Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction; 1. The Dissonant Self: Contributions from Dissonance Theory to a New Agenda in Studying Political Communication; 2. Commentary—Online News and the Demise of Political Disagreement; 3. Intergroup Contact: An Integration of Social Psychological and Communication Perspectives; 4. Commentary—Communication and the Contact Hypothesis; 5. The Relative Persuasiveness of Different Forms of Arguments-From-Consequences: A Review and Integration; 6. Commentary—What Makes Arguments-From-Consequences Convincing?; 7. Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association; 8. Commentary—Affordances, Effects and Technology Errors; 9. Reconsidering the Concept of Workplace Flexibility: Is Adaptability a Better Solution?; 10. Commentary—Enhancing Our Understanding of Work-Life Balance from a Communication Perspective; 11. Constructionist Social Problems Theory; 12. Commentary—The Industrial Construction of Audiences in Mass Media Industries: Notes Toward a Research Agenda; 13. Alcohol, Advertising, Media and Consumption Among Children, Teenagers and Young Adults; 14. Commentary— Challenging Ourselves to Advance Scholarship on Portrayals of Alcohol in the Media; 15. Linking Risk Messages to Information Seeking and Processing; 16. Commentary—Risk Communication in Context: Theories, Models, Research, and Future Endeavors; 17. On the Study of Process in Communication Research; 18. Commentary—Some Reflections on Quantitative Modeling of Communication Processes; 19. Assumptions Behind Inter-Coder Reliability Indices; 20. Commentary:A Dissenting View on So-Called Paradoxes Of Reliability Coefficients