News: College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University
Dr. Mohan J Dutta has been promoted to full professor.
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/facstaff/profiles/?gc=fp09
Sooner Communication Conference
University of Oklahoma
March 13-14, 2009
Dr. Mohan J Dutta was this year's keynote speaker at the 'Sooner Communication Conference' at University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus. http://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/sooner/index.html
Read about Dr. Dutta's keynote speech here.
International Communication Association theme book: "Communication for Social Impact"
Edited by: Mohan J Dutta (Purdue University), Lynn M. Harter, Courtney Cole, Ohio University
The ICA theme book "Communication for Social Impact" Professor Dutta co-edited with Lynn Harter and Courtney Cole to be published in 2009.
http://www.icahdq.org/publications/publicnewsletter/2008/4/apr08_2008theme.asp
Communicating Health: A Culture - Centered Approach
By Mohan J Dutta
About the book:
The culture-centred approach offered in this book argues that communication theorizing ought to locate culture at the centre of the communication process such that the theories are contextually embedded and co-constructed through dialogue with the cultural participants. The discussions in the book situate health communication within local contexts by looking at identities, meanings and experiences of health among community members, and locating them in the realm of the structures that constitute health. The culturecentred approach foregrounds the voices of cultural members in the co-constructions of health risks and in the articulation of health problems facing communities. Ultimately, the book provides theoretical and practical suggestions for developing a culture-centred understanding of health communication processes.
Content and purchasing details of the book can be accessed at:
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745634913 (External weblink)
Emerging Perspective in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture and Power
By Heather Zoller, Mohan J Dutta
About the book:
his volume provides the theoretical, methodological, and praxis-driven issues in research on interpretive, critical, and cultural approaches to health communication. It includes an international collection of contributors, and highlights non-traditional (non-Western) perspectives on health communication.
Content and purchasing details of the book can be accessed at:
http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?curTab=CONTENTS&id=&parent_id=&sku=&isbn=9780805861969&pc= (External weblink)