Communication Studies

This lively and assured book provides a concise and authoritative critical guide to Cultural Studies, using discussion of representative texts and concrete examples from popular culture. As such, it achieves a novel and accessible account of the origins...

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...

What kinds of industries, occupations, and organizational behaviors have been presented on prime time television? This is the first full-length volume to answer this question and summarize quantitative and qualitative studies on the portrayal of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313233814Author Harry M. KibirigeFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal...

This text for communications specialists marks a departure from earlier studies by approaching the subject of communication programs and crisis response holistically, concentrating on how mass communication plans, programs, and campaigns, special event...

In this book, authors mesh two philosophies about language: the whole language approach that is sweeping across reading/learning and current theory of language acquisition pervading the bilingual community. The thrust of most bilingual research is that...

This book identifies, documents, and analyzes the major dimensions of U.S. prime-time TV content. By exmining fictional TV series run in prime-time and on Saturday mornings over three seasons, the author and his research team have put together a...

This book pays special tribute to Professor James D. Halloran at his retirement after 18 years as president of the International Association for Mass Communication Research. Each chapter is a succinct learning unit in the field of mass communications...

This book covers a variety of topics on newspaper and television coverage including the media and voting in presidential elections, coverage of the 1980 debates, the primaries, polls, economics and energy issues, print and broadcast coverage as compared...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893919610Author Andrew ArnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This volume examines the emerging tele-environment in the U.S. and abroad. Chapters deal with the global outlook, policy perspectives, future systems, telecommunictions for national development and problems and prospects for tomorrow's telecommunications...

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...

This volume brings critical theory to bear on a familiar feature of our daily lives- the evening news on television- in order to clarify what it means to talk about hegemony. This book's approach makes accesible to a wider audience another way of seeing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893913656Author Jef VerschuerenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Telecommunications policy research has grown vigorously over the past few years as evidenced by the contributors in this volume. In addition to the sheer amount of research, policy studies have grown in diversity reflecting an industry that now affects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893910983Author Deborah TannenFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilisation without language? Such were the questions at the basis of eighteenth-century debates on the joint evolution of language, mind, and culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213728Author Christopher CarterFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 472g

This broad-ranging book presents an introduction to the issues and debates which are currently central to media studies, drawn from major articles published in the journal Media, Culture & Society in the period 1985 - 1991. The first part outlines...

Winner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the Language & Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association 2007! Much of our talk revolves around accounting for our own and other people's actions. We praise one person and...

Addressing a growing need to examine environmental issues from a cultural perspective, this innovative book adopts a cultural studies approach to reach a deeper understanding of the significance of ecological issues in our lives. Eco-Impacts and the...

This book is the first full-length in-depth treatment of settings as a focal point for planning, organizing and implementing health promotion. The concept of `setting' is fundamental to theory and practice in health promotion. Internationally renowned...

In this book over 30 women describe, from as many perspectives, a veritable revolution in communications that is currently transforming the world's communications system as we know it. The contributors illustrate how this revolution moves through three...

In today's world, identities are no longer built solely within communities of family, neighbourhood, school and work - the media plays an important role in formulating our identities or constructions of self. This volume brings together the usually...

Utilizing the `self-OTHER' perspective as a conceptual foundation, the authors portray and interpret some of the distinctive communication practices in Chinese culture. They examine how self-conception, role and hierarchy, relational dynamics and face...

This unique textbook provides a fresh interpretation of media analysis and cultural studies. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of American popular culture - including Hollywood cinema, presidential elections and the Super Bowl - to demystify...

How does the horror in film relate to the horror we experience in everyday life? This is one of the questions addressed in this examination of the genre of horror film. The author argues that horror films today have broken with the tradition of the genre...

He persuasively demonstrates that horror films are not merely a manifestation of the solitary, unconscious 'I' or cultural abjection. . . . This well-crafted, insightful, and devilishly witty study brings horror out from under the psychoanalytic rock to...

Is there a growing homogenization of the world's popular music? Or, conversely, is there a continuing and perhaps ever increasing diversity of song styles and forms? With a focus is on how the process of popular music production is perceived by local...

The dramatic contribution of grassroots organizations to effecting social change is brought into vivid detail in this unique perspective on women from around the globe. Each contributor has been instrumental in grassroots processes of media production or...

This book provides a theoretical account of a variety of different communicative aspects of silence and explores new ways of studying socially-motivated language. A research overview shows the influence of related work in the fields of media studies,...

This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning their adaptation...

How are the perceptions of the majority culture, the `preferred readings', reflected in television news? How do they reinforce stereotyped attitudes on race? This interpretive analysis presents evidence of racism, including under-representation, within...

The key to the future of communications is convergence, the coming together of broadcasting, cable and telecommunications services to form the new media world. The first comprehensive analysis of the conditions that have prompted a convergence of the...

Media effects - a key area of media studies - is traditionally provocative and often controversial. Contemporary issues such as violence on television and children's dependence on television are continually debated. Tuning In to Young Viewers provides a...

The multiplicity of voices in this volume illustrate the contradictions inherent in multicultural and feminist perspectives on the media. This book breaks new ground by exploring intersecting variables of oppression, from the personal to the political...

Recent research in the area of public opinion has focused most of its attention on the effect of the mass media, television in particular, as an influencing agent. The author argues that media effects are only half of the equation; the mass media cannot...

Marian Meyers explores evidence that shows that news coverage in North American cities routinely depicts criminal violence against females differently from the way it depicts violence against males. She argues that this serves to perpetuate traditional,...

Combining current theories and research with practical illustrations, this book examines communication within organizations between people of different cultural backgrounds. Highlighting ways in which misunderstandings arise, contributors show how to...