Making Better Social Worlds: Inspirations from the Theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning - Tapa blanda

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Robyn Penman (PhD, UMelb) has devoted her scholarly career to the development of a practical-theoretic approach to understanding communication as a relational practice. She has been equally as focused on asking questions about what makes for good communicating and what this can mean in the public sphere. Robyn has been an independent communication scholar and consultant to the Australian government on communication and social policy matters. She was also a Founding Director of the Communication Research Institute of Australia (1987-2000) and an Adjunct Professor in Communication at the University of Canberra (1999-2005). Robyn is a past President (1985-6) and Life Member of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, has served on the International Communication Association board (2002-3) and is a Visiting Senior Member, Linacre College, Oxford (1987-). She was also the associate editor of the Australian Journal of Communication (1984-2003) and has served on the editorial boards of Communication Theory and Human Communication Research. She is currently a board member of the CMM Institute and a co-director of the Cosmopolis2045 project. The Cosmopolis2045 project and this current book provide an extraordinary opportunity for Robyn to show how her understandings of communicating can be used for making for better social worlds.

Arthur Jensen (PhD, University of Massachusetts) is Emeritus Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University, a Board Member of the CMM Institute and a co-director of the Cosmopolis2045 project. Arthur served as a faculty member and department chair, and for the past 16 years, before retiring, as senior associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University. For nearly a decade, he also served as academic director of the Bachelor of Professional Studies program for part-time students at Syracuse University. Arthur's scholarly work has focused on the role of communication in constructing personal and social relationships and how personal identity evolves from within relationships and patterns of communication. He has also been interested in how concepts related to interpersonal communication have evolved historically and will continue to evolve in the future. The Cosmopolis 2045 Project is one outgrowth of that interest. Among other things, he is focused on developing a more comprehensive under-standing of the possibilities in cosmopolitan communication as a cultural form of practice. CMM theory and practice drives all of these interests