Models of Communication : Theoretical and Philosophical Approaches (Paperback)

1. Introduction (Mats Bergman, Kestas Kirtiklis and Johan Siebers)Part 1: Understanding Communication Models2. Models of Communication In and As Metadiscourse (Robert Craig)3. Epistemological Presuppositions in Communication Theory (Lydia Sanchez and Manuel Campos)4. Toward a Pragmatistic Perspective on Models of Communication (Mats Bergman)5. Turing Machines and Communication: Two Modelling Relations (Eli Dresner)6. A Convenient Way to Describe Communication…": Towards the Transmission Model as a Metamodel (Kestas Kirtiklis)Part 2: Modelling the Histories and Institutions of Communication7. Writing a History of Communication Models: Modes of Historical Narrative (Emanuel Kulczycki)8. The "Mediated Social Communication" Approach: An Early Discursive Mass Communication Model (Silke Furst and Philomen Schonhagen)9. Rearticulating Carey: Cultural Institutionalism as a Model to Theorise Journalism in Time (Thomas R. Schmidt)10. A Figurative Approach to Mediatization Studies (Lukasz Wojtkowski)Part 3: Ontological and Hermeneutic Probes11. Being as Communication: An Exploratory Model (Johan Siebers)12. Regimes of Communication: Emergent Processes, Historical Approaches (Jose Gomes Pinto)13. A Metaphysical Model of Communication (with Examples from the Gold Rush) (Carlos Roos)14. Beyond Letters: Correspondence as a Negative Principle of Communication (Mauricio Liesen)