Communication Studies

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This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people who use these forms. The essays attend to evaluations of speech...

Computer games are increasingly prevalent, and cause both curiosity and concern in the general public, so understanding these games and play is important. Game researchers need to work quickly to document, report, and analyse the effect on our modern...

This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots...

The stories that are told about the death of Osama bin Laden are interculturally significant as a reminder of the many culturally contested junctures, fissures, and ruptures that circulate in the "true" stories that are told about Operation...

The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the power of suggestive techniques for solving medical problems. In everyday practice health professionals often face situations where they have to handle people in negative trance states. When that happens,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956578450Author M. GoliamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 398g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516581849Author Joseph P MazerFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Cognella Academic PublishingPublisher Cognella Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 649g

This book examines a writing activity that has recently fallen into disrepute. Outlining has a bad reputation among students, even though many teachers and textbooks still recommend the process. In part, the author argues, the medium is to blame. Paper...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607325048Author Ryan SkinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 325g

Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life brings together a group of esteemed international scholars to focus on the important, complex, and mutually reinforcing relationships between sport, beer, and gender in fashioning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656083153Author Rohan HandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 45g

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The action theoretical approach has already proved its value as a framework for communication research, most especially in the study of media audiences and media use. It has deep roots in Weberian sociology, symbolic interactionism and phenomenology and...

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...

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Online journalism has taken center stage in debates about the future of news. Instead of speculating, this volume offers rich empirical evidence about actual developments in online newsrooms. The authors use ethnographic methodologies to provide a vivid,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656563211Author Michaela StrobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884154447Author August E GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Technology Futures, Inc.Publisher Technology Futures, Inc.Weight(grams) 803g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656009115Author Verena SticklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 41g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627344944Author Michael J GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783346057433Author Hussien SalahFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 41g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640830749Author Michael LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 54g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656566816Author Gebhard DeilerFormat PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 59g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656173106Author Steffen PlutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783844307788Author Joseph EynaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Internet is a complex environment that affords many practices while constraining others. The challenge is to develop languages and tools to critically engage with these environments and to navigate the topology of being a citizen in a technologically...

Since colonization, dominant ideologies of «race» have been visualized and communicated through advertising. At its core, this book delineates the continuities and changes in what is termed the «colonial racial script» within global advertising...

In today's digital age, online and mobile advertising are of growing importance, with advertising no longer bound to the traditional media industry. Although the advertising industry still has broader access to the different measures and channels, users...

Throughout the political spectrum, successful arguments often rely on fear appeals, whether implicit or explicit. Dominant arguments prey on people’s fears – of economic failure, cultural backwardness, or lack of personal safety. Counterarguments feed on...

This book explores the roles played by creative and conventional metaphor in expressing positive and negative evaluation within a particular workplace, drawing on interviews with 31 current and former employees of the British Civil Service.Metaphor is...

Through an exclusive focus on public policy advocacy as a practical endeavor, Philip Dalton and John R. Butler depart from approaches to debate education that focus on the rules of simulated, academic debate formats. Beginning with the assumption that...

This book examines the use of language in face-to-face encounters between some university students and their academic counselors. It describes the role language plays in shaping institutional role identities, in accomplishing institutional tasks 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...

Social Judgment and Intergroup Relations: Essays in Honor of Muzafer Sherif is a stimulating collection which paints a crisp and fascinating picture of social psychology during its decades of growth into a mature science. With his important contributions...

Today, academics, business professionals and private persons alike need to communicate successfully and establish relationships with people from various cultures through digital means. These skills have now become essential in virtual environments. This...

Using both a theoretical argumentation and an empirical investigation, this book rationalizes the view that in order to understand people's privacy perceptions and behaviors, a situational perspective needs to be adopted. To this end, the book is divided...

This book addresses the socio-technical constitution of civic communication in increasingly digital democracies. Despite problematic phenomena like hate speech in online commenting, it argues that citizens' potential for resisting technological...

This is the 14th volume in a series that compiles research from a wide spectrum of disciplines, offering reviews of the areas that fall within the rubrics of information and communication science, as well as providing an overview of how people use...