Communication for Social Change, Making Theory Count

Health Activism: Communication Theory and Action for Social Change

This article argues that “health activism” as a concept has been overlooked as an important element of health communication and situates the concept in relation to key areas of research in the field, including health citizenship and community organizing. The author presents theoretical frameworks for comparing and contrasting health-related social action based on issue focus and political orien...

Communication for Development and Social Change

Resource Management for Real - Time Communication : Making Theory Meet

A growing number of real-time applications (e.g., real-time controls, and audio/video conferencing) require certain quality-of-service (QoS) from the underlying communication subsystem. Real-time communication services are needed in the communication subsystem (host as well as network) to provide the required QoS to these applications while providing reasonably good performance for best-eeort t...

Resource management for real-time communication: making theory meet practice

This paper focuses on bridging the gap between theory and practice in the management of host CPU and link resources for real-time communication. Using our implementation of real-time channels, a paradigm for real-time communication in packet-switched networks, we illustrate the tradeoff between resource capacity and channel admissibility, which determines the number and type of real-time channe...

Theory and language of climate change communication

Climate change communication has become a salient topic in science and society. It has grown to be something like a booming industry alongside more established ‘communication enterprises’, such as health communication, risk communication, and science communication. This article situates the theory of climate change communication within theoretical developments in the field of science communicat...