Communication studies

Multimodality is a fast-growing interdisciplinary approach that aims to analyze the interplay of multiple modes such as gaze, gesture or spoken language that are utilized in interaction, and to examine the multimodal production and consumption of communicated messages.

This book explores how academics at conferences co-construct their own and each other's professional identities.

A renowned business and communication expert demonstrates 8 key ways to create enduring connections with friends, customers, co-workers .

This book is the first of its kind within the African region to combine scholarly perspectives from the fields of Strategic Communication Management and Communication for Development and Social Change.

An essential introduction to the complexities of visual representation, this book offers a critical new framework for understanding and practicing photojournalism in a global digital context.

Publishing in the 21st century is a rapidly changing business, and this highly readable and comprehensive reference covers it all: editorial acquisition and process, the importance of metadata, operations procedures, financial benchmarks and methods, and personnel management as well as product development, production, and sales and marketing.

Publishing in the 21st century is a rapidly changing business, and this highly readable and comprehensive reference covers it all: editorial acquisition and process, the importance of metadata, operations procedures, financial benchmarks and methods, and personnel management as well as product development, production, and sales and marketing.

Social network analysis dates back to the early 20th century, with initial studies focusing on small group behavior from a sociological perspective.

Social networks have emerged as a major trend in computing and social paradigms in the past few years.

Leading the Narrative is a primer on the art and science of strategic communication.

During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for people around the world to understand the outbreak, local response, and how the novel coronavirus was impacting everyday people.

A military journalist shines a light on the unsung heroism and contributions of enlisted combat reporters in the Vietnam War in these revealing interviews.

The first book-length collection by the most respected writer on anime and manga today

The unlikely history of early cross-cultural encounters between the West and Japan, featuring acrobats, jugglers, and a colorful American impresario.

The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey's wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture's fundamental conflicts between self and society, freedom and responsibility, and individual advancement and the common good.

The Public Work of Rhetoric presents the art of rhetorical techne as a contemporary praxis for civic engagement and social change, which is necessarily inclusive of people inside and outside the academy.

This scholarly study examines the shifting perceptions of slavery in the antebellum South through news accounts of major slave rebellions.

In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C.

Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A.

In Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive account of the relationship between speech and wisdom across almost four centuries of evolving ancient Greek thought and teachings-from the mythopoetic tradition of Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle's treatises.

An expert in rhetoric offers a new perspective on the ancient concept of sophistry, exploring why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found it objectionable.

Using many real-world examples and cases, this book identifies key factors and processes that have contributed to the creation of successful new products, buildings, and innovations, or resulted in some failures.

This book is an extrapolation of the research I conducted for my doctoral thesis about my people's struggle to come to terms with native title claim processes, in which we are required to prove our connection to land, culture and kin.

The anonymity inherent in cyber education impacts the way learners interact in online environments.

Because of the constant advances and dynamics within the nascent field of nursing informatics, many nurses struggle in practice as they continue to try and apply habitual communication practices in the new environment without any critical reflection on, and adaptation of, those practices.

This volume employs a comparative approach to cast light on representation and representative processes from a communications perspective.

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A Fresh Start to a Healthy Emotional LifeIs emotional clutter blocking success in your personal and professional life?

San Quentin State Prison, California's oldest prison and the nation's largest, is notorious for once holding America's most dangerous prisoners.

In this examination of how the rise of online sharing economy platforms has facilitated online crime, this book shows how, while marketed as trustworthy peer-to-peer services, these platforms are highly vulnerable to misuse by scammers and are used for the dissemination of delusive speech.

North Americans love eating meat.

People have always found a way to trade with one another, overcoming enormous barriers.

This book presents hands-on tools for addressing the multiple ways that brain injury can affect psychological functioning and well-being.

"e;If the promises of online news are to be fulfilled, books like this deserve the widest possible readership"e;Paul Bradshaw, University of Central England, UKIn this exciting and timely book Stuart Allan provides a wide-ranging analysis of online news.

As every writer knows, keeping the faith isn't always easy.

Since the Limits to Growth report was published in 1972 it has been widely known that a commitment to endless growth was putting us on course for environmental disaster-so why have we failed to take decisive political action in the half-century since then?

Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study.