Is Professor in the Communication Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Deconstructing Communication: Representation, Subject, and Economies of Exchange and coeditor of Philosophy of Communication. His essays can be found in International Philosophical Quarterly, Cultural Studies, Cultural Critique, British Journal of Aesthetics, differences, Positions, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, History of European Ideas, Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and others. 

Is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology (Emeritus), Department of Speech Communication, School of Communication, Southern Illinois University. He is the author of The Human Science of Communicology (Duquesne University Press 1992); Phenomenology of Communication (Duquesne University Press 1988); Semiotic Phenomenology of Rhetoric (University Press of America 1984); Speech Act Phenomenology (Martinus Nijhoff 1977); and Speaking and Semiology (Mouton 1972; 2nd ed. 1991). He has authored 49 book chapters, 73 journal articles (print and electronic), 22 encyclopedia entries, 170 academic conference papers, and 167 invited public lectures in some 30 countries. He serves on the Editorial, Scientific, or Advisory Board of 18 international journals and 3 book series. He is the founding Executive Director of the International Communicology Institute in Washington, DC.

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Is Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University and a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute. Dr. Anton, who has been at Grand Valley since 1998, earned undergraduate degrees, in psychology and communication at University of Wisconsin-Parkside (1991), a master’s degree in speech communication and rhetoric from Illinois State University (1994) and a doctorate in interpersonal communication theory and phenomenology from Purdue University (1998). Some of his representative publications can be found in journals such as Philosophy and Rhetoric, Communication Theory, Human Studies, Semiotica, The Review of Communication, Explorations in Media Ecology, The Atlantic Journal of Communication, and Communication Studies. Anton is author of Selfhood and Authenticity (2001, SUNY Press), Sources of Significance: Worldly Rejuvenation and Neo-Stoic Heroism (2010, Purdue University Press), How Non-Being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality and Death Acceptance (2020, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), A. EYE CANDY: A Museum of Imaginary Robots and Other Digital Delights (2023, IGS Press) and the collection Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology (2010, IGS Press). He is the editor of Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws (2010, Hampton Press), co-editor, along with Lance Strate, of the collection Korzybski And… (2012, IGS Press), and co-editor, along with Robert K. Logan and Lance Strate, of the collection Taking Up McLuhan’s Cause (2017, Intellect Publishing). Past Editor of the journal Explorations in Media Ecology, Past President of the Media Ecology Association, and Past Chair of the Semiotics and Communication Division of the National Communication Association, Anton currently serves as Vice-President of the Institute of General Semantics, and on the editorial boards of The Atlantic Journal of Communication, ETC, New Explorations, and Explorations in Media Ecology.