Communication studies

Humans rely on their sense of touch to perceive subtle movements and micro slippages to manipulate an impressive range of objects.

This book explores the relationship between the personality of political leaders, its interaction with top leadership positions and its impact on the respective parties' electoral performance and organization.

This book offers a unique exploration of the 2015 General Election from the perspectives of those most intimately involved as strategists, journalists and analysts.

This book takes a critical look at the role of language in an increasingly diversified and globalised world, using the new framework of 'sociolinguistics of globalisation' to draw together research from human geography, sociolinguistics, and intercultural communication.

This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative 'public' interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2021, held as a virtual event due COVID-19, in October 2021.

Using the conceptual framework of populism as discourse, Ritchie Savage provides a comparative analysis of U.

This book explores critical pedagogy and issues relating to entrepreneurialism, commodification, and marketization in education, and their deleterious effects on student agency and subjectivity.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are facing challenges to their continued existence on several fronts.

This edited volume explores studying second languages abroad by critically and constructively reviewing established programming, providing theoretical and research-informed support for pedagogical and curriculum interventions, and analysing participant experiences.

This book studies satirical protest in today's Russia, addressing the complex questions of the limits of allowed humor, the oppressive mechanisms deployed by the State and pro-State agents as well as counterstrategies of cultural resistance.

This book takes television news seriously.

This book argues that media and capitalism no longer exist as separated entities, and posits three reasons why one can no longer exist without the other.

This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how that knowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied across international, regional and local scales.

This book explores how the UK press constructs and represents women leaders drawn from three professional spheres: politics, business, and the mass media.

This edited volume revolves around two sets of questions.

This book elucidates fundamental governance features and issues in contemporary China.

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

This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a number of Jean-Luc Godard's films from the 1960s to the present.

This book explores Charles De Gaulle's use and strict control of television between 1958 and 1969, highlighting the association between charismatic power and television with regards to legitimizing the Gaullist leadership and determining an evolution towards presidentialism during the Fifth Republic.

Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, this book critically examines intercultural theory and its interrelations with globalisation, education and dialogue in multicultural societies.

This book constitutes late breaking papers from the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which was held in July 2020.

This book investigates the changes and continuities in the ways in which sexual violence has been interpreted and represented in Britain since 1965.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

This book presents new technologies and applications in deep learning, artificial intelligence and robotics.

This book is an attempt to save "e;the sexual"e; from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory.

This book analyses the translation strategies employed by journalists when reporting foreign news events to home audiences.

The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume.

This book explores the reality of ageing and old age from the perspectives of the individual and society.

This book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative tactics in selected Congressional debates in the early history of the United States, highlighting the ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience.

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

Political responses to climate change are shaped by beliefs and ideas.

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies.

This book comprises the latest achievements in research and development in educational robotics presented at the 13th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), which was carried out as a purely virtual conference from April 27 to 28, 2022.

This book takes a people-centred approach to the ever-fluid and rapidly-transforming professional world of public relations (PR) in the age of digital platforms.

Drawing insights from nearly a decade of mixed-method research, Stephen R.

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 collection investigates modern imperialist practices and their management of hunger through its punctuated distribution amongst asymmetrically related marginal populations.

This book explores some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of chatbots, or conversational artificial agents.

This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world.

This book takes a human-centred and concept-led journey through communication theory and is aimed primarily at those who are new to communication studies.

This book focuses on the interrelatedness of social movements and elections and develops the theoretical dimension of movement-voter interaction.

This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration.

This book addresses two main questions: under what conditions does reciprocity fail to produce cooperation?

This book explores communication during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book illustrates how social media platforms enable us to understand everyday politics and evaluates the extent to which they can foster accountability, transparency and responsiveness.

This book, with a foreword by Manuel Castells, explores the core strategies of digital political communication.

The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of one of the most consequential and controversial general elections in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged triumphant.

This book focuses on ethnic journalism in the Global South, approaching it from two angles: as a professional area and as a social mission.

This book aims to understand public diplomacy by examining its practice.