Communication Studies

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

Technological advances have revolutionized communications, connecting people on a previously unthinkable scale. They have supported communities in times of crisis, elevated marginalized voices and helped mobilize global movements for racial justice and...

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...

Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media is an innovative collection of contemporary data-driven research and theorizing about how digital and social media are affecting and changing nearly every aspect of family interaction over 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...

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

On July 20, 1969, Americans not only landed on the Moon, but the televised spectacle forever changed the ways in which news and commentary about historical events would be presented to audiences. In The Rhetoric of Project Apollo, Kathy Previs provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666904598Author Mia Long AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793655202Author Laura Blount CarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666946437Author Mark WardFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

With the rapid and ubiquitous spread of urban light pollution, nocturnal darkness has become a rare and neglected experience. In response to the steady decline of gloom, researchers working across multiple disciplines have sought to understand the...

Sigmund Freud's theories and clinical practices focused primarily on individuals. As such, they are rarely considered when critiquing collective behavior or symbolic re-presentations. However, as the founder of depth psychology - a field of study that...

Organizational Communication helps students understand their communication as participants in organizations throughout their lifetimes. It begins with how pre-career experiences influence our expectations for organizational experiences and ends with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666959147Author Luigi MancaFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Document Design introduces students to the basic principles and theories of design, combining practical advice about the design process with a foundation in visual rhetoric and usability. Most books on document design lean toward either theory or...

Literacy. Numeracy. Oracy?A manifesto on transformative power of finding your voice: a key driver of social mobility and an essential skill for our personal and professional lives.For generations our education system has been built on the twin pillars of...

Digital Technology and Communication Policy in Korea: From Infrastructure to Artificial Intelligence explores the overlap of politics, policy, and digital development in Korea. Despite attention to digital development and its socio-economic effects...

This book explores the urgent challenges of communicating climate change in the media. While many books have been written about climate change, this book goes to the very heart of what makes humans care about stories enough to act. In a direct and...

Reimagining Democracy: Communication Activism, Social Justice, and Prefiguration in Participatory Budgeting presents findings from a multi-year, community-based, critical ethnography of two participatory budgeting (PB) processes in Denver, Colorado...

This unique inquiry into the history and ongoing moral significance of mass communication also represents a defense, extension, and overhaul of the idea and social form of the discipline. Organized around narrative accounts of individuals and their...

In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was...

This work was developed for graduate students, professors, and others involved in research in the social sciences. This practical work emphasizes that science is more than an organized body of knowledge. It is a method of reasoned thinking that manages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893910976Author Deborah TannenFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893910389Author Richard P. DuranFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

This book deals with the past, present, and possible future of minority languages. It begins with a number of relevant concepts in macro-sociolinguistics as a background for analyzing the problems associated with minority languages. The fundamental...

Dallas W. Smythe has made important contributions to the study of the political economy of communications, as well as to the critical study of communication and information. His work has probed the neglected corners of the academic study of communication...