Working Closets: Mapping Queer Professional Discourses and Why Professional Communication Studies Need Queer Rhetorics

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew B. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Cultural Rhetorics ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Queer Rhetorics ◽  
Retail Company ◽  
Cultural Turn

This article examines the importance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rhetorical approaches in professional communication theory, introducing the theory of working closets as central to understanding how LGBT professionals navigate and succeed. The author presents case studies of LGBT professionals at the headquarters of a national discount retail company as examples of working closets and asks what the implications are for professional communication studies. He also looks at the need to learn from and through queer rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, and social justice frameworks, especially given the cultural turn of professional communication studies in the early 21st century.

Breath, Breathe, Breathing: Communication in/as Acts of Social Justice (A Metaphorical Performative Assemblage)

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 314-325
Author(s):  
Bryant Keith Alexander ◽  
Timothy Huffman ◽  
Amber Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Critical Dialogue

This performative essay is a redrafting and extension of a critical dialogue following a public presentation on the nature and importance of communication studies. The dialogue is framed by using the metaphor of breathing, as it relates to particular links between human communication and communication activist research.

Communication Science-2021: Results and Prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Lyubov Goncharova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Educational Activities

The journal presents the works of Russian scientists reflecting the research of intercultural, advertising, professional communication, issues of educational activities in the field of communication studies, as well as general humanitarian problems of communication science.

scholarly journals Fuel as a Factor in Canadian Transport: Energy Capital and Communication Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Greaves
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Compte Rendu ◽  
Coal Trade

Background  Established in 1849, the Fort Rupert coal settlement represented a departure in the Hudson’s Bay Company’s mode of colonial wealth accumulation on Vancouver Island. Company officials failed, however, to appreciate basic differences in the new mode of accumulation, including the importance of transportation to capitalist mineral extraction.Analysis  This article accomplishes three things: it retrieves foundational theories of transportation and commodity circulation once popular in communication studies, provides a documentary account of coal mining and the coal trade in the mid-nineteenth-century eastern Pacific, and articulates a theory of capitalist energy consumption.Conclusion and implications  The culminating theory of energy capital positions the extraction and circulation of fuel within Canadian communication studies through a transportation-focused approach to communication.Keywords  Canadian history; Communication theory; Energy; Marxism; TransportationContexte  L’agglomération de Fort Rupert établie en 1849 pour extraire le charbon sur l’Île de Vancouver représenta pour la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson une nouvelle sorte de colonisation axée sur l’enrichissement. Les dirigeants de la Compagnie, cependant, n’ont pas reconnu des particularités fondamentales relatives à ce nouveau mode d’accumulation, y compris l’importance de moyens de transport jusqu’au site d’extraction des minerais.Analyse  Cet article vise trois objectifs : il récupère des théories fondatrices, populaires jadis dans le domaine des communications, sur le transport et la circulation des marchandises; il fournit un compte rendu sur l’extraction et le commerce du charbon dans l’Est du Pacifique au milieu du 19ème siècle; et il articule une théorie capitaliste sur la consommation énergétique.Conclusion and implications  La théorie principale sur le capital en énergie positionne l’extraction et la circulation de combustibles au sein des études en communication au Canada en ayant recours à une approche centrée sur le transport.Mots clés  Canadian history; Communication theory; Energy; Marxism; Transportation 

Current Developments and Future Prospects

1986 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 120-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Swales
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
Considerable Increase ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Business Law ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Face ◽  
Information Growth

As the previous chapters in this volume have made amply clear, the last few years have seen a considerable increase in work related to our understanding of the roles, forms, and processes of professional communication and of the complex of forces that give rise to those roles, forms, and processes. The reasons for this upsurge of interest are doubtless manifold. Some are related to administrators' felt needs to keep “channels of communication open” in the face of exponential information growth and the increasing bureaucratlzation of many professions. One consequence of this is that lines of research funding are obtainable relatively easily for communication studies in such areas as scientific research, medicine, business, law, and military affairs.

