The Communication Ecology of 21st Century Urban Communities

Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach: Prologue: Project History and Introduction – Yong-Chan Kim/Joo-Young Jung/Holley A. Wilkin/Matthew D. Matsaganis: Introduction – Part One: Theory and Method – Yong-Chan Kim/Joo-Young Jung: Communication Infrastructure Theory as an Ecological Theory: Theoretical Framework and Key Concepts – Lewis A. Friedland: Toward an Integrated Urban Sociology of Communication: The Research of Sandra Ball-Rokeach and the Metamorphosis Project – Yong-Chan Kim: Communication Infrastructure Theory for Collective Problem Recognition and Problem-Solving in Urban Communities: Beliefs, Assumptions, and Propositions – Matthew D. Matsaganis/Holley A. Wilkin: Designing Research to Diagnose and Transform Urban Community Communication Infrastructures – Part Two: Communication Infrastructure Theory in Different Contexts – Joo-Young Jung/Risa Maeda: Overcoming Silence Through the Neighborhood Storytelling Network: Facing Controversy Over the Restart of the Nuclear Power Plant in the City of Kashiwazaki, Japan – Minhee Son: Examining the Links Between Church and Local Community Engagement: The Case of Korean Immigrants in Los Angeles – Chi Zhang/Wallis Motta/Myria Georgiou: The Enacted Communication Action Context of Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods and Its Implications for Intergroup Communication – Katherine Ognyanova/Joo-Young Jung: Digital Connections: Tracing the Evolving Role of Technology in Local Storytelling Networks – Part Three: Communication Infrastructure Theory-Based Community Interventions – George Villanueva/Andrea Wenzel: The Engaged Communication Scholar: Designing CIT-Informed Engaged Research in Diverse Communities – Holley A. Wilkin/Matthew D. Matsaganis/Annis Golden: Implementing Communication Infrastructure Theory-Based Strategies in Community Health Access Interventions: Lessons Learned from Two Projects in Two Cities – Nien-Tsu Nancy Chen/Wenlin Liu, Katherine Ognyanova/Evelyn Moreno: The Alhambra Project: A Prototype for Using Communication Infrastructure Theory to Construct and Evaluate a Community News Site – Garrett M. Broad: Communication Infrastructure Theory and Community-Based Program Evaluation: The Case of Media Mobilizing Project and the CAP Comcast Campaign – Matthew D. Matsaganis/Holley A. Wilkin/Joo-Young Jung/Yong-Chan Kim: Epilogue: Emerging Issues and Future Directions – Contributor Biographies – Index.