Communication studies

This book brings together the work of historians and sociologists with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning.

This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions.

This book explores whether a beleaguered press in recent years has been developing an emotive, Eurosceptic post-truth rhetoric of its own - competing for attention with populist politicians.

This edited book presents a cross-disciplinary and international conversation about the discursive nature of 'populist' politics.

This book represents a simple, practical resource for all healthcare professionals working with dermatological patients with psychological aspects to their disease.

Public opinion research has been under a great deal of criticism over the last few years as it failed to accurately predict a series of important outcomes around the world.

This book looks at how Europe's refugee crisis has provoked different political and humanitarian responses, all similarly driven by technology.

This book is about what it means to speak of a political mood.

Of all forms of alternative medicine, chiropractic is the one that is most generally accepted.

 This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South.

This book sheds light on the role that grievances play for mobilisation dynamics in a context of material deprivation.

This book explores the debate and politicisation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in the Spanish, French and British public spheres.

This book considers what is at stake for professionals whose work increasingly involves communicating in linguistically and culturally diverse contexts, and argues for the need to better understand the crucial role of languages and cultures in the modern workplace.

This book examines Donald Trump's longstanding connections to professional wrestling in relation to how he uses and exploits language, and the ways in which he has weaponized going public never before seen in previous administrations.

This book explores the 2019 Canadian Federal Election through a political marketing framework.

Algorithms are now widely employed to make decisions that have increasingly far-reaching impacts on individuals and society as a whole ("e;algorithmic governance"e;), which could potentially lead to manipulation, biases, censorship, social discrimination, violations of privacy, property rights, and more.

This book examines why Turkey has become infamous as a repressor of news media freedom.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of language and tourist mobility within an adventure tourism context.

Successful negotiation requires understanding your counterpart's culture, their feelings, habits and values.

This book explores how experienced party organisers in the UK work to recruit and to retain party activists for local campaigning.

This book describes how civic dialogue can serve as an antidote to a polarized public square.

This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America.

This book offers a novel approach to sustainable development through the theory and practice of communication in global food networks, focusing specifically on organic food and fair trade movements.

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

This book examines Donald Trump's longstanding connections to professional wrestling in relation to how he uses and exploits language, and the ways in which he has weaponized going public never before seen in previous administrations.

This book offers an in depth analysis of the interactional challenges that arise due to various dementias and in a variety of social contexts.

This book discusses post-truth not merely as a Western issue, but as a problematic political and cultural condition with global ramifications.

This book explores the role of elected leaders in disaster management.

This book examines women's political communication in Africa, capturing previously unheard women's voices, and presenting detailed information on overlooked communication strategies and forms of power relations employed by African women and women of African descent.

This book explores the impact of electoral rules on political party development in Central and East Europe.

This edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professional settings, drawing on the contributions of a set of internationally-renowned authors.

This book offers a fresh set of innovative and creative contributions related to the role of communication in processes of change.

This is the first comprehensive guide to the design of behavioral randomized clinical trials (RCT) for chronic diseases.

This edited book makes a significant contribution to the relatively under-explored field of multilingualism and politics, approaching the topic from two key perspectives: multilingualism in politics, and the politics of multilingualism.

In this volume, the authors consider how environmental changes affect our social, cultural and political lives and, in doing so, have a direct influence on individuals' health.

This book explores Donald Trump's political communication as a candidate and in the first two years in office.

This book explores young people's civic experiences in contemporary American society, and how they navigate the political world in an era defined by digital media.

This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest.

This book provides a comprehensive approach for colleges rethinking their community policy connections.

"e;Theoretically wise and practically powerful, this book is about how to take full advantage of advances in technology and the learner autonomy they afford, rather than simply adapt to or deny them.

This textbook presents political sociology as a connective social science that studies political phenomena by creating fruitful connections with other perspectives.

This book examines US foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the region's key role in the practice and evolution of American exceptionalism.

This book examines the recent evolution of online spaces and their impact on networked democracy.

This book discusses the role of political narratives in shaping perceptions of instability and conceptions of order in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This edited book examines the phenomenon of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in the Japanese context, using multilingualism as a lens through which to explore language practices and attitudes in what is traditionally viewed as a monolingual, monocultural setting.

Policymakers prepare society for the future and this book provides a practical toolkit for preparing pro-active, future-proof scientific policy advice for them.

This book explores the relationship between the personality of political leaders, its interaction with top leadership positions and its impact on the respective parties' electoral performance and organization.

This book analyses the changes to the regulation of everyday life that have taken place as a result of datafication, the ever-growing analytical, predictive, and structuring role of algorithms, and the prominence of the platform economy.

This book explores relations between communication and conflict.

This book, the second of two volumes, explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the increased presence of social media within African politics.