Communication category: 5490 books
Organizing for Social Change
A Dialectic Journey of Theory and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
`The body of work this book represents is clearly important both theoretically and in terms of encouraging scholars and practitioners in continuing efforts of large-scale change and social justice. The cases considered are fascinating, and the authors' analyses of them are enlightening' - Katherine...
Media Literacy
New Agendas in Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This volume explores how educators can leverage student proficiency with new literacies for learning in formal and informal educational environments. It also investigates critical literacy practices that can best respond to the proliferation of new media in society. What sorts of media education are...
Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland
Applied Studies in Communication Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Given the centrality of economics and communication in the Occupy movement, Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland uses economic insights and contemporary theories of communication to better understand the movement at this current juncture in history. This collection is organized by complementary...
Introducing Intercultural Communication
Global Cultures and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Introducing Intercultural Communication uses examples and case studies from around the world to situate communication theory in a truly global perspective. Covering the essentials from international conflict to migration and social networking, this book shows students how to master the skills and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media is an innovative collection of contemporary data-driven research and theorizing about how digital and social media are affecting and changing nearly every aspect of family interaction over the lifespan. The research and thinking featured...
Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies
Research, Pedagogy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Bringing together prominent scholars in the field of organizational communication to examine the relationship between difference and organizing, this book explores the concept in a comprehensive and systematic way. Part I explores numerous ways in which difference can be critically examined as a communicative...
The Critical Turn in Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogy
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This edited research volume explores the development of what can be described as the ‘critical turn’ in intercultural communication pedagogy, with a particular focus on modern/foreign language education. The main aim is to trace the realisations of this critical turn against a background of unequal...
The Instruction of Imagination
Language as a Social Communication Technology
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function:...
Women’s Health Communication
High-Risk Pregnancy and Premature Birth Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Women’s Health Communication explores and shares the stories of women who had a high-risk pregnancy and underwent premature labor or gave birth prematurely. This book discusses how women understand their experiences, cope with trying circumstances, and connect with others. Women’s Health Communication...
Why Europe?
Narratives and Counter-narratives of European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This publication tackles strategies for bridging the widening gap between the EU and its citizens. It focuses on new theoretical and empirical frameworks about EU media frames and narratives, political discourse and citizens’ perceptions in order to promote a critical, yet constructive approach...
Researching Interactive Communication Behavior
A Sourcebook of Methods and Measures
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Researching Interactive Communication Behavior by C. Arthur VanLear and Daniel J. Canary provides students and experienced researchers with tools for studying communication behaviors through direct observation. The sourcebook provides sound coverage of both cutting-edge and well-established systems,...
This Bridge We Call Communication
Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis explores contemporary communication research studies, performative writing, poetry, Latina/o studies, and gender studies through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories, methods, and concepts. Utilizing different...
by Dr. Valerie L. Manusov, Miles L. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
This Handbook provides an up-to-date discussion of the central issues in nonverbal communication and examines the research that informs these issues. Editors Valerie Manusov and Miles Patterson bring together preeminent scholars, from a range of disciplines, to reveal the strength of nonverbal behavior as an integral part of communication.
Words Matter
Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is the parlance of business, research, technology, and finance. Most assume that if parties on both ends of the conference call...