Cover -- Communication Theories in a Multicultural World -- Contents -- Preface: Toward a Better World -- Bibliography -- Part One: Overview -- Chapter One: Keeping the Public Sphere(s) Public -- A Son of Kansas Populism -- The Cultural Studies Approach in Britain and the United States -- People Must Shape the Flow of Information in the Public Sphere -- The Public in Development: Not the State But Indigenous Grassroots Initiatives -- The Political Economy Perspective -- The Public Sphere as the Space of Autonomy for Affirming Identity -- The Ecological Interrelatedness of Our Mediated Cultural Environment -- Reforming the Bankrupt Political Philosophy and Communication Ethics of Special Interest Democracy -- Alliance of Communication Researchers with Popular Classes Widens the Public Sphere -- Making Communication Theory a Dialogue -- Summing Up: Keeping the Public Sphere Public -- Bibliography -- Part Two: General Theoretical Conditions -- Chapter Two: Talking Communicatively About Mass Communication in Communication Theories: Beyond Multiplicity, Toward Communicating* -- Mass Communication Theories: In the Beginning -- More Than Misunderstanding, Less Than War: "Critical" Versus "Administrative" Theories -- Reframing the Debates: The (Im)Possibility of Interdisciplinary Dialogue -- An Example of Communicative Boundary Bridging -- Toward Public Presence and Utility -- Bibliography -- Chapter Three: Social Scientific Theory of Communication Encounters Normativity: A Personal Memoir -- Early Beginnings -- Early Experience in the Field -- Further Emergence of the Communication Research Field -- History Takes a Hand -- Back to the Personal -- Change in the Wind -- Theoretical Deficit in Review -- Normative Theory to the Rescue -- Bringing Together the Strands -- Bibliography -- Chapter Four: Understanding the Critical Political Economy of the Media.

Historical and Theoretical Foundations -- Historical Development and Definitions -- Debates and Variations -- Major Themes and Exemplars -- Historical Studies -- Media as Business -- Media and Labor -- Media and State Relations -- Media and Democracy -- Relationships with Other Approaches -- Political Economy and Media Economics -- Political Economy and Cultural Studies -- Integrated Studies -- Undeclared Political Economists -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Five: Power, Inequality, and Citizenship: The Enduring Importance of the Political Economy of Communications -- Studying Media and Communications: An Enduring Essential for Social Analysis -- Power: Of the Media and In the Media -- Inequality: The Reproduction of Division -- Power and Inequality in the Information Society -- Bibliography -- Chapter Six: Cultural Studies: Dialogue, Continuity, and Change -- Three Key Texts -- Refinement and Debate -- Shifting from Its Beginnings -- Internationalizing Cultural Studies -- Bibliography -- Chapter Seven: A Mutually Radicalizing Relationship: Communication Theory and Cultural Studies in the United States -- The View from Livermore Labs: Positivism and Communication Research in 1969 -- Rediscovering America: New Sources for Communication Thought After Positivism -- The Party Flourishes: Communication Theory Under the Influence of American Cultural Studies -- The Morning After: Three Reviews of the Current State of Cultural Studies -- The "Undiscipline" of Cultural Studies: Intellectual Formation and Institutional Reality -- The "Detour" Through Theory: Critical Practice and Professional Culture -- The "Phantom Limb" of Politics: Re-set and Realism -- A Radical Modesty: Or What Cultural Studies Can Learn from Communications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Eight: Thinking Communication in Latin America.

The 1960s-1970s: Constructing the Field of Study -- The 1980s-1990s: Investigating Communication in Cultural Terms -- At the Turn of the Century: Globalization and the Technocultural Transformation of Communication -- Bibliography -- The 1960s-1970s: Constructing the Field of Study -- The 1980s-1990s: Investigating Communication in Cultural Terms -- At the Turn of the Century: Globalization and the Technocultural Transformation of Communication -- Chapter Nine: Toward a Theory of African Communication -- In Search of a Research Tradition -- Interplay Between Culture and Communication -- African Cultures as a Template of African Communication -- The Nature of Communication in Communalistic Cultures of Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Ten: Theorizing About Communication in India: Sadharanikaran, Rasa, and Other Traditions in Rhetoric and Aesthetics -- Indian Traditions in Public Communication -- Early Indian Reflections on Communication -- The Rasa Theory of Communication -- Language and the Sphota Theory of Meaning -- Sadharanikaran Theory of Communication -- Conclusion: Diversity in Indian Communication Theory -- Bibliography -- Part Three: Thematic Approaches -- Chapter eleven: Voice, Citizenship, and Civic Action: Challenges to Participatory Communication -- Participatory Communication: New Contexts, Stakeholders, and Dynamics -- The Emergence of a New Generation of Social Movements -- The Growth and Expansion of Civil Society -- Changing Development Paradigms and the Political Economy of the Development Industry -- Media Development and the Diffusion of New Information and Communication Technologies -- Citizenship and Citizen Media -- A Perverse Confluence of Political Projects -- Co-evolution of Media and a Call for Qualitative Studies of Their Social Uses -- Post-neoliberal Politics and the "New Technologies of Voice".

The NGO-ification of Development and Politics -- Participatory Communication in the Post-Arab Spring Era -- Bibliography -- Chapter Twelve: Media, Culture, and the Imagination of Religion -- Religion Emerging on the Agenda -- A Definitive Scholarly Voice: CRT -- A Legacy: The ISMRC -- Bibliograpy -- Chapter Thirteen: Theorizing Development, Communication, and Social Change -- An Impasse in Theorizing Development Communication -- The Critique of Participation -- The Basis for a Theory of Communication and Social Change -- Theory Building from Below: The Right to Information Movement in India -- Theorizing Voice -- Validating Theory from Below: The Jan Sunwai and Empowerment -- Conclusion: Fragments of Theory -- Bibliography -- Chapter Fourteen: Human Rights and Communication: Reflections on a Challenging Relationship -- The Beginning of a Relationship -- Communication Rights -- From a Right to Free Speech to a Right to Communicate -- The WSIS and Human Rights -- On Human Rights as Normative Theory -- Post-colonial Cosmopolitanism -- The Illustration of Internet Governance -- Abstractions Versus Realities -- Culture of Fear -- Towards a Participatory Human Rights Regime -- Bibliography -- Chapter Fifteen: Struggle, Vatican II, and Development Communication Practice -- Vatican II: The Origins of Social Communication -- Anachronistic Church Attitudes to the Media -- Vatican II, Communication for Social Justice -- Jesús Martin-Barbero and the Latin American Theology of Liberation -- Shifting Spaces -- The Early Days -- African Communication Research -- Bibliography -- Chapter Sixteen: Media Ecology -- Antecedents and People Shaping Media Ecology -- Key Ideas -- Relationship with Broader Issues and Challenges -- Bibliography -- Chapter Seventeen: Journalism, Multiculturalism, and the Struggle for Solidarity -- The Claims of Multiculturalism.

Cultural Diversity and Democratic Theory -- Pluralism and the Politics of Consensus -- Journalism and Multiculturalism -- Market Threats to Minority Journalism -- The Ironies of Combining Diversity and Objectivity -- Journalism and Solidarity -- Journalism Ethics in a Multicultural Society -- The Case of Public Journalism -- Being Ethical, Being Accountable -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter Eighteen: Media Ethics in Transnational, Gender Inclusive, and Multicultural Terms -- Dialogic Ethics -- Discourse Ethics -- Feminist Ethics -- Communitarian Media Ethics -- Social Justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.