Communication, a Different Kind of Horse Race : Essays Honoring Richard F. Carter

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Pub. Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher(s): Hampton Pr
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Table of Contents

Preface Brenda Dervin and Steven K Chaffee
PART ONE: EXEMPLARS
1 A Paradigmatic View
Steven K Chaffee
3(22)
2 Myth and Reality in Scientific Discovery: The Case of Agenda Setting Theory
25(14)
Maxwell McCombs
3 Community "Embeddedness" and the Diffusion of Local News
39(16)
Bradley S. Greenberg, Walter Gantz, and Jeffrey E. Brand
4 Does Mass Communication Contribute to Public Understanding of Environmental Problems?
55(16)
Keith Stamm
5 Information Needs and the News Environment
71(14)
Fiona Chew
6 Constructing Public Relations Theory and Practice
85(32)
James E. Grunig
7 A Theoretical Explication of Collective Life: Coorienting and Communicating
117(18)
Hak-Soo Kim
8 Double-Clicking to Disaster: The Dark Side of the Web
135(14)
Arnold H. Ismach
9 Mapping the News of the World
149(18)
Robert L. Stevenson
10 Is Knowledge "Power" or "Pain"? The Implications of Knowledge-Information in the Socio-Cultural Context of Korean Society
167(20)
Sung Gwan Park
11 Systems, Gaps, and Communication
187(16)
Thomas L. Jacobson
12 Technology/Media/Body Complex: Toward the Synchronics of the New Media
203(14)
Joseph J. Pilotta
13 Uncertainty and the Fragmentation of Knowledge
217(28)
L. David Ritchie
14 Shouting Fire in a Crowded Classroom: From Holmes to Homeroom
245(14)
Jeremy Cohen
15 On the Necessity of Theorizing Responsive Media Design
259(22)
Brenda Dervin and Lois Foreman-Werner
PART TWO: COMMENTARIES
16 Richard F. Carter and the Science of Communication
281(3)
Phillip J. Tichenor
17 Methodologist, Theorist, Thinker, and Bridge Player
284(3)
Edwin B. Parker
18 A Note of Gratitude
287(2)
Godwin Chu
19 Nothing Much About Ado
289(2)
Henry Breitrose
20 Dick Carter and Me
291(3)
Lee Ruggels
21 In Our Cooperstown
294(2)
Steven H. Chaffee
22 The Master Detective
296(2)
Maxwell McCombs
23 Recollections of a Methodological Primer
298(2)
Ronald H. Pyszka
24 Relevance, Pertinence, and Salience Revisited
300(2)
Scott Ward
25 It's Easier to Throw a Ball Than to Catch One
302(2)
James E. Grunig
26 Seeing Past the Surface
304(2)
Keith Stamm
27 Making Sense out of Nonsense: A Personal Excursion
306(5)
Lawrence Bowen
28 On Being Understood - Or Not
311(2)
Alex Edelstein
29 Message for Richard Carter
313(1)
Peter Clarke
3O Considering Carter's Theoretical Methodology
314(3)
Robert L. Stevenson
31 A Shining Light in a Long Tunnel: Richard F. Carter
317(2)
Arnold K Ismach
32 A Generous Mentor and Adviser
319(2)
Robert J. Weis
33 So Great a Mind
321(1)
Hak-Soo Kim
34 The Zero Problem, Richard F. Carter, and Me
322(4)
Brenda Dervin
35 A Good Question
326(2)
L. David Ritchie
36 Exploring Interactivity
328(1)
Debra Lieberman
37 Those Who Can, Do. Those Who Know, Can
328(6)
Kathleen D. Clark
38 Richard F. Carter: Memorabilia
334(5)
Thomas L. Jacobson
PART THREE: ABOUT AND BY CARTER
39 A Short Biography and Bibliography of Richard F. Carter
339(20)
Steven K Chaffee and Brenda Dervin
40 How Carter Helps: Aphorisms as Traces
359(10)
Brenda Dervin and Steven H. Chaffee
41 Communication: A Harder Science, Richard F. Carter
369(8)
Contributors 377(6)
Author Index 383(8)
Subject Index 391

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