Communication studies

Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream.

Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century.

This book is the first to focus a bright light on the life and early career of George S.

The debate over the framers’ concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive.

From statistical databases to story archives, from fan sites to the real-time reactions of Twitter-empowered athletes, the digital communication revolution has changed the way sports fans relate to their favorite teams.

Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Championing Science shows scientists how to persuasively communicate complex scientific ideas to decision makers in government, industry, and education.

The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes.

"e;Today on Oprah,"e; intoned the TV announcer, and all over America viewers tuned in to learn, empathize, and celebrate.

A Grain of Truth debunks the myth that growing public distrust of genetically modified organisms can be attributed to scientific illiteracy or sensationalistic news stories.

Writing the New Ethnography provides a foundational understanding of the writing processes associated with composing new forms of qualitative writing in the social sciences.

When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated ';Motivorum' project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts.

This intercultural communication text reader brings together the many dimensions of ethnic and cultural identity and shows how they are communicated in everyday life.

This timely volume offers an international and cross-disciplinary examination of risk and crisis communication theory and practice in Europe.

News coverage of law can be a daunting task for any journalist, especially in a time when public interest in media coverage of the courts has greatly intensified.

For scholars of media and war, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a compelling case to study.

Presidential campaigns of the twenty-first century were not the first to mobilize an array of new media forms in efforts to gain electoral victory.

This book is about communicating for health and social change.

Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric.

This book offers a comparative exploration of how journalists across different newsrooms around the world access and interpret statistics when producing stories related to crime.

This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change.

Winner of the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)World-renowned filmmaker and feminist, postcolonial thinker Trinh T.

This book addresses print-based modes of adaptation that have not conventionally been theorized as adaptations-such as novelization, illustration, literary maps, pop-up books, and ekphrasis.

This book emerges from a three-year Australian Research Council-funded study that asks how the formation and (d)evolution of leadership has impacted on public environmental debate.

This book offers empirical insight into the way Muslims reacted online towards various controversial issues related to Islam.

The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture - films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements.

Addressing the explosive growth in qualitative research in recent years, this volume represents the first anthology to bring together a representative sample from this growing body of work, and comments on the reasons for the extraordinary interest in qualitative research.

This lively textual symposium offers a collection of formative research on the culture of global psytrance (psychedelic trance).

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

This book explores the impact of the print and broadcast media on public knowledge and understanding of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis.

This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks.

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Elana Levine, Darrell Newton and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Structuralism and Semiotics, Fiske-Style'.

This volume explores the construction of an ethics for news media that is global in reach and impact.

This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts.

This book reflects on the latest developments in discourse analysis in the context of EU politics research.

This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia.

This book adopts a critical youth studies approach and theorizes the digital as a key feature of the everyday to analyse how ideas about youth and cyber-safety, digital inclusion and citizenship are mobilized.

This engagingly written textbook provides a unique 'hands-on' introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project.

This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action.

In this book, Simmons argues that class, as much as race and gender, played a significant role in the development of Gothic and Horror fiction in a national context.

Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture.

This is the first handbook devoted entirely to leisure theory, charting the history and philosophy of leisure, theories in religion and culture, and rational theories of leisure in the Western philosophical tradition, as well as a range of socio-cultural theories from thinkers such as Adorno, Bauman, Weber and Marx.

This book analyses the various ways and the extent to which young people participate in politics, focusing primarily on the UK and including cross-national comparisons where relevant.

In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities.

This book lays the conceptual groundwork for a coalition of struggles under the neoliberal age.

This book examines how the Turkish Surname Law of 1934 was adopted and reframed in diverse social contexts at a time of top down nationalism.

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality.

This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors adopt media logic.

This book explicates how debates and documents can be understood, interpreted and analysed as political action.

This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior.