Communication category: 5490 books
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2019
As the plugged-in presidential campaign has arguably reached maturity, Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age challenges popular claims about the democratizing effect of Digital Communication Technologies (DCTs). Analyzing campaign strategies, structures, and tactics from the past six presidential...
Volunteering and Communication
Studies from Multiple Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book won the 2014 Applied Communication Division Award for Outstanding Edited Book
There is a growing interest in studying nonprofit organizations and volunteers as an alternative to studying employees in for-profit businesses and government agencies. This is driven in part by the recognition...
Advanced Communication Protocol Technologies
Solutions, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The rapid improvements brought about by modern telecommunications are made possible by unfettered transmission of information, which relies on the ability to send, receive and properly utilize communication. Advanced Communication Protocol Technologies: Solutions, Methods, and Applications explores the...
Nonverbal Messages Tell More
A Practical Guide to Nonverbal Communication
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Nonverbal Messages Tell More: A Practical Guide to Nonverbal Communication offers an active and dynamic approach to the study of nonverbal communication. The study of nonverbal cues and messages is a difficult undertaking, but Teri and Michael Gamble have put together a volume that approaches the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
With more than 300 entries, these two volumes provide a one-stop source for a comprehensive overview of communication theory, offering current descriptions of theories as well as the background issues and concepts that comprise these theories. This is the first resource to summarize, in one place,...
The Reconstruction of Space and Time
Mobile Communication Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
One of the most significant and obvious examples of how mobile communication influences our understanding of time and space is how we coordinate with one another. Mobile communication enables us to call specific individuals, not general places. Regardless of location, we are able to make contact with...
Intercultural Communication
An Advanced Resource Book for Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics.
Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling...
The Rhetoric of Risk
Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
The crash of an Amtrak train near Baltimore, the collapse of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, the incident at Three Mile Island, and other large-scale technological disasters have provided powerful examples of the ways that communication practices influence the events and decisions that precipitate...
by Michael A. Noll
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
A concise introduction to the evolution of communication media, past, present, and future, this book is unique in that it treats both mass media_radio, television, and print_and interpersonal media_telephony, computer communication, and new technologies. The first part of The Evolution of Media describes...
The Skilled Communicator in Social Work
The Art and Science of Communication in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
A vital part of a social worker’s role is to build strong relationships based on confidence and trust, with people across all stages of the life course and from a broad range of backgrounds, in what can be extremely challenging circumstances. In this, her latest collaboration with Palgrave, bestselling...
Introducing Intercultural Communication
Global Cultures and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Taking a truly global perspective, this textbook presents concepts, theories and applications from the field of intercultural communication in a lively and easy-to-follow style. Covering all the essential topics, from immigration to intercultural conflict to the impact of mass media and technology,...
Communication and Discourse Theory
Collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
This volume gathers the work of the Brussels group of critical media and communication scholars that deploy discourse theory as theoretical backbone and analytical research perspective. The book seeks to show the value and applicability of discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA) within the field of media...
Perspectives in Communication Studies
Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Dr. Ayseli Usluata
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book brings together friends and colleagues of Prof. Dr. Ayseli Usluata who cherish her as a person as well as an academic. As we have all experienced, Prof. Usluata’s major passion is advancing academia as an interdisciplinary collaboration. Thus, this book’s aim is to bring together current...
Organizational Communication
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
While traditional in its coverage of the major research traditions that have developed over the past 100 years, Organizational Communication is the first textbook in the field that is written from a critical perspective while providing a comprehensive survey of theory and research in organizational...