategies and tactics. By covering online and offline contexts, as well as mainstream and alternative media, Mediation and Protest Movements bridges the gap between social-movement theory and media and communication studies, making this an important text for students and scholars of the media and social change.
Foreword: Peter Dahlgren
Introduction: Mediation and protest movements Bart Cammearts, Alice Mattoni and Patrick McCurdy
Chapter 1: Bridging research on democracy, social movements and communication Donatella della Porta
Chapter 2: Repertoires of communication in social movement processes Alice Mattoni
Chapter 3: Mediation, practice and lay theories of news media Patrick McCurdy
Chapter 4: Internet cultures and protest movements: the cultural links between strategy, organizing and online communication Anastasia Kavada
Chapter 5: Transmedia Mobilization in the Popular Association of the Oaacan Peoples, Los Angeles Sasha Costanza-Chock
Chapter 6: Mediated Nonviolence as a global force: an historical perspective Sean Scalmer
Chapter 7: Walk, talk, fax, or tweet: reconstructing media-movement interactions through group history telling Charlotte Ryan, Karen Jeffreys, Taylor Ellowitz and Jim Ryczek
Chapter 8: Calling for confrontational action in online social media: Video activism as auto-communication Julie Uldam and Tina Askanius
Chapter 9: Activist's communication in a post-disaster zone: cross-media strategies for protest mobilization in L'Aquila, Italy Cinzia Padovani
Chapter 10: Imagining Heiligendamm: Visual struggles and the G8 summit 2007 Simon Teune
Chapter 11: Social movements, contentious politics and media in the Philippines Lisa Brooten
Conclusion: Protest movements and their media usages Dieter Rucht
Handbook of Communication History
The Handbook of Communication History has just been published by Routledge (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415892605). Panoramic in scope and pluralistic in approach, it addresses modes of communication from conversation to music, old and new media, the communicative development of social practices and institutions (e.g., the city, labor, war, gender), and comparative history across cultural traditions and world regions. Embracing social, cultural, intellectual, technological, institutional, and policy history, the volume covers both well-established and emergent fields of historical study and casts them in global perspective. With chapters on the history of rhetoric, media, journalism, and a range of communication practices, ideas, and academic fields, the volume draws together topics and literatures traditionally separated from one another. It also makes a case for historical research and thinking in areas of communication research that have mostly focused on the present, such as organizational communication. Edited by Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T. Craig, and John P. Jackson, Jr., The Handbook of Communication History is available for preview on Google Books. The Routledge page includes a link to recommend purchase by libraries.
NEW BOOK
Robichaud, D. and Cooren, F. (Eds.) (2013). Organization and Organizing. Materiality, Agency, and Discourse. New York and London: Routledge.
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415529310/
CONTENT
Introduction: The Need for New Materials in the Constitution of Organization
DANIEL ROBICHAUD AND FRANÇOIS COOREN
Organizations as Obstacles to Organizing
BARBARA CZARNIAWSKA
Dialectics, Contradictions, and the Question of Agency: A Tribute to James R. Taylor LINDA L. PUTNAM
“What’s the Story?” Organizing As a Mode of Existence
BRUNO LATOUR
Organization as Chaosmos
HARIDIMOS TSOUKAS
Organizations as Entitative Beings: Some Ontological Implications of Communicative Constitution
ANNE MAYDAN NICOTERA
What Is an Organization? Or: Is James Taylor a Buddhist?
BORIS H.J.M. BRUMMANS
Activity Coordination and the Montreal School
ROBERT MCPHEE AND JOEL O. IVERSON
Spacing Organization: Or How to Be Here and Here at the Same Time
CONSUELO VÁSQUEZ
Restructuring Identity through Sectorial Narratives
ISABELLE PIETTE
Organization by Debate: Exploring the Connections between Rhetorical Argument and Organizing
MATHIEU CHAPUT
Constituting the Temporary Organization: Documents in the Context of Projects
VIVIANE SERGI
Organizational Communication at the Crossroads
JAMES R. TAYLOR
