Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reimagining Semiotics in Communication / Paul Cobley -- Hermeneutics / Johan Fornäs -- Paralanguage (The Cracked Looking glass of a Servant, or the Uses, Virtues, and Value of Liminality) / Michael Schandorf -- Corpus-methodology and discursive conceptualizations of depression / Kim Ebensgaard Jensen -- Communication in Critical Theory (Frankfurt School) / Olivier Voirol -- Reimagining communication in mediated participatory culture: An emerging framework / Usha Sundar Harris -- Global Culture / Tanner Mirrlees -- Cultural Hybridity, or Hyperreality in K-pop Female Idols?: Toward Critical, Explanatory Approaches to Cultural Assemblage in Neoliberal Culture Industry / Gooyong Kim -- Postcolonial Scholarship and Communication: Applications for Understanding Conceptions of the Immigrant Today / Adina Schneeweis -- Cyberhate, Communication, And Transdisciplinarity / Emma A. Jane And Nicole A Vincent -- Political Economy of Communication: The Critical Analysis of the Media's Economic Structures / Christophe Magis -- The Propaganda Machine: Social Media Bias and the Future of Democracy -- Information Classification: GeneralSara Monaci -- From Fans to Followers to Anti-Fans: Young Online Audiences of Microcelebrities / Maria Murumaa-Mengel and Andra Siibak -- Reimagining Media Education: Technology Education as a Key Component of Critical Media Education in the Digital Era / Anne-Sophie Letellier, Normand Landry -- From Media Ecology to Media Evolution: Towards a Long-Term Theory of Media Change / Carlos A. Scolari -- Media Psychology / Emma Rodero.

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