Communication studies

This book explores the study of policies and practices in Higher Education by comparing systems, institutions, programs, innovations, results and cultures.

This book argues that Donald Trump's election and Presidency represent the triumph of marketing, branding and segmentation in American politics.

"e;Theoretically wise and practically powerful, this book is about how to take full advantage of advances in technology and the learner autonomy they afford, rather than simply adapt to or deny them.

"e;This book provides a significant contribution to the discursive analysis of service encounters.

This book explores the changes in political communication in light of the development of a public opinion mediated by web 2.

This book offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication.

This book provides a comprehensive approach for colleges rethinking their community policy connections.

This book presents detailed accounts of policymaking in contemporary risk communication.

The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu.

Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom provides an account of Johansson's persona, work and stardom, extending from her breakout roles in independent cinema, to contemporary blockbusters, to her self-parodying work in science-fiction.

This textbook presents political sociology as a connective social science that studies political phenomena by creating fruitful connections with other perspectives.

This book explores the consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 from a global perspective, bringing together empirical research from countries where at least some 16-year-olds are able to vote.

This book argues that in the digital era, a reinvention of democracy is urgently necessary.

This book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement's ideas about participatory democracy.

This book examines women's political communication in Africa, capturing previously unheard women's voices, and presenting detailed information on overlooked communication strategies and forms of power relations employed by African women and women of African descent.

This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore diasporic identities.

This book takes an innovative view of language and politics, charting the terrain of political identities and discourses in New Zealand through detailed linguistic analysis of interactions with its voters.

This book identifies six ethical competencies for public leadership in contexts of pluralism.

This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse.

This book examines a series of phenomena that have accompanied the development of digital technology and focuses on the attentional processes that these phenomena have in common.

This book employs discursive psychology to examine how far-right discourse on issues related to multiculturalism is received, interpreted, adapted and contested in political rhetoric and informal talk.

This book examines how video game mechanics and narratives can teach players skills associated with increased psychological well-being.

This book explores the impact of electoral rules on political party development in Central and East Europe.

This book presents different research designs, their respective purposes and merits as well as their underlying assumptions.

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

This book argues that there are constant formations of online public spheres in present-day China, prompted by never-ending news.

This book explores the question of why and under which conditions right-wing populist parties receive electoral support.

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory.

This book looks at how Europe's refugee crisis has provoked different political and humanitarian responses, all similarly driven by technology.

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

This book explores the meaning and role of "e;fair and reasoned discourse"e; in thecontext of our institutions for environmental decision processes.

This book explores how First World War commemoration events are presented, reported and mediated on the websites of mainstream daily newspapers from seven European countries.

This volume explores the selfie not only as a specific photographic practice that is deeply rooted in digital culture, but also how it is understood in relation to other media of self-portrayal.

This book focuses on the theme of counter-surveillance in art through a multi-faceted engagement with the highly controversial Norwegian play Ways of Seeing.

This book presents the first analytical study of the levels of professionalism of campaigns in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections.

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

This book examines the populist communication of mainstream parties in Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain.

This book is a timely resource for the debate around "e;revitalizing"e; Canada's public diplomacy, bringing together some of the top scholars of Canadian public diplomacy and practitioners past and present to build a one-stop shop for thinking on the past, present, and future of Canadian engagement with foreign publics.

This book examines the history and role of election posters as one of the most crucial forms of political communication, especially in electoral campaigns, in a number of countries around the globe.

Most Western-driven theories do not have a place in Black communicative experience, especially in Africa.

This book explores speeches by American presidents.

This unique book starts from the premise that students, scholars, and educators should be given access to a form of global education that is genuinely global.

This book examines public administration in South Asia in the context of rapid changes and modernization of administrative traditions, thoughts, and practices.

Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products.

This unique book gathers articles from the numanistic perspective of multidisciplinarity and innovation, connected by three main theoretical interests or overarching themes: music, semiotics and translation.

This book introduces a novel approach to the analysis and practice of persuasive speaking and writing: heuristic rhetoric.

This book on Latin American Diasporas in Public Diplomacy explains and illustrates, through case studies, the different strategic roles that diaspora groups play in modern public diplomacy efforts.

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.