Communication Studies

The formative role played by digital communication in knowledge-based societies is widely acknowledged. Not least, young people's rapid adoption of a variety of social software applications serves to challenge existing forms of communication for...

Post-Global Network and Everyday Life explores everyday life in the new world order of global network. It argues that network has come into its own as a state of mind and a way of life - in sum, a cultural norm. As a result, it is no longer fitting to...

Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture is the first anthology devoted specifically to scholarship on girls' media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes analyses of girls' media representations, media consumption,...

Every weekday, the wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show reaches more than eight million radio listeners. The show offers broadly progressive political talk, adult-oriented soul music, humor, advice, and celebrity gossip for largely older, largely...

Media and Public relations combines practical hands-on strategies with firm grounding in the theories of media relations. To successfully integrate theory and practice, the text uses case studies as the basis of theoretical argument. br br The text...

The Heimat film genre, assumed to be outdated by so many, is very much alive. Who would have thought that this genre - which has been almost unanimously denounced within academic circles, but which seems to resonate so deeply with the general public -...

Canadian Communication Policy and Lawprovides a uniquely Canadian focus and perspective on telecommunications policy, broadcasting policy, internet regulation, freedom of expression, censorship, defamation, privacy, government surveillance, intellectual...

It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you're pregnant and can afford one, you're going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From What to Expect When You're Expecting to Pregnancy for Dummies, these guides act as portable mentors for women who want advice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472037902Author Christine Pearson CasanaveFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric   American sports agnostics might raise an eyebrow at the idea that soccer represents a staging ground for cultural, social, and political possibility. It is just another game, after all, in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529790306Author Jemimah SteinfeldFormat PaperbackImprint SAGE Publications LtdPublisher SAGE Publications Ltd

In a speech opening the nineteenth Chinese Communist Party Congress meeting in October 2017, President Xi Jinping spoke of a 'New Era' characterized by new types of communication convergence between the government, Party, and state media. His speech...

Introduction to Human Communication shows how central effective communication is to shared meaning making, identity construction and maintenance, and responsible interaction with the world. In an inviting and engaging style, Beauchamp and Baran provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529605426Author Jemimah SteinfeldFormat PaperbackImprint SAGE Publications LtdPublisher SAGE Publications Ltd

The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254974Author Dr Casey BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817317669Author Eric WattsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams) 532g

Understanding Intercultural Communication, 3rd Edition (UIC3) emphasizes a perspective that integrates intersectional identity complexity with a strong values orientation in shaping intercultural contact. We address contemporary issues such as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611864298Author Rolien HoyngFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University PressWeight(grams)...

By the end of the twentieth century certain new media had established themselves which have profoundly changed communication among lovers. SMS and email in particular have created new relational forms and forms of intimacy. From declarations of love on...

Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colourful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle. From 1909 to 1916,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529793659Author Jemimah SteinfeldFormat PaperbackImprint SAGE Publications LtdPublisher SAGE Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728439112Author Christy PetersonFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Lerner Publications (Tm)Publisher Lerner Publications (Tm)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529778816Author Rachael JolleyFormat PaperbackImprint SAGE Publications LtdPublisher SAGE Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524960520Author Cristina Doda CardenasFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

John Dalton's molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick's double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world - and the key concepts that explain it - is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images...

In the highly politicized memory space of postwar South Korea, many families have been deprived of their right to mourn loved ones lost in the Korean War. Only since the 1990s has the government begun to acknowledge the atrocities committed by South...

Required reading for anyone interested in the profound relationship between digital technology and society Digital technology has become an undeniable facet of our social lives, defining our governments, communities, and personal identities. Yet with...

This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future...

This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology - transgressing traditional principles and styles of research, and selectively overcoming the side-by-side coexistence in favour of an integrated "laboratory of...

As a concept that increasingly gains importance in contemporary cultural discourse, authenticity emerges as a site of tearing tensions between the fictional and the real, original and fake, margin and centre, the same and the other. The essays collected...

Written by a leading scholar of public diplomacy, Boundary Spanners of Humanity introduces a pan-human vision of communication that can revolutionize how we collaborate to solve global problems. Never before has humanity enjoyed better technological...

Health Communication provides coverage of the major areas of interest in the field of health communication, including interpersonal, organizational, and health media. It takes an in-depth approach to health communication research by analyzing and...

Video is a part of everyday life, comparable to driving a car or taking a shower. It is nearly omnipresent, available on demand and attached to nearby anything, anywhere. Online Video became something vital and independent. With all the video created by...

In recent years, the number of nonnative speakers of English in colleges and universities in North America has increased dramatically. As a result, more and more writing teachers have found themselves working with these English as a Second Language (ESL)...

This book is an anthology of landmark essays in rhetorical criticism. In historical usage, a landmark marks a path or a boundary; as a metaphor in social and intellectual history, landmark signifies some act or event that marks a significant achievement...

This volume's purpose is to provide students and scholars of classical rhetoric with a set of exemplary works in the area of Greek rhetorical theory. Many of the articles included here are not easily accessible and have been selected with the intent of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635652741Author Jay HeinrichsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Rodale BooksPublisher Rodale BooksWeight(grams) 136g

Considering Pragma-Dialectics honors the monumental contributions of one of the foremost international figures in current argumentation scholarship: Frans van Eemeren. The volume presents the research efforts of his colleagues and addresses how their...

Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices-computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables-affect nearly all aspects of social life. The contributions to this volume apply...