Communication Concepts
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Erin Hawley, Deakin University
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Last Update: 2025
Publisher: Deakin University
Language: English
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CC BY-NC
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Communication
- Chapter 2: Collaboration
- Chapter 3: Audiences
- Chapter 4: Stories
- Chapter 5: Meaning
- Chapter 6: Identity
- Chapter 7: Effects
- Chapter 8: Participation
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Submit ancillary resourceAbout the Book
Communication challenges abound in the 21st century. Communicators everywhere are struggling to connect with diverse, distracted audiences, in both urgent and everyday contexts. In other words, communication has never been more vital, but it’s becoming harder and harder to be heard. In this book, we make sense of communication. From multiple perspectives, we unpack the practices, politics, pleasures, and problems that are activated when meaning is shared across real and virtual spaces. This book will help you use the thinking tools of communication theory to understand why communication matters and how it impacts (and is impacted by) our rapidly changing world.
About the Contributors
Author
Erin Hawley is a Senior Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University, where she teaches primarily into the core and capstone program of the Master of Communication. She currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, and has previously taught communication and media studies at universities in Western Australia and Tasmania. Erin’s research investigates environmental communication for children and the spaces where media and environmental literacy intersect.