Communication category: 5490 books
Rhetoric in the Flesh
Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise and how they shape participants’ perceptions of the human body. By investigating...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on children,...
The Emoji Code
The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Drawing from disciplines as diverse as linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience, The Emoji Code explores how emojis are expanding communication and not ending it.
For all the handwringing about the imminent death of written language, emoji—those happy faces and hearts—is...
Language and State
A Theory of the Progress of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Is the state formed because of a natural course, the making of a social contract, initial conquest, the self-defense of the community or the formation of a class society? This book eloquently argues that the state is not simply formed in one way. It contends that the state is formed because of language....
by Shunqing Cao
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Seeing the restrictions of former studies in Comparative Literature and aiming to amend these deficiencies, the author of this book mainly discusses the major theoretical significance and academic value of the Variation Theory in the whole process of the development of Comparative Literature in the...
Maintaining Relationships Through Communication
Relational, Contextual, and Cultural Variations
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Relational maintenance provides a rallying point for those seeking to discover the behaviors that individuals utilize to sustain their personal relationships. Theoretical models, research programs, and specific studies have examined how people in a variety of close relationships choose to define and...
Intercultural Communication
Critical Approaches and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, this book critically examines intercultural theory and its interrelations with globalisation, education and dialogue in multicultural societies. Applying the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, the author repositions intercultural communication within...
On Communicating
Otherness, Meaning, and Information
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Klaus Krippendorff is an influential figure in communication studies widely known for his award-winning book Content Analysis. Over the years, Krippendorff has made important contributions to the ongoing debates on fundamental issues concerning communication theory, epistemology, methods of research,...
Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience
Case Studies for a Multi-disciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This edited volume emphasizes risk and crisis communication principles and practices within the up-to the minute context of new technologies, a new focus on resiliency, and global environmental change. It includes contributions from experts from around the globe whose research, advocacy, teaching,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1997
This volume is designed to revolutionize the field of communication by identifying a broad ethical theory which transcends the world of mass media practice to reveal a more humane and responsible code of values.
The contributors, representing a diverse range of intercultural perspectives, defend...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The revolution in media technologies and the political upheavals intertwined with them demand a new media ethics. Given the power of global media corporations and the high-speed electronics of media technologies worldwide, more and more people are either brought together through dialogue and communication...
by Michelle Wolf, Alfred Kielwasser
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Here is a provocative book that examines precisely how and why mass communication has an impact upon the sexual realities of our lives. Written in response to a demand for information that cuts across many of the boundaries found in more traditional books on sexuality and mass communication, Gay People,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Both international and internal migration brings new challenges to public health systems. This book aims to critically review theoretical frameworks and literature, as well as discuss new practices and lessons related to culture, migration, and health communication in different countries. It features...
Permanently Online, Permanently Connected
Living and Communicating in a POPC World
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Permanently Online, Permanently Connected establishes the conceptual grounds needed for a solid understanding of the permanently online/permanently connected phenomenon, its causes and consequences, and its applied implications. Due to the diffusion of mobile devices, the ways people communicate and...