Communication studies Books

Exploring Science Communication demonstrates how science and technology studies approaches can be explicitly integrated into effective, powerful science communication research. Through a range of case studies, from climate change and public parks to...

What does it mean when images of refugees' plight are shared on social media? Or when we respond to emotive NGO fundraising campaigns, or are heartened by do-good reality TV shows? Do these narratives offer incentives for genuine social change or only...

This is not simply a book about 'internet studies'. It is a book that considers many wider forms of digital culture, including mobile technologies, surveillance, algorithms, ambient intelligence, gaming, big data and technological bodies (to name a few)...

This is not simply a book about 'internet studies'. It is a book that considers many wider forms of digital culture, including mobile technologies, surveillance, algorithms, ambient intelligence, gaming, big data and technological bodies (to name a few)...

Transforming Communication About Culture includes thought-provoking contributions about the ways in which people's lives and experiences across the globe are being transformed by technological changes, media institutions, political ideologies, and social...

Transforming Communication About Culture includes thought-provoking contributions about the ways in which people's lives and experiences across the globe are being transformed by technological changes, media institutions, political ideologies, and social...

Transforming Communication About Culture includes thought-provoking contributions about the ways in which people's lives and experiences across the globe are being transformed by technological changes, media institutions, political ideologies, and social...

This text challenges the quantitative, social science perspective on intercultural communication by examining critical issues from diverse perspectives. Key topics include historical and religious perspectives; racial and ethnic issues; cross-cultural...

This text challenges the quantitative, social science perspective on intercultural communication by examining critical issues from diverse perspectives. Key topics include historical and religious perspectives; racial and ethnic issues; cross-cultural...

Non-Western Perspective on Human Communication challenges the longstanding individualistic model on which most western intercultural research is based. It proposes a non-western way of conceptualizing identity - the cornerstone of cultural research - and...

The Second Edition of this important book continues to provide a thorough and critical treatment of persuasion theory and research. O'Keefe combines a discussion of research on the production of persuasive messages with more traditional research on the...

The Second Edition of this important book continues to provide a thorough and critical treatment of persuasion theory and research. O'Keefe combines a discussion of research on the production of persuasive messages with more traditional research on the...

The Second Edition of this important book continues to provide a thorough and critical treatment of persuasion theory and research. O'Keefe combines a discussion of research on the production of persuasive messages with more traditional research on the...

The Second Edition of this important book continues to provide a thorough and critical treatment of persuasion theory and research. O'Keefe combines a discussion of research on the production of persuasive messages with more traditional research on the...

The authors of this book provide an 'insider's guide' to getting published in scholarly communication journals. In nine chapters, they and seven other distinguished journal editors explain what editors and reviewers look for when deciding which articles...

The authors of this book provide an 'insider's guide' to getting published in scholarly communication journals. In nine chapters, they and seven other distinguished journal editors explain what editors and reviewers look for when deciding which articles...

This book addresses the role of communication in cultural change efforts within organizations, especially during periods of transition, mergers, technological innovations and globalization.

This book addresses the role of communication in cultural change efforts within organizations, especially during periods of transition, mergers, technological innovations and globalization.

Rhetoric in Intercultural Contexts confronts the challenges facing critics of rhetorical action when the focus of the study contains a mixture of cultural traditions and practices. The contributors reflect on the limitations of monocultural critical...

The purpose of this collection is to provide an exposition of a theory of discourse which offers possibilities for understanding both the constitutive and the transformative functions of discourse in human affairs. The volume does not seek to provide a...

A través de estos casos se muestra cómo la tecnología digital ha cambiado la forma de ser o de sentirse fan y también las prácticas de los investigadores que los observan buscando comprender que significa ser fan entre la gente joven

This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective.

In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality. Our purpose is to shake established views in what we consider to be an urgent quest for dealing with...