Communication research in Asia has a long tradition, comparable to what has been
accomplished in the West. According to Chu (1988), the field of communication studies was …

Conceiving public opinion as unwritten law, or as an informal mechanism of social control, is
hardly new; indeed, one scholar (Noelle-Neumann, 1995) traced the notion back to antiquity …

This article is a dialogue between Chinese and Japanese scholars on the ferment and future
of communication studies in Asia. Questions addressed in the dialogue include: What is the …

A major purpose of this article is to overview Japanese mass communication studies
historically and to consider some important social theories about mass communications in …

As often happens, I submitted my title before I knew what I wanted to talk about. I do want to
speak about communication research as a field, but not only as a field of social science. To …

China has entered a new information age that calls for a reconsideration of some key
presuppositions about the relationship between Chinese media, communication, society …

A paradigm of Asian communication is emerging due to the efforts of Asian communication
scholars over the years, thus, it is a critical moment for Asian communication scholars to …

Mainstream public relations overvalues noise, sound and voice in public communication.
But how can we explain that while practitioners use silence on a daily basis, academics …

Adam Jaworski tells his reader in the preface to The Power of Silence that he wants′ to
show silence as a rich and powerful tool of communication and to provide some clues as to …

Communication Theory: Eastern and Western Perspectives focuses on the processes,
methodologies, principles, and approaches involved in communication theory. The selection …