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The book purports to mediate between various culturally determined profiles of the discipline of Communication Studies. While it directs the reader's attention to landmark American texts in intercultural communication, it also signals the potential to make reading a relational praxis, thus writing a way out of the disciplinary meta-narratives of identification. Through its focus on studies which employ critical or (auto)ethnographic methods, the book represents a mediator of cultural meanings. Its unique approach resides in the offering of a personal incursion through the texts under scrutiny, which allows the reader a pathway, a practical orientation towards criticism in general, and the appropriate means to perform it.

Introduction: a brief history of the National Communication Association / Pat J. Gehrke & William M. Keith -- 1. Discovering communication: five turns toward discipline and association / J. Michael Sproule -- 2. Paying lip service to "speech" in disciplinary naming, 1914-1954 / Gerry Philipsen -- 3. The silencing of speech in the late 20th century / Joshua Gunn & Frank E.X. Dance -- 4. Epistemological movements in the field of communication : an analysis of empirical and rhetorical/critical scholarship / James A. Anderson & Michael K. Middleton -- 5. The scholarly communication of communication scholars : centennial trends in a surging conversation / Timothy D. Stephen -- 6. Sexing communication : hearing, feeling, remembering sex/gender and sexuality in NCA / Charles E. Morris III & Catherine Helen Palczewski -- 7. Liberalism and its discontents : black rhetoric and the cultural transformation of rhetorical studies in the 20th century / Reynoldo Anderson, Marnel Niles Goins, & Sheena Howard -- 8. A critical history of the "live" body in performance within the National Communication Association / Tracy Stephenson Shaffer, John M. Allison Jr., & Ronald J. Pelias -- 9. Listening research in the communication discipline / David Beard & Graham Bodie -- 10. Conceptualizing meaning in communication studies / Brian I.Ott & Mary Domenico -- 11. Communicative meeting : from pangloss to tenacious hope / Ronald C. Arnett -- Afterword: whats next?

The Turn Towards Doing African Media and Communication Studies in the Pluriverse / Winston Mano and viola c. milton -- Afrokology: Theorising African Media and Communication Studies / Winston Mano and viola c. milton -- Return to the source: Frantz Fanon, Ng¿♭g♯♭ wa Thiong'o, and African media and communication studies / Pier Paolo Frassinelli -- Rethinking African Strategic Communication: Towards a new violence / -- Colin Chasi -- Afrokology and organisational culture: why employees are not behaving as predicted / Elnerine Greeff -- To be or not to be: Decolonising African Media/Communications / Kehbuma Langmia -- Communicating the idea of South Africa / Blessed Ngwenya -- Decolonising communication and media studies: An exploratory reading of views on curricula from around the world / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Colin Chasi -- Africa on demand:The production and distribution of African narratives through podcasting / Rachel Lara Watson -- The African novel as a global form of communication: African writers on the world stage - Africa's soft power / Mary-Jean Nleya -- Citizen Journalism and Conflict transformation in Africa: Kenyan Netizen' digitized shaping of Kenya's political crises / Toyin Ajao -- Ghetto 'wall-standing': counterhegemonic graffiti in Zimbabwe / Hugh Mangeya -- "Arab Spring" or Arab Winter: Social Media and 21 century Slave Trade in Libya / Kehbuma Langmia; Ashley Lewis & Shamilla Amulega -- The making of an African Media Institution: On Memory and the Airwaves / -- Siyasanga M. Tyali -- Not just benevolent bystanders: The corrosive role of private sector media on the sustainability of public service broadcasting in South Africa / Kate Skinner -- Health Communication in Africa / Elizabeth Lubinga -- The politics of identity, trauma, memory, and decolonisation in Neill Blomkamp's "Chappie" (2015) / Beschara Karam -- Nollywood as Decoloniality / Ikechukwu Obiaya -- Afrokology as a Transdisciplinary Approach to Media and Communication Studies / viola c. milton and Winston Mano.

This article focuses on interdisciplinarity as a "future field" and what it means for the communication discipline. It argues that, whereas interdisciplinarity has the potential to produce "high-risk, high-reward" research outcomes, communication studies has more to gain refining the vast body of knowledge that has shaped its conceptual and institutional particularities across time and space. Whereas this argument is not anything new, I contribute to these debates by emphasizing anthropological questioning, epistemological formulations, ethical reasoning, and the quest for meaning as potential modalities of consolidating the epistemic and political views that have guided the intellectual impetus of communication studies. The proposed refinement is predicated on the assumption that communication studies is already a boundary-crossing discipline; the very reason it arguably lacks coherent historical roots and scientific rationality. The article contributes to the debates on how to operationalize communication studies as a scientific domain without losing its unique boundary-crossing appeal.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- PART I Big picture considerations: decolonising media and communication studies education in sub-Saharan Africa -- 1 Connecting the dots: decolonising communication and media studies teaching and learning in sub-Saharan Africa -- 2 Towards centring African languages in media and communication courses in postsecondary institutions in Africa -- PART II Rethinking classrooms: implications for students, instructors, and instruction -- 3 Decolonising and reimagining instructor-student relationships in a communication and media studies fourth-level seminar -- 4 De-Westernisation and de-sacralisation as imperatives for the decolonisation of cinema teaching in sub-Saharan Africa -- 5 Decolonising from the margins to the centre: Ghanaian communication classrooms in perspective -- PART III Reflections on curricula and syllabi: possibilities and impossibilities -- 6 Reflections on a decolonised communication and media studies curriculum -- 7 Towards a decolonised human, university, and curriculum: some critical notes -- 8 'An-Other'-centred film curricula: decolonising film studies in Africa -- 9 Decolonising the curricula and the space in Africa: an interdisciplinary approach -- 10 Should curricula be the same? Towards media studies curriculum reforms in Kenya -- 11 Decolonisation deferred? An analysis of the Education 5.0 doctrine, the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education-approved media and communication curriculum and selected writings by Zimbabwean media academics -- 12 Proposals for a decolonised course outline for a theories and methods course in communication and media studies -- 13 Reformatting and decolonising postsecondary educational priorities in South Africa in view of COVID-19 -- PART IV Beyond classrooms.

