Communication studies Books
University of California Press Politicking and Emergent Media
Book SynopsisPresidential campaigns of the twenty-first century were not the first to mobilize an array of new media forms in efforts to gain electoral victory. The author looks at four US presidential campaigns during the long 1890s (1888-1900) as Republicans and Democrats deployed a variety of media forms to promote their candidates and platforms.Trade Review"Informative... straight-forward, impressively researched, and full of original insight." BookforumTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Stereopticon, The Tariff Illustrated, and the 1892 Election Political Oratory, Partisan Pageantry, and the Public Sphere Judge Wheeler, The Tariff Illustrated, and the 1888 Presidential Election A Tale of Two Screens: The Democratic Party's Use of the Stereopticon in 1888 The Stereopticon and the 1892 Election Watching the Election Returns 2. The Stereopticon: Platform or New Media Form? A Lexicon of the Screen From Magic Lantern to Stereopticon: A Brief History The Stereopticon and Presidential Politics, 1872-1884 3. Cinema, McKinley at Home, and the 1896 Election The Nation's Media Formation The Stereopticon and Illustrated Lecture in the 1896 Campaign The American Mutoscope Company and the McKinley Campaign Campaign-Related Films at the Edison Manufacturing Company Phonograph/Telephone/Bicycle A Celebration of Novelty and Tradition, Spectacle and Power Watching the Election Returns An Assessment 4. Cinema as a Media Form When Did Cinema Become Cinema? Politicking and the Media After the 1896 Presidential Campaign The Illustrated Lecture, Imperialism, and the Elections of 1898 and 1900 5. Coda Electoral Politics and the Media From Early Cinema to Media Archaeology? Appendix: Referenced Documents Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Newspapers Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Constructions of Terrorism An Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisDiscussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective responses aimed at the prevention and management of the threat of terrorism and the development of counterterrorism policies. Constructions of Terrorism collects works from the leading scholars on terrorism from an array of disciplines-including communication, political science, sociology, global studies, and public policy-to establish appropriate research frameworks for understanding how we construct our understanding of terrorism.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: CONSTRUCTIONS OF TERRORISM SCOTT ENGLUND, MICHAEL STOHL, AND RICHARD BURCHILL 1. CAN TERRORISM BE DEFINED? LISA STAMPNITZKY 2. MISOVERESTIMATING TERRORISM JOHN MUELLER AND MARK G. STEWART 3. TERRORISM AS TACTIC DAVID H. SCHANZER 4. THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE TERRORISM RUTH BLAKELEY 5. KILLING BEFORE AN AUDIENCE: TERRORISM AS PERFORMANCE VIOLENCE MARK JUERGENSMEYER 6. CONSTRUCTING TERRORISM: FROM FEAR AND COERCION TO ANGER AND JUJITSU POLITICS CLARK MCCAULEY 7. FRAMING TERRORISM: THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTITUTION OF THE TERRORIST ACTOR BENJAMIN K. SMITH, SCOTT ENGLUND, ANDREA FIGUEROA- CABALLERO, ELENA SALCIDO, AND MICHAEL STOHL 8. SOME THOUGHTS ON CONSTRUCTIONS OF TERRORISM AND THE FRAMING OF THE TERRORIST THREAT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ANTHONY RICHARDS 9. CONTRADICTIONS IN THE TERRORIST DISCOURSE AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION OF VIOLENCE RICHARD FALK 10. LEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF TERRORISM RICHARD BURCHILL 11. DO DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF TERRORISM ALTER ITS CAUSAL STORY? RACHEL LEVIN AND VICTOR ASAL 12. ANALYZING PATHWAYS OF LONE-ACTOR RADICALIZATION: A RELATIONAL APPROACH STEFAN MALTHANER AND LASSE LINDEKILDE 13. CONSTRUCTING CULTURES OF MARTYRDOM ACROSS RELIGIONS, TIME, AND SPACE MIA BLOOM 14. INTRODUCING THE GOVERNMENT ACTIONS IN TERROR ENVIRONMENTS (GATE) DATA SET LAURA DUGAN AND ERICA CHENOWETH 15. THE WORLD VERSUS DAESH: CONSTRUCTING A CONTEMPORARY TERRORIST THREAT SCOTT ENGLUND AND MICHAEL STOHL CONCLUSION: UNDERSTANDING HOW TERRORISM IS CONSTRUCTED SCOTT ENGLUND, MICHAEL STOHL, AND RICHARD BURCHILL CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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University of California Press The War of Words
Book SynopsisWhen Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated Motivorum project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents. A Rhetoric of Motives was originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke brilliantly exposes the rhetorical devices that sponsor war in the name of peace. Discouraging militarism during the Cold War even as it catalogues belligerent persuasive strategies and tactics that remain in use today, The War of Words reveals how popular news media outlets can, wittingly or not, foment international tensions and armaments during tumultuous political periods. This authoritative edition includes an introduction from the editors explaining the compositional history and cultural contexts of both The War of Words and A Rhetoric of Motives. The War of Words illuminates the study of modern rhetoric even as it deepens our understanding of postWorld War II politics. Trade Review"The three coeditors of this posthumous publication—Anthony Burke, Kyle Jensen, and Jack Selzer—have done a commendable job assembling this material, which efforts they narrate fully in their valuable introduction. . . . [The War on Words is a] revealing remnant of Burke’s dissertation on motives, a companion volume to his Rhetoric. It is neither a sequel nor a prequel nor a detour nor a summary; it is something more essential." * European Legacy *"The volume provides Burke’s fascinating, mid-career reflections upon his intellectual trajectory. . . .[the editors’] efforts have done scholars a tremendous service." * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Editors’ Introduction THE WAR OF WORDS Introduction 1. The Devices Of the Devices in General The Bland Strategy Shrewd Simplicity Undo by Overdoing Yielding Aggressively Detection Spokesman Reversal Say the Opposite Spiritualization (the Nostrum) Making the Connection Say Anything Theory of the Devices 2. Scientific Rhetoric I. ”Facts” Are Interpretations II. Headline-Thinking III. Selectivity IV. Reduction (“Gist”) V. Tithing by Tonality VI. News as Drama VII. Polls, Forums, Accountancy 3. [Notes toward] The Rhetoric of Bureaucracy 4. [Notes toward] The Rhetorical Situation Appendix 1. Facsimile of the Outline of ”The Rhetorical Situation” Appendix 2. Foreword (to end on) Appendix 3. Facsimile of “Foreword (to end on)” List of Textual Emendations and Explanatory Notes Index
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University of California Press Strategic Communication for Organizations
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: What to Expect from This Book PART ONE: Foundations of Strategic Communication 1. An Introduction to Strategic Communication 2. Organizational Types and Structures 3. Mission Statements, Organizational Identity and Image, and Branding 4. Communication Ethics PART TWO: Creating, Implementing, and Evaluating Strategic Messages 5. Organizational Goals and Objectives 6. Selecting and Understanding the Target Audience 7. Developing and Designing Messages: Using Persuasion Theory and Evidence-Based Principles 8. Selecting Channels 9. Cultural Diversity and Stakeholder Awareness 10. Implementing Campaigns 11. Evaluating Campaigns Index
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University of California Press Why Hackers Win Power and Disruption in the
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University of California Press Everybody Eats
Book SynopsisEverybody Eats tells the story of food justice in Greensboro, North Carolinaa midsize city in the southern United States. The city's residents found themselves in the middle of conversations about food insecurity and justice when they reached the top of the Food Research and Action Center's list of major cities experiencing food hardship. Greensboro's local food communities chose to confront these high rates of food insecurity by engaging neighborhood voices, mobilizing creative resources at the community level, and sustaining conversations across the local food system. Within three years of reaching the peak of FRAC's list, Greensboro saw an 8 percent drop in its food hardship rate and moved from first to fourteenth in FRAC's list. Using eight case studies of food justice activism, from urban farms to mobile farmers markets, shared kitchens to food policy councils,Everybody Eats highlights the importance of communicationand communicating social justice specificallyin building the kindTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Overview Part I The Language of Food (In)Security 1. Navigating the Language of Food Systems 2. Tracing the Discourses of Food (In)Security Part II Engaging Communities: Case Studies 3. The Warnersville Community Food Task Force 4. The Downtown Greensboro Food Truck Pilot Project Part III Mobilizing Resources: Case Studies 5. The Warnersville Community Garden 6. The Mobile Oasis Farmers Market Part IV Documenting Process :Case Studies 7. Ethnosh 8. Kitchen Connects GSO Part V Sustaining Conversations: Case Studies 9. The Guilford Food Council 10. The Renaissance Community Co-op Conclusion Securing Food for a Just Future Appendix A: Warnersville Community Food Task Force Project Concept Appendix B: Blank Model Partner Wheel Appendix C: Mobile Oasis Recipes by Anita Cunningham Appendix D: Guilford Food Council Charter Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors and Contributors
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University of California Press Everybody Eats
Book SynopsisEverybody Eats tells the story of food justice in Greensboro, North Carolinaa midsize city in the southern United States. The city's residents found themselves in the middle of conversations about food insecurity and justice when they reached the top of the Food Research and Action Center's list of major cities experiencing food hardship. Greensboro's local food communities chose to confront these high rates of food insecurity by engaging neighborhood voices, mobilizing creative resources at the community level, and sustaining conversations across the local food system. Within three years of reaching the peak of FRAC's list, Greensboro saw an 8 percent drop in its food hardship rate and moved from first to fourteenth in FRAC's list. Using eight case studies of food justice activism, from urban farms to mobile farmers markets, shared kitchens to food policy councils,Everybody Eats highlights the importance of communicationand communicating social justice specificallyin building the kindTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Overview Part I The Language of Food (In)Security 1. Navigating the Language of Food Systems 2. Tracing the Discourses of Food (In)Security Part II Engaging Communities: Case Studies 3. The Warnersville Community Food Task Force 4. The Downtown Greensboro Food Truck Pilot Project Part III Mobilizing Resources: Case Studies 5. The Warnersville Community Garden 6. The Mobile Oasis Farmers Market Part IV Documenting Process :Case Studies 7. Ethnosh 8. Kitchen Connects GSO Part V Sustaining Conversations: Case Studies 9. The Guilford Food Council 10. The Renaissance Community Co-op Conclusion Securing Food for a Just Future Appendix A: Warnersville Community Food Task Force Project Concept Appendix B: Blank Model Partner Wheel Appendix C: Mobile Oasis Recipes by Anita Cunningham Appendix D: Guilford Food Council Charter Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors and Contributors
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University of California Press The Gifting Logos Expertise in the Digital
Book SynopsisThe Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons provides an extensive analysis of knowledge and creativity in twenty-first century networked culture. Analyzing massive projects like the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive, and the Creative Commons licenses, The Gifting Logos responds to a fundamental question, What does it mean to know something and to make something? With the idea of a gifting logos, Hartelius integrates three habits of a rhetorical epistemology: the invention of cultural materials such as text, images, and software; the imbuing or encoding of the materials with the creator's experience; and the constitution and dissemination of the materials as gifts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Commons Aggregate and the Gift 2. The Infrastructural Commons 3. The Archival Commons 4. The Popular Commons 5. The Gifting Logos Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press BeingMoved Rhetoric as the Art of Listening 2
Book SynopsisIf rhetoric is the art of speaking, who is listening? In Being-Moved, Daniel M. Gross provides an answer, showing when and where the art of speaking parted ways with the art of listening and what happens when they intersect once again. Much in the history of rhetoric must be rethought along the way. And much of this rethinking pivots around Martin Heidegger's early lectures on Aristotle'sRhetoricwhere his famous topic, Being, gives way to being-moved. The results, Gross goes on to show, are profound. Listening to the gods, listening to the world around us, and even listening to one another in the classroom all of these experiences become different when rhetoric is reoriented from the voice to the ear.Trade Review"Being-Moved: Rhetoric as the Art of Listening is a brilliant and courageous work that in effect ‘moves’ the reader to reconsider the often neglected art of listening and to reflect on one’s thoughts in order to take whatever action one might deem necessary to live fully and authentically in the public realm. Daniel M. Gross’s assessment of Martin Heidegger’s Marburg lectures on Aristotle, as well as Philip Melanchthon’s reflections on rhetoric are substantial and original." * The European Legacy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction to the Art of Listening 1. Martin Heidegger on Listening c. 1924 2. Being-Moved: A Disciplinary Prehistory 3. Face-to-Face Communication, Disfigured 4. Passive Voices, Active Listening: A Case Study in Rhetoric and Composition Appendix: The Art of Listening in Select English Manuals and Sermons, 1582–1665 Notes Works Cited with Additional Suggested Readings Index
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University of California Press Militarized Maternity
Book SynopsisThe rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United States. Yet, few discussions have focused on the U.S. military, where many of the latest policy changes focus on these very issues. Despite the armed forces' increasesto maternity-related benefits,servicewomen continue to be stigmatized for being pregnant and taking advantage of maternity policies. In an effort to understand this disconnect, Megan McFarlane analyzes military documents and conducts interviews with enlisted servicewomen and female officers. She finds a policy/culture disparity within the military that pregnant servicewomen themselves often co-construct, making the policy changes significantly less effective. McFarlane ends by offering suggestions for how these policy changes can have more impact and how they could potentially serve as an example for the broader societal debate.Trade Review"This book will be of interest to readers who examine gender and the military as well as issues related to gender and work, pregnancy discrimination, and masculinity and femininity more broadly. McFarlane also creates a useful conceptual framework that she labels the ‘continuum of maternity’ which understands maternity including pre-pregnancy and pregnancy planning phases, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and postpartum mothering. This framework not only shows how different maternity phases shape and constrain women’s lives and workplace experiences but also reveals the importance of policies and benefits at each stage and could easily be applied to other workplaces." * Gender and Society *"An intriguing, refreshingly accessible study with far-reaching appeal…Any person with an interest in exploring the intersection of maternity and hierarchical power structures will undoubtedly find valuable insight in Militarized Maternity." * Women & Language *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Examining the Pregnancy Continuum in the U.S. Military 2. Contextualizing Military Maternity Experiences 3. Hyperplanning Pregnancies 4. Performing Macho Maternity 5. Negotiating Postpartum Policies 6. Redefining Military Maternity Appendix A Research Participants: Demographics Appendix B Profiles: Enlisted Servicewomen Appendix C Profiles: Female Officers Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Serving a Wired World Londons Telecommunications
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Serving a Wired World juxtaposes in colorful ways the varied tensions of the period: between administrators and workers, privacy and mediation, female and male employees, good boys and bad ones, order and rebellion. . . . Today’s information workers may recognize some of these tensions, particularly in how library labor is both integral and invisibilized in library operations and how administrative decisions inform public discourse on the labor of information." * College & Research Libraries *"Serving a Wired World… provides a diverse range of sources and insightful analysis to present a rich account of the experiences and activities of telegraphists, telegraph boys, and telephonists." * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgment Introduction 1 • Dispatches from Underground 2 • The Public Service of Discretion 3 • Gendering the Central Telegraph Office 4 • Bodied Telegraphy 5 • Unintended Networks 6 • Tapped Wires 7 • Martial Mercuries 8 • Voices on the Wires Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Anatomy of Fake News
Book SynopsisSince the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These proposals are hindered by a lack of consensus concerning the definition of fake news or its origins. Media scholar Nolan Higdon contends that expanded access to critical media literacy education, grounded in a comprehensive history of fake news, is a more promising solution to these issues. The Anatomy of Fake News offers the first historical examination of fake news that takes as its goal the effective teaching of critical news literacy in the United States. Higdon employs a critical-historical media ecosystems approach to identify the producers, themes, purposes, and influences of fake news. The findings are then incorporated into an invaluable fake news detection kit. This much-needed resource provides a rich history and a promising set of pedagogical strategies for mitigating the pernicious inflTrade Review"The Anatomy of Fake News…offers much for readers interested in a better understanding of fake news. . . .clear and accessible." * California History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Fourth Estate: Democracy and the Press 2 The Faux Estate: A Brief History of Fake News in America 3 Satirical News and Political Party Propaganda Apparatuses 4 The Roots of State-Sponsored Propaganda 5 Fake News and the Internet Economy 6 Fighting Fake News: Solutions and Discontent 7 The Fake News Detection Kit: The Ten-Point Process to Save Our Democracy Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Violent Inheritance
Book SynopsisViolent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialism's endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them. E Cram redefines sexual modernity through extractivism, wherein sexuality functions to extract value from life including land, air, minerals, and bodies. Analyzing struggles over memory cultures through the region's land use controversies at the turn of and well into the twentieth century, Cram unpacks the consequences of western settlement and the energy regimes that fueled it. Transfusing queer eco-criticism with archival and ethnographic research, Cram reconstructs the linkagesland linesbetween infrastructure, violence, sexuality, and energy and shows how racialized sexual knowledges cultivated settler colonial cultures of both innervation and enervation. From the residential school system to elite health seekers desiring the electric climates of the Rocky Mountains to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, Cram demonstrates how the environment promised to some individuals access to vital energy and to others the exhaustion of populations through state violence and racial capitalism. Grappling with these land lines, Cram insists, helps interrogate regimes of value and build otherwise unrealized connections between queer studies and the environmental and energy humanities.Trade Review"This inclusion of energy in telling the story of sexual modernity and the framework of land lines will be of value to scholars in queer studies, energy and environmental humanities, and studies of the North American West." * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface: Rooted Kinship Acknowledgments Introduction: Land Lines of Violent Inheritance 1. Cartographies of Sexual Modernity 2. Settler Intimacies and the Social Life of the Archive 3. Childhood and Settler Aesthetics of Violence 4. Affected Persons, Sexual Transits, and Contested Public Memories 5. Petroculture and Intimate Atmospheres Conclusion: Infrastructures of Feeling and Queer Collaborative Stewardship Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Violent Inheritance
Book SynopsisViolent Inheritance deepens the analysis of settler colonialism's endurance in the North American West and how infrastructures that ground sexual modernity are both reproduced and challenged by publics who have inherited them. E Cram redefines sexual modernity through extractivism, wherein sexuality functions to extract value from life including land, air, minerals, and bodies. Analyzing struggles over memory cultures through the region's land use controversies at the turn of and well into the twentieth century, Cram unpacks the consequences of western settlement and the energy regimes that fueled it. Transfusing queer eco-criticism with archival and ethnographic research, Cram reconstructs the linkagesland linesbetween infrastructure, violence, sexuality, and energy and shows how racialized sexual knowledges cultivated settler colonial cultures of both innervation and enervation. From the residential school system to elite health seekers desiring the electric climates of the Rocky Mountains to the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans, Cram demonstrates how the environment promised to some individuals access to vital energy and to others the exhaustion of populations through state violence and racial capitalism. Grappling with these land lines, Cram insists, helps interrogate regimes of value and build otherwise unrealized connections between queer studies and the environmental and energy humanities.Trade Review"This inclusion of energy in telling the story of sexual modernity and the framework of land lines will be of value to scholars in queer studies, energy and environmental humanities, and studies of the North American West." * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface: Rooted Kinship Acknowledgments Introduction: Land Lines of Violent Inheritance 1. Cartographies of Sexual Modernity 2. Settler Intimacies and the Social Life of the Archive 3. Childhood and Settler Aesthetics of Violence 4. Affected Persons, Sexual Transits, and Contested Public Memories 5. Petroculture and Intimate Atmospheres Conclusion: Infrastructures of Feeling and Queer Collaborative Stewardship Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Gentrification of the Internet
Book SynopsisHow we lost control of the internetand how to win it back. The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses the politics and debates of gentrification to diagnose the massive, systemic problems blighting our contemporary internet: erosions of privacy and individual ownership, small businesses wiped out by wealthy corporations, the ubiquitous paywall. But there are still steps we can take to reclaim the heady possibilities of the early internet. Lingel outlines actions that internet activists and everyday users can take to defend and secure more protections for the individual and to carve out more spaces of freedom for the peoplenot businessesonline.Trade Review“The Gentrification of the Internet presents an accurate and accessible description of the current power imbalances taking place online. It pushes activists and users alike to start acting now and provides realistic examples and suggestions moving forward.” * Information & Culture *"In a moment of increasing nihilism about the role of the internet and the ability of regular people to resist a descent into a technology-driven dystopia, The Gentrification of the Internet offers a starting point for action, grounded in the reality of gentrification activism with proven results." * Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Gentrification Online and Off 2. The People and Platforms Facebook Left Behind 3. The Big Problems of Big Tech 4. The Fight for Fiber 5. Resistance List of Resources Glossary Sources and Further Reading Index
