Preface

Overview

PART I. COMMUNICATION REVIEWS AND COMMENTARIES

1. Media Linkages Between Culture and Other Societal Systems&Karl Erik Rosengren

2. When Majorities Talk About Minorities&Teun A. van Dijk

3. Male-Female Communication on the Job：Literature Review and Commentary&Gail T. Fairhurst

4. Criticizing Press Coverage of the War in Lebanon：Toward a Paradigm of News as Storytelling&Itzhak Roeh and Sharon Ashley

5. Communication Skills and Childhood Peer Relationships： An Overview&Brant R. Burleson

6. Pornography and Sexual Aggression：A Social Learning Theory Analysis&James V.P. Check and Neil M. Malamuth

7. Interaction Processes and Outcomes in Interviews&Richard L. Street， Jr.

8. Mass Media Expenditures in Norway： The Principle of Relative Constancy Revisited&Anita Werner

9. World News in Nigerian Newspapers&Charles Okigbo

10. Electronic Leisure： Video Game Usage and the Communication Climate of Video Arcades&Rolf T. Wigand， Steven E. Borstelmann，and Franklin J. Boster

PART Ⅱ. INFORMATION SYSTEMS

11. Explaining Choice Shift： A Comparison of Competing Effects-Coded Models&Michael E. Mayer

12. Group Communication Networking in an Information Environment： Applying Metric Multidimensional Scaling&Ronald E. Rice and George A. Barnett

13. Analogies， Visualization， and Mental Processing of Science Stories&Michael A. Shapiro

PART Ⅲ. INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

14. Violations of Distance Norms： Reciprocal and Compensatory Reactions for High and Low Self-Monitors&Joseph N. Cappella

15. Deception Detection and Relationship Development：The Other Side of Trust&Steven A. McCornack and Malcolm R& Parks

16. Situation Perception and Message Strategy Selection&Michael J. Cody， John O. Greene， Peter J. Marston，H. Dan O’Hair， Kevin T. Baaske，and Michael J. Schneider

PART Ⅳ. MASS COMMUNICATION

17. Economic Barriers to Entering Media Industries in the United States&Michael O. Wirth

18. A Semiotic Model for the Study of Mass Communication&Donald L. Fry and Virginia H. Fry

19. Children’s Perceptions of Moral Themes in Television Drama&Peter Gilbert Christenson

PART Ⅴ. ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION

20. Distortion of Communication in Hierarchical Relationships&Janet Fulk and Sirish Mani

21. Quality Circles and Changing Patterns of Communication&Cynthia Stohl

22. Persuading the Adjudicator： Conflict Tactics in the Grievance Procedure&Elizabeth A. Martin and Louis P. Cusella

PART Ⅵ. INTERCULTURAL AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION

23. The Influence of Language on Uncertainty Reduction：An Exploratory Study of Japanese-Japanese and Japanese-North American Interactions&William B. Gudykunst， Tsukasa Nishida， Hiroko Koike， and Nobuo Shiino

24. Culture and Gender： Effects on Assertive Behavior and Communication Competence&Mary Jane Collier

25. Information Sources and Images of the United States and Japan： A Q-Study of Adult Jordanian Males&Douglas A. Boyd

26. Cognitive Complexity and Intercultural Effectiveness：Perceptions in American-Japanese Dyads&Richard L. Wiseman and Hiroko Abe

PART Ⅶ. POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

27. Media Use， Interpersonal Communication， and Political Socialization： An Interactional Model Analysis Using LISREL&Cheng Kuo

28. Mass Media and Political Decision Making：Application of the Accumulated Information Model to the 1980 Presidential Election&Steuen H. Swindel and M. Mark Miller

29. Looking for Heteroscedasticity： A Means of Searching for Neglected Conditional Relationships&David K. Perry

PART Ⅷ. INSTRUCTIONAL COMMUNICATION

30. Children’s Reasoning About Compliance-Resisting Behaviors&Jeffrey S. McQuillen and Dorothy C. Higginbotham

31. Locus of Control as a Mediator： A Study of College Students’ Reactions to Teachers’ Attempts to Gain Compliance&Robert A. Stewart， Patricia Kearney，and Timothy G. Plax

PART Ⅸ. HEALTH COMMUNICATION

32. Social Support Satisfaction and Health Locus of Control： Discriminators of Breast Cancer Patients’ Styles of Coping&Claire F. Sullivan and Kathleen K. Reardon

33. The Post Nuntio Dilemma： Approaches to Communicating with the Dying&Vernon D. Miller and Mark L. Knapp

PART Ⅹ. PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION

34. Communicative Irrationality and Political Discourse in Jurgen Habermas：A Theological Experiment&Kyle A. Pasewark

35. Philosophical Foundations for the Construction of Critical Knowledge&Astrid Kersten

PART Ⅺ. HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

36. Computer-Mediated Communication in an Organizational Setting： Explaining Task-Related and Socioemotional Uses&Charles W. Steinfield

37. From Consumer to Organizational Videotex Applications： Will Videotex Find a Home at the Office？&T. Andrew Finn and Concetta M. Stewart

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