Communication category: 5490 books
The Discourse of Special Populations
Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The term "special population" occupies a particular purpose and has a particular role in the discourse of higher education. This book uses the term as an umbrella term for any student who tends to be underrepresented on college campuses and has a very specific set of unique needs: among others, individuals...
Journalism and Citizenship
New Agendas in Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Journalism is in the middle of sweeping changes in its relationships with the communities it serves, and the audiences for news and public affairs it seeks to address. Changes in technology have blurred the lines between professionals and citizens, partisan and objective bystanders, particularly in...
Communicating Pregnancy Loss
Narrative as a Method for Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is the Winner of the OSCLG Outstanding Book Award
The loss of a desired pregnancy or the inability to experience pregnancy are intensely personal phenomena; these losses are also, in our culture at least, extremely private. Communicating Pregnancy Loss is a collection of first-person...
The Language of Patient Feedback
A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
The Language of Patient Feedback provides a unique insight into a diverse range of issues related to healthcare. Through the comprehensive and detailed interrogation of 29 million words of online patient feedback on the NHS in England, as well as 11 million words of responses to the feedback from...
by Harold A. Innis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Empire and Communications is Innis's important contribution to the debate about how media influenced the development of consciousness and societies. In this foundational work, he traced humanity's movement from the oral tradition of pre-literate cultures to the written word to electronic media of...
Harold Innis's History of Communications
Paper and Printing—Antiquity to Early Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis’s unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications—but very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer make widely accessible, for...
by André Caron
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
The interruption of personal interaction even the most intimate by a ringing cellphone has profoundly affected social behaviour. New communication technologies transform culture - but the reverse is also true. Moving Cultures explores the ways in which people have creatively adopted new communication technologies in their social and cultural worlds.
Media, Geopolitics, and Power
A View from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The end of apartheid brought South Africa into the global media environment. Outside companies invested in the nation's newspapers while South African conglomerates pursued lucrative tech ventures and communication markets around the world. Many observers viewed the rapid development of South African...
Politics, Propaganda, and Public Health
A Case Study in Health Communication and Public Trust
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Politics, Propaganda, and Public Health: A Case Study in Health Communication and Public Trust takes an in-depth look at Merck Pharmaceutical's groundbreaking launch of the Gardasil vaccination and ways in which new trends in pharmaceutical marketing affect public health awareness efforts. Prior to...
Studying Mobile Media
Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book explores not...
alieNATION
The Divide & Conquer Election of 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
alieNATION presents research conducted by a national election team and leading scholars in political communication that explores a range of important topics and variables affecting voter attitudes and behavior in the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
In exploring the messages, issues, and voters of...
by Olga Maria Stefania Cucaro
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
The Value of Intangibles Assets and the Human Capital Disclosure of companies specializing in IT Consulting, Application & Internet Software and Data Processing. A Cross-Country Comparison Italy-England is a work born of the in depth study of the IC disclosure of Italian companies and the curiosity of the comparison with British companies.
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by Roberta Cava
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2019
Do you have problems communicating with others? It might be that your personality gets in the way or you simply do not feel comfortable communicating with others. You may prefer to communicate in writing – sending emails, texts or letters or you may prefer to talk rather than write. However, we...
Neoliberal Health Organizing
Communication, Meaning, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Mohan J Dutta closely interrogates the communicative forms and practices that have been central to the establishment of neoliberal governance. In particular, he examines cultural discourses of health in relationship to the market and the health implications of these cultural discourses. Using examples...