Communication studies Books

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) has emerged as a critical soft skill in public relations, proven essential for performance, leadership, and fostering collaborative organizational cultures.

We have met evangelists-and they are not us. Sympathetic to the discomfort his students have about evangelism, Mark Teasdale gives us this refreshing, practical look at sharing the good news. He opens up a nonthreatening space, helping us learn how to...

Using an understudied archive of American news broadcasts, and tracing their flashes and echoes through travel guides and narratives of return written by Eastern European-Americans, this book explores American ways of seeing and mapping communism's...

This book presents case studies of ideologies of communication in Japan, responding to recent developments in the field and the subject-wide shift from ideologies of language to ideologies of communication. Chapters explore a wide range of language...

This concise text provides an accessible introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent User Interfaces (IUIs) and how they are at the heart of a communication revolution for strategic communications and public relations.

In today s digital era, communication is no longer bound by geographical or cultural borders, as sociocultural meanings are constantly reshaped and shared across global networks. The rise of digital media has introduced new modes of expression that...

Qualitative Langzeitforschung ist in Zeiten tiefgreifender gesellschaftlicher und medialer Wandlungsprozesse von essenzieller Bedeutung  Der Sammelband adressieret zentrale methodologische und methodische Fragestellungen und zeigt auf, wie den...

This book addresses key challenges facing global political communication at a time in which transformations in political practice, media ecology and cultural expectations both threaten traditional democratic norms and point to potential new ways of...

"The ABC Universal Commercial Electric Telegraphic Code" is a comprehensive codebook tailored for late 19th-century business communication. Specifically adapted for financiers, merchants, shipowners, brokers, and agents, this code facilitated efficient...

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The book develops a view of AI rooted in the theories and values of Information Science (the social science of knowledge) focusing on whether AI is transforming knowledge access and creation in a significantly positive, equitable, inclusive and...

The book sheds light on the intersectionality of language, race and identity by offering a multiperspective approach to the proscription of identity when language and culture have a direct impact on the understanding of race and ethnicity.

MediaWriting is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing in the twenty-first century. With easy-to-read chapters, a wealth of updated, real-world examples, and helpful "How To" boxes...

The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field, describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied. The book synthesizes theoretical and empirical...

Arguing, Reasoning, and Thinking Well offers an engaging and accessible introduction to argumentation and critical thinking. With a pro-social focus, the volume encourages readers to value civility when engaged in arguing and reasoning. Authors Gass and...

Designed to engage, inspire, and challenge students while laying out the fundamentals of the craft, this textbook introduces readers to the core values of journalism and its singular role in a democracy.From the First Amendment to Facebook, this popular...

The book explores the paradox of why affairs continue to be condemned as immoral at a time when the incidence of affairs continues to rise, and they have become the basic ingredients of soap operas, novels and the media.

Challenging current work in communication and social psychology that assumes face-to-face interaction can be adequately understood without attending to discourse expression, this volume examines how people's goals, concerns, and intentions can be related...

eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change provides an overview of technological applications in contemporary health communication research, exploring the history and current uses of eHealth applications in disease prevention and...

Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges...

Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society-a society, that is, in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The social domains affected include education, politics and...

This book provides an overview of communication-centered theory and research regarding organizational knowledge and learning. It brings the work of scholars in communication, management, information technology, and other disciplines together in a...

Timely, authoritative and provocative, this major volume meets the emerging need for an introduction to critical public relations, to look at the diverse perspectives in the field and to construct a tentative mapping of possible ways forward.  This...

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...

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic...

During the first part of the twenty-first century, bloggers, citizen journalists, social media users, Yelp reviewers, and a myriad of other communicators have found themselves facing defamation, privacy, campaign finance, and other lawsuits as a result...

The vast circulations of mobile devices, sensors and data mean that the social world is now defined by a complex interweaving of human and machine agency. Key to this is the growing power of algorithms - the decision-making parts of code - in our...

News coverage on Africa is closely connected not only with how Western audiences see the continent, but also with how a wide Western audience builds its opinion on issues that carry consequences for the public's and governments' support and policy...

This book opens up new lines of debate in language learning and intercultural communication through an investigation of tandem language learning (a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between native speakers and learners of each...

In the last 15 to 20 years, writing centers have placed greater importance on tutor training, focusing on teaching tutors best practices in fostering student writers' engagement and writing skills. Writing Center Talk over Time explores the importance of...

In our daily experiences, we feel, perceive, designate, invoke or comment on a plurality of beings: people, artifacts, technologies, institutions, projects, animals, divinities, emotions, cultures, ideologies or opinions that are part of our world. While...

This book focuses on the social process of conflict news production and the emergence of public discourse on war and armed conflict. Its contributions combine qualitative and quantitative approaches through interview studies and computer-assisted content...

The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE - c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost,...

Jack Pun's book offers the latest research in a variety of health communication settings to highlight the cultural differences between the East and the West.It focuses on the various clinical strands in health communication such as doctor-patient...

A collection of essays providing an interdisciplinary account of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's judicial rhetoric.

Nonverbal behavior is most commonly discussed in terms of its sep­ arate channels or modalities, that is, one chapter on distance, another on gaze, a third on facial expression, and so forth. Representative of this approach are...

Compassionate Collaborative Communication: How To Communicate Peacefully In A Nonviolent WayA Practical Guide Using Effective Proven Skills For Conflict In Relationships Between Parents & Kids You know how frustrating it can be when you are...

Le livre ""Code-Manuel De La Presse (1885)"" �����crit par Albert Faivre est un guide complet pour les journalistes et les �����diteurs de journaux en France. Il couvre toutes les lois et r�����glementations concernant la presse, y compris la libert�����...

Stenography Remodeled is a book written by J. Fancutt in 1841 that presents a new system of shorthand writing. The system is based on grammar and the analogy of language, and it aims to provide a more efficient and intuitive way of taking notes and...

This edited collection presents cutting edge research into the topic of green messages and subsequent consumer responses, providing important insights into current practice as well as directions for future research. This book was originally published as...

This book is the first systematic study on the historiography of the family planning communication process in India. It traces the history of the development of a highly technical health communication process.

With the methodology of eye-tracking experiments, in-depth interviews and large-scale questionnaires across cities, this book provides a panoramic vision of digital reading and social interaction among the new generations in China.

Pornography's impact on transnational models of media aesthetics and governance have been well documented from a Euro-American perspective. This book contributes to the field of pornography studies by rethinking the cultural impact of pornography as...

This innovative volume compels readers to re-think the notions of performance, performing, and (non)performativity in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Journalism Practice and Critical Reflexivity is a theoretical and practice-based response to the crisis of mission and credibility in journalism studies that is heightened by online and social media. It describes, analyses and offers new approaches and...