Communication Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682851050Author Cassandra YoungFormat HardbackImprint Willford PressPublisher Willford PressWeight(grams) 803g

In academic colloquia the most privileged and noble mission of universities is exercised: the advancing and testing of ideas, the production of truth and knowledge, an activity that is nothing less than the the essential sound for a place of thought...

In recent years, computer content analysis has undergone something of a renaissance. Inexpensive and powerful desktop computers mean that computer analysis of texts is available to most researchers. The availability of software to do analyses, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410212399Author Jasper Ewing BradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Employing a discourse analytical approach this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humour to illustrate how discursive performances of leadership are influenced by gender and workplace culture. Far from being a superfluous strategy that...

Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle...

Ethical Problems in Mass Media challenges students to examine and analyze, as both consumers and potential creators, ethical issues in mass communication on a variety of levels. Beginning with a discussion of key ethical philosophers and frameworks and...

Advances in digital technology over the past two decades have created a wide array of new media platforms, channels, and delivery mechanisms. Through these, people can receive staggering amounts of content. As a result, both consumers and producers of...

Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and other fiction with strong romantic plots. Contributors' approaches range from sociolinguistics to cultural...

Feminist Mentoring in Academia offers a varied collection of autoethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle, and resilience from the ivory tower. Contributors write about the moments in-between, where feminist mentoring initiates,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666951059Author Paul CookFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Crisis Communication Reader provides students with a carefully selected collection of articles to help them better understand the heritage and practice of crisis communication. The anthology defines the discipline and provides a framework to understand...

Teaching Communication is an innovative series designed to help communication instructors develop a course for the first time or to guide teacher-trainers as they work with new teachers in formal classroom settings or informal mentoring sessions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793513373Author Audrey ZennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Cognella Academic PublishingPublisher Cognella Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 178g

The readings in the anthology Readings in Communication Research Methods are written by communication researchers who share true stories of how they use particular research methods within their own research programs. The book helps students understand...

Pragmatic Public Speaking: A Workshop Approach to Real World Speeches explains why speaking well is a necessary tool for professional success, and how to speak well in a variety of situations and genres. Using a workbook format, each chapter of the book...

This book explores how political crisis talk, even false, can thread its way into the media and impact public opinion, legislation and everyday lives.Grounded in theory and supported by data, this text illustrates the powerful presence of the media in...

Small Group Communication: Readings and Reflections provides students with a collection of articles that introduce key concepts, ideas, and theories regarding the dynamics of communication within small groups.Unit I provides strategies for creating...

Interpersonal Communication: The Within and The Between explores the intricacies of interpersonal communication, focusing on the interconnectedness of the cognitive, emotional, cultural, social, and biological aspects of individuals (the within) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538191002Author Caleb T CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Strategic Communication Research Methods provides students with the knowledge and tools they will need to use and conduct research effectively in their careers. While theory and methods are emphasized throughout, the focus on cultivating transferable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737489535Author Rodney G. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Parula PressPublisher Parula Press

Christine L. Nystrom’s provocative work offers up a fresh approach to ongoing—and increasingly urgent—questions about the role of symbols and technology in shaping human experience. In lucid, lively, and always-accessible prose, she examines an eclectic...

The book’s focus is on freedom of speech and what content can place it in jeopardy. The sources, discussions and limitations of free speech, the relationship between ideology, freedom of speech in the media, and public issues are analyzed. From...

Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities aggregates sport and health communication into a collective resource that advances scholarly inquiry at the intersection of these two fields. Through bringing together a...

This volume brings together a range of papers that fruitfully engage with the theme of the 2017 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, held in San Diego, California: Interventions. Here "intervention" points to a...

This book identifies and analyzes priorities, themes, projects and publications in the world's leading communication research institutes, centers and doctoral programs. It also presents an assessment of the state and future of communication research by...

This collection, edited by Jim A. Kuypers, analyzes genres of public communication to examine how the pandemic has impacted specific areas of scholarship within the communication discipline. Contributors begin each chapter by acknowledging the parameters...

Silence, Civility, and Sanity addresses the reclamation of civil communication and healthy public conversation at a time when people are very divided. Throughout this book, Stephanie Bennett focuses on the importance of silence to temper speech and...

The eighth edition of The Dynamics of Persuasion again guides readers in understanding the power and limits of persuasion in contemporary society. This edition continues its accessible and detailed illustration of the theoretical underpinnings of...

This edited book aims at bringing together a range of contemporary expertise that can shed light on the relationship between media pluralism in Latin America and processes of democratization and social justice. In doing so, the authors of the book...

Hyperlocal Organizing: Collaborating for Recovery Over Time explores the difficult work of post-disaster recovery. Jack L. Harris, demonstrates that after disaster, broad interorganizational landscapes are needed to unite the grassroots, neighborhoods,...

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This book presents the history of investigative journalism in the United States. It includes biographical details of various journalists and writers who wrote about possible wrongdoing by businesses and state or federal employees. Several of those...

Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a public self. It examines the trajectory of a practice that embodies this sociocultural shift in fundamental...

Communication Ethics: Promoting Truth, Responsibility, and Civil Discourse in a Polarized Age is intended to teach students how to ethically communicate in a world where it has become difficult to navigate the strains of perceived difference...

This book examines the convergence of media in the largest residential virtual community to date in the gaming world: Second Life. This user content–driven platform has brought media makers and audiences together in interactive environments where news,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567503135Author University Brian HuotFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

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...

While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary...