Communication category: 5490 books
Communication Research Methods in Postmodern Culture
A Revisionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The second edition of Communication Research Methods in Postmodern Culture continues to explore research from a postmodern perspective. Typical qualitative and quantitative research methods are adjusted to fit the needs of contemporary culture. Each chapter is updated with new information and fresh...
Natural Bridges
A Guide to Interpersonal Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Natural Bridges is a concise, practical, inexpensive, and student-friendly guide to interpersonal communication. This book explores the fundamental principles and skills necessary for effective communication. Building on the theme that our every word and behavior contributes to building a bridge or...
Conflict Management and Intercultural Communication
The Art of Intercultural Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
In the globally interconnected world, conflicts often arise as a result of tensions between different cultural perceptions and diverse social preferences. Effectively managing conflicts and harmonizing intercultural relationships are essential tasks of intercultural communication research.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Communication Yearbook 35 continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Charles T. Salmon presents a volume that is highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association.
Organizational Listening
The Missing Essential in Public Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Organizations, which are central in contemporary industrialized and post-industrial societies, including government departments and agencies, corporations, and non-government organizations, claim to want and practice two-way communication, dialogue, and engagement with citizens, customers, employees,...
Designing Health Messages
Approaches from Communication Theory and Public Health Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 1995
How do you design an effective message for a health campaign? This book explores this question from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The contributors demonstrate the necessity of basing message design decisions on appropriate theories of human behavior and communication effectiveness by...
by Karen Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Working Together in Unity: Managing Conflict Leading Volunteers is a concise yet comprehensive primary source of reference on managing conflict and leading volunteers. Unlike most books written on conflict resolution, this book was written specifically for leaders in organizations that use volunteers...
The Power of Writing in Organizations
From Letters to Online Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book demonstrates the power of writing in informal and formal organizations in the past and the present. It shows how writing, despite long lasting criticisms that can be traced back to Plato, and in spite of its frequent definition as a mere recording medium is in fact a creative mode of communication...
by Mark L. Knapp, John A. Daly
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This guide offers detailed advice on the journal article publication process, describing each step of the process and providing insights for improving the presentation of work intended for publication in communication journals. It includes advice from journal editors across the discipline and offers...
Media Access
Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
In Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use, editors Erik P. Bucy and John E. Newhagen present the latest work, theoretical explorations, and original research findings on media access from a team of internationally renowned media and technology researchers. Chapters...
Communication in History
Stone Age Symbols to Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Now in its 7th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Thirty-eight contributions from a wide range of voices offer instructors the opportunity to customize their courses while challenging students...
International Communication
Continuity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
The third edition of International Communication examines the profound changes that have taken place, and are continuing to take place at an astonishing speed, in international media and communication.
Building on the success of previous editions, this book maps out the expansion of media and...
Television in the Nursing Home
A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents is a three-stage ethnographic study of media use by the elderly in long-term care facilities. This research concludes that watching television is the most prevalent and pervasive...
Uncertainty, Information Management, and Disclosure Decisions
Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This volume integrates scholarly work on disclosure and uncertainty with the most up-to-date, cutting edge research, theories, and applications. Uncertainty is an ever-present part of human relationships, and the ways in which people reduce and/or manage uncertainty involves regulating their communication...