In this episode, Professor Shiv Ganesh interviews Professor Stan Deetz on his life journey and the evolution of communication from the early days of rhetoric. Professor Deetz breaks down his ideas about the limitations of liberal models of democracy as well as his hopes for generative democracy. He also expresses his frustration with the marginalization of emergent theories and how that manifests itself in academia and in the International Communication Association.

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Featuring

Ellen Wartella

Shiv Ganesh

Stan Deetz

Sponsor:

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

More from the host & speakers: 

Ellen Wartella 

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication | Professor of Psychology, Human Development and Social Policy, and Medical Social Sciences

Northwestern University 

Director, Center on Media and Human Development

Twitter: @CMHD_NU

Stan Deetz

President of Interaction Design for Innovation

Professor Emeritus and President’s Teaching Scholar

University of Colorado, Boulder

Shiv Ganesh

Professor in the Moody College at the University of Texas at Austin

Twitter: @utexasmoody

Works referenced in episode 

Deetz, S. (1992). Democracy in an age of corporate colonization: Developments in communication and the politics of everyday life. SUNY press.

Deetz, S. (2021). The politics of mediation: Colonization to co-generative democracy. In J. Wasko and J. Swartz (Eds.)  MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry (pp. 132-145). Chicago: Intellect/University of Chicago Press.

Deetz, S. (2017). Disarticulation and conflict transformation: Interactive design, collaborative processes, and generative democracy. Communication and conflict transformation through local, regional, and global engagement, ed. PM Kellett, and TG Matyók. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Copy and Audio Editors:

Daniel Christain

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown