Communication studies

This book sheds light on the communication of social support, language use, and therapeutic effects in the context of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression.

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This book examines the significant changes reshaping the European media landscape in the context of rapid technological advancements, political shifts, and economic pressures.

This book explores the concept of advertising and the different ways advertising is understood and evaluated.

This book explores the concept of advertising and the different ways advertising is understood and evaluated.

This volume provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the phenomenon of verbal irony and sarcasm and the methodological aspects of its study.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the role of immersive technology with multiple sectoral perspectives, such as entertainment, education, health care, and more.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the role of immersive technology with multiple sectoral perspectives, such as entertainment, education, health care, and more.

This book organizes the intent and purpose of the Japanese competition law (Antimonopoly Act) to address the digitalized socio-economy and provides a detailed explanation of its basic content as well as advanced issues.

This book organizes the intent and purpose of the Japanese competition law (Antimonopoly Act) to address the digitalized socio-economy and provides a detailed explanation of its basic content as well as advanced issues.

This volume examines the growing presence of populism, partisanship, and polarization and analyzes what this means for scandalization processes.

This volume examines the growing presence of populism, partisanship, and polarization and analyzes what this means for scandalization processes.

Managers and leaders spend a great deal of time on communication; it binds together all the communications in the organisational system.

This practical self-help guide introduces "e;Psychological Fitness"e; - a powerful combination of mental resilience and emotional well-being that can transform how your child navigates life's challenges.

This book is an in-depth study on the past, present and future of digitalization, an important contribution to the literature on the development of the digital economy in China.

This book is an in-depth study on the past, present and future of digitalization, an important contribution to the literature on the development of the digital economy in China.

This book examines the significant changes reshaping the European media landscape in the context of rapid technological advancements, political shifts, and economic pressures.

The internet has become a battleground for global power struggles, with nations and even terrorist organizations wielding cyber-attacks to exert control.

This book investigates the DeGroot model in social network contexts, and proposes the social network DeGroot (SNDG) model.

This book presents perspectives from South Asian countries, such as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Bhutan.

This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics.

This book addresses issues of access that COVID-19 brought forth in higher education, with a primary focus on Asian countries.

This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics.

In today's evolving democratic landscape, "e;The Perils of Populism: The End of the American Century"e; offers an extensive investigation into the phenomenon of populism and its potential threats to U.

In today's evolving democratic landscape, "e;The Perils of Populism: The End of the American Century"e; offers an extensive investigation into the phenomenon of populism and its potential threats to U.

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of digital sovereignty in China, which are addressed mainly from political, legal and historical point of views.

The most internationalist of all party families, the radical left has paradoxically always lagged behind in its cooperation at the EU level.

This edited volume focuses on the (un)equal access to the public space granted to the various groups that make up hybrid and multicultural societies: i.

This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture.

The most internationalist of all party families, the radical left has paradoxically always lagged behind in its cooperation at the EU level.

This book describes how distinctive socio-political commitments and cultural practices developed upon the internet in the later 20th and early 21st century and considers what lies ahead in those terms.

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of digital sovereignty in China, which are addressed mainly from political, legal and historical point of views.

This book investigates the role played by classical and digital media, and social networks in shaping debates on the environment.

This book examines users' digital content contribution and consumption behavior from a social perspective.

This book investigates the role played by classical and digital media, and social networks in shaping debates on the environment.

This book examines users' digital content contribution and consumption behavior from a social perspective.

Ghosts in the Dating App Machine offers a critical examination of the shift to dating apps to illustrate key features of a broader shift to a mode of "e;data"e; colonialism based on datafication and AI orchestration.

The internet has become a battleground for global power struggles, with nations and even terrorist organizations wielding cyber-attacks to exert control.

This book explains how taxonomy can be used to describe and connect social actors in an integral way.

This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2022, which took place in Valletta, Malta, in October 2022.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2022, which took place in Valletta, Malta, in October 2022.

This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture.

Volume two of Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe: The 2023 Election and Beyond argues that research into Zimbabwe's politics is multifaceted and topical, particularly because for more than two decades now, this Southern African state has been dogged by multiple problems including hyperinflation, drought, escalating poverty levels, extremely high unemployment rates and political instabilities.

Volume two of Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe: The 2023 Election and Beyond argues that research into Zimbabwe's politics is multifaceted and topical, particularly because for more than two decades now, this Southern African state has been dogged by multiple problems including hyperinflation, drought, escalating poverty levels, extremely high unemployment rates and political instabilities.