ABSTRACT

Communication Yearbook 37 continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Elisia Cohen presents a volume that is highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association. The contents include summaries of communication research programs that represent the most innovative work currently. Offering a blend of chapters emphasizing timely disciplinary concerns and enduring theoretical questions, this volume will be valuable to scholars throughout communication studies.

part 1|64 pages

Rethinking Organizational Membership and Career Formation in a Global Information Society

chapter 1|29 pages

Constrained and Constructed Choices in Career

An Examination of Communication Pathways to Dignity

part 2|154 pages

Rethinking Communication Frameworks, Models, Methods, and Paradigms

chapter 5|29 pages

Conceptualizing Online Discussion Value

A Multidimensional Framework for Analyzing User Comments on Mass-Media Websites

chapter 7|36 pages

Latent Growth Modeling for Communication Research

Opportunities and Perspectives

part 3|65 pages

Reassessments of Message Design and Persuasion Scholarship

chapter 8|29 pages

The Relative Persuasiveness of Different Message Types Does Not Vary as a Function of the Persuasive Outcome Assessed

Evidence from 29 Meta-Analyses of 2,062 Effect Sizes for 13 Message Variations

chapter 9|33 pages

Vaccinating Voters

Surveying Political Campaign Inoculation Scholarship

part 4|122 pages

Reviewing Trends

chapter 11|25 pages

Selective Exposure, Extended Exposure, and Sidetracked Exposure

A Model of Media Exposure on the Internet and Consequential Effects

chapter 12|29 pages

Leveling Up

A Review of Emerging Trends and Suggestions for the Next Generation of Communication Research Investigating Video Games' Effects

chapter 13|28 pages

Theoretical Underpinnings of Reducing the Media's Negative Effect on Children

Person-Centered, Negatively-Valenced Evaluative Mediation within a Persuasion Framework