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Atlantic Journal of Communication

Volume 16(3), 2008


CONTENTS

Macke, Frank	Intrapersonal communicology: Reflection, reflexivity, and relational consciousness in embodied subjectivity.	122-148

	Ruesch and Bateson operationalize the intrapersonal level as a 'one-person communication system' and describe the function of the communicative agent as a 'self-observer.' In this article, I seek to establish a theory of intrapersonal communicology

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Peterson, Eric E.	My body lies over the keyboard: Agency and efficacy in weblog storytelling.	149-163

	A series of imaginary weblog entries explores the bodily capability for storytelling in weblogs

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Anton, Corey	Agency and efficacy in interpersonal communication: Particularity as once-occurrence and noninterchangeability.	164-183

	Interpersonal communication is sometimes defined quantitatively (i.e., discourse between 2 and 4 interactants), though it may be defined qualitatively: Unlike mass-mediated communication, which is characterized by interactant anonymity and interchangeability, interpersonal communication hinges on the once-occurrence and noninterchangeability--the existential particularity--of interactants and interaction

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Smith, Andrew R.	Violence and the arts of resistance: An expedition in critical communicology.	184-210

	In this article, the author reviews conceptions of symbolic violence, especially that developed by Pierre Bourdieu, and argues that there are dimensions of the symbolic that are left unaccounted for by the idea that such violence is 'gentle,' 'quiet,' and 'mitigated.' Group forms of communication under authoritarian and semiauthoritarian conditions of existence are drawn upon to show how traces of physical violence are lived and how forms of symbolic violence are conscious experiences for perpetrators and victims

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Klyukanov, Igor E.	A communicology of culture: Handle with care.	211-225

	This article presents a human(istic) view of the (inter)cultural level of communication that overcomes such limitations of the traditional social scientific approach as essentializing and reifying culture that do insufficient justice to (inter)subjective agency

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