Practicing Communication Theory
Exploring, Applying, and Teaching the Constitutive Metamodel (First Edition)
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In 1999, Robert T. Craig published the article “Communication theory as a field” and argued that the field of communication theory ought to be viewed as a practical discipline.
In Practicing Communication Theory: Exploring, Applying, and Teaching the Constitutive Metamodel, editors Marc Howard Rich and Jessica S. Robles expand upon Craig’s seminal contribution by assembling diverse and learned voices of international communication scholars to explore the practical, theoretical, and pedagogical implications of Craig’s work.
The chapters demonstrate how communication is practiced in the world and how scholars have incorporated Craig’s theories into the classroom. Contributors share their experiences redefining, reworking, and complicating traditions of communication. Additional chapters focus on the international community and explore ways communication theory is practiced worldwide.
The closing chapter, written by Craig, responds to the various perspectives presented throughout the book and provides new ideas and insight to further contribute to ongoing conversations about practicing communication theory.
Demonstrating the practical nature of the communication discipline, Practicing Communication Theory is an excellent book for scholars in the field and for graduate courses in communication theory.
Chapters and contributors include:
Chapter 1: State of the Field: A History of the Question - Marc Howard Rich and Jessica S. Robles
Chapter 2: A Quantitative Map of the Metamodel’s Traditions - Andrew M. Ledbetter
Chapter 3: A Matrix for Democracy and Pluralism - Leonarda García Jiménez
Chapter 4: Minding the Field Metaphor - Andrew J. Harris
Chapter 5: Craig’s Metamodel and Undergraduate Communication Pedagogy - Mark Allan Steiner
Chapter 6: Engaging Craig’s Metamodel in the Spirit of Dialectical Dialogue - Heidi L. Muller
Chapter 7: Resolving East-West Rifts in Craig’s Metamodel - Shelton A. Gunaratne
Chapter 8: Communication as a Practical Discipline in Russia - Olga M. Matyash
Chapter 9: Humanist Limits of Craig’s Communication Theory - Kęstas Kirtiklis
Chapter 10: Response - Robert T. Craig
In Practicing Communication Theory: Exploring, Applying, and Teaching the Constitutive Metamodel, editors Marc Howard Rich and Jessica S. Robles expand upon Craig’s seminal contribution by assembling diverse and learned voices of international communication scholars to explore the practical, theoretical, and pedagogical implications of Craig’s work.
The chapters demonstrate how communication is practiced in the world and how scholars have incorporated Craig’s theories into the classroom. Contributors share their experiences redefining, reworking, and complicating traditions of communication. Additional chapters focus on the international community and explore ways communication theory is practiced worldwide.
The closing chapter, written by Craig, responds to the various perspectives presented throughout the book and provides new ideas and insight to further contribute to ongoing conversations about practicing communication theory.
Demonstrating the practical nature of the communication discipline, Practicing Communication Theory is an excellent book for scholars in the field and for graduate courses in communication theory.
Chapters and contributors include:
Chapter 1: State of the Field: A History of the Question - Marc Howard Rich and Jessica S. Robles
Chapter 2: A Quantitative Map of the Metamodel’s Traditions - Andrew M. Ledbetter
Chapter 3: A Matrix for Democracy and Pluralism - Leonarda García Jiménez
Chapter 4: Minding the Field Metaphor - Andrew J. Harris
Chapter 5: Craig’s Metamodel and Undergraduate Communication Pedagogy - Mark Allan Steiner
Chapter 6: Engaging Craig’s Metamodel in the Spirit of Dialectical Dialogue - Heidi L. Muller
Chapter 7: Resolving East-West Rifts in Craig’s Metamodel - Shelton A. Gunaratne
Chapter 8: Communication as a Practical Discipline in Russia - Olga M. Matyash
Chapter 9: Humanist Limits of Craig’s Communication Theory - Kęstas Kirtiklis
Chapter 10: Response - Robert T. Craig
Marc Howard Rich (Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder) is a critical rhetorician who studied communication theory under Robert T. Craig. He is currently an associate professor and chair of the department of English at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, India, where he teaches courses related to communication theory, the practice of communication and persuasion, critical theory, and rhetoric.
Jessica S. Robles (Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder) is a lecturer in social psychology, a scholar in language and social interaction, and teaches courses related to language, interaction, culture, and identity in communication and media, as well as psychology, at Loughborough University, UK. Her work examines interactionally, relationally, and culturally situated morality as a communicative practice.
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