Communication in the 2020s

Christina S. Beck is Professor of Communication Studies at Ohio University and Past President of the National Communication Association and the Central States Communication Association.

Introduction: Christina S. Beck Section I: Through Communication, We Enact Identities and Reveal Priorities 2. Postcoloniality and Communication-- Ahme Atay 3. Communicating Gender and Sexuality— Ashley Noel Mack 4. Race and Communication: Keep Your Knees Off of Our Necks: Balck Girl Video Prowess Bearing Witness Against the Grisly Minnesota Police Murder of George Floyd—Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas 5. The Now and Not Yet: Reclaiming a Ritual View of Communication in Religious Communication Theory and Practice—Jennifer Scott Mobley 6. Disability and Communication-- Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock 7. Communication and Ethics: Considering the Conflicting Messages of COVID-19—Sarah Deiuliis and Pat Arneson 8. Risk Communication-- Timothy L. Sellnow Section II: Through Communication, We Relate to and Connect with Others and Our World 9. Interpersonal Communication—Kristina Scharp 10. Interpersonal Communication—Kristina M. Scharp 10. Group Communication in the 2020s: Rethinking Identity, Managing Shifting Boundaries, and Designing Dialogic Conversations—Laura W. Black 11. Family Communication: Talking Families into Being—Dawn O. Braithwaite 12. Into the Unknown: Instructional Communication in the 2020s—Tiffany R. Wang 13. The Rhetorical Situation and its Problems: Expanding the Discursive Elements of Educational Contexts, Disability, and Social Movements—Diana Isabel Martinez 14. Political Communication—Trevor Parry-Giles 15. Media Selection in the 2020s: An Unintential Experiment —Stephanie A. Tikkanen 16. Sports Communication-- Michael Butterworth Section III: Through Communication, We Can Transform What Has Been into What Can Be 17. On Bats, Breathing, and Bella Vita Verde: Refelections on Environmental Communication During COVID-19 —Phaedra Pezzullo 18. Health Communication, Gender Violence, and Inequality during COVID-19: A Critical Feminist Health Communication Perspective— Leandra Hinojosa Hernandez 19. Collapsing Contexts: Reconciling Technology Aplification and Human Agency in an Era of Surveillance Capitalism-- Prashant Rajan 20. Pandemic Refelections: Precarity, Solidarity, and Global Inequities in Organizational Communication Research-- Mahuya Patel and Beatriz Nieto-Fernandez 21. The End of the World as We Knew It: Strategic Communication in the 2020 Pandemic-- Deanna Sellnow 22. Communication Studies and Social Justice: 25 Years and Counting -- Amy Aldridge Sanford