Communication category: 5490 books
Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest
Anthem Posture in a Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Pro Football and the Proliferation of Protest: Anthem Kneeling and Standing in a Divided America examines the take-a-knee NFL protests, a trend that has led to deep political divisiveness in America. The author explores this phenomenon by incorporating analysis of media coverage, impact on attitudes...
Public Relations and Participatory Culture
Fandom, Social Media and Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
While public relations practitioners have long focused on the relationship between organizations and their stakeholders, there has never been a time when that relationship was so dominated by public participation. The new model of multiple messages originating from multiple publics at varying levels...
by Rebecca Gill, Gregory S. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The question “who am I?” represents one of the key challenges of contemporary life in a globalized world. For most of us, organizations play a key role in answering that question.
In this book, Gregory Larson and Rebecca Gill explain how identities are formed, managed, and regulated in...
Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City
Ethnographic Engagements in Urban Environments
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Separately Together: Ethnographic Engagements of the City, contributors focus on theorizing the notion of “the city” as a communicatively constituted cultural space, drawing on situated, reflexive ethnographic examinations of “the city” to show the complex and varied ways in which cities produce social meaning.
Doing Visual Analysis
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Visual communication shapes our perceptions and experiences of the world. This is not only a question of photographs or video, but also the design of websites, the use of data visualization software, the branding of packaging, and even the design of buildings and furniture.
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Campaign It!
Achieving Success Through Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
This ground-breaking book redefines campaigning and explains how to create and deliver a compelling campaign that can be applied in any aspect of your professional and personal life.
Based on a claim that is both bold and true, this book introduces and demonstrates a new, unique and complete...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
We live in world increasingly shaped by risk, a fact underscored by recent events in the financial markets, science and technology, environmental policy and biosecurity, law enforcement and criminal justice. Risk assessment has become a central concern of governments, organisations and the professions,...
The Ins and Outs of Business and Professional Discourse Research
Reflections on Interacting with the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Winner of the Association for Business Communication’s Distinguished Publication on Business Communication Award 2016
This edited volume offers a collection of original chapters focusing on the Ins and Outs of professional discourse research. Drawing on insights from LSP, ethnography and...
Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street
How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street offers a modern guide for how to practice public relations and strategic communication around the globe. Drawing upon interviews with public relations professionals in over 30 countries as well as the author’s own experience as a global public relations practitioner...
Coming to Narrative
A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, discloses a lived history, both academic and personal, that has paralleled many of the paradigm shifts in the human sciences inspired by the turn toward narrative....
by Kawthar Khalifeh
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This book is about the effectiveness of a communicative approachbased program for improving the first and secondary class students achievement in English.
Television and the Exceptional Child
A Forgotten Audience
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The question of what types of children are most influenced by -- or can best benefit from -- television is a recurrent theme in the scientific literature as well as a frequently raised issue for pediatric associations, educators, and parent/citizen groups concerned about the welfare and advancement...
Thank You for Dying for Our Country
Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Combining ethnographic, semiotic, and performative approaches, this book examines texts and accompanying acts of writing of national commemoration. The commemorative visitor book is viewed as a mobilized stage, a communication medium, where visitors' public performances are presented, and where acts...
Journalism in a Small Place
Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive and Independent
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Journalism in a Small Place explores the changes and challenges in journalism and communication in the Caribbean in the twenty-first century. Tracing the history of media in the English speaking Caribbean, this book provides insight into the development of these industries from their inception under...