Communication Studies

This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of 'the public' or 'public life', and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or...

Media and Information Literacy: An Integrated Approach for the 21st Century provides a novel rationale for the integration of media and information literacy and gives direction to contemporary media and information literacy education. The book takes a...

Facilitating Interracial Dialogues About Race presents an exploration into the lived experiences of people in organizations conducting interracial dialogues on race. Utilizing focus groups, interviews, and other primary materials, the book highlights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781806210473Author Christopher FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm)...

Lacan in Public argues that Lacan's contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan's entire body of work.Scholars typically cite Jacques Lacan as a thinker primarily...

Commercial sex is the occupation of a significant portion of the women of the world, providing economic support for millions of people and their families. Working at the Bar is the first-ever, long-term, longitudinal, in-depth study of a large sex work...

In an increasingly global society, the ability to identify a culture's visual aesthetics helps us localize messages for better understanding and resonance with targeted audiences. But how do we identify the visual cues that specific cultures respond to?...

Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567501605Author Dennis K. MumbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 340g

This work originates from the need to develop an integrated dynamic model of negation in discourse that is adequate for understanding the role of negation in an extensive and complex piece of discourse. Most work on negation is strongly influenced by...

New technologies and new media have significantly influenced the process of political communication. They have created new opportunities such as the great interactivity of communication, the personalization of a message or an uncountable number of...

The Communication Capstone: The Communication Inquiry and Theory Experience is the first textbook explicitly designed for graduating seniors in a Communication Capstone course, whether taught in small or large sections, or taught as a conceptual review...

The title of this volume intentionally echoes that of a landmark issue of Textus on "Languaging" in and across Human Groups, edited by Giuseppina Cortese and Dell Hymes in 2001, since the notion of 'languaging' seems to capture most effectively the...

Performative Listening: Hearing Others in Qualitative Research offers an alternative theory of listening - as a performative act, or as a relational stance and performance in which listeners ethically engage in an act of learning from others across...

Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of...

This volume presents state-of-the-art reporting on how to measure many of the key variables in health communication. While the focus is on quantitative measures, the editors argue that these measures are centrally important to the study of health...

From Digital to Analog delves into the origins of digitization and its effects on contemporary culture. The book challenges the "common sense" assertion that digitization is just another step in the evolution of the culture of the editorial, film and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631517253Author Zdzislaw WasikFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 220g

Proposes a theory and case studies on repairing a damaged or threatened image or reputation.In our constantly plugged-in and connected world, image is everything. People, groups, organizations, and countries frequently come under suspicion of wrongdoing...

Links the role of civic discourse and communication to their connections to civil society, both domestically and on a global basis.About the AuthorK.S. SITARAM is Professor of Radio-Television at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. MICHAEL H...

Communicating the Environment Beyond Photography is a modern look at how photographers visualize what is happening to people and places on a changing planet. Michelle I. Seelig draws attention to what compels photographers to focus on these important...

Neil Postman's most popular work, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), provided an insightful critique of the effects of television on public discourse in America, arguing that television's bias towards entertaining content trivializes serious issues and...

The interrelationship between journalism and public relations (PR) is one of the most contentious in the field of media studies. Numerous studies have shown that 50-80 per cent of the content of mass media is significantly shaped by PR. But many editors,...

Winner of the Surveillance Studies Network Book Award: 2017Surveillance is a common feature of everyday life. But how are we to make sense of or understand what surveillance is, how we should feel about it, and what, if anything, can we do? Surveillance...

In Openings, award-winning author Michael Hyde provides a fascinating meditation on the ethical dimensions of human communication. With the breadth and depth of learning for which Hyde has become renowned, Openings engages philosophy, science, the arts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788759340028Author Gitte Gravengaard, (dec.)Format PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint SamfundslitteraturPublisher SamfundslitteraturWeight(grams) 976g

This book traces the pedagogical evolution of technical communication in America as it grew out of Engineering English requirements from roughly the turn of the century to 1950. This study examines specific curricular patterns, texts, and writers on the...

Continuing the explorations begun in the first Produsing Theory volume, this book provides a site at which varied theories - some still emerging - can intersect and shine a light into the spaces between what previously had been neatly separated and...

What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew McStay draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refreshingly novel approach to privacy matters. Against the...

This edited volume explores how to effectively and ethically conduct social science research and work with marginalized and vulnerable populations. The contributors draw on their own studies to guide readers through the main phases of research, including...

This fifth edition of the bestselling textbook is a major new revision, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language.Demystifying what is a complex, highly interdisciplinary field,...

Caleb T. Carr introduces students to fundamental concepts, theories, and applications of computer-mediated communication. Building on CFO, SIP, SIDE, and hyperpersonal CMC theories, this engaging text gives students a framework for human communication...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666950069Author Minos-Athanasios KaryotakisFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666968668Author Tammy R VigilFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666964257Author Nina GjociFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666965667Author Angela M McGowan-KirschFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666932423Author Valerie Ellen KretzFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

This book is a provocative and fresh look into how Black women display an authentic identity in the face of constant negative images and portrayals of themselves in the media over time. Idrissa N. Snider explores noteworthy occurrences when prominent...

The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure brings together a variety of scholars and research across disciplines, with an emphasis on communication and gender studies, to work toward reimagining the idea of failure. Contributors consider failure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666955309Author Dhiraj MurthyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books