Communication as ...

Communication As... is a collection of 27 essays by leading thinkers in the field of communication theory. Each author in the volume has chosen a particular stance on communication and forwarded it as a primary or essential way of viewing communication with decided benefits over other views. The chapters in the book are brief, argumentative, and forceful; together they explore the wide range of theorizing about communication, cutting across all lines of traditional divisions in the field.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Making
1. Relationality - Celeste M. Condit
2. Ritual - Eric W. Rothenbuhler
3. Transcendence - Gregory J. Shepherd
4. Constructive - Katherine Miller
5. A Practice - Robert T. Craig
Part II: Materializing
6. Collective Memory - Carole Blair
7. Vision - Cara A. Finnegan
8. Embodiment - Carolyn Marvin
9. Raced - Judith N. Martin & Thomas K. Nakayama
10. Social Identity - Jake Harwood
11. Techne - Jonathan Sterne
Part III: Contextualizing
12. Dialogue - Leslie A. Baxter
13. Autoethnography - Arthur P. Bochner & Carolyn S. Ellis
14. Storytelling - Eric E. Peterson & Kristin M. Langellier
15. Complex Organizing - James R. Taylor
16. Structuring - David R. Seibold & Karen Kroman Myers
Part IV: Politicizing
17. Political Participation - Todd Kelshaw
18. Deliberation - John Gastil
19. Diffusion - James W. Dearing
20. Social Influence - Frank Boster
21. Rational Argument - Robert C. Rowland
22. Counterpublic - Daniel C. Brouwer
Part V: Questioning
23. Dissemination - John Durham Peters
24. Articulation - Jennifer Daryl Slack
25. Translation - Ted Striphas
26. Communicability - Briankle G. Chang
27. Failure - Jeffrey St. John
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors