Communication category: 5490 books
Talking at Work
Corpus-based Explorations of Workplace Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This book offers original corpus research in a range of workplace contexts including office-based settings, call center interactions and healthcare communication. Chapters in this edited volume bring together leading scholars in the field of corpus analysis in workplace discourse and include data...
Fractured Fandoms
Contentious Communication in Fan Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Being a fan helps people to discover their identities, find friends, develop a sense of belonging, express themselves creatively, and act as powerful creators and participants in a capitalistic system. At times, however, being a fan becomes problematic, especially when clashes with other fans occur...
Critical Literacy in A Digital Era
Technology, Rhetoric, and the Public interest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Critical Literacy in a Digital Era offers an examination of the persuasive approaches used in discussions on and about the Internet. Its aim is to increase awareness of what is assumed, unquestioned, and naturalized in our media experience. Using a critical literacy framework for her analysis, author...
by Melanie Sears, RN
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The tenets of Nonviolent Communication are applied to a variety of settings, including the workplace, the classroom, and the home, in these booklets on how to resolve conflict peacefully. Illustrative exercises, sample stories, and role-playing activities offer the opportunity for self-evaluation,...
The Perfect Response
Studies of the Rhetorical Personality
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
The Perfect Response is a lucid account of the social origins of fluency from a scholar recognized as 'a leading analyst of the dramaturgical dimensions of politics.' In this imaginative study Gary C. Woodward creates and elucidates the idea of 'The Rhetorical Personality, using a deft blend of communication...
Aids
A Communication Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Prevention through appropriate behavior is the best weapon available to fight further spread of HIV infection. However, individuals take necessary actions to prevent diseases such as AIDS only when they are properly informed and they feel motivated to respond to the information they possess. In order...
Literacy in a Digital World
Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
In this book, Kathleen Tyner examines the tenets of literacy through a historical lens to demonstrate how new communication technologies are resisted and accepted over time. New uses of information for teaching and learning create a "disconnect" in the complex relationship between literacy...
by Jenny Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book presents an understanding of work-family balance for working adults belonging to a number of different family structures (e.g. single and/or childfree adults, LGBT couples, families with female breadwinners). It contends that family structure should serve as a way of thinking about diversity...
Virtual Communication
The Impact of the New Informational and Communicational Technologies in Contemporary Educational Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This book presents an empirical approach to virtual communication. Based on the socio-cultural arguments of the postmodern paradigm, it demonstrates the necessity of analyzing the media pedagogy concept, both epistemologically and praxiologically. The concept of media competency is made operational...
The Emergent Organization
Communication As Its Site and Surface
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Today's organizations face a wide variety of challenges, including such contradictions as maintaining unity of action while becoming increasingly diverse. Even the definition of organization is changing and evolving. In this monograph, the authors apply their academic and professional experience to...
Understanding Terrorism in the Age of Global Media
A Communication Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
We cannot truly understand - let alone counter - terrorism in the 21st century unless we also understand the processes of communication that underpin it. This book challenges what we know about terrorism, showing that current approaches are inadequate and outdated, and develops a new communication model to understand terrorism in the media age.
Political Conversion
Personal Transformation as Strategic Public Communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Stories of religious conversion have been told for millennia. Yet many prominent figures such as Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and Rick Perry have also used stories of their change from one political worldview to another as a communication strategy aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the public....
by Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Renee S. Besel, Richard D. Besel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection....
Silicon Literacies
Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Electronic communication is radically altering literacy practices. Silicon Literacies unravels the key features of the new communication order to explore the social, cultural and educational impact of silicon literacy practices.
Written by leading international scholars from a range of disciplines,...