This volume is comprised of state-of-the-art essays that address the current status of theory and research in each of the International Communication Association′s (ICA) divisions or interest groups. Chapter authors focus on the following questions: What are the parameters of the division/interest group, and what is the relationship of the division with other groups? What are the major theories used, and what research is there to support these theories? What are the major lines of research, and what are the main issues with which scholars must cope in the next century?

When all the essays in this volume are combined, Communication Yearbook 24 provides a unique summary of the field of communication at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the new millennium.