Dynamic Patterns in Communication Processes

Edited by:

James H. Watt - University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
C. Arthur VanLear - University of Connecticut, USA

Other Titles in:
Communication and Media Studies (General)

July 1996 | 456 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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While there is general acknowledgement that communication is a process rather than a condition, there has been little systematic examination of dynamic processes within communication studies.

This volume examines these processes within the communications field as a whole, from interpersonal to mass communication, and thereby brings to light many largely unexplored connections. The first part focuses on the methodological and theoretical significance of communication events or states which vary regularly, or in some distinct pattern, over time. The second section is a compilation of current theories and research based on the ideas of cyclic and dynamic patterns which occur in diverse communication settings.

PART ONE: SOME IDEAS AND SPECULATIONS

C Arthur VanLear and James H Watt

A Partial Map to a Wide Territory

C Arthur VanLear

Communication Process Approaches and Models

Patterns, Cycles, and Dynamic Coordination

Peter R Monge and Michael E Kalman

Sequentiality, Simultaneity, and Synchronicity in Human Communication

PART TWO: SOME TOOLS FOR TIME

Robert B Arundale

Indexing Pattern over Time

Criteria for Studying Communication as a Dynamic Process

Mark Douglas West and Frank A Biocca

Dynamic Systems in Continuous Audience Response Measures

Clifford Nass and Youngme Moon

Localized Autocorrelation Diagnostic Statistic (LADS) for Time-Series Models

Conceptualization, Computation, and Utilization

James H Watt

Analyzing Cyclical Effects in Experimental Designs

Steven R Corman

Cellular Automata as Models of Unintended Consequences of Organizational Communication

PART THREE: SOME EXEMPLARY USES OF TIME

Noshir S Contractor and Susan J Grant

The Emergence of Shared Interpretations in Organizations

A Self-Organizing Systems Perspective

George A Barnett and Sung Ho Cho

Predicting Television Viewing

Cycles, the Weather, and Social Events

Jeanne M Meadowcroft

Attention Span Cycles

Stan A Kaplowitz and Edward L Fink

Cybernetics of Attitudes and Decisions

Eugene H Buder

Dynamics of Speech Processes in Dyadic Interaction

Rebecca M Warner

Coordinated Cycles in Behavior and Physiology during Face-to-Face Social Interactions

Joseph N Cappella

Dynamic Coordination of Vocal and Kinesic Behavior in Dyadic Interaction

Methods, Problems, and Interpersonal Outcomes

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