Communication studies

United States Government publications are books collectors have not sought, bibliographers have not analyzed, historians have rarely considered.

Historically, security managers have tended to be sourced from either the armed forces or law enforcement.

Now in its fourth edition, this classic textbook has grown up alongside the newspaper industry.

Responding to the growth of digital products and the commercial imperative to build new digital businesses, The Business of Digital Publishing offers a comprehensive introduction to the development of digital products in the book and journal industries.

This book charts the evolution of the Legal Services Ombudsman for England and Wales.

As media industries undergo rapid change, the conditions of media work are shifting just as quickly, with an explosion in the number of journalists working as freelancers.

This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the flows of communication between politicians, journalists, and citizens.

This book explores the form, dynamics, and main reasons for media capture and conspiracy between editors and executive politicians in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since 2000.

This book accounts for the transformation of organizations in a post-bureaucratic era by bringing a communicational lens to the ontological discussion on organization/disorganization, offering a conceptual and methodological toolbox for studying dis/organization as communication.

This book sets out to historicise our understanding of contemporary trends by studying the long relationship between science, food and drink marketing and the promotion of healthy lifestyles.

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This book focuses on the recent rise of "e;infodemics"e; as forms of disinformation, misinformation and mal-information saturate contemporary media platforms, shaping public opinion to advance agendas.

Le débat autour du mythe en tant que concept opposé à la pensée scientifique actuelle est au cœur de ce livre.

This book presents eight evidence-based strategies that promote generative learning, which enables learners to apply their knowledge to new problems.

This book examines civil society empowerment during the EU enlargement process.

Communication Theory Through the Ages presents communication theory as a journey through history by way of asking engaged questions.

Drawing significantly on both classic and contemporary research, Nonverbal Communication speaks to today's students with modern examples that illustrate nonverbal communication in their lived experiences.

In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse?

Carlos Castaneda's accounts of his meeting with the Yaqui Indian magician Don Juan are well known to sociologists both in Britain and in America.

Communication Yearbook 22 contains in-depth literature reviews focused on an important topic in specialized areas as well as syntheses that describe scholarship in other domains.

Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, yet our understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary.

This book considers the work of Erich Fromm as it can be applied to radical Left political strategy.

This revealing history of the American film musical synthesizes the critical literature on the genre and provides a series of close analytical readings of iconic musical films, focusing on their cultural relationship to other aspects of American popular music.

Was ist wahr, was falsch?

A benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature on personal relationships.

This book takes a social science approach to address two related questions: (1) what does Donald Trump say on Twitter?

Introducing a new framework for teaching and learning literature in secondary schools, this book presents Dialogic Literary Argumentation as an inquiry-based approach to engage students in communicating and exploring ideas about literature.

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In 2022 Wits University Press marked its centenary, making it the oldest, most established university press in sub-Saharan Africa.

This accessible textbook gives students the tools they need to analyze games using strategies borrowed from textual analysis.

This new approach to the history of the Second World War, first published in 1990, examines the events of this period through the cartoons of the day.

Given the high rate of social media use by the public, organizations are compelled to engage with key audiences through these outlets.

Bringing together professional standards, practices, and jargon from across the industry, Scripting Media provides a complete overview of writing for divergent forms of media.

In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not available.

This edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and as epistemological constructs about them.

Are you tongue-tied about faith?

This step-by-step guide to lobbying covers it allfrom the basics for beginners to specific techniques for experienced lobbyistsYou and I may never achieve major public office, but we do not need to in order to affect public policy.

A guide through the maze of the pharmaceutical research and development process, Medical Writing in Drug Development fills a gap in the libraries of technical writers, college instructors, and corporate professionals associated with the pharmaceutical process.

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Sala's personal style, along with his innovations in form, influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century.

Contemporary society, the society of the future, will require us to develop entirely new knowledge, skills and competences.