Otherness in Communication Research

Luísa Magalhães, co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication book series,  is a researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH)  and Professor in Communication Sciences at the Catholic University of Portugal.

• 1. Introduction.- Part 1: Expressions of Otherness in everyday life.- 2. Gendered audience design in English-language cookbooks.- 3. Storytelling and alterity: creative and humanizing communication.- 4. Othering Otherness: The entangled stories of Boka and Boka.- 5. The evolution of the First-Generation student: disadvantaged Other to social category to emerging social identity.- 6. The Neurodivergent Other in the educational system.- 7. Through the looking glass: the language of listening.-  Part 2: Experiences of Otherness in media discourses.- 8. Voicing the other: young people at risk and media usage.- 9. When I am the Other: entwining source and reader expectations in social media promotional messages for a make-up brand.- 10. Gay couple’s representation in Mexican cinema.- 11. Social innovation: other ways of teaching and learning.- 12. Museums and the otherness of gamified educational processes.- Part 3: Strategies against Otherness in social interaction.- 13. The politics of biological otherness in intercountry adoption.- 14. Contact theory or Conflict theory: how does living or working with different ethnic groups influence people’s perception of each Other?.- 15. Communicating Otherness: Island mentality and its inter-relationship with Culture, Tradition and Identity.- 16. Centring Otherness with migrant women affected by domestic abuse.- 17. Communication for social change behind the scenes: the strategic role of silence in human right activism.- 18. Mapping Otherness in Times of War: Russian Nationalism and National Identity Discourses amid the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine.