Communication category: 5490 books
Gifts from the Heart
Skills for Speaking, Listening, and Bonding
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Gifts from the Heart is a friendly, concise, and easy-to-read book that helps students learn, practice, and improve ten fundamental communication skills needed for any long-term relationship. Each skill is presented as a “gift” for students to give to others, rather than as a behavior to implement,...
Communication of Innovations
A Journey With Ev Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
This collection of 10 original essays honors the intellectual legacy of Prof Everett M Rogers (1931-2004), a pioneering and distinguished teacher— scholar of diffusion of innovations, communication networks, and social change. Well-known colleagues and contemporaries write on topics that not only...
The Impact of International Television
A Paradigm Shift
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
For several decades, cultural imperialism has been the dominant paradigm for conceptualizing, labeling, predicting, and explaining the effects of international television. It has been used as an unchallenged premise for numerous essays on the topic of imported television influence, despite the fact...
Community over Chaos
An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
This ecology of ethics seeks to balance the needs of the individual and those of the various levels of community.
As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos...
Information and Communication Technologies in Action
Linking Theories and Narratives of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
This book combines 20 stories from a variety of organizations with a selection of nine theories, both mainstream and emerging. The stories introduce readers to individuals talking about how they communicate today via information and communication technologies (ICTs) in business or organizational contexts....
Managing Presentations
Communicating with Impact
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Communicating effectively is one of the keys to success in this increasingly competitive environment. Indeed, making presentations is now a crucial component of business communication. In this book Savita Wakhlu provides a detailed roadmap for anyone who wishes to master the art of speaking in public....
Work Pressures
New Agendas in Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Work Pressures fills the void of research on the nature of pressures on individuals in the workplace. It offers a broad view of how work pressures can compromise the performance and vitality of individuals and their organizations. The contributions to this volume not only confirm communication’s...
Words That Work in Business
A Practical Guide to Effective Communication in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Addressing the most common workplace relationship challenges, this manual shows how to use the principles of nonviolent communication to improve any workplace atmosphere. Offering practical tools that match recognizable work scenarios, this guide can help all employees positively affect their work...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Communication Yearbook 20, originally published in 1997 contains ten major reviews that collectively span the discipline. Two of the reviews examine how consumption of television programs affects viewers. Other media-related chapters examine sex-role stereotyping in advertising, the role of the public...
Mass Communications Research Resources
An Annotated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
This reference book is designed as a road map for researchers who need to find specific information about American mass communication as expeditiously as possible. Taking a topical approach, it integrates publications and organizations into subject-focused chapters for easy user reference. The editors...
The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age
Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the «audience commodity» as first articulated by Dallas Smythe. Contributors focus on the historical and theoretical importance of this theory to critical studies of media/communication, culture,...
Webcasting Worldwide
Business Models of an Emerging Global Medium
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Webcasting Worldwide tackles one of the most timely topics in mass communication today—the delivery of audio and video content via the Web, or webcasting—employing a global perspective to explore the subject. It is unique in providing a theoretical framework by which to analyze business models...
The Agency of Organizing
Perspectives and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Edited Book Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association
The Agency of Organizing explains why the notion of agency is central to understanding what organizations are, how they come into existence, continue to...
The Rhetorical Nature of XML
Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The Rhetorical Nature of XML is the first volume to combine rhetoric, XML, and knowledge management in a substantive manner. It serves as a primer on XML and XML-related technologies, illustrating how the naming of XML elements can be understood as a rhetorical act, and detailing the essentials of...