Communication category: 5490 books
Communication in Eastern Europe
The Role of History, Culture, and Media in Contemporary Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume represents a clear attempt to learn something from the events in Eastern European countries. It does not start with simplistic or old assumptions based on convenient Western communication models, but instead takes a new approach. If chaos theory could fundamentally change how physicists...
Communication of Politics
Cross-Cultural Theory Building in the Practice of Public Relations and Political Marketing: 8th Inte
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Learn how political marketing and public relations affect the electoral process!
Communication of Politics: Cross-Cultural Theory Building in the Practice of Public Relations and Political Marketing examines how communication and marketing experts influence politics. The book reviews the state...
Messages
An Introduction to Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This brief introductory textbook to the field of communication offers the advantages of Arthur Asa Berger’s informal writing style and flair for popular culture examples aimed to engage students. Designed for the basic course in communication departments, Berger introduces the key theorists who...
Effective Communication
A Guide for the People Professions
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
This new edition of an essential text offers a clear and informative introduction to the subtleties and practical complexities of communication. Drawing on a wide-ranging theory base from across the social sciences, it demonstrates how key ideas from a number of disciplines provide a sound foundation...
Mediating the Human Body
Technology, Communication, and Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
The ever-increasing integration of technology and the human body is attracting attention from religious, business, and political leaders around the world, and the topic promises to be a significant social issue in the 21st century. In Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion,...
Communication and Law
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Communication and Law brings together scholars from law and communication to talk both generally and specifically about the theoretical and methodological approaches one can use to study the First Amendment and general communication law issues. The volume is intended to help graduate students and...
Mobile Communication
Bringing Us Together and Tearing Us Apart
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Mobile Communication covers a wide range of topics. These include the replacement of co-present interaction with mediated contact and analysis of mobile-based cohesion and gender. The authors also explore the role of media choice and its effect on the quality as well as quantity of social cohesion....
by Ashan Academy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Communication and Analysis Skills is a textbook for use to students. It has five chapters, which cover aspects of one-to-one communication and communication within a group, presentation skills, personal grooming and research skills, which are topics relevant to students because they prepare them...
Say What You Really Mean!
How Women Can Learn to Speak Up
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Most of us claim to value honesty and openness in communication, but we often settle for insincerity and ambiguity. We valiantly try to say what we mean, all the while using words, attitudes, and expressions that sabotage the real message. Results can be frustrating, or even devastating.
A...
Communication as Comfort
Multiple Voices in Palliative Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
This exceptional work explores the complexities of communication at one of the most critical stages of the life experience--during advanced, serious illness and at the end of life. Challenging the predominantly biomedical model that informs much communication between seriously ill and/or dying patients...
Strategic Silence
Public Relations and Indirect Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Mainstream public relations overvalues noise, sound and voice in public communication. But how can we explain that while practitioners use silence on a daily basis, academics have widely remained quiet on the subject? Why is silence habitually famed as inherently bad and unethical?
Silence...
by Martin S. Remland
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Nonverbal Communication in Everyday Life, Fourth Edition, is the most comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and up-to-date introduction to the subject of nonverbal communication available today. Renowned author Martin S. Remland introduces nonverbal communication in a concise and engaging format that...
by Gary J Krug
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
With a foreword by Norman Denzin
Communication and the history of technology have invariably been examined in terms of artefacts and people.
Gary Krug argues that communication technology must be studied as an integral part of culture and lived-experience.
Rather than stand in...
by Jane Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication is a lively and accessible introduction for undergraduates who are new to the area of intercultural communication.
Incorporating real-life examples from around the world and drawing on current research, this text argues against cultural stereotyping...