Communication theories in a multicultural world / edited by Clifford Christians & Kaarle Nordenstreng.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Toward a better world / Kaarle Nordenstreng -- Overview. Keeping the public sphere(s) public / Robert A. White -- General theoretical conditions. Talking communicatively about mass communication in communication theories: beyond multiplicity, toward communicating / Brenda Dervin and Peter Shields -- Social scientific theory of communication encounters normativity: a personal memoir / Denis McQuail -- Understanding the critical political economy of the media / Janet Wasko -- Power, inequality, and citizenship: the enduring importance of the political economy of communications / Peter Golding and Karen Williamson -- Cultural studies: dialogue, continuity, and change / Roger Bromley -- A mutually radicalizing relationship: communication theory and cultural studies in the United States / Michael Real and David Black -- Thinking communication in Latin America / Jesús Martin-Barbero -- Toward a theory of African communication / Joseph Old́dèjo Fániran -- Theorizing about communication in India: Sadharanikaran, Rasa, and other traditions in rhetoric and aesthetics / Keval J. Kumar -- Voice, citizenship, and civic action: challenges to participatory communication / Thomas Tufte -- Media, culture, and the imagination of religion / Stewart M. Hoover -- Theorizing development, communication, and social change / Pradip N. Thomas -- Human rights and communication; reflections on a challenging relationship / Cees J. Hamelink -- Struggle, Vatican II, and development communication practice / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and Keyan G. Tomaselli -- Media ecology / Paul A. Soukup, SJ -- Journalism, multiculturalism, and the struggle for solidarity / Theodore L. Glasser and Isabel Awad -- Media ethics in transnational, gender inclusive, and multicultural terms / Clifford G. Christians.