Table of Contents

Introduction to Volume One
Paradigm Issues
Essays
Paradigms Lost and Regained - Karl Erik Rosengren
Ideology and Communication Theory - Stuart Hall
The Orthodox Consensus and the Emerging Synthesis - Anthony Giddens
The Ethics of Constructing Communication - Klaus Krippendorff
Communication as a Practical Discipline - Robert T Craig
Commentaries
Communication Studies - Samuel L Becker
Visions of the Future
Back to the Future - Charles R Berger
Paradigm Monologues Revisited
On `Communication as a Practical Discipline′ - Ernest G Bormann
Remaking Communication Inquiry - Joseph N Cappella
On Paradigmatic Productivity - Richard F Carter
Normativity as Catalyst - Clifford G Christians
Re-Placing Oxymorons - Celeste M Condit
Instituting Communication Studies
Paradigm Dialogue in Communication Theory - Farrel Corcoran
Identifying the Dividing Lines
Must Gender Paradigms Shift for Themselves? - Caren J Deming
Paradigm Dialogues - Wimal Dissanayake
A Europocentric Universe of Discourse
Representations of Power - John Fiske
Paradigms and Politics
A Non-Western View on the Paradigm Dialogues - Youichi Ito
Paradigm Dialogues - Karol Jakubowicz
Navel-Gazing or Bridge-Building
Paradigms Lost? - Hans Mathias Kepplinger
Paradigm Dialogues - Gerald R Miller
Brief Thoughts on an Unexplored Theme
Power and Paradigms - Deane Neubauer
Communication Theory and Practical Knowledge - Daniel J O′Keefe
What Communicators Don′t Know Can Help Them
On the Potential for Eloquence in Communication Among Theorists - W Barnett Pearce
Communication Paradigm Dialogues - Gertrude J Robinson
Their Place in the History of Science Debate
Communication - Everett M Rogers
A Field of Isolated Islands of Thought?
Language in Search of Dialogue - Jorge Reina Schement
Apres le Deluge - Jan Servaes
Social Structure/Class in the Communication Paradigm - Federico A Subervi-Velez
Some Specifications Please
Communication Theory for the Twenty-First Century - Philip C Wander
Paradigm Epilogues - C Charles Whitney

About the Author

Dr. Wartella is Professor of Communication Studies and of Psychology at Northwestern University. Ellen is a leading scholar of the role of media in children′s development. Currently she is a co-principal investigator on a 5-year multi-site research project entitled: "IRADS Collaborative Research: Influence of Digital Media on Very Young Children" funded by the National Science Foundation (2006-2011).