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.
Many facets of social life are now intrinsically linked to the Internet through increasing dependence of user-centric platforms like blogs, social-networking websites, online forums, and open source websites.
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 offers a considered voice on the advertising chaos that colours our rapidly changing media environment in a world of fake news, fast facts and seriously depleted attention stamina.
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.
This book is a systematic investigation of Korean cultural wave in South Asia, discovering and analysing the dynamics of fandom, mechanism of media industry and growing phenomena of Korean culture in this part of the world.
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 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 book provides a cutting edge analysis of the rapid rise of China's network society and reviews recent key developments within China's internet economy, notably the concepts of "e;Lucky Money"e; and E-Business on Wechat, and Crowd-Funding Platforms.
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.
This book explores the mediated aftermath and remembrance of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster through three crucibles: time, space and emotion.
The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place.
Focusing on the two essential factors of the construction of risk, this book presents research revolving around the staging of and the coping with Internet addiction in China.
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 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.
Adopting a multi-perspective ontological approach to language in social life, this book investigates the concept of journalistic stance, defining it as a nexus of social practice rather than simply linguistic realizations.
This book gathers selected papers presented at the Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2018 International Conference on the theme of "e;new media for educational change: effects on learning and reflection on practice"e;.
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 book discusses the effect of communication strategies in the course of China's national image building from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.
This highly original work considers the rhetoric of political actors and commentators who identify digital media as the means to a new era of politics and democracy.
This collection of essays originates from discussions at various fora about the need for Nigerian media scholars to analyse the country's media industry and practice.
Este libro está escrito para estudiantes, profesores y profesionales del sector empresarial, y se ocupa de proponer y explicar aquellas estrategias que deberían permitirle a un usuario de la lengua mejorar su comunicación y, por lo tanto, ganar credibilidad en un entorno de índole empresarial o de preparación en este campo.
Un periodista de El Espectador, Carlos Mario Correa, y un amigo y confidente suyo, Marco Antonio Mejía, cuentan una de las historias más duras y sórdidas del periodismo colombiano: la persecución que contra este periódico desató el cartel de Medellín, y concretamente Pablo Escobar.
Se habla con frecuencia de la crisis del periodismo, de cómo han desaparecido decenas de publicaciones por falta de recursos económicos o por no adaptarse a las nuevas tecnologías.
Este libro es el segundo de la serie Sociología desde el Caribe colombiano, que inició con la compilación de varios textos inéditos del investigador Alfredo Correa de Andreis en Mirada de un sentipensante (2016).
Este libro contiene las voces de quienes, con el objetivo de llegar a esos otros que muchas veces no están en la academia, han decidido negociar entre el uso del lenguaje especializado, las normas propias de la publicación académica, la tecnología y las estrategias narrativas.
Esta obra plantea una mirada integral a la comunicación oral, aportando conocimientos, experiencias y herramientas en los aspectos verbales y no verbales.
Este libro materializa los resultados de proyectos recientes del grupo de investigación Comunicación, Paz-Conflicto, adscrito a la Facultad de Comunicación Social de la Universidad Santo Tomás y de algunos colaboradores externos, en la comunicación y las ciencias sociales.
Han pasado casi cinco décadas desde la invención de Internet y tras años de investigaciones preocupadas por cuestiones de índole instrumental y operativa, en la actualidad tiene lugar un giro comunicativo y cultural.
Al haberse cumplido 60 años de la inauguración de la televisión en Colombia, el presente libro, soportado en abundantes fuentes primarias y secundarias, examina el proceso de construcción de las relaciones entre televisión y Estado, y las diversas intentonas de democratización del servicio.