Internationalizing ""International Communication"" - 9780472052448

Internationalizing \""International Communication\""Author(s): Chin-Chuan Lee\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472052448, 978-0472052448\nSynopsis\nInternational communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not very internationalized. Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual extension or empirical application of [url] communication, and much of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt truncated versions of Pax Americanas notion of international communication. At stake is the subject position of academic and cultural inquirers: Who gets to ask what kind of questions? It is important to note that the quest to establish universally valid laws of human society with little regard for cultural values and variations seems to be running out of steam. Many lines of intellectual development are reckoning with the important dimensions of empathetic understanding and subjectiv.