Communication studies

This book addresses health professions educational challenges specific to non-Western cultures, implementing a shifting paradigm for educating future health professionals towards patient-centered care.

This book explores state-religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey.

This book brings audiences the enchanting melodies passing down from generation to generation in the Zhuang community, which are on the brink of extinction.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of universal health coverage in India.

This book draws on posthumanist critique and post qualitative approaches to research to examine the pedagogies offered by imaginaries of the future.

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) technology, which is a fundamental and essential component for many applications in robotics, wearable devices, and autonomous driving vehicles.

The book features recent attempts to construct corpora for specific purposes - e.

This book provides deep insights into concerns related to the well-being in older women across the globe.

This book explores the unique contribution that critical communication studies can bring to our understanding of health.

This book offers a unique analysis of how political representatives construct ideas about the nation in contemporary Indonesian politics.

This book is a collection of essays from across Africa which highlight the roles of beliefs and traditions in health behaviour.

This book details the relationship between culture and the language used by public figures, including politicians, political candidates, and government officials, in the broad context of political behavior and communication.

This journal-like book series includes edited volumes to rapidly report and spread the latest technological results, new scientific discovery and valuable applied researches in the fields concerning offshore robotics as well as promote international academic exchange.

This book first presents an overview of the history of a national character survey by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics that has been conducted for more than 65 years.

This book addresses the complex issue of global Internet governance by focusing on its implementation in Malaysia and Singapore.

Ein praktischer Papa Ratgeber, der Vätern hilft, eine tiefe und dauerhafte Bindung zu ihren Söhnen aufzubauen.

This book is a valuable resource for those involved in translation studies and discourse analysis.

This book involves a variety of aspects and levels, including the diachronic and synchronic dimensions.

This book presents outstanding articles addressing various aspects related to the ancient Silk Road, in particular the cultural, political, and economic interactions that took place among the civilizations and cultures on the Eurasian continent.

This edited volume aims to unpack the digitisation of art and media within the dynamics of participatory culture, and how these changes affect the power relations between the production and consumption of these new forms in a globalised Asia.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

This book is intended to meet the needs of those who seek to develop control systems for ROVs when there is no model available during the initial design stage.

This book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news has had in both the online and social sphere.

This book explores the ways in which Eastern and Western medical knowledge inform each other in the treatment of people in Asia across a wide range of health issues.

This book promotes a meaningful and appropriate dialogue and cross-disciplinary partnerships on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in governance and disaster management.

Over the next few decades, millions of people, with varying backgrounds and levels of technical expertise, will have to effectively interact with robotic technologies on a daily basis.

This book investigates the study of World Englishes from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics, a theoretical and analytical framework for cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations and language that employs and expands on the analytical tools and theoretical advancements in a number of disciplines, including cognitive psychology/science, anthropology, distributed cognition, and complexity science.

This book explores the effectiveness of the Chinese government's recent public diplomacy efforts aimed at building its national image, and how these efforts may influence foreign public's view of China.

This book introduces researchers, students and the general public to an intriguing phenomenon at the intersection of diverse fields: national branding.

This book challenges the framing of comedic acts as apolitical and it adopts a multimodal critical discourse approach to interrogate the performance of comedy as a form of power.

There is an odd contradiction at the heart of language and culture learning: Language and culture are, so to speak, two sides of a single coin-language reflects the thinking, values and worldview of its speakers.

This book examines the ways in which the study and practice of international relations are misunderstood, both by scholars and politicians.

This book is devoted to taking a lead in establishing a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary platform for exchanging fresh thinking in the field of strategic studies.

The objective of this book is to take stock of the research Paolo Urio has conducted since 1997 on the rise of modern China, with emphasis on strategic public management.

This book explores the practices in a Zen Buddhist temple located in Northwest Ohio against the backdrop of globalization.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of the Internet on Malaysian politics and how it has played a pivotal role in influencing the country’s political climate.

This volume studies the relationship between the writers of specialized text and their readers in a broad range of settings, including research, popularization and education.

The theme of this book is the political practices by Zhejiang Government under the guidance of "e;China Dream"e; policy.

The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place.

This book focuses on the separatist trend in Hong Kong, which it approaches by drawing on historical studies, political analysis, social studies and legal analysis.

This book investigates the changing meanings of power and politics in the Internet age and questions whether the political category of the citizen still has a meaningful role to play in the highly-mediated dynamics of an increasingly networked world.

This volume includes a variety of first-hand case studies, critical analyses, action research and reflective practice in the digital humanities which ranges from digital literature, library science, online games, museum studies, information literacy to corpus linguistics in the 21st century.

Redefining the concept of new media in China, this cutting edge book discusses the impact of social media on Chinese public life.

This book investigates the changing meanings of power and politics in the Internet age and questions whether the political category of the citizen still has a meaningful role to play in the highly-mediated dynamics of an increasingly networked world.

Location-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with 'locative media' technologies.

This book   serves  as  an  easy-to-read,  up-to--date practical guide on professional corporate communication.

This book examines the experiences of transient migrants in the Asia-Pacific, and in so doing provides new ways of understanding diversity.

This book examines how the perception of terrorism threat erodes civil liberties, sows doubt about the loyalties of immigrants, and heightens the left-right ideological divide.

This volume addresses the implications that academic interdisciplinarity in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has for research and pedagogy with a global reach.