Publication Information

Interpersonal and Small Group Communication is primarily adapted from two Open Educational Resource (OER) textbooks: Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies (2013), an anonymous author book adapted for the University of Minnesota, and Small Group Communication: Forming and Sustaining Teams (2021) by Jasmine Linabary at the University of Arizona. Most chapter content is original to one of those two sources. Updates have been made, especially to chapters originally written in 2013. Mylynn Felt wrote Chapter 10.1: Collaborative Writing. The cover image, “Lampros Hall Student Life,” was taken by Benjamin Zack of Weber State University Marketing and Communications. The photo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution–Non-Commercial–Share-Alike license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This publication was made possible through an Open Educational Resources Grant from Weber State University.

About the CONTRIBUTORS

Editors

Mylynn Felt, Ph.D.

Dr. J. Mylynn Felt is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Communication at Weber State University where she teaches Interpersonal and Small Group Communication, Mass Media and Society, and Persuasive Communication. She completed her Ph.D. in Communication and Media Studies with the University of Calgary. She also holds an M.A. in Communication and Cultural Studies from the University of Calgary and an M.Ed. in Education: Curriculum Design and Instruction from Weber State University. Her B.A., from Southern Utah University, was in English, Secondary Education. She has researched cyberbullying and other social media topics. Her recent research focuses on the use of social media to end gender-based violence. She has publications in Information, Communication & Society; Big Data & Society; Canadian Journal of Communication; a chapter in Gendered Violence at International Festivals (Platt & Finkel, Eds., 2020) and elsewhere.

Colleen Packer, Ph.D.

Dr. Colleen Packer is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Weber State University. She teaches courses in public speaking, interpersonal and small group communication, communication theory, conflict management and resolution, intercultural communication, leadership communication, teaching communication in the secondary school, and teaching the adult learner. She completed her M.Ed. at the University of Central Oklahoma in Community College Education with an emphasis in Communication and her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication and Communication Education at the University of Utah.  She has published in Communication Education, the Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, and contributed to The Professors at Play Playbook.

Communication in the Real World Editors and Contributors:

Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2013 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative. This adaptation has reformatted the original text, and replaced some images and figures to make the resulting whole more shareable. This adaptation has not significantly altered or updated the original 2013 text. This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. For questions about this textbook please contact wanlin.chang@utrgv.edu

Small Group Communication Editors and Contributors:

• Editor:
  • Jasmine R. Linabary, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona. Her work explores how to design more equitable and inclusive spaces for participation. As an engaged scholar and teacher, Dr. Linabary is committed to working with communities and organizations. Dr. Linabary was most recently an assistant professor of communication at Emporia State University (ESU) and the co-founder and director of the EAT Initiative, a collaborative and interdisciplinary effort to combat food insecurity on ESU’s campus and in the Emporia community. She originally designed this textbook to cover content relevant to SP 315 Small Group Communication at ESU.
• Contributor:
  • Moon Castro is a McNair Scholar and a senior communication major at Emporia State University. His research interests include peacebuilding, social change, and emerging technology. Castro is a past winner of the Community Impact Challenge, a grant competition in which teams of students identify creative and meaningful solutions to challenges facing the campus or local community.
• Content in this textbook is adapted and remixed from a variety of open educational resources including those from OpenStax, University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, The Noba Project, and Wikibooks, among others. Portions of this text were also adapted from Problem Solving in Teams and Groups by Piercy. Each chapter contains attribution information and has its own Creative Commons (CC) license at the end of the chapter under the heading “Author & Attribution.”This adaptation has reformatted original text, replaced or removed some images and figures, condensed content, and combined related materials but has otherwise not significantly altered the content from the attributed sources. This textbook as a whole is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise specified in the individual chapter.
• For questions or revisions related to this book, please contact Dr. Linabary (jlinabar@emporia.edu).

Copyright Information

This textbook as a whole is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise specified in the individual chapter.

TEXTBOOK FORMAT & ADOPTION

In addition to the open web version, this textbook is available in alternative formats, including PDF versions for electronic use or printing. The printed teacher’s edition was funded by the Stewart Education Foundation and Stewart Library.

If you are an instructor planning on adopting or adapting this book for a course, please let us know so we can alert you to updated editions and other supplemental resources in the future. Contact Dr. Felt (mfelt@weber.edu).

RECOMMENDED REFERENCE

The following is a recommended reference in APA style for this book:

Felt, M. & Packer, C. (Eds.). (2023). Interpersonal and small group communication. Pressbooks. https://uen.pressbooks.pub/interpersonalsmallgroupcommunication/