George Cheney

Received his Ph.D from Purdue University
Cheney has taught at many universities, but now teaches at the University of Utah.
His research interests include identity and power in organizations, workplace, and workers rights.
To read more on George Cheney you can visit his site:
http://www.hum.utah.edu/index.php?module=facultyDetails&personId=142&orgId=296

Phillip K. Tompkins

• Professor Emeritus of Communication and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Received his Ph.D in Organizational Communications from Purdue University in 1962.
• He is well known for his theories of organizational identification and “concertive” control.

You can read more about his career and read a presentation he did in 2005 by visiting this site.

http://klabs.org/mapld05/invited/tompkins_bio.htm

Fred Jablin

Received his Ph.D. in 1977 from Purdue University.

He is famous for wroting the Handbook for Organizational Communication in 1987.

He is also well known for being the theorist who came up with the Socialization / Assimilation in Organizations Theory.

You can learn more about this theory by visiting this website.

http://www.uky.edu/~drlane/capstone/orgcomm/socialize.htm

Tragically, he was murdered at his home in Virginia in 2004.

You learn more about the life and tragic death of Fred Jablin by visiting this website.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/19/48hours/main696659.shtml

Juergen Habermas

Was born Dusseldorf in 1929.

His works stretch from social political theory to aesthetics and language to philosophy of religion.

He is considered one of the most influential philosophers in the world today.

Here is a link to the Stanford University Encyclopedia where you can learn more about the work and life of Juergen Habermas.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/

Edward T. Hall

• Anthropology
• Nonverbal Communication
• Intercultural Relation

Received his PHD from Columbia University in 1942.

Directed Communications research project where he studied nonverbal communication from 1959 to 1963.

He has taught a number of universities.

Here is a link to the personal website of Edward T. Hall.

http://www.edwardthall.com/

George Herbert Mead

Born 1863 and died 1931. He is now considered the “Godfather” of Symbolic Interactionism in sociology and social psychology.

Here is a link to link to a site where you can find more about Mead’s life and work.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mead/

Stanley Deetz

Stanley Deetz is a professor of Communications and Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He wrote several books, which you can learn more about on his home page.
http://comm.colorado.edu/deetz/

Aristotle

Not to be confused with “The Big Aristotle,” Shaquille O’Neal, the great philosopher Aristotle said to have written 150 philosophical treatises. The 30 that survive touch on an enormous range of philosophical problems, from biology and physics to morals to aesthetics to politics. Many, however, are thought to be "lecture notes" instead of complete, polished treatises, and a few may not be the work of Aristotle but of members of his school” (http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html).

Here is a link to a video series about the “Giant of Philosophy”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSZ9iQ3t8IM

Irving Janis

· Born May 26, 1918 in Buffalo, New York
· Died November 15, 1990 in Santa Rosa, California.

“Irving Janis received many professional awards during his life. These awards included the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, presented by the American Psychological Association in 1981, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Socio-Psychological Prize in 1967, and the Distinguished Scientist of the Year Award for 1991 from the Society of Experimental Psychology” (http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb4t1nb2bd&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00032&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=oac&query=Irving%20Janis).

Janis was most famous for his “Group Think” theory.
According to Janis, Group Think occurs when the members of a highly cohesive group reach an agreement around the dominant view that emerges during discussion.
Although the group members come with different views, they quickly change their minds to correspond with the dominant position that emerges in discussion. When this occurs, group members are not retaining their responsibilities and are in fact acting unethically.



For future readings, here’s are two examples of books written by Irving Janis.

Janis, I. (1972). Victims of groupthink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Janis, I. (1982). Groupthink (2nd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Also, here are three journal articles from our school library, which can be retained on the SXU library website.

Personality Differences Associated With Responsiveness To Fear-Arouse Communications.
Personality Correlates of Susceptibility To Persuasion
Memory Loss Following Electric Convulsive Treatments.

Additionally, here are two sites where you can read more about the life of Marshall McLuhan and his publications in greater detail.

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb4t1nb2bd&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00032&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=oac&query=Irving%20Janis

http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300105490

Marshall McLuhan

· Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 21, 1911.
· University of Manitoba: B. A., 1932; M. A., 1934.
· Cambridge University: B. A., 1936; M. A., 1939; Ph. D., 1942.
· Taught at University of Wisconsin (Madison): 1936-1937.
· Taught at St. Louis University: 1937-1944.
· Taught at Assumption University (Windsor, Ontario): 1944-1946.
· Taught at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto: 1946-1979.
· Full professor: 1952.
· Chairman of Ford Foundation Seminar on Culture and Communication: 1953-1955.
· Co-Editor of Explorations magazine: 1954-1959.
Director of Project in Understanding New Media for National Association of Educational Broadcasters and U. S. Office of Education: 1959-1960.
“Understanding Media, first published in 1964, focuses on the media effects that permeate society and culture, but McLuhan’s starting point is always the individual, because he defines media as technological extensions of the body” (Gordon, 2002).
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In March 1967, NBC aired “This is Marshall McLuhan” in its Experiment in TV series.
Died in Toronto, 31 December, 1980.
(http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/cv.html)

Over his illustrious career, McLuhan compiled a long of publications. Here is a link where you can view them all.
http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/pub.html