Communication category: 5490 books
by Dr. Arthur A, Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 1995
This comprehensive resource on mass communication theory is structured around the key conceptual areas of text, audience, media, production and society. Using illustrations from popular genres - particularly film and television - Arthur Asa Berger combines his broad knowledge of the mass communications...
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Korean Communication, Media, and Culture is a bibliography of English-language publications for non-Korean-speaking academics, researchers, and professionals. In addition to the actual annotations of all the major books, book chapters, journal articles, and theses/dissertations, each chapter includes...
Communication Planning
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 1999
The nature of the communicator's job has changed dramatically over the last decade. While communicators still prepare speeches, press releases and articles for corporate magazines, they are now being asked to perform managerial duties such as planning, consulting stakeholders and advising CEO's and...
by Dinah A. Tetteh
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Communication Studies and Feminist Perspectives on Ovarian Cancer examines the embodied experience of ovarian cancer by critically analyzing impacts of normative social and medical discourses—including discourses of risk, choice, early detection, lack of reliable screening tests for ovarian cancer,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
There are few scholarly books about toys, and even fewer that consider toys within the context of culture and communication. Toys and Communication is an innovative collection that effectively showcases work by specialists who have sought to examine toys throughout history and in many cultures, including...
Performing the Past
A Study of Israeli Settlement Museums
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A nostalgic interest in the past is a well-recognized feature of fast-changing, contemporary societies. It finds its expression in a variety of history-making practices of which the establishment of local heritage museums is a major manifestation in many parts of the world today. Katriel develops...
by John R. Baldwin, Robin R. Means Coleman, Suchitra Shenoy-Packer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Written for students studying intercultural communication for the first time, this textbook gives a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts with a focus on practical application and social action.
Provides a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts for beginning...
Current Research on Information Technologies and Society
Papers from the 2013 Meetings of the American Sociological Association
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Research on communication and information technologies is of growing importance to sociology and the interdisciplinary examination of communication and (new) media. This volume includes eight chapters examining recent developments in the field, illustrating the maturation, vibrancy, and diversity...
Multimodality, Learning and Communication
A social semiotic frame
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This state-of-the-art account of research and theorizing brings together multimodality, learning and communication through detailed analyses of signmakers and their meaning-making in museums, hospitals, schools and the home environment.
By analyzing video recordings, photographs, screenshots...
Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs examines...
Volunteering and Communication Volume 2
Studies in International and Intercultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book won the 2017 NCA Applied Communication Division Distinguished Edited Book Award
The second volume of Volunteering and Communication seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, which demonstrated the breadth of research being conducted on volunteers. The focus...
Online Communication in a Second Language
Social Interaction, Language Use, and Learning Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Online Communication in a Second Language examines the use of social computer mediated communication (CMC) with speakers of Japanese via longitudinal case studies of up to four years. Through the analysis of over 2000 blogs, emails, videos, messages, games, and websites, in addition to interviews...
Mutative Media
Communication Technologies and Power Relations in the Past, Present, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Mutative Media is a sweeping examination of how communication technologies have contributed to changes in people’s thoughts and actions, and thus in the power structures of societies, in the past, at present, and in four alternative futures.
We start by surveying what is generally known about...
by Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Jeffrey Bogaczyk, Devin Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural,...