Beyond Agendas: New Directions in Communication Research, Vol. 43 Book

Foreword by Everette E. Dennis

Acknowledgments

The Future of Communication Research by Philip Gaunt

Historical Perspectives

Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Century of Communication Study by Everett M. Rogers

Urban Communication: The City, Media and Communications Policy by Garth S. Jowett

Information Flows and Filters

Achieving Dialogue with "the Other" in the Postmodern World by W. Barnett Pearce

Failures in News Transmission: Reasons and Remedies by Doris A. Graber

Television Producers and Genres by Jeremy Tunstall

Obstacles to Internal Communication among Subsidiary and Headquarters Executives in Western Europe by Maud Tixier

Policy and Social Outcomes

New Directions in Communications Research from a Japanese Perspective by Youichi Ito

Communication Research on Children and Public Policy by Ellen Wartella

Will Traditional Media Research Paradigms Be Obsolete in the Era of Intelligent Communication Networks? by Jennings Bryant

Future Directions

Everything That Rises Must Diverge: Notes on Communications, Technology and the Symbolic Construction of the Social by James W. Carey

Informing the Information Society: The Task for Communication Science by Denis McQuail

Communication Research in the 1990s: New Directions and New Agendas? by David H. Weaver

Index