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Wiley Teaching Oral Communication
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of teaching language for communication. It is written principally for teachers who wish to adopt a communicative approach and would like to reflect on the principles that underlie it.Trade Review"I believe many teachers of ESL, EFL and LOTE would find this a useful book as would generalist teachers who have second language learners in their classes. It should find a place on preservice and inservice reading lists." Victorian Association of TESOL and Multicultural EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Language:. 1. Using Language for Communication. 2. Meaning and Interaction. Part II: Learning:. 3. Learning Language as a Skill. 4. Language Learning as a Natural Process. 5. Integrating Skill Learning and Natural Learning. Part III: Teaching:. 6. A Methodological Framework for Teaching Oral Communication. 7. Involving the Learners. Conclusion. Reference.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Social History of British Broadcasting
Book SynopsisThis is a history of broadcasting and its impact on modern life in Britain from its origins in the 1920s to the outbreak of the Second World War. Its concerns are with programmes and their makers and with the audiences for which they were made. It is a pioneering work of cultural and social history.Trade Review"Their work promises to change irreversibly our perception of both the history of British broadcasting and of its place in the wider political, cultural and social history of Britain." Sight and Sound "This admirably balanced new study . . . deserves the attention of lay readers as well as scholars . . an important piece of work." The Independent on Sunday ". . . an impressive volume . . . informed by concepts." The Guardian "This is a quite outstanding book: a social history of radio broadcasting in Britain up to 1939. It is a work of sustained scholarship but, although more that 150,000 words long, an immensely enjoyable read." Tom Nossiter, London School of Economics. " A truly magisterial work, unlikely to be bettered for a generation." ScreenTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. Public Service Broadcasting part 1. Part I: Broadcasting and Politics: . 2. The Containment of Controversy. 3. The Management of News and Political Debate. 4. Broadcasting and Unemployment. 5. Broadcasting and Foreign Affairs. Part II: The Production of Information: News, Features and Talks:. 6. News Values and Practices. 7. Features and Social Documentaries. 8. Forms of Talk. Part III: The Production of Entertainment and Culture: Music and Variety:. 9. Music Policy. 10. Musical Tastes. 11. Time and Money, Entertainment and Culture. 12. Styles of Variety. Part IV: Broadcasting and its Audiences:. 13. The National Culture. 14. Local and Regional Broadcasting. 15. Manchester and its Programmes. 16. The Listener. Bibliography and References. Footnotes.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Informational City
Book SynopsisThe cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it.Trade Review"The Informational City is a major achievement, a real tour-de-force. Although many other social scientists have been groping their way towards an understanding of the new economy and society, Castells has leap-frogged them all to produce the definitive analysis that will surely stand for years to come." Peter Hall, Times Higher Education Supplement "Castells provides a careful and closely-argued exposition. This is the book to read to find out ... how the space economy of the United States is being reshaped. Castells describes in compelling detail a burgeoning sphere of communication flows which is transforming organisations, work, and individual lives." Nigel Thrift, New Statesman and Society "The Informational City is one of [Castells] most important works. In it he presents an impressive synthesis drawing on the results of a large number of research studies ... Castells has managed simultaneously to provide the best available summary of the best studies on the new regional industrial structure of the USA, and a set of thought-provoking essays about the deep structure of the information technology revolution and neo-conservative economic policies. The book will be of use to teachers and researchers alike." Ian Miles, University of Sussex "This book is provocative and relatively easy to read. The author presents a convincing case for the dawn of an informational age that promises to complicate capitalist social organization." Growth and ChangeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism. 2. The New Industrial Space. The Locational Pattern of Information Technology Manufacturing and its effects of Spacial Dynamics. 3. The Space Flows. The Use of New Technologies in the Information Economy and the Dialectics between Centralization and Decentralization of Services. 4. Information Technology, The Restructuring of Capital-Labour Relationships, and the Rise of the Dual City. 5. High Technology and the Transition from the Urban Welfare State to the Suburban Warfare State. 6. The Internationalization of the Economy, New Technologies, and the Variable Geometry of Spatial Structure. Conclusion. Appendix to Chapter 2. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Women Talk
Book SynopsisThis book challenges the age--old myth that womena s talk is trivial and unimportant. Drawing on a corpus of spontaneous conversation between friends, Jennifer Coates demonstrates the richness and complexity of the language used in such talk, focusing on womena s use of hedges, questions and repetition.Trade Review"Coates's book is an extraordinary study of the discourse of female friendships, based on recordings of a large number of naturally-occurring same-sex conversations among female and (for comparison) male friends, supplemented by ethnographic interviews with the same and other women, and analyzed by means of discourse analysis ... In empirical terms, Coates has provided a detailed analysis of the linguistic strategies making up this discourse of solidarity, the collaborative floor." Bent Preisler, University of Roskilde "While this text is important reading for specialists in discourse, it is accessible to lay readers as well, so it is both an important research text as well as a good tool to use in introducing students to discourse analysis" Timothy Frazer, Western Illinois University "Jennifer Coates celebrates and describes friendships and talk among women; at the same time, she provides an argument for feminist ethnographic research methods. She writes a clear, detailed and rich study based on the transcripts of 20 conversations among women, and on the transcripts of interviews with 15 women .... Women Talk is likely to become a pivotal publication.....This book offers a very useful conversation about women friends' talk." Cheris Kramarae, University of IllinoisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Notes on the Transcription of the Conversations x Transcription Conventions xii 1 ‘This is on tape you know’ 1 The origins of the book 2 ‘She’s just a very very special person to me’ 16 Talk and women’s friendship 3 ‘We never stop talking’ 44 Talk and women’s friendships 4 ‘We talk about everything and anything’ 68 An overview of the conversations 5 ‘D’you know what my mother did recently?’ 94 Telling our stories 6 ‘The feminine shape … is more melding in together’ 117 The organization of friendly talk 7 ‘You know so I mean I probably …’ 152 Hedges and hedging 8 ‘It was dreadful wasn’t it?’ 174 Women and questions 9 ‘I just kept drinking and drinking and drinking’ 203 Repetition and textual coherence 10 ‘Thank god I’m a woman’ 232 The construction of differing femininities 11 ‘Talk’s absolutely fundamental’ 263 Being a friend Appendices 287 Notes 297 Bibliography 311 Index 320
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Relevance 2e
Book SynopsisRelevance, first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the Times Higher Educational Supplement.Trade Review‘This book … is very likely to become a classic, not only because of its potential implications for linguistics, cognitive psychology and anthropology, but because of the range and originality of the theory it proposes.’ – Pascal Engel, Revue Philosophique ‘Cognitive science is very often marred by demarcation disputes and protectionist attitudes which have little or no rational basis. Occasionally, however, it works as it should and a book appears which reaches across the bread and butter lines which institutional life forces upon us. Relevance is, I think, such a book.’ – Alan Leslie, Mind and Language. ‘The repercussions of Relevance are likely in the long run to be great – felt first, perhaps, in the pragmatics of conversation, the philosophy of language, and reader-response criticism, but also in many other activities: construction of memory models, pedagogy, machine learning and (doubtless) advertising and propaganda.’ – Alastair Fowler, London Review of Books ‘I recommend this book to people interested in linguistics, philosophy of language and pragmatics, and, definitely, to people who cultivate an interest in semiotics.’ – Umberto Eco, L’Expresso ‘This is probably the best book you’ll ever read on communication.’ – Rhetoric Society QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface to Second Edition. List of symbols. 1. Communication. 2. Inference. 3. Relevance. 4. Aspects of Verbal Communication. Postface. Notes to First Edition. Notes to Second Edition. Notes to Postface. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Professional Communication in International
Book SynopsisIn today's global business environment it is necessary to communicate across cultural boundaries of languages, styles, and values. This text aims to help individuals deal with different cultural practices by developing their capacity to learn culturally appropriate behaviours and actions.Trade Review"The Scollons have long been leaders in the field of intercultural communication. Now Yuling Pan brings her extensive research and consulting experience to join with them in providing a theoretically sound, methodologically rigorous, and eminently practical approach to business communication in an international environment. Their 'three-cultures' exchange model avoids the common pitfall of binary cultural comparison, and their case history approach demonstrates the effectiveness of using multiple perspectives to address the complexity of real workplace situations. This rich and insightful book will prove invaluable to individuals working in international contexts and the trainers who prepare them, and to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of intercultural communication." Deborah Tannen, author of I Only Say This Because I Love You "[Professional communication in international settings] is scholarly and extremely informative, yet it is also enjoyable to read with its illuminating examples...This book is a must for business people or professionsal who strive to achieve a better understanding and more effective communication in cross-cultural interactions." Language in Society "Rich with culture-specific communication examples, the book contributes to our understanding of intercultural communication." Language PolicyTable of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. 1.Analyzing Communication in the International Workplace. 2. The Telephone Call: When Technology Intervenes. 3. The Resumé: A Corporate "Trojan Horse". 4. The Presentation: From Dale Carnegie to Ananova the Avatar. 5. The Meeting: Action or Ratification?. 6. The Reflective View: Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us. Appendices: Reflective Self-Assessment. 1: The Communication Display Portfolio Exchange Planner. 2: Presenting Across Cultures. 3: Suggestions for Users. Further Reading. References. Index.
£36.05
Harvard University Press Avatars of the Word
Book SynopsisO'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the threat of electronic technology for our literate future. He reinterprets today's communication revolution through a series of refracted comparisons with earlier revolutionary periods: the transition from oral to written culture, from the papyrus scroll to the codex, from copied manuscript to print.Trade ReviewIt is the contention of James J. O'Donnell in his stimulating and well-written Avatars of the Word that the electronic era does not mean the demise of face-to-face education but its strengthening..."My purpose in writing this book," he states, "has been to make it clearer what is happening or what might happen by thinking about similar transformations in the past." Thus his first five chapters suggest ways of thinking about our own times from the standpoint of Latin late antiquity...Institutions still in place today were established then--churches, law courts, schoolrooms and libraries. The transition from oral to written culture took place and O'Donnell's meditations on the creation of print culture...are lucid, informative, and engrossing. His final four chapters, however, which analyze the humanities vis-a-vis the electronic media and focus on rethinking the modern university, give the book its true originality. "What happens to higher education when every student has a link to a flood of words and images, metastasizing in every imaginable way from around the world, and when every teacher and every student can reach out to each other at all hours of the day and night?" No one knows yet, but O'Donnell's thoughts on the subject are never less than provocative. -- Robert Taylor * Boston Globe *Much of what makes this book useful as a guide to the future is the ways in which O'Donnell challenges us to reconsider the past. Previous "new" media arrivals have tended to supplement rather than supplant their predecessors. The tendency has been to consider the march of progress (from papyrus roll to codex manuscript to printed book) as a serial relay from one technology to the next, an oversimplification that equates the rise of the Internet with the fall of the book. In reality, each time a new medium appears there follows a period of coexistence in which a culture's overall dialogue is broadened. O'Donnell suggests today's new media are on the verge of offering their own benefits. Particularly for humanists, the author envisions the Web's hypermedia doing a better job than books at revealing complex truths. He proposes a new mode of scholarship in which the single-author, linear-narrative monograph becomes part of a larger discourse, where primary and secondary sources exist side by side, as do authors and commentators. -- Peter Meyers * Wired *[James O'Donnell's] approach to the long-term effects of the computer revolution on reading and higher education feels like a bracing, sophisticated exchange of ideas...His purpose is to compare the transformation already begun within the electronic medium to earlier transformations such as those from oral to written culture in ancient Greece, the papyrus scroll to the codex manuscript, and the codex to the printed book...The impression left on this reader is of someone deeply excited by the changes occurring and enthused at the possibilities inherent in the new medium. -- Greg Nixon * Journal of Consciousness Studies *O'Donnell approaches the ever-increasing distinction between a bound volume and a floppy disk by attempting to make clearer "what is happening or what might happen by thinking about similar transformations in the past." [O'Donnell] proves a most engaging guide, highlighting vignettes along man's media highway from rock carvings to offset printing...His illumination of our changing uses of speech impresses with both scholarship and presentation. -- Ralph Hollenbeck * The Citizen *This splendid bound codex is required reading for all the dummkopf literary Cassandras who claim that the Internet will put the book out of business. Nevertheless, O'Donnell thinks there is some kind of information-technology revolution going on, and as both [a] professor of classics and vice-provost for information systems, he is happily placed to write a deeply cultured analysis of what it all means and to draw intriguing historical parallels. * The Guardian *The lesson is that new media seldom drive out old. Instead, they rub along and interact in unanticipated ways. James O'Donnell, a classicist turned infotech guru, explores this ever-shifting ecology of communication in his eloquent new book. -- Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *From the many strands of O'Donnell's academic life he has woven a consideration of the 'connections among speaking, writing, and reading today.' Avatars of the Word is, however, about ever so much more than those connections. The implications and importance of the book's contents are worth serious contemplation by all intellectuals—especially those who contribute to and draw from peer-reviewed scientific literature. The threads of Avatars lead from Socrates and Plato; through the Alexandria and other libraries, codices, Augustine, Cassiodorus, and both old and new liberal arts; to the virtual library, hyperlinking, distance education (and other threatening attributes of the 21st-century university) and the life of the mind in cyberspace. -- Michael A. Keller * Science *Is there room on the shelf for more than one history of reading? James O'Donnell proves there is with his Avatars of the Word. His entertaining and anecdotal style and easy movement between past and present is reminiscent of Alberto Manguel's earlier work A History of Reading...A fascinating and important glimpse of a reading revolution that may affect us all. -- Paul Kincaid * New Scientist *[Avatars of the Word] reflects in lucid, thoughtful, and thought-provoking prose on the textual foundations of Western culture and the evolving connections among the technologies for recording, distributing, and preserving the written word from the late Latin antiquity to our contemporary age of electronic information...O'Donnell points out that improvements and innovations in technology initially tend to be perceived simply as better ways to do familiar tasks. Over time, their cumulative effects, which cannot be foreseen, much less controlled, create new and different environments to which individuals and societies must adapt. In Avatars, O'Donnell has chosen to speak to the positive potential consequences of electronic texts even as he acknowledges that there are other, less desirable possibilities. * College and Research Libraries *Avatars of the World is an extremely wide-ranging, engagingly readable, and thought-provoking book...The closing years of the twentieth century are indeed exciting times for the academic world and perhaps the greatest contribution that Avatars makes is to demonstrate the relevance and involvement of the study of classical antiquity in the debate. Classical scholars and teachers who are concerned for the continued well-being of their discipline in the rapidly advancing information age will enjoy reading it. -- John Hilton * Scholia Reviews *In fulfilling his intentions, the author is interesting to cause one to enter, at any rate in the margins of his book, into frequent discussions with him: I should award him high praise. -- P. G. Naiditch * The Classical Bulletin *The motivating idea behind the book is to offer a comparative examination of different moments of communications technology change: critically, from papyrus roll to codex (a change that I located in O'Donnell's period), but also from oral to written culture, manuscript to print and handwriting to typewriting. -- Ian Saunders * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Scholar in His Study 1. Phaedrus: Hearing Socrates, Reading Plato 2. From the Alexandrian Library to the Virtual Library and Beyond Hyperlink: The Instability of the Text 3. From the Codex Page to the Homepage Hyperlink: The Shrine of Nonlinear Reading 4. The Persistence of the Old and the Pragmatics of the New Hyperlink: Who Owns That Idea? 5. The Ancients and the Moderns: The Classics and Western Civilizations 6. Augustine Today: Linear Narratives and Multiple Pathways 7. The New Liberal Arts: Teaching in the Postmodern World Hyperlink: How Does Teaching Work? 8. What Becomes of Universities? (For Professors Only) 9. Cassiodorus: Or, the Life of the Mind in Cyberspace Bibliographic Notes Index
£23.36
Harvard University, Asia Center Writing and Materiality in China
Book SynopsisThe goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing.
£43.31
Princeton University Press All the News Thats Fit to Click
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Princeton University Press Mapping the Transnational World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[This book] is rigorously conceptualized and offers a new take on the vast, sprawling, and, at times, contentious interdisciplinary literature on the various phenomena that scholars have subsumed under the label ‘transnational’ . . . . taking a “satellite-eye’s view” to map the transnational world at the planetary scale."---Tahseen Shams, Social Forces"Very well-written and well-researched."---Romina Cachia, American Journal of Sociology
£74.80
Princeton University Press All the News Thats Fit to Click
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John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd Communication Essentials For Dummies
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£9.98
Pluto Press Capitalisms Conscience 200 Years of the Guardian
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and wide-ranging critique of the Guardian's journalism and political valuesTrade Review'A lively and well-researched history and critique of Britain's best newspaper, exposing the ideological contradictions and editorial tensions which generally keep the 'Guardian' allied to a soft liberalism but shies away from radical or socialist answers to capitalism's recurring crises' -- Jonathan Steele, former Chief Foreign Correspondent for the 'Guardian''Fascinating and timely' -- Angela McRobbie, Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London'A page turner - reveals the liberal establishment in all its ingloriousness, sprinkled with a few moments of integrity' -- Beverley Skeggs, Professor, Sociology, Lancaster University'Liberalism typically champions particular campaigns for social justice but distances itself from challenges to the state and economy that produces these injustices. At last a book which reveals this serious problem. A must read for all Guardian readers!' -- Hilary Wainwright, Founding Editor of 'Red Pepper' and author of 'A New Politics From the Left' (Polity Press, 2018)‘A forceful intervention’ -- ‘LSE Review of Books’Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: ‘Just the Establishment’? - Des Freedman 1. In the Wake of Peterloo? A Radical Account of the Founding of the Guardian - Des Freedman 2. The Political Economy of the Guardian - Aaron Ackerley 3. Reflections from an Editor-at-large - Gary Younge 4. Radical Moments at the Guardian - Victoria Brittain 5. The Guardian and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict - Ghada Karmi 6. The Guardian and Latin America: Pink Tides and Yellow Journalism - Alan MacLeod 7. The Origins of the Guardian Women’s Page - Hannah Hamad 8. Trans Exclusionary Radical Centrism: The Guardian, Neoliberal Feminism and the Corbyn Years - Mareile Pfannebecker and Jilly Boyce Kay 9. The Guardian and Surveillance - Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis 10. Corruption in the Fourth Estate: How the Guardian Exposed Phone Hacking and Reneged on Reform of Press Regulation - Natalie Fenton 11. The Guardian and Corbynism and Antisemitism - Justin Schlosberg 12. Guardian Journalists and Twitter Circles - Tom Mills 13. The Guardian and the Economy - Mike Berry 14. The Guardian and Brexit - Mike Wayne 15. ‘I’m not “racist” but’: Liberalism, Populism and Euphemisation in the Guardian - Katy Brown, Aurelien Monden and Aaron Winter Notes on Contributors Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Politics in an Antipolitical Age
Book SynopsisThe author offers a challenging and wide-ranging analysis of the crisis of contemporary politics showing that problems which were thought to be peculiar to the Left are now spreading to the whole political system.Trade Review"A stimulating contribution to the current reorientation of democratic socialist thought." (Third Way) "A profoundly interesting book, addressing the crisis of contemporary politics with a depth of insight and a breadth of vision sadly lacking in most of our current `political' writing." (New Times) "Every Tory para-intellectual should read this book to see how a clear and informed mind on the left can still pursue the battle of ideas." (The Times Literary Supplement) "This stimulating collection of essays will further enhance Geoff Mulgan's reputation as a political thinker of impressive range and depth." (Renewal) "Subtle, profound and pioneering." (Times Higher Education Supplement) "Politics in an Antipolitical Age is a worthwhile contribution to the debate over the future of the left, and an attempt to understand the non-politicized 'generation X.' As such it and Geoff Mulgan's arguments need to be carefully considered and discussed." (Political Science)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Politics in an Antipolitical Age. 2. The Paradox of Equality. 3. Citizens and Responsibilities. 4. Worlds out of Kilter: The Politics of Balance and Change. 5. What is Television for? The Pursuit of Quality. 6. The Power of the Weak. 7. The Reimagination of the Public Sector. 8. Reticulated Organisation: The Birth and Death of the Mixed Economy. 9. The Renewable Energies of Politics. 10. Democracy Beyond Sovereignty: The Shape of a Postmodern World Order (with Helen Wilkinson). Index.
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Conversation and Technology From the Telephone to
Book SynopsisA A well--written, innovative book, which makes an important contribution to current debates about the role of communication technology in society. A Based upon his own case studies, Hutchby shows how human conversation is being shaped by technological media such as the telephone, the Internet and video--conferencing.Trade Review"'Postmodern babble has done little to help us understand how contemporary communication technologies have changed our world. This book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge by sticking to a focus on how ordinary people actually interact with these technologies. Using the insights of conversation analysis in an easy to understand way, this impressive volume will be required reading for students of work, technology, organizations and cultural studies." David Silverman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Goldsmiths' College, London Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Technologies for Communication. Chapter 2: The Communicative Affordances of Technological Artifacts. Chapter 3: Communication as Computation?. Chapter 4: Talk in Interaction. Chapter 5: The Telephone: Technology of Sociability. Chapter 6: Telephone Interaction and Social Identity. Chapter 7: Technological Mediation and Asymmetrical Interaction. Chapter 8: Computers, Humans, Conversation. Chapter 9: Virtual Conversation. Chapter 10: Conclusion: A Reversion to the Real?. Appendix: Transcription Conventions. Bibliography. Index
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Modern Political Communications
Book SynopsisPolitical communication systems in advanced industrial democracies are in a state of flux. The traditional political communication system, with its limited and regulated media channels, stable patterns of media consumption, and identifiable party loyalty, which characterized much of the twentieth century, is giving way to one that is less ordered and structured. This book provides an accessible and comprehensive account of how governments, political parties, established media organizations and citizen audiences, in the US and the UK, are adapting to this systemic change. Against the background of audience fragmentation and widening social and political divisions, James Stanyer provides a critical appraisal of the evolving relationship of political communicators and their audience. He argues that such divisions influence citizen communicative engagement and are increasingly exacerbated by the strategic activities of political advocates and media organizations. Modern PoliticalTrade Review"Modern Political Communication addresses a great need in the political communication literature. While others frequently call for more scholarship that incorporates a comparative approach, this book delivers an insightful multinational analysis of political communication systems and practices. The writing is clear and clever. Perhaps the greatest strength of this volume is the author's ability to incorporate both US and European political science and communication studies. Furthermore, Stanyer possesses the unusual talent of weaving both humanistic and social scientific research into a coherent and complimentary narrative. This book deserves the attention of all who are interested in political communication." Mitchell S. McKinney, University of Missouri "Modern Political Communication spans the systemic and individual levels to examine how British and American politics, by focusing on market-style analysis of the citizen-audience member and the campaigner-political actor, reproduces existing inequalities and exclusions. What distinguishes the book is the broad vista James Stanyer provides of communication and politics in late modernity." Kevin G. Barnhurst, University of Illinois at Chicago "Across a range of different values, structures, technologies and practices “political communication” is rapidly changing, indeed quite what this term itself might now mean is open to question. One of the strengths of Stanyer’s book is his attempt to construct a broad picture of the significance and complexity of what is happening without losing focus on empirical detail." John Corner, University of LiverpoolTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction Modern Political Communication Part 1: Exclusion, Intimacy and the Drive for Popularity 1 Exclusive Campaign Communication: the Hidden Costs of Data Driven Electioneering The rise of the floating voter Market research and the electorate Targeted communication The cost of campaign communication The included and the excluded 2 Governing and the Drive for Effective Promotion The all encompassing promotional culture Does promotion translate into popularity? The unpredictable nature of governing The rise of metacoverage Selling the removal of Saddam 3 Intimate Politicians: Mediated Visibility and the Erosion of Privacy Mediated publicness: the rise of the recognisable politician Intimacy: going behind the scenes Disclosing and exposing the personal Part 2: News and the Politics of Market Driven Media 4 News Organisations and the Audience for News News audiences as citizens Reconceptualising the role of news audiences in a period of uncertainty Serving the voter? 5 The Media and the Populist Political Impulse Political populism Media and political populism Talk radio: the voice of the people or channels of resentment? The press and reactionary populism Part 3: Communicative Disengagement and the Exercise of Political Voice 6 Turning On, Tuning Out? A diverse but unequal citizenry The interested and the disinterested Consumption gaps The vicious circle 7 The Rise of Self-Expressive Politics: Exercising Political Voice in a Digital Age Opportunities for self-expression ‘Let us know what you think’: encouraging attitude expression The communicating public? The loudest and quietest voices Conclusion 8 Political Communication in an Uncertain and Unequal Age Bibliography Index
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Modern Political Communications
Book SynopsisPolitical communication systems in advanced industrial democracies are in a state of flux. The traditional political communication system, with its limited and regulated media channels, stable patterns of media consumption, and identifiable party loyalty, which characterized much of the twentieth century, is giving way to one that is less ordered and structured. This book provides an accessible and comprehensive account of how governments, political parties, established media organizations and citizen audiences, in the US and the UK, are adapting to this systemic change. Against the background of audience fragmentation and widening social and political divisions, James Stanyer provides a critical appraisal of the evolving relationship of political communicators and their audience. He argues that such divisions influence citizen communicative engagement and are increasingly exacerbated by the strategic activities of political advocates and media organizations. Modern PoliticalTrade Review"Modern Political Communication addresses a great need in the political communication literature. While others frequently call for more scholarship that incorporates a comparative approach, this book delivers an insightful multinational analysis of political communication systems and practices. The writing is clear and clever. Perhaps the greatest strength of this volume is the author's ability to incorporate both US and European political science and communication studies. Furthermore, Stanyer possesses the unusual talent of weaving both humanistic and social scientific research into a coherent and complimentary narrative. This book deserves the attention of all who are interested in political communication." Mitchell S. McKinney, University of Missouri "Modern Political Communication spans the systemic and individual levels to examine how British and American politics, by focusing on market-style analysis of the citizen-audience member and the campaigner-political actor, reproduces existing inequalities and exclusions. What distinguishes the book is the broad vista James Stanyer provides of communication and politics in late modernity." Kevin G. Barnhurst, University of Illinois at Chicago "Across a range of different values, structures, technologies and practices “political communication” is rapidly changing, indeed quite what this term itself might now mean is open to question. One of the strengths of Stanyer’s book is his attempt to construct a broad picture of the significance and complexity of what is happening without losing focus on empirical detail." John Corner, University of LiverpoolTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction Modern Political Communication Part 1: Exclusion, Intimacy and the Drive for Popularity 1 Exclusive Campaign Communication: the Hidden Costs of Data Driven Electioneering The rise of the floating voter Market research and the electorate Targeted communication The cost of campaign communication The included and the excluded 2 Governing and the Drive for Effective Promotion The all encompassing promotional culture Does promotion translate into popularity? The unpredictable nature of governing The rise of metacoverage Selling the removal of Saddam 3 Intimate Politicians: Mediated Visibility and the Erosion of Privacy Mediated publicness: the rise of the recognisable politician Intimacy: going behind the scenes Disclosing and exposing the personal Part 2: News and the Politics of Market Driven Media 4 News Organisations and the Audience for News News audiences as citizens Reconceptualising the role of news audiences in a period of uncertainty Serving the voter? 5 The Media and the Populist Political Impulse Political populism Media and political populism Talk radio: the voice of the people or channels of resentment? The press and reactionary populism Part 3: Communicative Disengagement and the Exercise of Political Voice 6 Turning On, Tuning Out? A diverse but unequal citizenry The interested and the disinterested Consumption gaps The vicious circle 7 The Rise of Self-Expressive Politics: Exercising Political Voice in a Digital Age Opportunities for self-expression ‘Let us know what you think’: encouraging attitude expression The communicating public? The loudest and quietest voices Conclusion 8 Political Communication in an Uncertain and Unequal Age Bibliography Index
£16.14
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Evolution of Film Rethinking Film Studies
Book Synopsis* A punchy and original upper-level film studies textbook. * Offers a new way of thinking about film studies in the 21st Century and developments like globalisation and technology. * Introduces a range of theorists who have not been brought to bear on the subject before now.Trade Review"Harbord's is a major new voice in film studies, harking back to the classical film theory of Bazin, Kracauer and Epstein, and echoing forward into the twenty-first century. The Evolution of Film makes a decisive contribution to the study of cinema, and to our understandings of the contemporary." Sean Cubitt, University of MelbourneTable of Contents1 One hundred years of film theory 2 Hollywood's last decade 3 The limits of translation: transnational film 4 Assemblage: editing space-time 5 Innocent monsters: film and other media 6 Inertia: on energy and film
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Mediating Migration
Book SynopsisMedia practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant experience as shaped by the technologies of communication and the social, political and cultural configurations of neoliberal globalization.Trade Review"Mediating Migration takes a complicated and difficult subject and offers an original and sophisticated interrogation of the ways contemporary media, in all its dimensions, represents, constructs, and interrogates the experiences of and responses to migration."Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina"In this marvelous and insightful book, Radha Hegde unpacks and then reassembles the relationship between globalization, media, and migration. While many have noted that these key concepts cannot be understood in isolation from each other, in this book we get inside the materiality of the migrant condition as it is constituted by the interplay of global forces and mediated networks. We learn not only how the media shapes popular understanding and policies on migration, but also how migrants produce new mediascapes."Nikos Papastergiadis, The University of MelbourneTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Legitimacy: Accumulating Status3. Recognition: Politics and Technologies4. Publics: Eyeing Gender5. Domesticity: Digital Visions and Versions6. Authenticity: Pursuits of Auras7. Conclusion: Destinations and BeginningsNotesReferencesIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Mediating Migration
Book SynopsisMedia practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant experience as shaped by the technologies of communication and the social, political and cultural configurations of neoliberal globalization.Trade Review"Mediating Migration takes a complicated and difficult subject and offers an original and sophisticated interrogation of the ways contemporary media, in all its dimensions, represents, constructs, and interrogates the experiences of and responses to migration."Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina"In this marvelous and insightful book, Radha Hegde unpacks and then reassembles the relationship between globalization, media, and migration. While many have noted that these key concepts cannot be understood in isolation from each other, in this book we get inside the materiality of the migrant condition as it is constituted by the interplay of global forces and mediated networks. We learn not only how the media shapes popular understanding and policies on migration, but also how migrants produce new mediascapes."Nikos Papastergiadis, The University of MelbourneTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Legitimacy: Accumulating Status3. Recognition: Politics and Technologies4. Publics: Eyeing Gender5. Domesticity: Digital Visions and Versions6. Authenticity: Pursuits of Auras7. Conclusion: Destinations and BeginningsNotesReferencesIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Family Conflict
Book SynopsisFamily Conflict takes a life course approach as it provides an accessible discussion of family conflict issues, processes, and outcomes. Chapters draw on recent theory and research regarding sub-systems and stages in family life to give readers resource-rich overviews of conflict in contemporary families. After the initial chapter presents the landscape of family conflict theory and research, chapters focus on conflict in couple relationships, parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, and in stepfamilies. The book concludes with a discussion of how specific work, health, and disability challenges facing today's families influence, and are influenced by, conflict interactions. Family Conflict will be essential reading for students of family communication, family researchers, professionals who work with families in various stages of life, and anyone who desires a deeper understanding of their own family conflict processes.Trade Review"Scholars and students alike will appreciate this highly accessible volume. The authors masterfully weave together multiple perspectives to cogently capture the state of the art on family conflict."Brett Laursen, Florida Atlantic University"This is an excellent piece of well-balanced, integrative scholarship. The writing is precise yet engaging and the book will be an excellent introduction to family conflict for people new to the area and a useful resource for people already familiar with the topic."John Caughlin, University of IllinoisTable of ContentsDetailed Contents viiiTables and Figures xPreface xi1 Introduction to Family Conflict 12 Marital Conflict 223 Interparental Conflict, Post-Divorce, and Stepfamilies 524 Conflict between Parents and Children 825 Siblings in Conflict 1136 Conflict in the Face of Family Challenges: Work-Family Interface, Health & Disability, and Family Resilience 141Appendices 166References 175Index 197
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Family Conflict
Book SynopsisFamily Conflict takes a life course approach as it provides an accessible discussion of family conflict issues, processes, and outcomes. Chapters draw on recent theory and research regarding sub-systems and stages in family life to give readers resource-rich overviews of conflict in contemporary families. After the initial chapter presents the landscape of family conflict theory and research, chapters focus on conflict in couple relationships, parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, and in stepfamilies. The book concludes with a discussion of how specific work, health, and disability challenges facing today's families influence, and are influenced by, conflict interactions. Family Conflict will be essential reading for students of family communication, family researchers, professionals who work with families in various stages of life, and anyone who desires a deeper understanding of their own family conflict processes.Trade Review"Scholars and students alike will appreciate this highly accessible volume. The authors masterfully weave together multiple perspectives to cogently capture the state of the art on family conflict."Brett Laursen, Florida Atlantic University"This is an excellent piece of well-balanced, integrative scholarship. The writing is precise yet engaging and the book will be an excellent introduction to family conflict for people new to the area and a useful resource for people already familiar with the topic."John Caughlin, University of IllinoisTable of ContentsDetailed Contents viiiTables and Figures xPreface xi1 Introduction to Family Conflict 12 Marital Conflict 223 Interparental Conflict, Post-Divorce, and Stepfamilies 524 Conflict between Parents and Children 825 Siblings in Conflict 1136 Conflict in the Face of Family Challenges: Work-Family Interface, Health & Disability, and Family Resilience 141Appendices 166References 175Index 197
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Communication in Health Organizations
Book Synopsis* Only book to date focusing on communication occurring in health organizations. * Flexibility for use in different health communication courses and class formats. * Breadth of research reviewed applies to exploring communication in multiple health-related disciplines.Trade Review"Julie Apker addresses the landscape of health care environment in a way that captures its complexity and honors the experiences of both providers and patients. Her consideration of contemporary events will help readers to make sense of their professional and personal encounters with health care organizations."Katherine Miller, Texas A&M University "Apker has done an outstanding job in integrating and synthesizing a large body of research on the subject of communication in health organizations, and making it relevant to students. This is an excellent companion text for general health communication courses, or courses specific to health organizations."Eileen Berlin Ray, Cleveland State University "At last, a well-written and compelling book that surveys the forms and functions of communication in health organizations! Apker offers a timely and masterful analysis that is theoretically grounded and comprehensive in scope. For anyone working in a caring profession or interested in the communicative challenges of complex health systems, this is a must-read."Lynn Harter, Ohio University Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction Chapter 1 Landscape of Healthcare Delivery Chapter 2 Organizational Assimilation. Chapter 3 Identity and Power. Chapter 4 Stress, Burnout, and Social Support. Chapter 5 Change and Leadership. Chapter 6 Health Teams. Chapter 7 Health Organization Quality. Chapter 8 Health Communication Technologies. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Dark Side of Family Communication
Book Synopsis* This is the first book to explore the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life. * The book offers an intergrative understanding of the dark side of family communication and a theoretical mechanism for understanding related scholarship.Trade Review"In this volume Loreen N. Olson, Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner, Jessica M. W. Kratzer, and Sarah E. Symonds shed much needed light on the dark side of family communication. By unearthing the layers of familial relating to reveal numerous caverns of darkness, they generate new landscapes for students and scholars of the dark side and family communication." Erin Willer, University of Denver "Much has been written on the ‘dark side' of communication. This is the first book actually to define what dark communication is, explain how it forms, identify what effect it has, recommend how to ‘brighten it,' and tie all this together in a Darkness Model of Family Communication." Dudley Cahn, SUNY at New PaltzTable of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresPrologueChapter 1: Conceptualizing the "Dark Side" of Family CommunicationChapter 2: Individual Influence on the Darkness of Family CommunicationChapter 3: The Dark Side of Dyadic Family LifeChapter 4: Familial Interaction Structure and the Dark SideChapter 5: Dark Family Communication in a Context of Darkness's Sociocultural Influences on Family LifeChapter 6: Concluding ThoughtsBibliographyIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Mediated Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisMedia power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it. Making connections with distant places and people is the work of cosmopolitan imagination, which involves seeing the world through the eyes of others. In this book, Robertson engages with the growing literature on cosmopolitanism to address these issues, combining theoretical debates with an innovative empirical portal. Based on the analysis of over 2000 news reports broadcast on national and global channels and interviews with journalists and audience members, Mediated Cosmopolitanism illustrates that the same everyday stories about the world can take on different meanings in different cultures. It argues that if we are to understand how media actors may help people to make the connections that underpin a cosmopolitan outlook, attention must be paid to evidence that some actors may not, and that national broadcasters could be more acTrade Review"Robertson has written a lucid and insightful text on media and cosmopolitanism. There is of course no one cosmopolitanism, yet in general terms a cosmopolitan imagination involves us in seeing the world through the eyes and ears of other people. The book is an important contribution to the task of trying to make exactly that kind of cross-national connection." European Journal of Communication "We live in an increasingly interconnected and precarious global age. Today's media have an incredibly important part to play in recognizing how distant others are not so different from ourselves and in imagining how our world should be. Alexa Robertson's Mediated Cosmopolitanism lucidly and impressivley explores the complexities and opportunities involved." Simon Cottle, Cardiff University "Most media organisations are cutting budgets for overseas reporting. Yet globalisation is making the world ever more inter-dependent. Robertson's book is a fascinating study of how viewers can 'recognise and identify with the distant Others who populate their television screens'. It is essential reading for practitioners as well as scholars." James Painter, University of Oxford "This is a most welcome contribution to the analysis of the place of media discourses within the unfolding process of cultural globalization, and to the literature on cosmopolitanism more generally. This book is a model of organization, which maintains both its focus and its impetus throughout, and which continuously engages the reader with vivid exemplifications of complex moral-cultural debates." John Tomlinson, Nottingham Trent University "Alexa Robertson offers a subtle and nuanced account of television news reporting and its audiences, showing how cosmopolitan sentiments are mediated through televisual storytelling and the popular imagination. A must-read book for all those interested in mass media, culture and politics in an epoch of globalization." Robert Holton, Trinity College DublinTable of ContentsList of figures and illustrations. Acknowledgements. Preface. Chapter 1: Nourishing the Cosmopolitan Imagination. Introduction. Chapter 2: Reporting the World Back to Itself. Comparing news coverage to domestic and global publics. Chapter 3: The Woman with the Samsonite Suitcase. Journalists, Viewers, and Imagining how it is to be the Other. Chapter 4: A Wave of Cosmopolitan Sentiment. Television coverage of the Asian tsunami. Chapter 5: Old Wars in News Programmes. Cosmopolitanism, media and memory. Chapter 6: Brushing Away the Flies. Concluding thoughts. References.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Stress and Coping in Families
