Communication Studies articles from March 2002

Communication Studies archives from March 2002

Editor's page.
March 22, 2002... I want to thank David Cratis Williams, John Makay, Timothy Sellnow, and Tami Spry for serving as editors of this special issue. The events of 9-11 have again demonstrated the problems of community/globalism and the pressing necessity of finding...

Introduction: communication perspectives on relationships between globalism and localism.
March 22, 2002... The dialectical relationship between "globalism" and "localism" is perhaps the defining dialectic of international and intercultural dynamics at the beginning of the new millennium; indeed, the tragic events of September 11,2001, and subsequent...

Hegemony and globalism: Kenneth Burke and paradoxes of representation.
March 22, 2002... The expansion of globalism and the maintenance of community often stand in tension. The notion of a stable, unchanging community or tradition is itself mythical, and change has been accelerating along a number of dimensions in recent decades...

Global constitutionalism and the arguments over free trade.
March 22, 2002... In one of the most dramatic public demonstrations since the end of the Vietnam War, more than 40,000 citizens filled the streets of Seattle, Washington in the closing weeks of the twentieth century to protest against the World Trade...

Audiences and metaphors of globalization in the Daimler Chrysler AG merger.
March 22, 2002... The 1999 merger of Chrysler Corporation and Daimler Benz involved the creation of a truly global corporation by combining two organizations of roughly the same size and in the same industry, but with two very diverse cultures. Chrysler,...

Performing family stories, forming cultural identity: Franco American memere stories.
March 22, 2002... I was thirteen when my mother was pregnant-again-with the baby who would unsettle the symmetry of my profound place in the middle: I had three older brothers and three younger brothers, one older sister and one younger sister. Then another baby...

Deceptive message processing: the role of attachment style and verbal intimacy markers in deceptive message judgments.
March 22, 2002... Deciding when people are telling the truth is a difficult task. Several decades of research indicate that people are rather inept lie detectors (Levine, Park, & McCornack, 1999). This unimpressive ability to detect deception is due, in part, to...