Communication studies

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 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 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.

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.

In this book, Marcella Szablewicz traces what she calls the topography of digital game culture in urban China, drawing our attention to discourse and affect as they shape the popular imaginary surrounding digital games.

This book explores the emerging trends and patterns in online student evaluations of teaching and how online reviews have transformed the teacher-student relationship as developments in technology have altered consumer behaviors.

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 book illuminates the concept of disaster communities through a series of international case studies.

This book interrogates the process of court reporting on rape and other sexual crime cases involving Australian footballers.

This book argues that in the digital era, a reinvention of democracy is urgently necessary.

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.

Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom provides an account of Johansson's persona, work and stardom, extending from her breakout roles in independent cinema, to contemporary blockbusters, to her self-parodying work in science-fiction.

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 collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media.

This book examines how video game mechanics and narratives can teach players skills associated with increased psychological well-being.

This book explores relations between communication and conflict.

This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South.

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

This collection examines LEGO from an array of critical and cultural studies approaches, foregrounding the world-renowned brand's ideological power and influence.

This book seeks to understand and classify differences that exist between a variety of elections in Britain.

This book explores the consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 from a global perspective, bringing together empirical research from countries where at least some 16-year-olds are able to vote.

This book examines the language policies relating to linguistic rights in European Union law and in the constitutions and legal statutes of some European Union member states.

This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the question of how political legitimacy is constructed in the increasingly contested postnational setting of the European Union.

The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu.

"e;Simply put, there is absolutely nothing on the market with the range of ambition of this strikingly eclectic collection of essays.

This book argues that Donald Trump's election and Presidency represent the triumph of marketing, branding and segmentation in American politics.

Through the analysis of eighteen years of presidential data, this book shows how Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump have conducted and framed the war on terror since its inception in 2001.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant examines what it means to be a public servant in today's world(s) where globalisation and neoliberalism have proliferated the number of actors who contribute to the public purpose sector and created new spaces that public servants now operate in.

This timely book examines the role of fact-checking journalism within political policy debates, and its potential contribution to public engagement.

This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa.