Communication studies

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It is often remarked that politicians private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies.

Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter.

The social, political, and legal struggles that made up the American civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century produced and refined a wide range of rhetorical strategies and tactics.

Media practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected.

The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution.

Rhetoric Across Borders features a select representation of 27 essays and excerpts from the "e;In Conversation"e; panels at the Rhetoric Society of America's 2014 conference on "e;Border Rhetorics.

With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost every society on earth.

With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems, Friedrich Kittler has established himself as one of the world's most influential media theorists.

We live in a world where social interaction is increasingly mediated by technological devices.

"e;An excellent book providing students with a historical understanding of mass media and communication.

Understanding Jennifer Egan is the first book-length study of the novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad.

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics.

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

A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic wordsIn this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.

In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.

Digital War Reporting examines war reporting in a digital age.

In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship.

Journalists have failed to respond adequately to the challenge of the Internet, with far-reaching consequences for the future of journalism and democracy.

The sit-ins of the American civil rights movement were extraordinary acts of dissent in an age marked by protest.

Listening is an essential skill worth every effort to learn and to master.

Reinventing Rhetoric Scholarship: Fifty Years of the Rhetoric Society of America collects essays reflecting on the history of the Rhetoric Society of America and the organization's 18th Biennial Conference theme, "e;Reinventing Rhetoric: Celebrating the Past, Building the Future,"e; on the occasion of the Society's 50th anniversary.

"e;Parlor gossip with a Gonzo twist.

The social, political, and legal struggles that made up the American civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century produced and refined a wide range of rhetorical strategies and tactics.

Demographic Yearbook 2015 is the sixty-sixth in a series published since 1948.

An examination of how intellectuals and artists conceptualized rhetoric as a medium of power in a dynamic age of democracy and empireIn Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its transformation into a rational discipline with Aristotle in a time of literacy and empire.

One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells has given us a new language for understanding the impact of information and communication technologies on social life.

In the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power.

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing.

The essays in Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real explore the intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping realities and subjectivities.

This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of life .

The book is a marvellous treasury of legends of Tenali Raman and Emperor Raya which evokes a long lost, never-never land: an enchanted world of alert wits and tricky gossips; crafty crooks with biting tongues, valiant brigands and an assorted cluster of uncommon common people.

A memoir from the cofounder of the nation’s largest black-owned chain of bookstores.

The World Drug Report provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the world's illicit drug markets.

Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live.

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization.

This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times.

"e;An excellent book providing students with a historical understanding of mass media and communication.

"e;Alan Weisman has come as close as anyone to unraveling one of the big mysteries of the television age: who is the real Dan Rather?

GLOBAL RHETORICAL TRADITIONS is unique in design and scope.

Understanding Jennifer Egan is the first book-length study of the novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad.