Communication studies Books

The relationship between information and the nation-state is typically portrayed as a face-off involving repressive state power and democratic flows: Twitter and the Arab Spring, Google in China, WikiLeaks and the U.S. State Department. Less attention...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Public Relations, Werbung, Marketing, Social Media, Note: 1,3, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit wird aufzeigen, wie...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Medien und Politik, Pol. Kommunikation, Note: 1,7, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart (Electronic Media), Veranstaltung: Politik und Gesellschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Note: 3,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Veranstaltung: Interkulturelles Lernen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Interkulturelle bzw...

The current format of international radio programming, the extended range ofits coverage and the expertise of the professionals involved on its unique news makingprocesses and purposes, pinpoints the importance of the medium.The focus on this work is to...

Aus einer postkolonialen Perspektive wird Bildmaterial der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit deutscher Organisationen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit untersucht. Mit einer wissenssoziologisch orientierten visuellen Diskursanalyse werden Plakate hinsichtlich der...

Il volume raccoglie saggi sui periodici francesi, italiani e tedeschi del XVIII secolo. I contributi si occupano in prospettiva storica, letteraria e/o linguistica di alcuni fra i più rilevanti prodotti del giornalismo settecentesco: i periodici eruditi,...

Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht die Darstellung des Ersten Weltkrieges im Romanwerk Marcel Prousts aus einer transdisziplinären, intermedialen, philologischen und erkenntnistheoretischen Perspektive heraus und lädt auf diese Weise zu einer...

Sexy Girls, Heroes and Funny Losers: Gender Representations in Children's TV around the World presents the most comprehensive study to date of gender images on children's television. Conducted in 24 countries around the world, the study employed...

This is a comprehensive introduction to English text-linguistics. It deals with those areas of text-linguistics that have enjoyed widespread attention in English linguistics, notably aspects of cohesion and coherence. Further topics are corpus-based...

By Degrees: Resilience, Relationships, and Success in Communication Graduate Studies provides readers with an indispensable guide to navigating the graduate school experience in Communication Studies programs. The book helps current and future graduate...

Public relations has emerged as a distinct field in the recent years. It focuses on presenting a positive image of a corporate or individual among public, investors, stakeholders, customers, etc. This book on public relations management covers...

Electronic media has rapidly emerged as a prominent discipline in the last few decades that has moved beyond traditional broadcasting and recording technologies. The book includes a wide range of topics concerning electronic media including historical,...

Digital media has played a vital role in changing the face of present day communication. It has brought together people from diverse backgrounds and regions, and has provided a common platform for sharing different ideas and opinions. Some of the...

Pragmatic Public Speaking: A Workshop Approach to Real World Speeches explains why speaking well is a necessary tool for professional success, and how to speak well in a variety of situations and genres. Using a workbook format, each chapter of the...

This book draws attention to a dynamic, yet underexplored, site of communication pedagogy: honors education.

Intercultural Health Communication brings together the fields of health and intercultural research in new work from leading communication scholars, employing critical, qualitative, and interpretive research methodologies in order to engage the political...

This book explores how women in public relations navigate through attitudinal, structural and social barriers in advancing their leadership roles. It is grounded in rich empirical evidence gained through two phases of a funded research project conducted...

This volume, featuring empirically-based case studies, provides an opportunity to analyze communication and other organizational issues in nonprofit, volunteer, and philanthropic contexts. Each case is designed to help readers critically think about the...

This multi-contextual approach serves to integrate current findings, expand our theoretical understanding of the end of life, prioritize the significance of competent communication for scholars and practitioners, and provide a solid foundation upon which...

Branding Democracy: U.S. Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe is a study of the uses of systemic propaganda in U.S. foreign policy. Moving beyond traditional understandings of propaganda, Branding Democracy analyzes the expanding and ubiquitous...

Throughout the world, the mass media are responsible for shaping the form and content of experiences. In this book, David L. Altheide examines how the mass media, including news and popular culture, have cast terrorism, propaganda and social control post...

The framing metaphor is commonly used in negotiation and communication research to characterize how individuals place interpretive and linguistic boundaries around phenomena, objects, or events. This book develops this construct, exploring its potential...

This book examines how common e-learning technologies open up compelling, if limited, experiential spaces for users, similar to the imaginary worlds opened up by works of fiction. However, these experiential worlds are markedly different from the real...

Bringing together scholars from around the world, this collection examines many of the historical developments in making data visible through charts, graphs, thematic maps, and now interactive displays. The contributors analyze this fascinating history...

For much of the last century, large, predominantly US corporations used public relations to demonstrate that their missions resonated with dominant societal values. Through the construction and conveyance of the "corporate persona", they aimed to...

Mass Media and Health: Examining Media Impact on Individuals and the Health Environment covers media health influences from a variety of angles, including the impact on individual and public health, the intentionality of these effects, and the nature of...

This book is a scholarly work of forensic linguistics that demonstrates how the principles of Gricean pragmatics and their recent elaboration in Information Manipulation Theory (IMT) can be of use to courts faced with deciding cases of allegedly...

This volume presents timely discussions on how digital technology is reshaping broadcasting and the media in the United States and around the world. It features contributions from distinguished scholars and young researchers, representing work that spans...

What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person's definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter...

Media policy issues sit at the heart of the structure and functioning of media systems in Europe and beyond. This book brings together the work of a range of leading media policy scholars to provide inroads to a better understanding of how effective...

This volume presents innovative research on the multimodal dimension of discourse specific to academic settings, with a particular focus on the interaction between the verbal and non-verbal in constructing meaning. Contributions by experienced and...

In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement ideologies and identities are discursively constructed in new and old media. In the context of his argument, Featherman also considers...

There is to date no comprehensive account of the rhythms of free verse. The main purpose of A Prosody of Free Verse: explorations in rhythm is to fill that gap and begin to provide a systematic approach to describing and analyzing free verse rhythms...

Pedagogical interaction can be observed through many different landscapes, such as the graduate seminar, the writing skills center, the after-school literacy program, adult ESL classrooms, and post-observation conferences. By viewing these settings...

Learning how to be successful in a public relations (PR) agency is a stressful on-the-job, sink-or-swim, immersive experience. While other texts teach PR theory and practice, no other book guides early to mid-career PR professionals through the...

This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city. It presents a range of approaches to view the ill city through cinematic and televisual characterization in urban frameworks, political contexts, and...

In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive abilities; and the nature of their feelings, emotions, and capacity for suffering. This ground-breaking book...

This book focuses on mediated intercultural communication in the context of globalization. Analyzing social and traditional media using qualitative, interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives, contributors engage with diverse topics - ranging...

Movements in Organizational Communication Research is an essential resource for anyone wishing to become familiar with the current state of organizational communication research and key trends in the field. Seasoned organizational communication scholars...