Hello All, We are soliciting micro-abstracts for an edited volume on communication. Communication Studies at Crossroads: A Multidisciplinary Approach Seungahn Nah (snah@ufl.edu) & Jasmine McNealy (jmcnealy@ufl.edu) University of Florida Overview Among academic disciplines, communication (broadly defined) is young in comparison to its allied areas like sociology, anthropology, and political science. Although aspects of the study of communication can be traced back several centuries, the contested formalization of communication as a discipline finds its start in the West in the early 20th Century. Now thoroughly in its second century, communication – particularly mass communication – is ripe for reconsideration, revision, and reckoning with its past and possible futures. This edited volume examines not only the history of communication, but also where it might go to meet the questions of the 21st Century and beyond. This book centers on communication studies. We operationalize this topic as including messaging, media, and human and organizational social interactions. This understanding of the field recognizes the broad reach of communications and the diverse areas of interest of communication scholars. It also acknowledges the various skills and expertise that communication scholars acquire during their studies, as well as the practical applicability of findings to areas like policy, health, and education. Because communication is inherently interdisciplinary, this edited volume assembles a global cadre of well-respected authors to examine the past, present and future of communication at its intersections. Our objective with this volume is meta: as communication scholars, we want to think about our thinking about communication in a broad sense. We are not interested in considering our chosen area as a static field. Instead, we recognize how communication expands and contracts based on both internal factors like theoretical and methodological conflicts, and external factors like political and funding environments. We also recognize the importance of considering the field from scholars in geographic areas that have been neglected in history of communication studies. Overall, we hope this volume will serve as a useful resource for scholars, students, and those interested in the trajectory of communications, including mediated and moderated communications through media and technology. We plan the following sections: Part I: Foundations of Communication Studies Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives on Communication Studies Chapter 2. Core Theories in Communication Studies Part II: Disciplinary Perspectives Chapter 3. Psychological Insights into Communication Chapter 4. Sociological Approaches to Communication Chapter 5. Cultural and Critical Dimensions of Communication Chapter 6. Technological Advances and Communication Chapter 7. Communication in Organizational Settings Chapter 8. Legal and Policy Perspectives on Communication Part III: Interdisciplinary Integration Chapter 9. Media and Communication Studies in Political Context Chapter 10. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Health Communication Chapter 11. Strategic Communication and Media Economics Chapter 12. Information and Data Science Intersections with Communication Chapter 13. Computational Communication Chapter 14. AI and Communication Part IV: Future Directions in Multidisciplinary Communication Research Chapter 15. Communication Studies Across Different Contexts and Communities If you are interested in participating, please use the following form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmjyFLXB7g5I0cWN-xOrlH0rJ043zn1KNMiN876VJ8f7G_hQ/viewform> to submit a micro-abstract by June 30. We will be reviewing submissions and will contact those who have submitted soon after. We plan to publish the book in 2026.