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The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News
Implications for American Democracy and the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book examines perhaps the most contentious election in modern US history—the 2016 United States presidential election. It is unique in its discussion of a wide range of issues affecting the news media coverage of the election, coming from an equally diverse range of intellectual perspectives...
Communication and Information Technologies Annual
Digital Empowerment: Opportunities and Challenges of Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles relevant research focusing on ICTs in Latin America and the Caribbean—two understudied areas of global importance. Regarding Latin America,...
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
**A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, **and fieldwork
A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Common topics and commonplaces help develop arguments and shape understanding. When used in argumentation, they may help interested parties more effectively communicate valuable information. The purpose of this edited collection on topics of environmental rhetoric is to fill gaps in scholarship related...
Communicating Ethically
Character, Duties, Consequences, and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Communicating Ethically provides a broad introduction to the ethical nature of communication. Now in its second edition, the text has been revised to further address current issues, such as: evolving social media and digital platforms, growing cultural communication and discussion of diversity, and...
by Prithi Nambiar
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The book analyses the role of media and communication in negotiating the meaning of environment and sustainability in the developmental context of India. As part of the global development discourse, it has become necessary to refocus on the meanings attributed to environment, sustainability, and sustainable...
Strategic Ambiguities
Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity is a provocative journey through the development of a new aesthetics of communication that rejects all fundamentalisms and embraces a contingent world-view. Author Eric M. Eisenberg both collects and reflects on over two decades of his writing to provide important personal, historical, and theoretical context.
by Teri Kwal Gamble, Michael W. Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The authors explore the many ways that gender and communication intersect and affect each other. Every chapter encourages a consideration of how gender attitudes and practices, past and current, influence personal notions of what it means not only to be female and male, but feminine and masculine....
Defending the First
Commentary on First Amendment Issues and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Defending the First provides a collection of new perspectives on the First Amendment in legal and communication contexts. Editor Joseph Russomanno brings together a roster of major figures who have participated in the shaping of First Amendment law over the past 30 years. Readers are taken into a...
Exemplification in Communication
the influence of Case Reports on the Perception of Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume offers a new conceptual framework for exemplification, a coherent theoretical approach based on contemporary psychological models of information processing, and an exhaustive integration of the pertinent research demonstrations. Focus is on the news media, but the influence of fiction...
by Alexandra Mietusch
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: 1,3, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Faculty of Cultural Studies), course: Master Intercultural Communication Studies, language: English, abstract: Humour accompanies one daily: It...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
This book provides a timely and comprehensive snapshot of the current digital communication practices of today's organisations and workplaces, covering a wide spectrum of communication technologies, such as email, instant messaging, message boards, Twitter, corporate blogs, consumer reviews and mobile communication technologies.
Approaches to Conflict
Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Approaches to Conflict: Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics aims to investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts. In addition to the fundamental importance of communication in various aspects of conflict, this volume offers a prominent position to the inherent...
Children, Teens, Families, and Mass Media
The Millennial Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
This text provides a survey of the relationship between children and those mass media found in the home--radio, television, and the Internet. Using a theory-based approach, with attention to developmental, gender, ethnic, and generational differences, author Rose M. Kundanis explores the nature of...