Communication Studies

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893917234Author Brenda L. DervinFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorsher /f Sue d /f Alexandra /i DundasBook InformationISBN 9780893912826Author Sue C. FisherFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

This book presents a perspective on the role of modeling that has relevance to both practice and theory. The authors provide an empirical assessment of the role of computer models in urban policy decisions, presenting a survey and four detailed case...

Thus far, the communications revolution has been largely limited to the merely technological feat of converging telecommunications with personal computing. But does it hold a truly higher promise--to transform communication as a human act of sharing...

From the food we eat, to the clothes we wear, to the values that shape our realities, Globalization has affected nearly every aspect of modern life on this planet. Contributors to this book suggest that globalization is supplanting Cold War ideology and...

Kramer brings together experts from a variety of minority backgrounds and from around the world to give their perspectives on the most pervasive ideology today, globalism. The basic premise is that a developed country is different from a developed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893912697Author Bruce AustinFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

This book provides a general overview of barriers to women's advancement in organizations, especially those subtle barriers created by unconscious bias in evaluating women's work and misunderstanding differences in the communication and managerial styles...

Offering a practical theory for why people make decisions about revealing and concealing private information, Boundaries of Privacy taps into everyday problems in our personal relationships, our health concerns, and our work to investigate the way we...

Why do people read newspapers? How is community possible in an urban setting? Answers to both these questions have been attempted in the theorizing of urban sociologist and in journalist accounts of the role of local newspapers. Newspapers are said to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893914134Format HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

This is a comprehensive analysis of the Third World based on three historical currents: independence, liberation, and revolution. The author puts forth the philosophy that the struggle of the Third World for a new international economic, information, and...

Based on a wide variety of press reports and other sources, this volume describes the rapid global spread of VCRs and cassettes, often by illegal means, into even those countries where censorship is the rule and information control has been for hundreds...

This volume explores the multiple and complex relationship between classrooms and literacy through four major themes: community, cognitive consequences, access, and power. Chapters emphasize community dynamics in exploring the relationship between...

The 1980s witnessed a rapid growth of communication technology and an immense expansion of new media around the globe. The development of new information and communication technologies has emphasized again the importance of economic, social, political,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893917302Author Gerald M. PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The book examines the system used to produce professional communicators in the United States, compares the system to that of other countries, and examines the impact of the system on the field of mass communications. In addition, it explores the...

Focusing on pioneers in journalism, contemporary media professionals, and scholars in interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication, this book provides full profiles of 48 outstanding women in communication. Each profile examines the woman's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893913793Format PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893917562Author Gladys D. GanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authornson /f JaniceBook InformationISBN 9780893918651Author Janice HansonFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820467399Author Jake HarwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 390g

The volume examines the role of telecommunications in the development process. While it seems obvious that telecommunications contribute to the efficient operation and productive growth of an economy, telecommunications may be a cause, a consequence, and...

A critique of conventional approaches to communication research, the authors argue that the impact of gender on research practives has been ignored. By exploring gender issues, and conducting applied research in the areas of mass and interpersonal...

This book is intended as a textbook for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative broadcast systems, international broadcasting, and international communication. It also serves as a reference source for professionals in these fields and as...

"Strictly speaking", James Carey wrote, "there is no history of mass communication research." This volume is a long-overdue response to Carey's comment about the field's ignorance of its own past. The collection includes essays of historiographical...

This is the fourteenth annual volume of the Index to International Public Opinion. It includes data from public opinion polls from more than 130 countries and geographical regions. All tables contain total sample results, and many also include analysis...

Our everyday lives are inevitably touched--and immeasurably enriched--by an extraordinary variety of miniature forms of verbal communication, from classified ads to street signs, and from yesterday's graffito to tomorrow's headline. Celebrating our long...

Engaged Persuasion in a Post-Truth World provides an innovative approach to inspire students' interest in persuasive communication in today's ever-evolving world. The book moves beyond theory and addresses new media, engaged citizenship, and...

This book is a definitive guide to using Right to Information (RTI) or Freedom of Information (FOI) or Access to Information (ATI) for journalists, journalism students, social activists, researchers and concerned citizens. In the age of fake news, the...