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Grounded in media studies, this chapter discusses how different minority languages are served by the media in various contexts. It specifically addresses how the needs of minority language speakers are fulfilled by the media in different languages. A pertinent issue in this context is how users of minority languages consume media in various languages in the emerging digital media ecosystem. Our focus on minority languages can contribute to many aspects of research on language contact, such as issues of language conflict, ethodologies useful for studying language contact, language standardization, language shift, and language planning, policy, and politics. This focus is particularly interesting, as minority language speakers often have more varied language skills and needs (which they fulfill through their daily media habits) than the 'average' mainstream media consumer. Furthermore, minority languages tend to be more threatened than nurtured by the media, as a result of varied and asymmetric language contacts. ; Peer reviewed

SENIOR THESIS - Communication Studies, Spring 2002 Laura Veazey. Deborah Tannen Meets Walt Disney: A Study of Gender Communication in Animated Films. 5-03-02. 22 pgs. Bridgette Horsley [title page not included] 24 pgs. Athena Oliff. Do You See What I am Saying? A Study of Meaning in Signs. May 5, 2002. 20 pgs. Elizabeth Rose Hadrys. Excercising the Lungs and the Hands of Justice Amending the Constitution Through the Rights of Flag Burning .May 2, 2002. 20 pgs. Stephanie Ann Stevens. Bridging the Gap: A Case Study of the Effect of Popular Music/ Culture, MTV and BET. April 24, 2002. 25 pgs. Blakley Edwards Why Does American Love Reality Television. May 6, 2002. 21 pgs. David Gregory. Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood and the Concept of the Emerging Adult. May 5, 2002 22 pgs. Matthew Steven Rinker. The Centralization of Political Campaigning. Spring 2002. 27 pgs. Eric Foor. Television Violence and Perception : The Difference Between Males and Females. April 24, 2002. 22 pgs. Allyson Blake. [untitled/no title page included] Spring 2002. 20 pgs

The Health Communication major prepares students to communicate and promote positive health behaviors in professional health care settings and in health advocacy. Our students learn to design, evaluate, and implement health communication programs in a variety of professional settings. We take an interdisciplinary approach by emphasizing the intersection of strategic communication and health promotion as the foundation for educating individuals and creating healthier communities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sees health communication as fundamental to all health–related occupations. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 of the 30 fastest growing occupations are related to healthcare and health education. A sample of job titles is listed below. • Patient/ Victims Advocate • Patient Services Coordinator • Healthcare Marketing/ PR specialist • Director of Employee Health & Wellness programs • Human Resources Benefits Coordinator • Health Educator • Occupational Health Program Manager • Hospital/ Practice Administrator • Health Promotion Specialist • Community Outreach Coordinator • Lobbyist • Social Worker • Pharmaceutical Salesperson • Positions in government and social service agencies With advanced/additional degrees, health communication provides an excellent basis for careers in: • Medicine • Nursing • Health Care Law • Research • Counseling ; https://thekeep.eiu.edu/commstudies_curriculum_programs/1005/thumbnail.jpg

This contribution presents the possibilities for anthropological and neo-Marxist media within the hugely expanding sector of Chinese communication studies. China has sourced mostly from the American positivist tradition but is increasingly ­taking on board European critical thinking but it also needs to absorb some of the depth and diversity of indigenous scholarship existing in Chinese.Jia, Lu, and Heisey (2002) presented an influential meta-analysis of every ­example of communication studies in China at that time. The book chapter which talks about the rise of the discipline and scholarship of Chinese communication as an academic discipline (Jia et al., 2014) summarises some of Chinese language scholarship in Chinese and called for the creation of a humanistic tradition of Chinese and East Asia communication studies informed by indigenous perspectives and China's rich repertoire and vocabulary of concepts– face, guanxi or relations, goutong, harmony, and personhood etc.Concluding that there is a need for all parties to do research on journalism and ­communication/ media in Asia, (particularly in China) from an anthropological ­perspective, this contribution argues that Asian scholars have a responsibility to create Asian approaches to communication and media studies. The effects of global neoliberalism is now being followed by a government response in China ­characterised in part by anti-corruption campaigns and a revival in Marxist approaches. A version of media studies that takes on board all the three elements would find fertile ground in the long run, supporting a more egalitarian and just China.

This contribution presents the possibilities for anthropological and neo-Marxist media within the hugely expanding sector of Chinese communication studies. China has sourced mostly from the American positivist tradition but is increasingly ­taking on board European critical thinking but it also needs to absorb some of the depth and diversity of indigenous scholarship existing in Chinese. Jia, Lu, and Heisey (2002) presented an influential meta-analysis of every ­example of communication studies in China at that time. The book chapter which talks about the rise of the discipline and scholarship of Chinese communication as an academic discipline (Jia et al., 2014) summarises some of Chinese language scholarship in Chinese and called for the creation of a humanistic tradition of Chinese and East Asia communication studies informed by indigenous perspectives and China's rich repertoire and vocabulary of concepts– face, guanxi or relations, goutong, harmony, and personhood etc. Concluding that there is a need for all parties to do research on journalism and ­communication/ media in Asia, (particularly in China) from an anthropological ­perspective, this contribution argues that Asian scholars have a responsibility to create Asian approaches to communication and media studies. The effects of global neoliberalism is now being followed by a government response in China ­characterised in part by anti-corruption campaigns and a revival in Marxist approaches. A version of media studies that takes on board all the three elements would find fertile ground in the long run, supporting a more egalitarian and just China.

