Editing Communication Theory Development (Fall 2025) (section)

=== Module III: Areas of Studies in the UW Department of Communication ===
==== Day 12: Monday November 3: Interpersonal Communication ====

* Cappella, Joseph N. 1987. “Interpersonal Communication: Definitions and Fundamental Questions.” In ''Handbook of Communication Science'', 1st edition, edited by Charles R. Berger and Steven H. Chaffee, 184-238. SAGE Publications. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1828104/files/folder/readings/day13-interpresonal?preview=140370875}}
* Burleson, Brant R. 2010. “The Nature of Interpersonal Communication: A Message-Centered Approach.” In ''The Handbook of Communication Science'', 2nd Edition, edited by Charles R. Berger, Michael E. Roloff, and David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen, 145-163. Sage Publishing. {{avail-uw|https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/washington/reader.action?docID=996517&ppg=193&c=RVBVQg}}
* Solomon, Denise Haunani, Leanne K. Knobloch, Jennifer A. Theiss, and Rachel M. McLaren. 2016. “Relational Turbulence Theory: Explaining Variation in Subjective Experiences and Communication within Romantic Relationships.” ''Human Communication Research'' 42 (4): 507–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/hcre.12091. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1111/hcre.12091}}

;Optional readings:
* Braithwaite, Dawn O., Paul Schrodt, & Kaitlin E. Phillips. 2022. “Meta-theory and Theory in Interpersonal Communication Research.” In Engaging Theories in Interpersonal Communication: Multiple Perspectives, 3rd ed., edited by Dawn O. Braithwaite & P. Schrodt, 1–23. Routledge. [Available via UW Libraries] {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1828104/files/folder/readings/day13-interpresonal?preview=140371138}}

==== Day 13: Wednesday November 5: Political Communication ====

* Schudson, Michael. 2001. “Politics as Cultural Practice.” ''Political Communication'' 18 (4): 421–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584600152647128. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1080/10584600152647128}}
* Moy, Patricia, Bruce Bimber, Andrew Rojecki, Michael A. Xenos, and Shanto Iyengar. 2012. “Shifting Contours in Political Communication Research.” ''International Journal of Communication'' 6 (February): 8. {{avail-free|https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1109}}
* Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. 2017. “Creating the Hybrid Field of Political Communication: A Five-Decade-Long Evolution of the Concept of Effects.” In ''The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication'', edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.27. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.27}}
* Wells, Chris, Katherine J. Cramer, Michael W. Wagner, et al. 2017. “When We Stop Talking Politics: The Maintenance and Closing of Conversation in Contentious Times.” ''Journal of Communication'' 67 (1): 131–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12280. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12280}}

;Optional readings:
* Schulz, Winfried. 2015. “Political Communication.” In ''The International Encyclopedia of Communication''. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405186407.wbiecp051.pub2. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405186407.wbiecp051.pub2}}

==== Day 14: Monday November 10: Rhetoric ====

* Ceccarelli, Leah. 2011. “Manufactured Scientific Controversy: Science, Rhetoric, and Public Debate.” ''Rhetoric & Public Affairs 14 (2): 195–228. https://doi.org/10.1353/rap.2010.0222. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1353/rap.2010.0222}}
* Harold, Christine 2020. “Introduction.” In ''Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World.'' 1-39, 233-7. University of Minnesota Press. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1828104/files/folder/readings/day14-rhetoric?preview=140355371}}
* Friz, Amanda M. 2018. “Technologies of the State: Transvaginal Ultrasounds and the Abortion Debate.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 21 (4): 639–72. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0639. {{avail-uw|https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0639}}

==== Day 15: Wednesday November 12: Communication & Difference ====

*  Joseph, Ralina L. 2018. ''Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity.'' NYU Press. [Preface, Introduction, Notes] {{avail-uw|https://www-jstor-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/stable/j.ctv12pnrm2}}
* Tounsel, Timeka N. 2022. “Black Women Pundits and the Possibilities of Critical Discord.” Communication, Culture and Critique 15 (4): 447–54. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac021. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac021}}
* Nishime, Leilani. 2017. “Mixed Race Matters: What Emma Stone and Bruno Mars Can Tell Us about the Future of Asian American Media.” ''Cinema Journal'' 56 (3): 148–52. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2017.0031. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2017.0031}}

==== Day 16: Monday November 17: Journalism Studies ====

* Gans, Herbert J. 1979. “Deciding What’s News: Story Suitability.” ''Society'' 16 (3): 65–77. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02701600. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02701600}}
* Powers, Matthew. 2025. “Why Pursue a Career in Journalism? Towards a Renewed Sociology of Journalists.” ''Journalism Studies'' 26 (8): 980–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2025.2489576. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2025.2489576}}
* Russell, Adrienne, Jarkko Kangas, Risto Kunelius, and James Painter. 2023. “Niche Climate News Sites and the Changing Context of Covering Catastrophe.” ''Journalism'' 24 (7): 1387–405. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221113119. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221113119}}
* Richardson, Allissa V. 2020. “Looking as Rebellion: The Concept of Black Witnessing.” In ''Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #journalism''. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190935528.003.0001. [Chapter 1, Notes] {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190935528.003.0001}}

;Optional reading:

* Schudson, Michael. 2003. “Does News Matter? (Media Effects Part I).” In ''The Sociology of News''. W. W. Norton & Company.

==== Day 17: Wednesday November 19: Organizing & Structures ====

* Keyton, Joann. 2017. “Communication in Organizations.” ''Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior'' 4 (Volume 4, 2017): 501–26. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032516-113341. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032516-113341}}
* Liao, Wang, Yoo Jung Oh, Jingwen Zhang, and Bo Feng. 2023. “Conversational Dynamics of Joint Attention and Shared Emotion Predict Outcomes in Interpersonal Influence Situations: An Interaction Ritual Perspective.” ''Journal of Communication'' 73 (4): 342–55. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad003. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad003}}
* Bennett, W. Lance, and Alexandra Segerberg. 2012. “The Logic of Connective Action.” ''Information, Communication & Society'' 15 (5): 739–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.670661. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.670661}}
* Shaw, Aaron, and Benjamin M. Hill. 2014. “Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production.” ''Journal of Communication'' 64 (2): 215–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12082. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12082}}

==== Day 18: Monday November 24: Communication Technology & Society ====

* Humphreys, Lee. 2010. “Technological Determinism.” In ''Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication'', edited by Susanna Priest. SAGE Publications, Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412959216.n293. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412959216.n293}}
* Pinch, Trevor J., and Wiebe E. Bijker. 1984. “The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other.” ''Social Studies of Science'' 14 (3): 399–441. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631284014003004. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/030631284014003004}}
* Evans, Sandra K., Katy E. Pearce, Jessica Vitak, and Jeffrey W. Treem. 2017. “Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research.” ''Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication'' 22 (1): 35–52. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12180. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12180}}
* Katz, Vikki S., and Carmen Gonzalez. 2016. “Toward Meaningful Connectivity: Using Multilevel Communication Research to Reframe Digital Inequality.” ''Journal of Communication'' 66 (2): 236–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12214. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12214}}

;Optional readings:
* Nakamura, Lisa, and Peter Chow-White, eds. 2011. ''Race after the Internet''. Routledge. 
* Walther, Joseph B. 1996. “Computer-Mediated Communication Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction.” ''Communication Research'' 23 (1): 3–43. https://doi.org/10.1177/009365096023001001. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/009365096023001001}}
* Winner, Langdon. 1980. “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” ''Daedalus'' 109 (1): 121–36. {{avail-free|https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652}}