Communication Yearbook 36

Charles T. Salmon is professor of communication at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He previously held the Ellis N. Brandt Chair in Public Relations and is Past Dean of the College of Communications at the Michigan State University. Previous positions include the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Emory University; Fulbright Fellow at Tel Aviv University; visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Management and the University of Iowa; visiting scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and social marketing consultant and trainer for UNICEF in Kazakhstan. His research focuses on the intersection of public information, public health, and public opinion.

• Editor’s Introduction; 1. The Dissonant Self: Contributions from Dissonance Theory to a New Agenda in Studying Political Communication; 2. Commentary—Online News and the Demise of Political Disagreement; 3. Intergroup Contact: An Integration of Social Psychological and Communication Perspectives; 4. Commentary—Communication and the Contact Hypothesis; 5. The Relative Persuasiveness of Different Forms of Arguments-From-Consequences: A Review and Integration; 6. Commentary—What Makes Arguments-From-Consequences Convincing?; 7. Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association; 8. Commentary—Affordances, Effects and Technology Errors; 9. Reconsidering the Concept of Workplace Flexibility: Is Adaptability a Better Solution?; 10. Commentary—Enhancing Our Understanding of Work-Life Balance from a Communication Perspective; 11. Constructionist Social Problems Theory; 12. Commentary—The Industrial Construction of Audiences in Mass Media Industries: Notes Toward a Research Agenda; 13. Alcohol, Advertising, Media and Consumption Among Children, Teenagers and Young Adults; 14. Commentary— Challenging Ourselves to Advance Scholarship on Portrayals of Alcohol in the Media; 15. Linking Risk Messages to Information Seeking and Processing; 16. Commentary--Risk Communication in Context: Theories, Models, Research, and Future Endeavors; 17. On the Study of Process in Communication Research; 18. Commentary—Some Reflections on Quantitative Modeling of Communication Processes; 19. Assumptions Behind Inter-Coder Reliability Indices; 20. Commentary:A Dissenting View on So-Called Paradoxes Of Reliability Coefficients