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Media and Politics in Contemporary Italy
From Berlusconi to Grillo
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Media and Politics in Contemporary Italy is the first book to provide a comprehensive examination of the media system in Italy during the last twenty years. Seeing the rise of new political actors and the growing role of the Internet and social media, the general elections of February 2013 have symbolically...
The Moral Media
How Journalists Reason About Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
The Moral Media provides readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. Representing one of the first publications of journalists' and advertising practitioners' response to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), this book compares thinking about ethics...
Brazil
Media from the Country of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles the contributions of a dynamic editorial team composed of leading scholars from Brazil and the United States. Volume 13 provides an unparalleled...
Election Posters Around the Globe
Political Campaigning in the Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This book examines the history and role of election posters as one of the most crucial forms of political communication, especially in electoral campaigns, in a number of countries around the globe. The contributing authors present comparative research on electoral posters from countries from all...
Conflict, Mediated Message, and Group Dynamics
Intersections of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Conflict, Mediated Message, and Group Dynamics: Intersections of Communication establishes up a framework to explore the ways in which emotions enter a conflict scenario and investigate their role either as causes or consequences of conflict. The volume's chapters shed new light on the questions of...
by Linje Manyozo
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Development theory and practice are often taught in a manner that strips them of their historical context and obscures alternative intellectual assumptions and critical frameworks. This prevents students from acquiring a holistic understanding of the world and consequently, when it comes to development...
Communication Strategies in Medical Settings
Challenging Situations and Practical Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the power of suggestive techniques for solving medical problems. In everyday practice health professionals often face situations where they have to handle people in negative trance states. When that happens, patients are open to suggestive techniques. The...
Humor and the Healing Arts
A Multimethod Analysis of Humor Use in Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Offering a social scientific look at humor's role in medical transactions, this volume is based on extensive field study in seven medical settings. It includes excerpts from dozens of actual conversations between patients and caregivers. Analysis of these episodes reveals that humor is a practical...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
In 1980, SAGE published Geert Hofstede’s Culture’s Consequences. It opens with a quote from Blaise Pascal: “There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees that are falsehoods on the other.” The book became a classic—one of the most cited sources in theSocial Science Citation Index—and...
by Maureen Kendrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Over the past three decades, our conceptualizations of literacy and what it means to be literate have expanded to include recognition that there is a qualitative difference in how we communicate through modalities such as the visual, audio, spatial, and linguistic and that different modes are combined...
Evolution in Genre
Emergence, Variation, Multimodality
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The notion of ‘genre’ has established itself as a key concept in many disciplines and fields as a means of describing social action and/or recurring patterns of form. Recent social and technological changes are driving the emergence of new genres, the evolution of traditional ones as well as variation...
The Faces of Televisual Media
Teaching, Violence, Selling To Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
This collection offers original, state-of-the-art contributions from leading authorities in children's televisual media. International researchers from communication and psychology provide readers with ready access to current televisual research, trends, and policymaking/political climate issues pertaining...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
The study of media processes and effects is one of the most central to the discipline of communication and encompasses a vast array of theoretical perspectives, methodological tools, and applications to important social contexts. In light of this importance—as well as the rapid changes in the media...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.