CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution

The CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution website is designed to aggregate work related to the theory of "coordinated management of meaning (CMM)" developed by W. Barnett Pearce and Vernon E. Cronen. The institute website supports a variety of online and in-person forums for the purpose of linking diverse community of individuals and groups who engage with and learn from one another. Individual scholars and practitioners, educators and thought leaders, and institutional advocates comprise the core of the network.

The CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution supports five priority areas intended to represent the capacity for positive change [its Fellows' presentations are included on the website as examples of research in these areas]:

1. Intellectual Leadership;
2. Sponsored Activities In Research, Theory-Development, and Education;
3. The Development and Implementation Of Demonstration Projects;
4. Worldwide Networking and Information Sharing; and
5. Fresh Insights about CMM’s Capacity to Overcome Contemporary Social Issues.

The website provides information on Cosmopolis 2045, a project to create and maintain a virtual depiction of a social community set in the future (circa 2045) in which residents and leaders of the community have adopted a communication-centric view of how their own and other social worlds function. The depiction of the "Cosmopolis community will illustrate how everyday communication some 30 years in the future might be managed, given both the technological and educational/social advances that we might reasonably expect will emerge and become second nature to citizens. The Cosmopolis 2045 Project is a multi-year project envisioned by the Board of the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution and supported by the CMM Institute, the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society at Villanova University, and Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts."

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