"Published annually for the International Communication Association."

How to do things with relationships ... and how relationships do things with us / Walter J. Carl and Steve Duck -- Romantic and parent-child relationships at a distance / Laura Stafford -- Alternative organizing communities: collectivist organizing, telework, home-based internet businesses, and online communities / Paige P. Edley, Annika Hylmo and Victoria Ann Newsom -- Meetings: discursive sites for building and fragmenting community / Karen Tracy and Aaron Dimock -- Transcending tolerance: pragmatism, social capital, and community in communication / Jeffrey St. John and Gregory J. Shepherd --Ideal collaboration: a conceptual framework of community collaboration / Renee Guarriello Heath and Lawrence R. Frey -- "Community" as a foundation for public relations theory and practice / Kirk Hallahan -- Visual images of community: implications for communication research / Lawrence J. Mullen -- Personal mediated communication and the concept of community in theory and practice / James E. Katz, Ronald E. Rice, Sophia Acord, Kiku Dasgupta and Kalpana David -- Communication in the community of sport: the process of enacting, (re)producing, consuming, and organizing sport / Jeffrey W. Kassing, Andrew C. Billings, Robert S. Brown, Kelby K. Halone, Kristen Harrison, Bob Krizek, Lindsey J. Mean, and Paul D. Turman -- Speech community: reflections upon communication / Trudy Milburn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.