Communication is not only cross-cultural but interdisciplinary--in fact, even supradisciplinary. The problem of effective communication lies in coordinating various cognitive structures and in overcoming the lack of knowledge about an individual's perceptual mechanization. In this volume, some twenty-five contributors and discussants from five…

Communication within an organization can be defined according to the three directions in which communication flows: downward, upward, or horizontally. Business communication also includes external activities in which interaction is either one way to two ways. This paper describes the differences between one-way and two-way communication systems…

The effects of self-disclosure and attitude similarity on the reduction of interpersonal conflict in a modification of the Prisoner's Dilemma Game were investigated in an experimental study of the behavior of 60 undergraduate students. Results supported hypotheses that self-disclosure and attitude similarity would elicit more conflict-reducing…

Three philosophical perspectives on communication research are identified, described, and compared. First, communication of "action," a one-way approach, is a type of "cybernetic" theory of communication involving observation and experience in developing patterns of communication performance. It is simplistic, has a weak capacity for replication…

Article concerns the criticism of an earlier article in this journal written by Professor Donald K. Darnell which focused on the direction the study of communication is taking. (RK)

This essay argues that communication is at the intersection of four social changes that may in their effects add up to a third sociotechnological revolution. The four changes posited are: a historic shift in the character of infrastructures; a new emphasis on visual modes in the coding of images and ideas; a change in the nature of technology,…

This speech presents a model of human communication which integrates the existential philosophy of Martin Buber with the communication views of Jonas Salk. In his book, "The Survival of the Wisest," Salk characterizes an "Epoch A" to describe the values and behaviors of the past and an "Epoch B" to describe the necessary values and behaviors for…