Author Description

The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts across the discipline. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1979 and covers chapters on Value Theory and Communication Research, Communication Models in Philosophy, Perspective, Transfiguration and Equivalence in Communication Theory, The Diffusion of Information and Innovation, Communicatin Education in Selected Nations and Communication in the year 2000. Review “The method of producing the yearbook is different from the one used with most annual reviews and is worthy of comment because it significantly affects the contents. Rather than just being the reworkings of known material by established leaders in each subdiscipline, the yearbook provides for wide and rapid circulation of new theory and methods. The core of the book comprises the best three research papers submitted to each section of ICA. The sections are information systems, interpersonal, mass, organizational, intercultural, political, instructional, and health communication.... Unfortunately, in a short review it is impossible to do justice to the work of more than eighty authors and editors, but some general comments are in order. The authors take a surprising variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of human communication.” —Graham B. Kerr, Contemporary Sociology About the Author Dan D. Nimmo has been a professor of political science, journalism, and communication at various institutions, notably the University of Missouri, University of Tennessee, and the University of Oklahoma. His writings include The Political Pundits and The Political Persuaders.