Communication Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798823346566Author Deanna D SellnowFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Cognella Academic PublishingPublisher Cognella Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

What do druglords, corrupt politicians, failed states and distopias, mental disorders, scamming practices and feminism have in common? They all are actors and products of the complex intersections between money and crime that not only permeate our daily...

Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news from a number of different countries. It examines what viewers of television news think about foreign...

By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The digital turn hereby implies that...

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...

This book discusses the personal and social lives of e-actors interacting within the socio-technical structures of the evolving broadband society by exploring the different ways in which individuals, social groups, institutions, operators, manufactures,...

The Internet's explosive growth over the past decade is nowhere more visible than in Asia. Fueled by an expanding middle class, thousands of people connect to the Internet for the first time each day to explore and discuss issues that are relevant to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765790229Author Ruben Brent DFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyPublisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337089072Author Jianping XieFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint American Academic PressPublisher American Academic PressWeight(grams)...

Despite its low penetration in China's vast rural areas, the Internet is generally perceived as a new engine for rural empowerment. By examining five Internet application initiatives in rural China, this book offers a unique view of the diffusion and...

This volume represents a collection of recent thinking and research on the social and cultural aspects of contemporary broadband societies by exploring the social experiences and practices of using new information and communication technologies (ICT)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960672234Author Martin a M GansingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anchor Academic PublishingPublisher Anchor Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039111824Author Paul GillaertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 370g

In Conflict and Communication, author Fred Jandt's years of research, teaching, and consulting experience shine through in every chapter, offering a rich blend of theoretical depth and practical strategies to understanding and managing conflict across...

This book presents the latest developments in translation and interpreting (T&I), which has been at the forefront to face the challenges brought by COVID-19. The contributions in the book contain both quantitative and qualitative empirical studies as...

This book approaches the issue of ideology in specialized communication in professional, institutional and disciplinary settings across domains as diverse as law, healthcare, corporate management, migration, NGOs, etc. What unites the contributors is...

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...

Sexy Girls, Heroes and Funny Losers: Gender Representations in Children's TV around the World presents the most comprehensive study to date of gender images on children's television. Conducted in 24 countries around the world, the study employed...

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...

This book presents the latest developments in translation and interpreting (T&I), which has been at the forefront to face the challenges brought by COVID-19. The contributions in the book contain both quantitative and qualitative empirical studies as...

For many weeks, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 dominated the newspapers which covered the consequences with an unprecedented immediateness. This study looks at diverging representations of 9/11 in U.S. and German newspapers (New York Times, Washington...

Globalism, Tribalism, and the Quest for Pluralism: Media's Changing Impact explores and explains the inherent tension throughout history between humankind's global and tribal impulses. The text describes globalisation as an outlook that can imply a...

This volume gets beyond simple descriptions of the values and processes involved in community media and is deliberately seeking argument and structured debate around the issues of this vibrant sector of the media. The contributors examine the dilemmas...

Intercultural Communication: Pathways to Better Interactions empowers students to know what to do when they encounter cultural difference in talk. The book gives them strategies for identifying and making sense of cultural difference, and for using that...

This collection of essays examines the relationship between the media and cosmopolitanism in an increasingly fragmented and globalizing world. This relationship is presented from multiple perspectives and the essays cover, amongst other themes,...

Featuring contributed chapters written by experts in the communication discipline, Social Media and Close Relationships provides readers with a dynamic exploration of the interplay between technology, social media, and personal interactions. The book...

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...

Advances in Intergroup Communication is a timely contribution to the field. It reflects developments in older, more established intergroup settings (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, organizations) whilst introducing newer studies such as the military...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631360484Author Eija VentolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 490g