This article documents a conversation between us that was first published in parallel on our two blogs http://dwmw.wordpress.com and http://fuchs.uti.at/blog. The conversation deals with our assessments of the status of Critical Media and Communication Studies today. We discuss the work of Dallas Smythe, how to study and assess Google, research dimensions of Critical Political Economy of the Media, how important each of these dimensions should be, the role of ideology critique for Critical Political Economy of the Media, the commonalities and differences between Political Economies of the Media and Critical Political Economy of the Media/Critique of the Political Economy of the Media, the role of Karl Marx for Political Economies of the Media, Nicholas Garnham's recent comments on the field of Critical Political Economy of the Media, neoliberalism and capitalist crisis as contexts for Political Economies of the Media. Comments are very welcome on our blogs, URLs to the specific blog postings can be found in the article sections

This article documents a conversation between us that was first published in parallel on our two blogs http://dwmw.wordpress.com and http://fuchs.uti.at/blog. The conversation deals with our assessments of the status of Critical Media and Communication Studies today. We discuss the work of Dallas Smythe, how to study and assess Google, research dimensions of Critical Political Economy of the Media, how important each of these dimensions should be, the role of ideology critique for Critical Political Economy of the Media, the commonalities and differences between Political Economies of the Media and Critical Political Economy of the Media/Critique of the Political Economy of the Media, the role of Karl Marx for Political Economies of the Media, Nicholas Garnham's recent comments on the field of Critical Political Economy of the Media, neoliberalism and capitalist crisis as contexts for Political Economies of the Media. (Publisher summary)

Cover -- Table of contents -- The Pandemic Theme Depicted in the Novels: Being Able to Look at the Plague from the Communication Viewpoint -- Introduction -- Evaluation of the Text -- Description of the City -- Social Structure -- The Emergence and Naming of the Outbreak -- Media -- Management -- Public Opinion -- Religion -- Conclusion -- References -- The Use of Personalization Algorithms on Social Networks: Hazards of Living in a "Filter Bubble" During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Introduction -- Social Media Intermediaries as Digital Gatekeepers -- The Personalization Approach -- The Filter Bubble Hypothesis -- The Echo Chamber Effect Hypothesis -- Hazards of Filter Bubbles in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Disseminating Fake News during the COVID-19 Outbreak -- Manipulating People's Awareness and Thoughts on the COVID-19 Disease -- Biased Views on COVID-19 Caused by "Selective-Exposure Effect" -- Improving Media Literacy to Deal with the Filter Bubble -- Conclusion -- References -- COVID-19 and Political Communication -- Introduction -- 1. Development of Political Communication and the Change of Political Communication Tools in Turkey -- 3. COVID-19 Pandemic Period and Political Communication -- Conclusion -- References -- Leader of the Masses and Leader in Self-Isolation: What the Way Trump and Putin Present Themselves in Photos Say about Their Leadership during the Pandemic? -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Visual Self-Presentation of Leaders -- Analyzing Visuals -- Methodology -- Contrasting Image of Trump and Putin during COVID-19 -- Leader of Masses: Trump -- Attending Events and Social Distancing -- Campaign Rallies and Interaction with the Masses -- Wearing Mask -- Leader of Self-Isolation: Putin -- Virtual Meetings -- Attending Events and Interaction with Officials -- Interaction with Ordinary People -- Wearing Mask.

The book deals with some of the changes that have emerged in the field of communication with the Cronavirus epidemic and evaluates their reflections on the following topics and It is aimed that all the issues discussed will contribute to the process and those who are interested in the subject.

This article explores how the internet is being studied and conceived of as a sacramental space. The internet as sacramental space demonstrates how religious users see the internet as a viable place for presenting their beliefs and practices. In order to understand this model, several other dominant conceptions of the internet are offered: information space, a common mental geography, an identity workshop and a social space. Each of these accents a specific use of the internet. The internet as sacramental space is further investigated by considering several typologies of online spiritual communities emerging from a recent online community study. Each typology highlights how the internet as sacramental space encompasses traits of the previously stated models and illustrates how the internet is used as a spiritual tool, religious identity, a space for personal spiritual pursuits and a social spiritual support sphere. A survey of current CMC research on religion is also presented.

In Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication Studies in the Asia Pacific, Leong Ko and Ping Chen provide a comprehensive and in-depth account of various issues encountered in translation and interpreting activities and cross-cultural communication in the Asia Pacific

Speaking from the viewpoint of Communicatio (1975–) and other South African communication journals this contribution highlights three trends: lack of control over – and concerns with – media representation; a move from a sense of being in Africa not from Africa to 'I am a African'; and increased efforts to understand how internationalising processes play out in specific contexts not just read from trends in the media-saturated North.Trends in research are towards asking difficult questions and moving beyond complaint to effecting social betterment. South Africa's isolation in the African continent is giving way to reappropriating the idea of Africanization from misuse and looking at Africology in relation to global processes and to theorising from clearly articulated African positions. Activist perspectives in media studies are looking to practices geared to resistance and promotion of social change through highly specific tactical interventions at a time when the Media Appeals Tribunal and the Secrecy Bill in South Africa have both led to fears of a return to apartheid–era-type control. Journalist registration and suppression and the promotion of sunshine journalism have provoked an appeal not to Western values but universal values of freedom but with a recognition that these cannot be applied identically in different contexts.