Communication of the Local: Citizens, Communities, and Conversation

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This panel is centrally concerned with the ways in which people participate in, identify with and negotiate their local social worlds in and through communication. Each paper presents a description of what is local in a community and does so by examining the discourse of people who are reflective about what this means. Together they illustrate how studying local understandings provides communication scholars a method of approaching complex public issues.

Sub Unit

• Applied Communication Division

Chair

• David Procter, Kansas State Univ