Communication Ecology of 21st Century Urban Communities

Yong-Chan Kim is Professor at the College of Communication at Yonsei University, Seoul. Matthew D. Matsaganis is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University.Holley A. Wilkin is Associate Professor of Communication and Public Health at Georgia State University.Joo-Young Jung is Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Communication, and Culture at International Christian University, Tokyo.

• 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.