First published in 2012. The Communication Yearbook 6 publishes a survey of trends at the frontiers of communication's many sub-fields, including: interpersonal, mass, organizational and political communication, and human communication technologies. <p><strong>Part 1: Communication Reviews and Commentaries</strong> 1. The Mass Media and Critical Theory: An American View <em>James W. Carey</em> 2. Language and Speech Communication <em>Donald G. Ellis</em> 3. Nonverbal Cues as Linguistic Context: An Information-Processing View <em>Joseph P. Folger</em> and <em>W. Gill Woodall</em> 4. Communication Between Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Persons: Toward a Deductive Theory <em>Gordon L. Dahnke</em> 5. Oral Communication Apprehension: A Reconceptualization <em>James C. McCroskey</em> 6. Does Communication Theory Need Intersubjectivity? Toward an Immanent Philosophy of Interpersonal Relations <em>Lawrence Grossberg</em> 7. Privacy and Communication <em>Judee K. Burgoon</em> 8. Direct Satellite Broadcasting: Selected Social Implications <em>Rolf T. Wigand </em> 9. Public Communication and Televised Presidential Debates <em>Dennis K. Davis</em> and <em>Sidney Kraus</em> 10. Social Judgment Theory <em>Donald Granberg</em> 11. Cognitive Schemata and Persuasive Communication: Toward a Contingency Rules Theory <em>Mary John Smith</em><strong> Part 2: Information Systems</strong> 12. Attitude Change and Attitudinal Trajectories: A Dynamic Multidimensional Theory <em>Stan A. Kaplowitz</em> and <em>Edward L. Fink</em> 13. An Unequal Speaking Linear Discrepancy Model: Implications for Polarity Shift <em>Franklin J. Boster, Jan E. Fryrear, Paul A. Mongeau</em> and <em>John E. Hunter</em> 14. Measuring Aspects of Information Seeking: A Text of a Quantitative/Qualitative Methodology <em>Brenda Dervin, Thomas L. Jacobson</em> and <em>Michael S. Nilan</em> <strong>Part 3: Interpersonal Communication</strong> 15. Accuracy in Detecting Deception: Intimate and Friendship Relationships <em>Mark E. Comadena</em> 16. The Affective Perspective-Taking Process: A Test of Turiel’s Role-Taking Model <em>Brant R. Burleson </em> 17. Marital Interaction: Perceptions and Behavioural Implications of Control <em>Donavan Emery</em> 18. Reciprocity of Self-Disclosure: A Sequential Analysis <em>Kathryn Dindia </em> <strong>Part 4: Mass Communication</strong> 19. International Mass Communication Research: A Critical Review of Theory and Methods <em>K. Kyoon Hur</em> 20. Television Rules of Prepartum New Families <em>Thomas R. Lindlof</em> and <em>Gary A. Copeland</em> 21. Contextual Age and Television Use: Reexamining a Life-Position Indicator <em>Rebecca B. Rubin</em> and <em>Alan M. Rubin</em> 22. Children’s Realities in Television Viewing: Exploring Situational Information Seeking <em>Rita Atwood, Richard Allen, Ralph Bardgett, Susanne Proudlove</em> and <em>Ronald Rich</em> <strong>Part 5: Organizational Communication</strong> 23. Communicative Strategies in Organizational Conflicts: Reliability and Validity of a Measurement Scale <em>Linda L. Putnam </em>and <em>Charmaine E. Wilson</em> 24. The Compliance Interview: Negotiating Across Organizational Boundaries <em>James A. Gilchrist</em> 25. Office Technology: A Report on Attitudes and Channel Selection from Field Studies in Germany <em>Arnold Picot, Heide Klingenberg</em> and <em>Hans-Peter Kränzle</em> <strong>Part 6: Intercultural Communication</strong> 26. The Television Environment in Black and White <em>Richard L. Allen</em> and <em>Benjamin F. Taylor</em> 27. Attribution Theory: Implications for Intercultural Communication <em>Peter Ehrenhaus</em> <strong>Part 8: Political Communication</strong> 28. News Media use in Adolescence: Implications for Political Cognitions <em>Steven H. Chaffee</em> and <em>Albert R. Tims</em> 29. Public Opinion, Communication Processes, and Voting Decisions <em>Carroll J. Glynn</em> and <em>Jack M. McLoed</em> 30. The Successful Communication of Cognitive Information: A Study of a Precinct Committeeman <em>David A. Bositis</em> and <em>Roy E. Miller</em> <strong>Part 8: Instructional Communication</strong> 31. Teacher Communication and Student Learning: The Effects of Perceived Solidarity with Instructor and Student Anxiety Proneness <em>Gregory S. Andriate</em> 32. Sugar and Spice: Teachers’ Perceptions of Sex Differences in Communicative Correlates of Attraction <em>Cynthia Stohl</em> <strong>Part 9: Health Communication</strong> 33. Coping with Occupational Stress: Relational and Individual Strategies of Nurses in Acute Health Care Settings <em>Terrance L. Albrecht</em> 34. The Advertising and Alcohol Abuse Issue: A Cross-Media Comparison of Alcohol Beverage Advertising Content <em>T. Andrew Finn</em> and <em>Donald E. Strickland</em> <strong>Part 10. Human Communication Technology</strong> 35. Teleconferencing, Concern for Face, and Organizational Culture <em>Glen Hiemstra</em> 36. Computer-Mediated Communication: A Network-Based Content Analysis Using a CBBS Conference <em>James A. Danowski</em> 37. Communication Networking on Computer-Conferencing Systems: A Longitudinal Study of Group Roles and System Structure <em>Ronald E. Rice</em></p>