To date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the fabrication of group identities. This book fills this gap by developing a unified theoretical basis with which to capture empirical fabrication processes. Moreover, it contributes to the domain of group communication research. A basic theoretical riverbed provides a conceptual foundation for the description and explanation of intra- and intergroup communication, starting not with 'objective' categories, but with empirical processes of sociation. In addition, the example of group identity fabrication serves to present the architecture of an innovative social theory that meets the demands of communication studies and some of its neighboring disciplines.

The content Communication ecology.- Group and identity.- Environments of identity fabrication.- Collective identity.- Group communication.

The targetgroups

Lecturers and students of communication studies and neighboring disciplines.

The author

PD Dr. Robin Kurilla is a DAAD funded associate professor at the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences of the Turkish-German University in Istanbul and affiliated to the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Autorentext

PD Dr. Robin Kurilla is a DAAD funded associate professor at the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences of the Turkish-German University in Istanbul and affiliated to the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.