Book Synopsis* Synthesizes literature from a wide variety of disciplines to examine family interaction in the context of stressful situations. * Designed as a textbook within Polity s Key Themes in Family Communication series. * Looks at the topic of stress and coping across the individual, relational and family levels.Trade Review"Maguire's Stress and Coping in Families is currently the only available textbook in the family communication literature to focus exclusively on the importance of managing the wide range of stressors experienced in contemporary family life. The work provides a solid foundation to help students understand the nature of stress and the significance of communication in positive coping."Thomas J. Socha, Old Dominion University "Stress and Coping in Families weaves together a comprehensive and accessible synthesis of the processes by which families and family members experience and cope with stress. This well-balanced resource supplements research across disciplines with the bright and dark sides of communicative stress and coping, innovates a heuristic communication model, and breathes life into concepts through well-conceived examples and authentic case studies."Jody Kellas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln "In this important new volume, Katheryn Maguire illustrates the complex role that family interaction plays in creating, maintaining, and relieving stress. Maguire synthesizes research from diverse fields including communication, psychology, and family sociology, and offers a unique model of communication-based coping processes. She provides fascinating analyses of stress in three distinct family contexts that will bring both laughter and tears to her readers. Researchers, teachers, and practitioners interested in stress and family interaction should read this book."Anita L. Vangelisti, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsDetailed Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART I FAMILY STRESS THEORY AND RESEARCHChapter 1 Stress in the Mind and BodyChapter 2 Stress and the FamilyChapter 3 Coping with Family StressChapter 4 Communication within the Stress and Coping ProcessesPART II FAMILY STRESS AND COPING IN CONTEXTChapter 5 Stress and Coping during a Wartime DeploymentChapter 6 Stress and Coping during Catastrophic IllnessChapter 7 Stress and Coping during the Transition to ParenthoodReferencesIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Castells and the Media
Book Synopsis* Concise introduction to the key thinker Manuel Castells and his relation to media and communication. * As with all volumes in the theory and media series, this book is written specifically for undergraduate students of media and communication.Trade Review"Howard has traced for us the often invisible elements of an intellectual trajectory by a major thinker on the new technologies. It is a wonderful and often surprising account - bringing to life the multiple and messy ways in which these new technologies are shaped, sharpened, undermined by the social conditions within which they get used."Saskia Sassen, Columbia University and author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages "The network perspective is proving to be the most important contemporary frame with which to understand the forces shaping technology, economics and society in the 21st century. Howard provides a clear, comprehensive and critical explanation of the work of the world's pre-eminent network theorist, Manuel Castells. Using accessible language the reader is introduced to Castells' ideas about media, globalization, digitalization, and, most importantly, power. Castells and the Media shows just how important and central Castells is for anyone who wishes to understand contemporary society and media."Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago "Howard's Castells and the Media offers a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the key social scientists of our time pertaining to the study of media. This is a highly readable and inviting text, engaging students with a warm welcome to Castells' work."Mark Deuze, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Castells and the Theory of the Network Society Chapter 2: Media Economics and Life Online Chapter 3: Networks of Power and Politics Chapter 4: Cultural Industries in a Digital Century Chapter 5: Mobile and Social Media Chapter 6: ConclusionÑMedia Rules and The Rules of Media Appendix Glossary and Index References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Castells and the Media
Book Synopsis* Concise introduction to the key thinker Manuel Castells and his relation to media and communication. * As with all volumes in the theory and media series, this book is written specifically for undergraduate students of media and communication.Trade Review"Howard has traced for us the often invisible elements of an intellectual trajectory by a major thinker on the new technologies. It is a wonderful and often surprising account - bringing to life the multiple and messy ways in which these new technologies are shaped, sharpened, undermined by the social conditions within which they get used."Saskia Sassen, Columbia University and author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages "The network perspective is proving to be the most important contemporary frame with which to understand the forces shaping technology, economics and society in the 21st century. Howard provides a clear, comprehensive and critical explanation of the work of the world's pre-eminent network theorist, Manuel Castells. Using accessible language the reader is introduced to Castells' ideas about media, globalization, digitalization, and, most importantly, power. Castells and the Media shows just how important and central Castells is for anyone who wishes to understand contemporary society and media."Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago "Howard's Castells and the Media offers a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the key social scientists of our time pertaining to the study of media. This is a highly readable and inviting text, engaging students with a warm welcome to Castells' work."Mark Deuze, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Castells and the Theory of the Network Society Chapter 2: Media Economics and Life Online Chapter 3: Networks of Power and Politics Chapter 4: Cultural Industries in a Digital Century Chapter 5: Mobile and Social Media Chapter 6: ConclusionÑMedia Rules and The Rules of Media Appendix Glossary and Index References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Organizational Discourse
Book SynopsisHow can we study organizations from a discursive perspective? What are the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of each perspective on organizational discourse? To what extent do discourse and communication constitute the organizational world? This accessible book addresses these questions by showing how classical organizational themes, objects and questions can be illuminated from various discursive perspectives.Six approaches are presented and explained: semiotics, rhetoric, speech act theory, conversation analysis/ethnomethodology, narrative analysis, and critical discourse analysis. These six perspectives are then mobilized throughout the book to study coordination and organizing, organizational culture and identity, as well as negotiation, decision making and conflicts in the context of meetings.The unifying thread of this volume is the communicative constitutive approach (CCO) to organizations, as implicitly or explicitly advocated by the great majTrade Review Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Textbook Award from The Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association An essential, high-impact resource for all organizational discourse scholars. Cooren offers a definitive field guide illustrating how discourse and CCO researchers move from concept to data analysis to theory building. Cooren enables readers to �see� how the pieces of discourse research fit together to produce significant results. James Barker, Dalhousie University For students of language, communication, and organizations, François Cooren has written a terrific introduction to organizational discourse analysis. His review of six discourse approaches is bolstered by his extensive research in the field and his goal to help readers understand the organizing potential of language. This organizing potential is key to knowing how organizations are communicatively constituted. The writing in this book is clear, accessible, and inviting. I highly recommend it! Gail Fairhurst, University of Cincinnati This volume provides a superb integration of six discourse perspectives interwoven with the thread communication constitutes organization. It not only explicates these approaches but also employs each of them in exemplars of enacting coorientation and organizing, performing identity and culture, and negotiating decisions. Overall, it is an ideal text for teaching organizational discourse analysis. Linda L. Putnam, University of California, Santa Barbara François Cooren�s new book, Organizational Discourse, is a clear, well informed, sensitive account of varied discursive approaches and topics in organizational studies. � Cooren is very skilled and systematic about explaining technical terms and assumptions lucidly and with sustained examples. ... while the book�s special focus on discursive issues makes it most valuable as a text for courses concentrating on organizational discourse/communication issues, its breadth makes it a real option as a textbook, or a half-term text, in more generalized organizational behavior and communication classes.M@n@gement Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1 What is (organizational) discourse? How is this book organized?2 Analyzing organizational discourse: Six perspectives3 Coordination and organizing4 Organizational culture, identity and ideology5 Meetings: Negotiation, decision making and conflicts6 By way of a conclusionEndnotesReferencesIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Participatory Culture in a Networked Era
