Communication studies

This book examines the ethics of virtual reality (VR) technologies.

This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies.

This book considers the production of political media content from the perspective of academics who are increasingly asked to join the ranks of voices charged with informing the public.

The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development is a major resource for stakeholders interested in understanding the role of communication in achieving the UN'S Sustainable Development Goals.

This book offers a new approach to understanding disinformation and its destructive impact on the democratic function of the news media.

The Voices of #MeToo: From Grassroots Activism to a Viral Roar is a timely analysis of how marginalized voices are engaged or silenced in one of the most successful social media projects in recent history.

Big data and microtargeting steal the headlines about campaigning.

This book offers a new perspective on selected discourses and texts bearing on the evolution of a distinctively American tradition of free speech.

This book investigates the ontological state of relations in a unique way.

This book focuses on the language of two unions (the United Kingdom and the European Union), tracing the emergence of divisive discourses from indyref to Brexit.

This book combines various theoretical approaches to explore how Finland and its people responded to the European Union (EU) refugee crisis.

This book is the 9th volume in the established How Ireland Voted series and provides the definitive story of Ireland's mould-breaking 2020 election.

This edited book provides a first overview of how populist parties responded to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in Europe.

This book analyzes the operational dimension of the Chinese communist party's ideology and reveals the complex relationship between ideology, language, governance, and political power in the broader context of China's economic reforms.

This book explores Cold War journalism and journalists as threat, representing 'enemy' systems and ideologies.

This book explores people's lived experience of discussing politics online.

This edited book explores the rising interest in minimal languages - radically simplified languages using cross-translatable words and grammar, fulfilling the widely-recognised need to use language which is clear, accessible and easy to translate.

This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy of resistance and hope for marginalized social groups.

This book presents a new structural approach to the psychology of the person, inspired by Kenneth Colby's computer-generated simulation, PARRY.

This book concentrates on the leaders of the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats in British general election campaigns between 2010 and 2019, by exploring where they visit during the campaign and why, the impact they have, and how leadership is represented in the Press.

This book provides a new analytical perspective on the strategies, membership and communication management of political parties in Poland.

This volume examines the psychological factors, environments, and social factors contributing to identification with extremist identities and ideologies.

This book seeks to re-examine John Major's leadership using techniques developed through Presidential Studies: namely using Fred Greenstein's seminal study of Presidential Leadership, The Presidential Difference, and its six criteria for leadership (public communicator, organisational capacity, political skill, public policy vision, cognitive style, and, finally, emotional intelligence).

Disinformation has recently become a salient issue, not just for researchers but for the media, politicians, and the general public as well.

This book presents a detailed account of a self-study in which the author considers why a developmental perspective matters in language learning within an intercultural orientation, and how teachers of languages might understand and attend to this notion in their work.

This book examines the concept of persuasion in written texts for specialist audiences in the English and Czech languages.

This pioneering book offers the first account of the work of the photographers, both official and freelance, who contributed to the forging of Mussolini's image.

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.

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.

 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.

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 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.