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2022

A comprehensive review of all major communication theories and models from a modern Western perspective. Excellent summary for students.

Goffman Handbuch, 2022

Perspectives on Communication Theory (Masters), 2014

This course provides an introduction to the epistemology and theory in the field of human communication. We will explore the primary communication paradigms in order to develop a well-rounded theoretical understanding of the discipline. Through reading broadly and discussing a range of paradigms, students will increase understanding of personal paradigmatic choices, learn how these choices shape theory and research, and establish criteria for theory evaluation. Further, the class will also explore specific communication theories and follow some of the debates surrounding theoretical development. This class is usually paired with COMM 710, Introduction to Communication Research Methods.

2016

In this text, authors try to represent e new contemporary understanding of Habermasian Theory of Communicative action. The theory of communicative action, with its inventiveness made a real revolution in the understanding and the interpretation of communication as an activity that constitutes the social world. This text aims to analyze exactly this communicative action, the reasons why it was developed, its most important characteristics, especially in regard to instrumental action etc. Special attention will be paid to the incorporation of this theory in the works of its author and one of the most influential contemporary authors in the field of social sciences, Jurgen Habermas. Key words: theory of communicative action, Jurgen Habermas, social action, sociological theory 1.

A Synthesis of Three Traditions that guide Communication Theory, 2011

This document examines the Socio-psychological, Sociocultural and Phenomenological traditions in which Communication Theory is entrenched. In each tradition, there is a chronological presentation of scholars or leading ideologies that guide the thinking of each tradition

In this report some of Max Weber’s major arguments are discussed. For example, Weber says that social action is an action which takes account of the behavior of others and is thereby oriented in this course. The types of social action are traditional social action affective social action and rational social action. He also says that a pure bureaucratic type of administration is capable of achieving the highest degree of efficiency. His ideas on social class and capitalism are discussed in this report

To say that communication is at the heart of our everyday lives would be but stating the obvious. Its influence is so all embracing and its tentacles widespread that they encompass the art of persuading, influencing, entertaining, sharing, discovering and transmitting information. From the moment we wake in the morning, thinking about the challenges of the day ahead, to the moment we drift off to sleep at night, we are constantly in the process of communication. We do so either as senders of messages or receivers of messages. In the words of Hybels and Weaver (2005:5), 'it is not surprising that communication, and how to communicate, is so important to daily life that it has spawned an entire industry of books, articles, and seminars explaining how to do it better'.

John Donne

Estudos em Comunicação, 2017