Making Social Worlds A Communication Perspective

Download or read book Making Social Worlds written by W. Barnett Pearce and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM – Coordinated Management of Meaning – one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication. Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication Defines the 'critical moments' of communication for students and practitioners; encouraging us to view communication as a two-sided process of coordinating actions and making/managing meanings Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds

Download or read book Making Social Worlds written by W. Barnett Pearce and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM – Coordinated Management of Meaning – one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication. Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication Defines the 'critical moments' of communication for students and practitioners; encouraging us to view communication as a two-sided process of coordinating actions and making/managing meanings Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds

Download or read book Moral Conflict written by W. Barnett Pearce and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-03-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an original synthesis of communication theory and their own research and experience as intervention agents, the authors of Moral Conflict describe a dialectical tension between the expression and suppression of conflict that can be transcended in ways that lead to personal growth and productive patterns of social action. Several projects are described as practical examples of these ways of working.

Download or read book Culture in Networks written by Paul McLean and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere – from the architecture of our brains to global transportation systems. And networks are especially ubiquitous in the social world: they provide us with social support, account for the emergence of new trends and markets, and foster social protest, among other functions. Besides, who among us is not familiar with Facebook, Twitter, or, for that matter, World of Warcraft, among the myriad emerging forms of network-based virtual social interaction? It is common to think of networks simply in structural terms – the architecture of connections among objects, or the circuitry of a system. But social networks in particular are thoroughly interwoven with cultural things, in the form of tastes, norms, cultural products, styles of communication, and much more. What exactly flows through the circuitry of social networks? How are people's identities and cultural practices shaped by network structures? And, conversely, how do people's identities, their beliefs about the social world, and the kinds of messages they send affect the network structures they create? This book is designed to help readers think about how and when culture and social networks systematically penetrate one another, helping to shape each other in significant ways.

Download or read book A Cosmopolitan Sensibility written by Robyn Penman and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cosmopolitan Sensibility draws our attention toward a total way of being and not just a form of communication. It calls for a heightened appreciation and capacity to respond sensitively to the plethora of complex social and cultural influences around us. And it calls urgently for greater care and compassion in our being with others in the complex multiverse of the 21st century.All of the contributors to this book share this sense of urgency for making our social worlds better and all of the authors find the idea of a cosmopolitan sensibility offers fresh ideas and new hopes for doing so. In each chapter, the authors explore a particular facet of this cosmopolitan sensibility that they find particularly compelling. What are the skills and mindsets called for with a cosmopolitan sensibility? How can we hold the ensuing incompleteness and complexity as we live into our differences? What does it take to foster this sensibility in young children, in families and in organizations? How can we create a stronger participatory democracy with such a sensibility? What changes in stories are called for to change conflict situations? How can an appreciation of a cosmopolitan sensibility help our servicemen and women move between military and non-military communities? And how can we sensibly go on in a relationally-responsive and reflexive manner to make better social worlds?

Download or read book Making Better Social Worlds written by Robyn Penman and published by CMMi Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you despair about the divisiveness, the hatred, and the lack of compassion in our social world? Are you looking for a better way to manage the complexities and demands of 21st century social life? Well, this book offers just such a way. Following the adage of Einstein, that you cannot solve problems with the mindset that created it, you are introduced to a new way of thinking and acting that opens up possibilities for a more hopeful future than the one we currently face. The new mindset presumes that we create our social worlds in communication, that our relationships with people matter deeply to the quality of our lives and that living with difference enriches us. The authors draw on the Theory of the Co-ordinated Management of Meaning for inspiration, making dense concepts and technical language more accessible so that you can use the theory. You are introduced to such notions as relational beings, self-reflexivity and storied worlds, along with what it can mean to engage in joint action, dialogue and cosmopolitan communication. By drawing on these ideas and implementing them in our everyday interpersonal communication, the authors show how changing our communication practices can bring about social and cultural change.

Download or read book Making Social Worlds written by W. Barnett Pearce and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM – Coordinated Management of Meaning – one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication. Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication Defines the 'critical moments' of communication for students and practitioners; encouraging us to view communication as a two-sided process of coordinating actions and making/managing meanings Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds