Communication Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615359212Author Brita LindFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint WWW.Giraffejuice.comPublisher WWW.Giraffejuice.comWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication provides a comprehensive review of research in the strategic communication domain and offers educators and graduate-level students a compilation of approaches to and studies of varying aspects of the...

Feminists have long recognized the significance of the media as a site for the expression of - or challenges to - existing constructions of gender. In this broad-ranging analysis, Liesbet van Zoonen explores the ways in which feminist theory and research...

After everything that's happened, how is it possible that conservatives still win debates about the economy? Time and again the right wins over voters by claiming that their solutions are only common sense, even as their tired policies of budgetary...

An essential guide to the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societiesThanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. How did information become so central to our everyday lives? This book traces the global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993327209Author Vilem FlusserFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Metaflux PublishingPublisher Metaflux PublishingWeight(grams) 68g

Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970066411Author Susan Presby KodishFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Extensional PublishingPublisher Extensional PublishingWeight(grams) 332g

This second edition of Basic Content Analysis is completely updated and offers a concise introduction to content analysis methods from a social science perspective. It includes new computer applications, new studies and an additional chapter on problems...

Combining the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction, along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to the field. ...

Exploring power and participation in a connected world. Social media are all around us. For many, they are the first things to look at upon waking and the last thing to do before sleeping. Integrated seamlessly into our private and public lives, they...

The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our lives and subjecting us to unprecedented surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced 'smart' technologies are not as all-powerful as...

Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States explores the concept and treatment of hate speech in light of escalating social tensions in the global twenty-first century, proposing a shift in emphasis from the negative protection of individual rights...

Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks struggle to comprehend. A consensus is emerging that the power of these new digital monopolies is...

The contentious role of social media in recent elections and referendums has brought to the fore once again the fundamental question of media freedom and the extent to which, and the way in which, the media should be regulated in a modern democratic...

Do you call it April Fools' Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin' Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall or the Backend? When you're out of breath, do you pant, puff, pank, tift or thock?The words we use (and the sounds we make when we use...

New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that...

Interviewing for Journalists focuses on the central journalistic skill of how to ask the right questions in the right way. It is a practical and concise guide for all print and online journalists - professionals, students and trainees - who write news...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820481265Author Lee ArtzFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 380g

Protocol to Manage Relationships Today explains the contemporary value of protocol, not only for monarchies or diplomatic institutes, but for any non-profit or for-profit organisation. This book presents modern protocol as a tool to build strong,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906165321Author Adrian BinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 340g

This is not simply a book about 'internet studies'. It is a book that considers many wider forms of digital culture, including mobile technologies, surveillance, algorithms, ambient intelligence, gaming, big data and technological bodies (to name a...

There is growing emphasis in Health Communication on the study of communication processes that aim to change systems, policies, beliefs, attitudes, and/or behaviors for the betterment of the health of individuals and communities. Engagement on behalf of...

What makes a city smart? The Smart City in a Digital World takes on this question by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. In the wake of the 2008 global financial...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as something extraordinary, a dream--or a nightmare--that awakens metaphysical questions on human life. Yet far from a distant technology of the future, the true power of AI lies in its subtle revolution of...

Would you read this book if a computer wrote it? Would you even know? And why would it matter? Today's eerily impressive artificial intelligence writing tools present us with a crucial challenge: As writers, do we unthinkingly adopt AI's time-saving...

Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field, The Handbook of Conversation Analysis brings together contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable information resource...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989120286Author Jason MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Jason MillerPublisher Jason MillerWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm

Corrosive work relationships are like black holes that swallow up energy that people need to do their jobs. In contrast, high-quality relationships generate and sustain energy, equipping people to do work and do it well. Grounded in solid research, this...

This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field, and a new preface by the editor. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and...

This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974097039Author Bennie Bough Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint GoalMindsPublisher GoalMindsWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

"A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars... It introduces an insightful, inspiring, and inviting way of making sense of the messiness without losing hope of changing things." - Nishant Shah, Chinese University of...

This book shows how language can be used strategically to manipulate beliefs. From Machiavelli to P. T. Barnum to Donald Trump, many have perfected the art of strategically using language to gain the upper hand, set a tone, change the subject, or...

An expert on professional communications teaches women how to transform themselves by shedding weak phrases, gestures and words, in order to command respect, motivate, establish authority, and make a difference.About the AuthorPhyllis Mindell, Ed.D.,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733432405Author Robyn PenmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint CMM InstitutePublisher CMM InstituteWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

This distinctive volume offers a thorough examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped. Editors Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant employ an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conceptualizing and examining media. They...

As the arts become an increasingly popular pedagogical tool in writing studies, Arts-Based Research Methods in Writing Studies offers scholars and educators in the field ways to leverage the arts for their own scholarship through the practice of...

INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the...

Communication Skills that Heal addresses the concerns of both patients and medical professionals regarding communication under time constraints. It challenges current communication concepts in healthcare and weaves together anecdotes, theory, principles...