An organizational communication challenge to the discourse of work and family research: from problematics to empowerment -- Recovering women's voice: communicative empowerment of women of the south -- Empowerment and communication: lessons learned from organizing for social change -- Participatory communication for social change: the relevance of the theory of communicative action -- The problematics of dialogue and power -- The megaphone effect: the international diffusion of cultural media via the USA -- The effects of television on group vitality: can television empower nondominant groups -- The empowerment of feminist scholarship in public relations and the building of a feminist paradigm -- Control, resistance, and empowerment in raced, gendered, and classed work contexts: the case of African American women -- credibility for the 21st century: integrating perspectives on source, message, and media credibility in the contemporary media environment -- Communicating disability: metaphors of oppression, metaphors of empowerment