Communication category: 5490 books
Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research
Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives is a book unlike any in the field. Each chapter is written by a prominent scholar who presents a theoretical perspective and discusses how he or she "engages" with it, personally examining what it means to study...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Communication Yearbook 22 contains in-depth literature reviews focused on an important topic in specialized areas as well as syntheses that describe scholarship in other domains. Each chapter addresses an aspect of one of the most pressing issues currently facing individuals: how to communicate with...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communication Studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and Media Studies considers the ways in which...
Mass Communication Theories
Explaining Origins, Processes, and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Mass Communication Theories: Explaining Origins, Processes, and Effects explores mass communication theories within the social and cultural context that influenced their origins. An intimate examination of the lives and times of prominent mass communication theorists both past and present bring the subject to life for the reader.
Close Encounters
Communication in Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
A relational approach to the study of interpersonal communication
Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships, Fifth Edition helps students better understand their relationships with romantic partners, friends, and family members. Bestselling authors Laura K. Guerrero, Peter A. Andersen,...
Communication and Control
Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions advocates a systems view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines. This edited collection sheds new light on things as mundane yet still profoundly consequential (and seemingly “low-tech”) as push buttons,...
An Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication
Building Great Relationships with Faith, Skill, and Virtue in the Age of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Virtually every human endeavor involves interpersonal communication. Leading Christian scholar and media commentator Quentin Schultze and respected professor of communication Diane Badzinski offer a solid Christian perspective on the topic, helping readers communicate with faith, skill, and virtue in...
by Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, Adebayo Fayoyin, Ravindra Kumar Vemula
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries analyzes the ways in which health services, public health administration, and healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication...
by Laura Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes...
Media and Communication Research Methods
An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
This step-by-step introduction to conducting media and communication research offers practical insights along with Arthur Asa Berger’s signature lighthearted style to make discussion of qualitative and quantitative methods easy to comprehend. The Fifth Edition of Media and Communication Research...
Scientific Communication
Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and...
Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability
The Threat of Financial and Energy Complexes in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability provides a detailed and empirical analysis of the institutions, governing logics, risk-management practices, and crisis communication strategies involved in the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the 2010 BP oil crisis, and the 2011...
Communication Theory
Media, Technology and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
`This is a very clear and concise summary of media studies, present and future. There is no other book that can both be used as a teaching tool and can help scholars organize their thinking about new media as this book can' - Steve Jones, University of Chicago
This book offers an introduction...
Stepfather-Stepson Communication
Social Support in Stepfamily Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book offers a novel analysis of communication in stepfather-stepson relationships and is one of the first to examine the ways stepfathers communicate and to integrate the perspectives of adolescents into research on stepfamily communication. In order to understand the complex dynamics of stepfamilies,...