ABSTRACT

The Handbook of Communication and Security provides a comprehensive collection and synthesis of communication scholarship that engages security at multiple levels, including theoretical vs. practical, international vs. domestic, and public vs. private. The handbook includes chapters that leverage communication-based concepts and theories to illuminate and influence contemporary security conditions. Collectively, these chapters foreground and analyze the role of communication in shaping the economic, technological, and cultural contexts of security in the 21st century. This book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars in the numerous subfields of communication and security studies.

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

Conceptualizing Communication ← → Security

part I|180 pages

Communication Contexts and Genres

chapter 4|20 pages

Discourse and Security

chapter 10|18 pages

Rhetoric and Security

chapter 12|18 pages

Visual Communication and Security

part II|178 pages

Special Topics

chapter 13|24 pages

Biosecurity and Communication

chapter 20|14 pages

Strategic Narrative and Security

chapter 21|13 pages

Surveillance and Communication

part III|11 pages

The Futures of Communication ← → Security

chapter 23|9 pages

Commentary

Communication and Security Creep