Communication studies

Interpretar la comunicación se propone responder a los grandes cambios que se han producido tanto en la comunicación como en sus estudios en las últimas décadas.

Das vorliegende Handbuch füllt eine wichtige Lücke in der Reihe von Handbüchern zu ausgewählten linguistischen Arbeitsfeldern und Kommunikationsbereichen.

Taking as its point of departure the fundamental observation that games are both technical and symbolic, this collection investigates the multiple intersections between the study of computer games and the discipline of technical and professional writing.

This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia.

Renewing Rhetoric's Relation to Composition comprehensively examines the development of rhetoric and composition, using the writings of Theresa Jarnagin Enos as points of departure for studies of broader trends.

Modern Intellectual Property Law combines coverage of each intellectual property right granted for creations of the mind into a thoughtful, unified textbook.

This guide to publishing poetry is designed for the poet on a journey from producing a pile of poems to celebrating at a book launch.

Continuing its engaging and readable approach, this second edition presents an overview of the major theories within the discipline of communication studies inclusive of the three major paradigms of social scientific, interpretive, and critical.

In the last three decades, mediation has been increasingly used in the United States and elsewhere.

Canadian news reports are riddled with accounts of Access to Information requests denied and government reports released with large swaths of content redacted.

Why has classical rhetoric been a subject of such growing interest for the past ten years?

Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation.

Seventy years ago, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, his wife from a prominent Midwestern media family, and their four children moved to a small town in Southwestern Colorado.

Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differently throughout the world.

Media Strategies maps the complex and disruptive media environment for the communication professional and provides the tools and methods to work effectively within it.

This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region.

Rethinking Sinclair and Coulthard's sequentiality-based notion of the follow-up, this volume explores its forms and communicative functions in traditional and contemporary modes of communication (parliamentary sessions, interviews, debates, speeches, op-eds, discussion forums and Twitter) wherein political actors address challenges to their political agenda and to their political face.

Meadow takes us on a Cook's tour of communication technologies across time-the alphabet and moveable type printing, cave drawings and carrier pigeons, telephones, television and, of course, the Internet.

The History of Fashion Journalism is a uniquely comprehensive study of the development of the industry from its origins to the present day, and including professionals' such as Dylan Jones's vision of the future.

Going beyond the cursory reasons behind why we capture images on the move, Politics of Gaze explores our contemporary practices around visual imaging and brings original conceptualisations about why we constantly capture ourselves and our environments through digital technologies.

Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has, in the last two decades, produced a substantial amount of valuable research.

This book presents students' reflections on their intercultural student experiences, and utilizing the UNESCO Story Circle methodology, illustrates how such reflection can aid the development of intercultural competence (IC).

What role does social media play in the lives of Chinese youths as they adapt to the rapid economic and social changes in modern China?

This book sheds light on the role that grievances play for mobilisation dynamics in a context of material deprivation.

Arguments, Aggression, and Conflict provides a thorough examination of argumentative and aggressive communication.

This book examines how journalism functions among "e;synergistic effects"e; of climate change, such as compounded impact of severe weather, social and political responses to changing global warming, and the often-unfortunate results and impacts on our environments.

In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability.

The essays in this volume explore the new power struggles created in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong through information technology.

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of communication around rising global environmental challenges and public action to manage them now and into the future.

The history of Italian cinema is mostly regarded as a history of Italian auteurs.

This book analyzes constructions of injustice, group identification and participation in news and social media in anti-austerity protests within the European Union (EU).

The Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication explores the scope and purpose of risk, and its counterpart, crisis, to facilitate the understanding of these issues from conceptual and strategic perspectives.

Gossip and reputation are core processes in societies and have substantial consequences for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and markets.

This book is about how opinion polls are reported in the media.

This book explores the time in which Lenin initiated his use of the electorate, beginning with the Marxist roots of his politics, from his leadership of Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in the First and Second State Dumas to Russia's first experiment in representative democracy from 1906 to 1907.

With recent changes in technology, media, and the communication landscape, the journey to ethics has become more complicated than ever before.

The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book.

From the New York Times's former Op-Ed art director, the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that prefigured the blogosphere.

Dieses Buch gibt Antworten darauf, wie in Zeiten von Facebook und Fake News der verfassungsrechtliche Schutz des freien öffentlichen Diskurses gelingen kann.

This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate.

This book captures Donald J.

Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors offers a book-length empirical study of the discourse between experienced tutors and student writers in satisfactory conferences.

Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D).

The papers in this volume, written by authors experienced in intelligibility issues in speech pathology and related fields, describe the basic dimensions by which speech intelligibility can and must be understood.