...Communication: Marking Connections is about communication and the way it connects us to others in our everyday lives. We wrote in our last edition "This field is not only interesting it's useful something that we can use all of our live." We believe this is true even more today. Communication in our everyday lives has become more complex because our world is increasingly more diverse and more complex. We are a "Wired" society and use technology in its many forms constantly. Given these lifestyle behaviors, we realized that a communication textbooks needs to reflect society as well as the field of communication, and we weren't willing to leave well enough alone...(A Part of Preface)
Part One Making Connections through Communication
Part Two Connection in the Public Context
Part Three Connecting in Relational Contexts