Refocusing the Lens: Centralizing Class Across the Discipline

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This panel is concerned with the paucity in literature on social class. In order to emphasize the importance of studying social class in various areas of communication, the papers on this panel present a “discourse of change” by centralizing class issues across the discipline of communication. Each author will focus on a specific area in the discipline, addressing social class in Interpersonal Communication, Critical Communication Pedagogy, American Studies, Political Communication, and Intercultural Communication.

Sub Unit

• American Studies Division

Chair

• Karen E. Lovaas, San Francisco State Univ

Presenters

• Brandi Lawless, San Francisco State Univ

• Keith Nainby, California State University, Stanislaus

• Hayley Cole, San Francisco State Univ

• John Ryan, San Francisco State University

Session Organizer

• Brandi Lawless, San Francisco State Univ