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We compare a number of influential approaches to human communication with the aim of understanding what it means for interpersonal communication to be a form of social action. In particular, we discuss the large-scale social normativity advocated by speech act theory, the view of communication as small-scale social interaction proper of Gricean approaches, and the intimate connection between communication and cooperation defended by Tomasello. We then argue in favor of a small-scale view of communication capable of accounting for the normative effects of communicative acts; to this purpose, we introduce the concept of interpersonal normativity and analyze its relationship with communicative intentions.

If an individual can possess or be possessed by some particular type of ethos, then why not a group? This article defines, and empirically supports with case studies, three modes of group ethos that are culturally available to work groups in modern organizational settings. Each mode is associated with a particular communication style. The three group ethos modes are (a) pluralistic, associated with a pragmatic style of communication; (b) social movement, which communicates via protest; and (c) administrative-technical, which manifests via a prescriptive communication style. Characteristic communication strengths, weaknesses, and management problems are associated with each mode. The ethos mode will explicitly inform group communication and rhetoric and hence can be reliably inferred by observers. Group effectiveness problems are often attributable to groups entrained by their own ethos or to clashes of groups of differing ethos. Hybridism of modes is possible and may offer advantages in effectiveness.

Reimagining activism as combative / Billie Murray -- Mobile phones use in an Arab context : blending modernity and tradition / Mustafa Taha -- Government policy, communication and (affective) governmentality / Carl Jon Way Ng -- Data ethics : a survey of key debates and essential principles / Joe Cruz and Patrick Lee Plaisance -- Encryption and hacking : cyphers, hacks and attacks on the digital frontier / Jan H. Samoriski -- A critical re-visioning of networked power in photojournalism praxis / Tara-Lynne Pixley -- White noise, mixed signals, strategic chaos, and the roar of the bewildered herd / Brian Gorman -- Transmedia / Raul Rodríguez-Ferrándiz -- Machine translation, language learning and the 'knowledge economy' : from economic discourses to education in action / Vanessa Enríquez Raído, Marina Sánchez Torrón -- Design / Rune Pettersson, Maria D. Avgerinou -- Media production in the age of internet media : digitisation, mediation, co-creation / Hart Cohen -- An economic, social and cultural approach to prosumption : music and sound as parodic tools on YouTube meme videos / Candelaria Sánchez Olmos, Eduardo Viñuela -- Collaboration models in online fiction-writing communities / Alan Tapscott, Joaquim Colàs, Josep Blat -- Culture industries / Derek Johnson -- Reimagining digital humanities : today's trends, tomorrow's promises / Amanda C. R. Clark -- Cochlear implants and sign language in Australia : why the deaf community must embrace nonsigning implant recipients / Belinda Barnet, Rachael McDonald, Simone Taffe, Jordy Kaufman -- Familiar avenues and paths less traveled : reimagining organizational crisis communication / Timothy Coombs -- Cyber war and militarization of communication / Oswelled Ureke -- Invitations to participation : how immersive presentations and emotional displays promote political involvement / Erik P. Bucy.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Introduction: Voices of Resistance -- Chapter Two Resisting Global Economic Policies -- Chapter Three Agriculture: Voices of Resistance -- Chapter Four Resistance, Social Change, and the Environment -- Chapter Five Social Change and Politics -- Chapter Six Resistance, Development, and Social Change -- Chapter Seven Epilogue: Voices in Motion -- References -- Index.

"As engagement becomes a trendy academic buzzword, we need sustained examinations of what this might mean in practice. This book investigates and models what writing studies scholars have found, both positive and negative, as they use writing to engage with and, ideally, better the communities in which they work"...

Communication for Social Change: Context, Social Movements and the Digital is a critical introduction to communication for social change (CSC) theory. The book presents refreshingly new perspectives and specifically makes the case for CSC theory to factor in context, leanings from social movements and a critique of the digital technology. This book offers perspectives on the historical continuities within this field of study along with the departures that have been hastened and shaped by confluences between ideas and practice as well as by digital technology and social movements. It introduces readers to a raft of new theorists of CSC and puts forth new thinking, new ideas, and a new basis for theorisation of communication for social change.