Communication studies

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict.

Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter thick description case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers precursors to current social media microcelebrities and influencers.

Skills lie at the heart of all actions of a social worker, and inform all aspects of practice from drawing on vital theoretical and ethical frameworks to applying the law and research findings to particular situations.

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

Conduct more productive conversations.

This volume delves into the intricate relationship between technology and media production, emphasizing its influence across political, socio-economic, and cultural contexts.

This book is especially made for but not limited to deaf and mute children all over the world.

How does Instagram shape how we relate to each other online?

Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive, destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and invading privacy.

In Black Metal music, the "e;most evil"e; wins.

This book brings a rich and nuanced analysis of selfie culture.

Becoming Digital examines the transition from the online world we have known to the Next Internet, which is emerging from the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, and the Internet of Things.

We still see many communication graduates with little business knowledge and business graduates with little communication knowledge.

This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest.

The book provides insights on decolonising media and communication studies education from diverse African scholars at different stages of their careers.

The beginning of the 21st century was a time of unprecedented events in American society: Y2K, 9/11 and the wars that followed, partisan changes in government and the rapid advancements of the Internet and mass consumerism.

This text is an accessible and clinically practical guide to medicines management in mental health for all student nurses and professionals.

Located near Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Palenque is a former Afro-Hispanic maroon community that has recently attracted much national and international attention.

During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim.

The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.

"e;A nimble case for pretentiousness as a willingness to take risks.

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "e;copycat"e; production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets?

A groundbreaking approach to creating memorable messages that are easy to process, hard to forget, and impossible to ignore-using the latest in brain scienceAudiences forget up to 90 percent of what you communicate.

How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity.

A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communicationIncreasingly, people travel and communicate across borders.

There is no one-size-fits-all way to keep pace with the changes affecting high school students and those who educate them.

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.

Why do people find themselves repeatedly single when they are desperately searching for the perfect soul-mate with whom to share their future lives?

This volume brings together leading scholars to examine how the Church has brought its values into the political sphere and, in the process, alienated some of the younger generation.

This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe.

The purpose of The Library-Classroom Partnership is to assist library teachers and classroom teachers to effectively use the library and its resources as an extension of the classroom.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the British Press provides an extensive empirical analysis of how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been constructed in British national newspapers since 1948.

This book studies the role of emotions, such as anger, anxiety, and enthusiasm, across various domains of political behavior in Turkey.

This book focuses on one of the most highly charged relationships of the Euro crisis, that between Greece and Germany, from 2009 to 2015.

Through the analysis of eighteen years of presidential data, this book shows how Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump have conducted and framed the war on terror since its inception in 2001.

The relationships between narrative and leadership,between rhetoric and performance, between doctrine and its voicing, are crucialto party politics and are underrated by both practising politicians andscholars.

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Offering a discussion of translation and social media through three themes, theory, training and professional practice, this book builds on emerging research in Translation Studies, including references citing recent translation and social media industry data.

This book provides a global overview of the challenges and opportunities faced by Public Service Media (PSM) organizations, including the increasing power of digital platforms, changing consumption habits, and reforms on funding models.

This book explores the socially and individually determined nature of media literacy, addressing the central question of how individuals' media activity can be explained and evaluated.

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 book brings together the work of historians and sociologists with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and information studies to address the origins, practices, and possible futures of contemporary machine learning.

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

This book considers the radical effects the emergence of social media and digital politics have had on the way that advocacy organisations mobilise and organise citizens into political participation.

This book examines how digital communications technologies have transformed modern societies, with profound effects both for everyday life, and for everyday crimes.

Packed with contemporary examples from the business world, this is an exciting and engaging text which explains how language works in business, how to analyse it and how to use it in an informed and creative way.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2021, held virtually, in November 2021.

Die Beiträge des Buches basieren auf einer experimentell angelegten, mehrwelligen Studie im Kontext des TV-Duells zwischen Angela Merkel und Peer Steinbrück sowie des Dreikampfes zwischen Rainer Brüderle, Gregor Gysi und Jürgen Trittin im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2013.