Communication Studies

Multimodal meaning construction, a key concept within the field of semiotics, has been the subject of extensive research, contributing to the development of various theoretical and analytical frameworks. Privileging an eclectic approach, the volume...

In this book, Hunter H. Fine establishes a fuller understanding about the ways in which our everyday practices can illuminate aspects of power, representation, social advocacy, and truth.Over four thousand years ago Austronesian seafarers embarked from...

This edited volume assembled by Brigitta R. Brunner and Kelly Chernin serves as an introduction to the emerging field of public interest communications (PIC) and establishes a solid vision for the interdisciplinary field by identifying its foundations,...

This book presents a comprehensive approach for designing messages to influence beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors.Divided into three sections, each focusing on key components of persuasive message design, the book outlines the conceptual and...

By focusing on effective communication strategies and leveraging cutting-edge research, this book offers meaningful progress toward improving mental health outcomes for everyone, with a special emphasis on underserved populations.Health communication...

Move Slowly and Build Bridges tells the story of activists, software developers, artists, and everyday people who have built the fediverse -- a large, noncentralized, alternative social media system. In contrast to big tech corporations like Meta,...

Trolls for Trump', virtual rape, fake news - social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated,...

This edited volume illustrates the function of communication within sport organizations, offering analyses of multiple facets of the industry. Contributors examine a variety of cases including whistleblowing, athlete safeguarding, sexual harassment...

This book offers a corrective to the trend in virtual reality studies that overemphasizes the role of hardware technology and visual/auditory fidelity as the sole means of establishing users' sense of presence, and instead offers a more holistic,...

The second edition of this text introduces key concepts, tools, strategies, measurement and reporting approaches for readers interested in pursuing entry or growth in internal/employee communication, change communications and employee engagement.The book...

Media psychologist Eric Rasmussen explores the vital role of parents in empowering children to make media choices that promote their well-being.Rasmussen challenges prevailing assumptions about human nature in a way that pushes the broader field of human...

With engaging story lines, unpredictable plot twists, and realistic characters, the case studies in Communication and Social Media tackle real-life issues that are relevant for students.Written by communication scholars with specific expertise in social...

This book offers an accessible introduction to psychological theories of attitudes, attitude change, and persuasion. It explores questions of what attitudes are, how people form different attitudes, and how these attitudes can be changed.The book guides...

Presents an argument for a food justice-oriented rhetoric and literacy that shifts the emphasis in the local food movement from individualized conscious eater literacies to addressing the broader social, political, and cultural implications, histories,...

Crisis in a Tweet explores the alarming reality that a single social media post can unleash severe consequences for individuals and organizations alike. Unlike traditional emergencies caused by natural disasters or product failures, social media...

Crisis in a Tweet explores the alarming reality that a single social media post can unleash severe consequences for individuals and organizations alike. Unlike traditional emergencies caused by natural disasters or product failures, social media...

In LiveJournal and Russian Disinformation, J.J. Sylvia IV analyzes the role of blogging platform LiveJournal in Russia's information warfare strategy, examining its evolution and co-optation as a case study. Through rigorous analysis, Sylvia demonstrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935166818Author Elizabeth EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Parkhurst Brothers Publishers IncPublisher Parkhurst Brothers Publishers...

Based on an analysis of 22 crisis cases from 20 countries and NATO (an IGO), this book highlights the link between socio-cultural variables and crisis communication. The book proposes that crisis communication is greatly influenced by an organization's...

The more human knowledge increases, the more signs grow and, with this expansion, the more the boundaries of the science that studies signs also grows. In Semiotics Unbounded, Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio explain the explosion of the sign network in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319247584Author Steven McCornackFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Macmillan Higher EducationPublisher Macmillan Higher EducationWeight(grams)...

Embedded in vibrant and richly textured New Mexican landscapes, Storying Plant Communication: More-than-Human Relationships in New Mexico explores the narrative accounts of southwestern herbalists, healers, teachers, farmers, and other plant enthusiasts...

User-friendly and practical, Dynamics of Media Writing, Fourth Edition prepares your students for professional media writing careers with real-world tips, a new AI-focused chapter, updates on blogging/web writing, and fresh journalist interviews. Packed...

Future Spaces of Power explores political, cultural, and societal narratives of future space(s) on a global scale to complicate the cultural logic of systemic futures that exist outside the boundaries of dominant political imaginaries.Contributors...

Understanding Human Communication addresses students' perception that they already know how to communicate--an issue faced by every faculty member. By artfully weaving cutting-edge academic research and theory into the clear, down-to-earth, and...

This book offers strong rationales for adopting a critical view of health communication by demonstrating how theories and critical practices can be enriched by foregrounding issues of power, politics, and culture.In health communication, critical...

This volume focuses on serious aspects of wordplay related to phenomena of exclusion, complementing previous research where its funny and innocent dimension has been foregrounded.Wordplay is not only an essential means of bonding people and reinforcing...

This edited volume offers an accessible avenue for improving health and well-being by demonstrating the power of narrative in advocating for yourself, your family, and your community. Leading scholars of health communication draw on a variety of...

Move Slowly and Build Bridges tells the story of activists, software developers, artists, and everyday people who have built the fediverse -- a large, noncentralized, alternative social media system. In contrast to big tech corporations like Meta,...

This edited volume both provides and examines different ways of engaging with critical communication pedagogies in an age of crisis acceleration, where crisis communication impacts social systems including political, economic, educational, cultural, and...

Humour has not yet been systematically analysed from a decolonial perspective. This book addresses the coloniality of language in online humour from an interdisciplinary decolonial linguistics approach that places attentional processes at the centre of...

This comprehensive introductory textbook gives students the framework and tools to become great debaters and use those skills to further civil and respectful responses on contentious topics. Focusing on core concepts and skills of research, reasoning,...

Exploring the highly interconnected global media landscape and the rapidly changing modes of communication and human interaction, Propaganda in the Digital Age presents a multi-faceted, global discussion and analysis of propaganda, war, media,...

Exploring the highly interconnected global media landscape and the rapidly changing modes of communication and human interaction, Propaganda in the Digital Age presents a multi-faceted, global discussion and analysis of propaganda, war, media,...

The second edition of Origins, Traditions, and Trends of Organizational Communication provides an updated overview of organizational communication, assessing the field to date and demonstrating a communicational approach to the study of organization...

This book examines the legal and ethical issues that can result when employees express opinions that conflict with those of their employer. It covers seven areas of employment - corporate; government (local, state, and federal); military; law...

This comprehensive introductory textbook gives students the framework and tools to become great debaters and use those skills to further civil and respectful responses on contentious topics. Focusing on core concepts and skills of research, reasoning,...

This book introduces the concept of information sharing as an area of cognitive science, defining it as the process by which speakers depend on "given" information to convey "new" information - an idea crucial to language engineering. Where previous work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319103323Author Steven McCornackFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Bedford BooksPublisher Bedford BooksWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 215mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789500392099Author Tomas de ErfurtFormat PaperbackImprint LosadaPublisher Losada