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Examining Millennials Reshaping Organizational Cultures
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
In From Theory to Practice: Examining Millennials Reshaping Organizational Cultures, contributors to the collection focus on several interrelated issues. They examine the ways in which the members of the millennial generation influence how we work and communicate with our millennial students, colleagues...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What is a «good life» and how can it be achieved? In this volume, communication scholars and media experts explore these fundamental questions about human existence and aspiration in terms of what a «good life» might look like in a contemporary, mediatized society. While in many ways a mediatized...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
This book focuses on mediated intercultural communication in the context of globalization. Analyzing social and traditional media using qualitative, interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives, contributors engage with diverse topics - ranging from hybrid identities in different communities,...
by Jolanta Artiz, Robyn C. Walker, Donald L. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Discourse Perspectives in Organizational Communication brings together researchers from the social sciences and humanities to look at discourse and how it shapes organizations and their social actors. Unlike others in the field, this book assumes that language creates and constitutes reality, rather...
by Ge Gao, Dr. Stella Ting-Toomey
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1998
Utilizing the `self-OTHER' perspective as a conceptual foundation, the authors portray and interpret some of the distinctive communication practices in Chinese culture. They examine how self-conception, role and hierarchy, relational dynamics and face affect ways of conducting everyday talk in Chinese...
Explaining Illness
Research, Theory, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Understanding one's health conditions plays a key role in a patient's response to illness, influencing stress levels and the likelihood of following treatment regimens and advice. Thus, the explanation of illness is a critical component of the interactions between health care providers and their patients....
Science Communication in the World
Practices, Theories and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge. Whether they have a professional interest in understanding these processes generally, or they wish to conduct targeted investigations in the PCST field, it will be useful to anyone involved...
Persuading People To Have Safer Sex
Applications of Social Science To the Aids Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Persuading People to Have Safer Sex offers a lucid, in-depth, student-friendly and academically thorough discussion of AIDS prevention and health persuasion. In so doing it provides an introduction to the ways that social scientific research can be brought to bear on a daunting health problem.
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Giving Voice
Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.
Mobile technologies are often hailed as a way to “give voice to the voiceless.” Behind the praise, though, are beliefs...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The arrival of the participatory web 2.0 has been hailed by many as a media revolution, bringing with it new tools and possibilities for direct political action. Through specialised online platforms, mainstream social media or blogs, citizens in many countries are increasingly seeking to have their...
by V. Santiago Arias, Megan Bassick, Jennifer L. Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships is the communication field’s most major, comprehensive volume of the study of social media and romantic relationship development. It is the first volume in the discipline of communication studies intended to provide an overview of romantic...
Succeeding with Senior Management
Getting the Right Support at the Right Time for Your Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Senior managers speak the language of strategy. Project managers use the language of tasks and activities. These significantly different communication styles can lead to breakdowns and setbacks at project sites that are difficult to overcome, especially for the project manager. The key to working...
Global Communications
Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications. Rather than guiding its discussion by geography, types of media, or traditional separations of power and resistance, Global Communications examines political economic power and communication...
Scholarly Communications
A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Scholarly Communications: A History from Content as King to Content as Kingmaker traces the development of scholarly communications from the creation of the first scientific journal through the wide diversity of professional information services today. Unlike any other book, this work is an authoritative...