ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the initial understanding of communication to focus on linguistic exchanges between individuals, not accounting for the wide range of personal, social, and contextual dynamics that influence not only the transfer of information, but also the complex processes of meaning-making at individual and collective levels. Where initial conceptualizations of communication have focused on information transfers between senders and receivers, contemporary scholarship seems to apply a much broader and, to an extent, pragmatically informed approach looking not only at how communication practices work, but also how these shape the ways in which the authors make sense of the reality that surrounds them. A new information architecture that reimagines a new organization for traditional and emerging themes in communication studies is constructed. The chapter facilitates ‘crosstalk’ across the volumes – a desired aspect of our schema. It explains grand narratives through our strategic use of guiding analogies that allow a simultaneous look forward to new cyborg variations of humanity.
