Communication Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656566816Author Gebhard DeisslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 1mm

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...

The authors in Narrative and Professional Communication contribute innovative research in a number of areas. Their scholarship situates narrative as integral to science writing and managerial communication, and to the discourse of health-care...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567503210Author Katherine StaplesFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604976472Author Marie Baker-OhlerFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Recent instances of global crisis reporting on climate change and the financial crisis are early embryos of a new form of journalism that is increasingly needed in global times: global journalism. Instead of associating global journalism with national...

This volume examines the role of history in the study of new media and of newness itself, discussing how the 'new' in new media must be understood to be historically constructed. Furthermore, the new is constructed with an eye on the future, or more...

Today, the Japanese nation faces an identity crisis as it attempts to contend with the misfortunes endured in the 1990s: a downward economic spiral, a renewed crime wave, political corruption, and the failure of the government to take bold, new steps in...

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...

The concept of crowdfunding, where grassroots creative projects are funded by the masses through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, has been steadily gaining attention over the last few years. Crowdfunding the Future undertakes a dynamic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791259914972Author Gianluca SpositoFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint IntraPublisher IntraWeight(grams) 159g

This book examines the relationship between communication and organizational structure. It demonstrates that organizational structure must align itself with communication structure for effective performance. A detailed table of the communication process...

This edited book explores the rising interest in minimal languages - radically simplified languages using cross-translatable words and grammar, fulfilling the widely-recognised need to use language which is clear, accessible and easy to translate. The...

Links the role of civic discourse and communication to their connections to civil society, both domestically and on a global basis.Book InformationISBN 9781567504095Author K. S. SitaramFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

Continuing the explorations begun in the first Produsing Theory volume, this book provides a site at which varied theories - some still emerging - can intersect and shine a light into the spaces between what previously had been neatly separated and...

From high-tech kitchen gadgets and magazines to the Food Network, the last few decades have seen a huge rise in food-focused consumption, media, and culture. The discourses surrounding food range from media coverage of school lunchrooms and hunger...

This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family communication processes. Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, the volume includes...

Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship. Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemocratic adversary of philosopher John Dewey in a legendary debate in the 1920s about the role of the public...

The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in the numbers of Asian students in North American institutions of higher learning. While their academic success has been widely recognized, concerns about their silence in classrooms have also been...

On October 9-12, 1996, over 400 scholars, researchers, and teachers gathered at the University of Louisville for the first Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. History, Reflection, and Narrative combines oral histories and reflections...

Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps explores representations of Black women in one of the most powerful, popular forms of reality television - the docusoap. Viewers, critics, and researchers have taken issue with what they consider to be...

This book comprises a range of general discussions on tradition and innovation in the methodology used in discourse studies (Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Argumentation Theory, Rhetoric, Philosophy) and a number of empirical applications of such...

This book explores the effectiveness of the Chinese government's recent public diplomacy efforts aimed at building its national image, and how these efforts may influence foreign public's view of China. Based on in-depth interviews, media-content...

The Thong Principle has little to do with beachwear and everything to do with effective communication. It's about ensuring messages are successful for the sender - and the receiver. The book delves into the elements that comprise successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793506788Author Betsy Wackernagel BachFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Cognella Academic PublishingPublisher Cognella Academic...

This volume is a major contribution to the trans-national debate on public relations research and communication management. It presents dominant concepts and findings from the scientific community in Germany in English language. At the same time, the...