Reimagining Communication: Meaning

Michael Filimowicz, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research is in the area of computer mediated communication, with a focus on new media poetics applied in the development of new immersive audiovisual displays for simulations, exhibition, games, and telepresence as well as research creation. Veronika Tzankova is a PhD candidate in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University and a Communications Instructor at Columbia College–both in Vancouver, Canada. Her background is in human-computer interaction and communication. Sports shape the essence of her research which explores the potential of interactive technologies to enhance bodily awareness in high-risk sports activities.

• Series Introduction (Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova); ; Volume Introduction (Veronika Tzankova and Michael Filimowicz); ; Chapter 1 Reimagining Semiotics in Communication; Chapter 2 Hermeneutics; ; Chapter 3 Paralanguage (The Cracked Lookingglass of a Servant, or the Uses, Virtues, and Value of Liminality) ; ; Chapter 4 Corpus-methodology and discursive conceptualizations of depression; Chapter 5 Communication in Critical Theory (Frankfurt School); Chapter 6 Reimagining communication in mediated participatory culture: An emerging framework; ; Chapter 7 Global Culture ; Chapter 8 Cultural Hybridity, or Hyperreality in K-pop Female Idols?: Toward Critical, Explanatory Approaches to Cultural Assemblage in Neoliberal Culture Industry; ; Chapter 9 Postcolonial Scholarship and Communication: Applications for Understanding Conceptions of the Immigrant Today; ; ; Chapter 10 Cyberhate, Communication, And Transdisciplinarity; ; Chapter 11 Political Economy of Communication: The Critical Analysis of the Media’s Economic Structures; ; ; Chapter 12 The Propaganda Machine: Social Media Bias and the Future of Democracy ; ; Chapter 13 From Fans to Followers to Anti-Fans: Young Online Audiences of Microcelebrities; ; Chapter 14 Reimagining Media Education: Technology Education as a Key Component of Critical Media Education in the Digital Era; Chapter 15 From Media Ecology to Media Evolution: Towards a Long-Term Theory of Media Change; Chapter 16 Media Psychology