Bread, dignity and social justice

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Arab Spring

Although they produced vastly more turmoil, the uprisings in the Arab world shared many characteristics with other early 21st-century popular protests on both the left and the right, from Spain’s Indignados and Occupy Wall Street to the anti-elite votes for Brexit and Trump. The conviction that political elites and the states they rule, which were once responsible for welfare and development, now ignore and demean the interests and concerns of ordinary citizens takes many forms, but is virtually universal. The Arab world was only one site of this discontent, but the story of the Arab Spring insurrections provides a cautionary illustration of the perils in abdication of political authority and accountability and provokes questions about how we understand historical moments when passions outstrip interests.

scholarly journals Harry Potter and the First Order of Business: Using Simulation to Teach Social Justice and Disability Ethics in Business Communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie K. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Business Writing ◽  
Communication Course ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Excellent Work ◽  
Communication Pedagogy

Despite the excellent work by scholars who invite us to consider disability, social justice, and business and professional communication pedagogy, little attention has been given to what a disability- and social-justice-centered business and professional communication course might look like in design and implementation. This case study offers an example of a simulation based within the Harry Potter universe that emphasizes the ways disability advocacy and civic engagement manifest themselves in foundational business writing theories and practices. This simulation enabled students to engage with social justice issues by understanding access as an essential part of business and professional communication.

Religious Traditions in Politics: Protestantism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evert van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Political Action ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
God's Image

Protestantism was labeled when German noblemen wished to retain control of their own country church. Martin Luther’s theology based on faith and the scripture became in this way a matter of political dispute. His rejection of the pope as the final authority in matters of religion brought the Lutheran country churches within the power and economy of the local noble rulers, liberating them from financial obligations to Rome. Luther’s actions were, in the first phase of Protestantism, followed by those of Anabaptists and cantons in Switzerland (Huldrych Zwingli) and cities in France (Martin Bucer in Strasbourg; John Calvin in Geneva). Calvin stood for a kind of theocratic regime based on his doctrine of predestination. His views spread over France and the Low Countries (Belgium, Netherlands) as a liberation from the feudal system. In the second phase of Protestantism, the political dimension became less significant, and the focus became instead upon Protestant believers’ looking inward to find the Light, or God, in themselves. Political action then became the consequence of the intention to do well, by seeking justice and seeing that every human being is created in God’s image. Many groups were persecuted, as the earlier Anabaptists were, and left Europe for the New World. There they became activists for the abolition of slavery, equal rights for all human beings, and social justice. The third phase of Protestantism is characterized by ideas of rebirth and regeneration. Sin and evil can be washed away and people can start a new life in the blessing of Jesus Christ, following his guidance as evangelicals. In matters of politics, personal norms and values become more important than social justice or reform, leading to bans on, for instance, abortion and homosexuality as sinful ways of life. In the early 21st century, a significant number of Protestant groups are active in right-wing politics, and their membership continues to grow in the Americas, Africa and Asia.

scholarly journals What Is Theory? Puzzles and Maps as Metaphors in Communication Theory

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Iulia Nastasia ◽  
Lana F. Rakow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Good Theory ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Puzzle Solving ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Is Theory

Many handbooks, books, and articles in communication studies offer definitions of theory, as well as approaches to what are the features of theory or what makes a good theory and to what are the functions of theory or what makes a theory useful. In this essay, we configure a taxonomy of definitions of and approaches to theory through a cross-disciplinary perspective, by reflecting on the different views on theory in the discipline of communication in the broader context of views on theory at the intersection of the physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. We argue that a preeminent tendency, theory as puzzle-solving or map-reading, with its varieties science and investigation, is predominant in communication studies, based on a subject-object schism and on the preexistence of the object to the subject. We also argue that a counteracting tendency, theory as puzzle-making or map-making, with its varieties interpretation and inquiry, has been posited as an alternative in communication studies, based on a subject-object communion and on the creation of objects by subjects.

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