December CommQuote

Our quote this month features a profoundly hilarious take on interpersonal communication. Leave it to The New Yorker (December 6, 2010). The cartoonist is Bruce Eric Kaplan.

"Did you remember to do everything I asked, even the small things I said in passing that didn't sound like real requests?"

Communication Yearbook 31

State-of-the-discipline literature review articles on silence, openness and avoidance in couples communicating about cancer, trauma in communication studies, media content diversity, roles of interpersonal communication in mass media campaigns, and others make up the 31st issue of the International Communication Association's Communication Yearbook. Christina S. Beck (Ohio University) continues from last year as editor. Available in the ASC reference.