Communication Studies

A systematic examination of Chinese communication scholarship and comprehensive critique of its theories and methodologies are long overdue, and in this new collection of essays by a multicultural group of scholars, both aims are achieved. Focusing on...

This text reports on an ethnographic study of journal-keeping in a university science class. The author spent a summer semester attending a general education class in geology as a participant observer, took extensive notes, interviewed class members and...

The Jewish Press' purpose is to promote Jewish Orthodoxy. The book explores this popular American Jewish newspaper and more precisely the development of the paper's ideology over a period of forty years offering a new understanding of the phenomenon...

Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639164756Author Greg SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 449g

This book takes a people-centred approach to the ever-fluid and rapidly-transforming professional world of public relations (PR) in the age of digital platforms. As everyday PR work becomes increasingly shaped by the platform economy, this is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666959116Author Mary EricksonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

This book addresses the global need for effective, ethical and evidence-based health communication, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights how health communication can facilitate effective responses to disease threats, build vaccine...

This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both...

The 2008 U.S. election was arguably the most important election of our lifetime: the first African American president was elected to office; the candidacy of Sarah Palin marked only the second time that a major party ticket included a female; and the...

With developments in media technologies creating new opportunities and challenges for social movements to emerge and mobilize, this book is a timely and necessary examination of how organized labour and workers movements are engaging with this shifting...

From serious illness to natural disasters, humans turn to communication as a major source of strength to help us bounce back and to keep growing and thriving. Communicating Hope and Resilience Across the Lifespan addresses the various ways in which...

Public Relations and Journalism in Times of Crisis dissects crisis communication case studies from both the journalists' and the public relations professionals' perspectives. The authors, Andrea Miller, a former journalist, and Jinx Coleman Broussard, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581123746Author Grace Hui Chin LinFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Dissertation.comPublisher Dissertation.comWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 246mm...

A discussion of teaching writing in both computer-supported and traditional classrooms. It addresses areas such as: teaching and learning about writing; classroom dynamics - interaction and classroom design; curriculum design; and the technological...

Describes and analyzes the author's study of collaborative technical writing in an institutional setting - that of a group of nurses composing the writing of a hospital-based project. It discusses issues from writing in a collaborative group to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782511047774Author Businessnews PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Business Book SummariesPublisher Business Book SummariesWeight(grams) 50g

There are as many as 3,400 correspondents covering the United States, among them approximately 600 print and broadcast correspondents from European countries. The importance of the foreign correspondents corps stationed in the United States and of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460256220Author Pat HirstFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 449g

Complementing and extending scholarship in three areas - terrorism; the media, mediated representations, and propaganda in contemporary culture; and the political and diplomatic environment post-9/11 - this book articulates the role of human...

This book features research papers that examine a host of contemporary issues in Thailand. Coverage includes culture, gender violence, tourism, human trafficking, environmental and ecological issues, sustainability and the sufficiency economy, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682850169Author Wade BaxterFormat HardbackImprint Willford PressPublisher Willford PressWeight(grams) 753g

Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural...

Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy - from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West - this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term...

The central focus of the book is the identification of the ways people engage in communicative encounters to (re)constitute personal and social identities. Its aim is to identify some principal themes that have emerged from the ample research on identity...

The latest edition of New Media and Public Relations offers communication scholars, professionals, and students current insights on how emerging technologies challenge and change the rules of stakeholder engagement in corporate, nonprofit, and activist...

Presents thought provoking chapters on subjects of vital importance in our intercultural and international arena.Book InformationISBN 9781567504170Author Michael H. ProsserFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book examines the ways that hatred comes alive in language and discourse. It asks whether much of the discourse on the political right - that which attacks their enemies - is hate speech. Extending Michael Waltman's previous work on hate speech,...

Principles of Logic and Argumentation: Selected Readings and Legal Examples provides readers with an engaging, eclectic collection of articles that explore key concepts and ideas related to critical reasoning and persuasion, including its application...

This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent.Following the media criticism tradition of Habermas and...

The eighth edition of Interpersonal Communication continues the tradition of excellence established by this theory-driven text. Its unique learning model, which emphasizes communication competence, stands at the forefront of the discipline. The goal of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567500448Author Jonathan FineFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

More Than Talk: A Covenantal Approach to Everyday Communication introduces readers to everyday communication principles and practices from a Christian perspective.Featuring an invigorated commitment to social science, humanities, and biblical...

Theories help to troubleshoot gaps in our understanding, and to make sense of a world that is constantly changing. What this book tries to do, in part, is blur the lines between the differences between today's college students - the millennial generation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778142512Author Emma KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Jianfang OuPublisher Jianfang OuWeight(grams) 181g

The purpose of this cutting-edge collection of essays is threefold: first, it presents the principles of data collection and interpretation or the methodological distinctions of a particular method appropriate to technical communication research. Second,...

Social Justice Journalism: A Cultural History of Social Movement Media from Abolition to #womensmarch argues that to better understand the evolution, impact, and future of digital social justice media we need to understand their connections to a...

Contributors to this volume discuss different types of emergencies and conflicts and how challenging these multilingual operational environments are for linguists. The growth in reach and number of international relief operations has exposed the limits...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798823340038Author Lisa CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Cognella Academic PublishingPublisher Cognella Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622734931Author Gavin F HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 263g