Communication studies Books

The essays selected for this volume address debilitating assumptions that place both students and teachers of basic writing, as well as the discipline itself, on the margins of educational, economic, and political localities of influence. The collection...

Truth, What Is It? And Opinion, What Is It Not? is a philosophical book written by John Fletcher in 1840. The book explores the concepts of truth and opinion and aims to provide a clear understanding of what these two ideas represent. Fletcher argues...

Putnam's Phrase Book, written by Edwin Hamlin Carr in 1919, is a comprehensive guide to aid in social letter writing and to improve one's conversational skills. The book contains over 100 model social letters and 600 of the world's best English phrases,...

Digital media are having an enormous impact on the world. From the seemingly mundane, like playing World of Warcraft, to posting a message on Twitter or Facebook, to the operation of financial markets, to transformations in science and the economy -...

In this innovative and potentially controversial book, Penman examines the future of communication as a discipline. She foresees a time in which communicating is conceived as a social construction process, in the anticipation that this will allow a...

Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in the contemporary age. Online configurations of interaction, such as video...

The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world's population. The internet's meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic,...

Martha Malamud provides the only scholarly English translation of De Reditu Suo with significant notes and commentary that explore historical, literary, cultural, and mythical references, as well as commenting on literary allusions, the structure,...

Internships have all but became a requirement when starting out in the fields of entertainment and broadcasting. Students need these internships not only to get their foot in the door, but to gain valuable experience that gives them an advantage when...

This book examines deformative transparency and its different manifestations in political communication, propaganda and public health. The objective is to present the theoretical foundations of deformative transparency, as grotesque and esperpentic...

This book explores how Ireland's community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centuries, the nation-state of Ireland is less than one hundred years old. Because of this and other...

The Chairman and Speakers Guide is a book written by Thomas Smith in 1876. This book is a comprehensive guide that provides a brief digest of the rules required for the efficient and orderly conduct of a debate. It is specifically designed for the...

Durch die ständig voranschreitenden Globalisierungsprozesse der Märkte wird eine international gültige Strategie für länderübergreifend agierende Unternehmen immer wichtiger. Dabei müssen sowohl die zivilgesellschaftliche, die wirtschaftliche und die...

Galileo, Wunderwelt Wissen, Planetopia, Abenteuer Wissen... - diese Aufzählung von Wissenssendungen im deutschen Fernsehen ließe sich gefühlt noch unendlich weiterführen. Nicht erst seit gestern erleben solche Fernsehformate einen regelrechten Hype. Mit...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Sonstiges, Note: 1,5, Duale Hochschule Gera-Eisenach (ehem. Berufsakademie Thürigen in Gera), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In meiner Seminararbeit habe ich mich, weil ich täglich mit...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 1,0, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit handelt von dem Modell zur gewaltfreien und damit besseren Kommunikation vom US-amerikanischen...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Public Relations, Werbung, Marketing, Social Media, Note: 2, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Medienkommunikation), Veranstaltung: Images des Sports, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Public Relations, Werbung, Marketing, Social Media, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ob im Fernsehen, in Magazinen oder auf öffentlichen Plakaten; tagtäglich wird die heutige...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Public Relations, Werbung, Marketing, Social Media, Note: 1,7, FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management gemeinnützige GmbH, Düsseldorf früher Fachhochschule, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Public Relations, Werbung, Marketing, Social Media, Note: 1,0, Fachhochschule Erfurt (Wirtschaftswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der folgenden Hausarbeit möchte der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Medien und Politik, Pol. Kommunikation, Note: 5.5 (Schweizer Notensystem), Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Medien und Politik, Pol. Kommunikation, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Agenda Setting & Priming,...

This book presents an assessment of EFL teachers' implementation of questioning strategies in Ethiopian classroom context.In this study, six samples of EFL teachers were selected randomly to find out the effectiveness of teacher questions and the...

Scientists have strong motivations to communicate with the public, yet this communication is often ineffective, due to divisions of audience and discourse community, as well as the scientists' biases against communicating with the public. Scientific...

This qualitative study investigated messages thatemployees would construct when disclosing non-visibledisabilities in the workplace in accordance with theAmericans with Disabilities Act. In addition,respondents were asked what factors they felt...

Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Frage wie die lokale Presse über den Strafvollzug berichtet. Die Datengrundlage bilden 1603 Presseartikel, die in der Meppener Tagespost in einem Zeitraum von 1978 bis 2006 erschienen sind.

Ausgehend von der Rolle des Deutschen als berufsüberbegreifende Schlüsselqualifikation gewinnen interdisziplinäre Ansätze in der berufs- und fachorientierten Aus- und Weiterbildung von Fach(lehr)kräften an Bedeutuung. Die Beiträge thematisieren die...

In the world's honor and face cultures, values related to a family's reputation are deep-rooted. When individuals violate them, the honor of the deviant's in-group itself is damaged, leading to stigmatization and rejection. Punishments range from...

This study analyzes Heidegger`s concepts of truth, world, space and related concepts and establishes a formal, contextual and material method of analysis for the purpose of examining works of art. This new method of analysis is applied to three pieces by...

Die Studie widmet sich der - im Ergebnis verneinten - Frage, ob Unternehmensbeteiligungen von Parteien mit dem Grundgesetz vereinbar sind. Dies erfolgt aufgefächert in die Aspekte, ob sich Parteien erwerbswirtschaftlich betätigen dürfen und ob...

Public services are increasingly delivered by organizations operating at arms' length of governments. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how public services are affected by their media environment. It describes how public service...

Das Buch beinhaltet die Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung in Peking im September 2011. Aus chinesischer und deutscher Sicht werden Aspekte von Deutsch als Fremdsprache, chinesisch-deutschen Kulturbeziehungen und interkultureller Kommunikation...

Es ist keine 20 Jahre her, dass das World Wide Web seine populäre Entwicklung begonnen hat - mit unvorhersehbaren Konsequenzen für sich selbst und die Medienlandschaft im Allgemeinen. Inzwischen nimmt die Zukunft der durch das Internet grundlegend...

This book sheds new light on the relationship between conservative Christianity and Hollywood through a case study of Walden Media, which produced The Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Financed by a conservative Christian, Walden Media is a unique American...

This volume is dedicated to the debate on European unification developed between the end of World War II and 1979 in two types of magazines. The first type of magazines are those not exclusively dedicated to the European themes, but particularly...

The contributions of this volume approach the genres of employee, CEO and organizational communication from different angles. They analyze how the author's position in the company influences the construction of these genres, what content and linguistic...

This collection of essays examines the relationship between the media and cosmopolitanism in an increasingly fragmented and globalizing world. This relationship is presented from multiple perspectives and the essays cover, amongst other themes,...

How have media constructions around terrorism changed since 9.11? This book analyses the ways that language is employed in the media to reference discourses around terrorism in different social systems and doctrines, and illustrates the ways in which...

More than ever, professional English is now cruising towards an enormous challenge in the European university context due to the extremely significant moment we are living in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The European convergence process is...

China has lived with the Internet for nearly two decades. Will increased Internet use, with new possibilities to share information and discuss news and politics, lead to democracy, or will it to the contrary sustain a nationalist supported...

By exploring the often hidden ideological agenda(s) of place branding, and analyzing the ways in which practitioners often marginalize, or ignore, local stakeholders on the ground, this volume of essays offers a fresh and topical perspective on an...

Connections. We all want them. We seek them in our everyday lives, in our relationships with people, places and things. Emotion is at the heart of any meaningful connection, and how we talk to each other taps into it. Our character, brought to life...

"Deniers of climate change have benefited from political strategies developed by conservative think tanks and public relations experts paid handsomely by the energy industry. With this book, environmental activists can benefit from some scholarly...

The Art Of Photoplay Making is a comprehensive guide to the art of filmmaking, written by Victor Oscar Freeburg and originally published in 1918. The book covers all aspects of the filmmaking process, including pre-production planning, screenwriting,...

From 1993 to 2003, exports of Japan's cartoon arts tripled in value, to $12.5 billion. Fan phenomena around the world - in U.S. malls, teen girls flock to purchase the latest Fruits Basket graphic novel; in Hungary, young people gather for a summer...

Rhetorical scholarship has for decades relied solely on culture to explain persuasive behavior. While this focus allows for deep explorations of historical circumstance, it neglects the powerful effects of biology on rhetorical behavior - how our bodies...