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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The central focus of the book is the identification of the ways people engage in communicative encounters to (re)constitute personal and social identities. Its aim is to identify some principal themes that have emerged from the ample research on identity in a variety of contexts. A common thread of...
Activism and Rhetoric
Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This volume examines the role of rhetoric in today’s culture of democratic activism. The volume takes on two of the most significant challenges currently facing contemporary rhetorical studies: (1) the contested meanings and practices of democracy and civic engagement in global context, and (2)...
Metatheory and Interviewing
Harm Reduction and Motorcycle Safety in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Metatheory and Interviewing: Harm Reduction and Motorcycle Safety in Practicedescribes and applies a unique approach for advancing harm reduction theory. Emily J. Haas and Marifran Mattson argue that using harm reduction as a metatheory to guide qualitative interviews strengthens the use and acceptance...
The American Presidency and Entertainment Media
How Technology Affects Political Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The need for American presidential candidates and sitting presidents to connect with citizens has led to the adoption of diverse media strategies that include traditional news initiatives with established journalists, face-to-face interaction with small groups of supporters, and visits to traditionally...
Home with Hip Hop Feminism
Performances in Communication and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCA
Home with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when...
Le Dire et le Faire : essai sur la communication efficace
Pour comprendre la persuasion : propagande, publicité, relations publiques
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1982
« Un livre nécessaire ! » affirme dans sa préface Jean Cazeneuve, Président de l’Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. Il précise : « Denis Huisman ne craint pas de dire, en élargissant la formule célèbre de Mauss, que la persuasion est un fait psychosocial total. Et c’est la...
Urban Renewal and Resistance
Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book combines insights from critical geography,...
Communications Satellites
Global Change Agents
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Over the past 40 years, satellites have played a key role in creating a global culture, spreading worldwide entertainment, stimulating technological interchange, and promoting trade around the world. Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents addresses communications satellites not only in terms...
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection
James Wynn’s timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies...
Discourses of the Developing World
Researching properties, problems and potentials
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third World or the Global South. Written by leading researchers based...
What does it mean to say the audience is 'active'?
Active Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Interpersonal Communication, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: People receive messages mainly from a large variety of medias, as audiences they are consuming their service through media appliances. According to Fischoff, people...
Reporting Elections
Rethinking the Logic of Campaign Coverage
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
How elections are reported has important implications for the health of democracy and informed citizenship. But, how informative are the news media during campaigns? What kind of logic do they follow? How well do they serve citizens?e
Based on original research as well as the most comprehensive...
Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World
Communication Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media around the World: Communication Case Studies is an edited collection of cutting edge research on the practical applications of diverse types of emerging media technologies in a variety of industries and in many different regions of the world. In recent years, emergent...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of communication related to conflict. Divided into four sections, the Handbook critically examines text, interaction, languages and applications of linguistics in situations...