Review of Frank Bryan, Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It Works (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), xviii/320 pp. $49.00 (cloth), $19.00 (paper). Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), x/341 pp. $55.00 (cloth), $19.99 (paper). Frank Fischer, Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000), xiv/352 pp. $79.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). Bent Flyvbjerg, Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice, trans. Steven Sampson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), xiv/304 pp. $55.00 (cloth), $18.00 (paper). Kevin Howley, Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005), xiii/324 pp. $75.00 (cloth), $34.99 (paper).

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.

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)

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.

This paper proposes that communication and media studies should refocus on maintenance. Indeed, maintenance theory can help underestimated aspects of communication infrastructures emerge. First, maintenance shows the similarity of communication and transportation infrastructures, which overlap to the extent that the two fields of study can no longer be separated. Second, maintenance shows the persistence of communication infrastructures over time. Infrastructures are seldom replaced, and even more rarely closed down, new communication networks do not replace old ones, but they overlap with them. Consequently, this focus makes clear the need to study communication in longue durée or at least in long-term perspectives. Thirdly, the decision to maintain a communication network or infrastructure is a political one. Communication studies have often focused on political decisions on innovation, while maintenance offers a new way to look at centralization, delegation, sabotage to infrastructures, and the political responsibilities of making communications function. Finally, thanks to maintenance, the material dimension of communication can be more visible. This allows the integration of the new agendas of STS and of media archaeology, with the emergence of topics such as malfunctions or technical jobs, which are often considered out of the scope of communication studies

Political linguistics is a branch of linguistics on the borderline between linguistics and politology, active-ly developed in China today. It studies the regularities and strategies of the use of language in the process of political com-munication. Political communication presupposes a process of communication between the participants of political activity. Investigation of the theory and practice of political communication is important for graduate and post-graduate students, because it can facilitate better understanding, analysis and production (specifically in the process of translation into other languages) of the corresponding texts. The article dwells on the definition of political communication and its typical features (ritual and informative character; institutionalism and special personal characteristics; correlation of esotericism and free access, reductionism and holisticity of information, neutrality and expressivity, dialogue and monologue, aggression and tolerance; peculiarities of evaluation expression), as well as on the current state of political communication research devel-opment in China. In the light of theoretical aspects of consideration of language and linguocultural peculiarities, the article discusses the approaches to teaching political communication in Chinese higher education institutions. ; В статье раскрываются типичные особенности политической коммуникации. Рассматриваются подходы к преподаванию политической коммуникации в китайских вузах.

This essay provides an overview of what is currently being done in the discipline of communication studies that can advance deliberative democracy, particularly in terms of student learning, and explores how those connections could be strengthened and extended. The essay is divided into three main sections. First, a brief history of the field of communication studies is provided. Next, four questions relevant to deliberative theory and practice are introduced and the teaching and research of communication scholars that provides significant responses are examined: (1) how do we improve how citizens process information and exercise judgment?, (2) how do we best deal the differences in our increasingly diverse communities?, (3) how can we better understand the processes and outcomes of deliberation?, and (4) what are the key future directions for deliberative theory and practice? Within this section, a number of the sub-fields within communication studies that connect directly or indirectly to deliberative work are introduced. The essay concludes with a review of the limitations to these connections and a "call to action" for increased public engagement.

This chapter introduces the developments of and research on political actors called populist in the Nordic countries. The focus is on contemporary populist right-wing parties – the Sweden Democrats, the Danish People's Party, the Finns Party, and the Norwegian Progress Party – though we discuss the history of Nordic populist parties on a more general level as well. Nordic research on populism has for the most part adopted political scientific, ideational, and empirical perspectives lacking genuine theoretical considerations. However, contextual differences can be found, and sociological and cultural approaches to studying populism have been promoted of late. The perspective on populism in media and communication studies has concentrated especially on the political communication of populist actors and the relationship between the media and populism. The future challenges for Nordic populism studies are linked to changing media and political environments, requiring a new look at their relationship.

This essay provides an overview of what is currently being done in the discipline of communication studies that can advance deliberative democracy, particularly in terms of student learning, and explores how those connections could be strengthened and extended. The essay is divided into three main sections. First, a brief history of the field of communication studies is provided. Next, four questions relevant to deliberative theory and practice are introduced and the teaching and research of communication scholars that provides significant responses are examined: (1) how do we improve how citizens process information and exercise judgment?, (2) how do we best deal the differences in our increasingly diverse communities?, (3) how can we better understand the processes and outcomes of deliberation?, and (4) what are the key future directions for deliberative theory and practice? Within this section, a number of the sub-fields within communication studies that connect directly or indirectly to deliberative work are introduced. The essay concludes with a review of the limitations to these connections and a "call to action" for increased public engagement.