Communication Yearbook 32

Communication Yearbook 32 continues the tradition of publishing rich, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews. This volume offers insightful descriptions of communication research as well as reflections on the implications of those findings for other areas of the discipline. Editor Christina S. Beck presents a volume with diverse chapters from scholars across the globe, including the United States, Australia, and the Netherlands.This volume features reviews of literature on social construction, resistance, critical and interpretive research, meanings of work, virtual teaming, terrorism, whiteness, media literacy, and supportive messages. Although varied in content areas, these chapters underscore the constitutive, consequential, and, often, empowering nature of communication. This volume will be valuable to scholars across the communication discipline. Communication Yearbook 32 will be particularly beneficial to scholars in the areas of interpersonal, health, group, organizational, and intercultural communication; language and social interaction, rhetoric, and media studies.Beck, Christina S. is the author of 'Communication Yearbook 32', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415988599 and ISBN 0415988594.