Book SynopsisIn the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation. Jenkins, Ito and boyd examine the ways in which our personal and professional lives are shaped by experiences interacting with and around emerging media.Stressing the social and cultural contexts of participation, the authors describe the process of diversification and mainstreaming that has transformed participatory culture. They advocate a move beyond individualized personal expression and argue for an ethos of doing it together in addition to doing it yourself.Participatory Culture in a Networked Era will interest students and scholars of digital media and their impact on society and will engage readers in a broader dialogue and conversation about their oTrade Review"Jenkins, Ito and boyd offer us all a wonderful gift in the form of this book — it’s as though one gets a chance to listen in on a great dinner party conversation between three brilliant scholars, reflecting on more than twenty years of trenchant scholarship on culture, play, identity, and the emergence of the digital world."John Palfrey, Phillips Academy"These authors practise what they preach! To unlock the promise of participatory culture, Jenkins, Ito and boyd invite us to join their intellectual conversation as they puzzle over the dilemmas, insights and challenges of living in a networked era. This is an exciting way to engage with a fast-developing field of research, knowledge and experience."Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics"The idea of scholarship as dialogue is one that lies buried deep within the humanities. In the pages of this engaging and accessible book, Jenkins, Ito and boyd have brought the ethos of dialogue very much to the surface. Their conversation is an entirely apt technique for reflecting on what is by now a sustained history of collaboration on questions of informal learning, participation and power in the evolving digital media environment."Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology"Participatory Culture in a Networked Era is an instructive resource for students, researchers and academics alike while casual readers will also find it informative and engaging."ParticipationsTable of ContentsPreface Defining Participatory Culture Youth Culture, Youth Practices Gaps and Genres in Participation Learning and Literacy Commercial Culture Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Activism Reimagining Participatory Culture References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cultures of Mediatization
Book Synopsis* An engaging analysis of an emerging, cutting-edge area of media studies. * This accessible text draws is driven by empirical examples and terminology is clearly introduced and explained.Trade Review'The great virtue of Cultures of Mediatization is that the book proposes an entente cordiale between media scholarship and social theory. The idea of mediatization as a historical process—akin to other large-scale changes that have long preoccupied sociologists—is genuinely exciting. It is, in my view, the beachhead upon which a genuine dialogue could be launched.' International Journal of Communication 'This book is a contribution of major importance. It has a well-focused, original and stimulating argument which I think will quickly be recognized as taking current debates about mediatization considerably further forward.' Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London 'For those unfamiliar with the concept of mediatization, Andreas Hepp opens up some stimulating new directions for media studies. For those already working with the concept, Hepp’s integrative theoretical analysis plus refreshing questioning will prove equally stimulating.' Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science 'This book gives an original view on media cultures as cultures of mediatization. This clear and accessible text provides a good overview and introduction to the complex and hot topics on mediatization. It is a must for students, researchers and a general academic public interested in the media and social change.' Knut Lundby, University of OsloTable of ContentsDetailed Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. What Media Culture Is (Not)3. The Mediatization of Culture4. Cultures of Mediatization and Mediatized Worlds5. Communatization within Cultures of Mediatization6. Studying Cultures of Mediatization7. ProspectReferencesIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Going Viral
Book SynopsisWe live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight. Virality: individuals create it, governments fear it, companies would die for it.Trade ReviewGoing Viral has won the 2014 Best Book Award by ASIS&T (Association of Information Science and Technology), and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine (Association of College and Research Libraries). "This concise and insightful book targets a niche topic in the studies of digital media that is becoming increasingly relevant to the public. It considers many questions and successfully accomplishes what it sets out to do. Students of media, digital worlds, and information will not be disappointed."—LSE Review of Books "Virality is what make societies click at the pulse of the Internet. It is at the heart of the new forms of commerce, culture, media, social movements, and politics. This pathbreaking book explains what it is, how it works technologically and socially, and draws out the implications of this process for social change. It is a major contribution to network theory and to the understanding of the network society."—Manuel Castells, University of Southern California "Ever wonder why a video, meme, or idea spreads like wildfire online? In 'Virality', Nahon and Hemsley examine the technology, social practices, and cultural conditions that enable media to go viral. This illuminating book gets beyond marketing hype to provide critical insights for understanding the powerful phenomenon of virality. This is a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of how information flows in a networked world."—Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research "From Rosa Parks to Gangham style--a fascinating look at a defining phenomena of our age- virality, spreading, winner-take-all success. It is more than a fad-- Going Viral offers a compelling argument that viral processes are here to stay, and they are an essential feature of the online fabric."—Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Prolog Cover Art 1 Introduction: Virality of pets and presidents 2 What Virality is: I know it when I see it 3 What Makes Something Viral I: The control of networks through Gatekeeping 4 What Makes Something Viral II: What is everyone looking at? 5 What Makes Something Viral III: Caught in the Viral Net! 6 Networked changed societies 7 Afterlife Bibliography Notes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd White Magic
Book SynopsisPaper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy.Trade Review"Balanced and intelligent... Even those who are happy with e-books will be grateful to Muller's publishers for printing White Magic on good, thick, creamy paper and including, at the end, a dozen blank pages, all of which I have covered with untidy, handwritten notes, to make this mechanical mass-produced artifact intimately my own."—New York Review of Books "A richly sprawling history"—Times Literary Supplement "A panoramic literary-historical work reminiscent of Erich Auerbach's Mimesis"—The Washington Post "What a great read! It is a book to warm up the brain on a day of mental fog."—Inside Higher Education "Most of this erudite, engaging work is concerned with the rise of paper and its dominance as civilisation's archive and its role as a 'metaphorical resource': the origin of phrases such as 'a blank page'. As well as being a historical account of the way paper came to permeate every aspect of life, Muller mines European literature for the role paper has played in the stories we tell ourselves."—Sydney Morning Herald "Lothar Müller... tells an alternative history of paper. He argues, convincingly, that paper has been, and continues to be, integral to our civilisation and the modern world. Through a carefully structured sequence of illuminating vignettes, he brings together fascinating facts from across the globe and the centuries to reveal the long-running and fundamental impact of paper on human life, work and culture."—Times Higher Education "Müller's work leaves the reader admiring something that feels magical."—Publishers Weekly "...the tale that Lothar Müller spins in White Magic: The Age of Paper is one that brings paper—as both physical material and a playing field on which the human imagination can run wild—to vivid life. Incorporating a wealth of historical detail, technical information, and critical analysis, Müller makes his account lively and compelling, giving paper a personality and substance that is on par with any words that may appear on it. In his book, paper is not just the silent partner of the printing press. Instead, it is an extremely versatile substance—one whose uses and forms shape human thought and behavior in many ways."—The Nomadic Press "As paper increasingly fades into history, the story of its role and evolution is at risk of being lost, erasing the roadmap that brought us to the digital era. Lothar Müller's White Magic: The Age of Paper goes a long way to averting that fate, going back in time to record and describe in intricate detail how paper came to be, and what it came to be."—South China Morning Post "Consistently readable and highly entertaining, this witty and learned book deftly decouples paper's history from the story of printing to tell new and surprising tales about a medium that continues to pervade our daily life. You'll never look at a blank page in quite the same way again."—Catherine Robson, New York University "This is an absorbing history of paper, fascinating in its detail and magisterial in its scope. Muller writes with the authority of a scholar and the imagination of a poet, filling his book with curious but essential facts and astute perceptions. It is a delight to read."—Jeremy Adler, King's College London "Müller's history of paper is original, engaging and breathtakingly erudite. It explores paper in its materiality, but also as a source of inspiration which has shaped the history of knowledge and creativity. In tracing paper's vital role in the development of human civilisation, the author also argues for its continued importance in the digital age."—Carolin Duttlinger, Wadham College, Oxford "Lothar Müller set out dazzling new insights into the creation of our world, building on Harold Innis’ work on the long and complex emergence of paper. Unique in his White Magic is his subtle blending of cultural and media history with sociological understanding and literary reflexion."—Philippe Despoix, Center of Intermedial Research in Arts, Literatures and Technologies, Université de MontréalTable of ContentsThanks viii PROLOGUE The Microbe Experiment ix PART ONE The Diffusion of Paper in Europe 1 CHAPTER 1 Leaves from Samarkand 3 1.1 The Arab Intermediate Realm 3 1.2 Calligraphy and the Cairo Wastepaper Basket 10 1.3 In Scheherazade’s World 13 1.4 Timur and Suleika 17 CHAPTER 2 The Rustling Grows Louder 22 2.1 The European Paper Mill Boom 22 2.2 Paper, Scholars, and Playing Cards 26 2.3 The Rise of the File: Paper Kings, Chanceries, and Secretaries 31 2.4 The Merchant of Genoa and His Silent Partner 37 2.5 Ragpickers, Writers, and the Pulpit 46 CHAPTER 3 The Universal Substance 52 3.1 Marshall McLuhan and the Pantagruelion of Rabelais 52 3.2 Harold Innis, the Postal System, and Mephisto’s Scrap 61 3.3 The World in a Page: Watermarks, Formats, Colors 70 PART TWO Behind the Type Area 79 CHAPTER 1 The Printed and the Unprinted 81 1.1 The Pitfalls of a Formula: “From Script to Print” 81 1.2 The White Page 85 1.3 “Found among the Papers ...” 89 CHAPTER 2 Adventurers and Paper 94 2.1 Don Quixote, the Print Shop, and the Pen 94 2.2 Picaresque Paper: Simplicius Simplicissimus and the Schermesser 99 2.3 Robinson’s Journal, Ink, and Time 104 CHAPTER 3 Transparent Typography 108 3.1 The Epistolary Novel’s Mimicry of Letter Paper 108 3.2 Laurence Sterne, the Straight Line, and the Marbled Page 115 3.3 The Fragmentation of the Printed Page: Jean Paul, Lichtenberg, and Excerpts 119 PART THREE The Great Expansion 127 CHAPTER 1 The Demons of the Paper Machine 129 1.1 The Mechanization of Sheet-Making 129 1.2 The Loom of Time, the French Revolution, and Credit 140 1.3 Balzac, Journalism, and the Paper Scheme in Lost Illusions 152 1.4 The Secrets of the Scriveners: Charles Dickens and Mr. Nemo 163 1.5 Foolscap and Factory Workers: Herman Melville and the Paper Machine 168 CHAPTER 2 Newsprint and the Emergence of the Popular Press 180 2.1 The Boundless Resource Base 180 2.2 The Newspaper, the Price of Paper, and the Patrioteer 189 2.3 Émile Zola, the Petit Journal, and the Dreyfus Affair 196 CHAPTER 3 Illuminated Inner Worlds 201 3.1 Wilhelm Dilthey, Historism, and Literary Estates 201 3.2 Henry James, Edith Wharton, and the Autograph Hunt 207 3.3 Laterna Magica: Paper and Interiors 215 CHAPTER 4 The Inventory of Modernity 226 4.1 Typewriter Paper, Deckle Edges, and White Space 226 4.2 James Joyce, Newsprint, and Shears 236 4.3 William Gaddis, the Paperwork Crisis, and Punch Cards 242 4.4 Rainald Goetz, the Mystic Writing Pad, and the Smell of Paper 249 EPILOGUE The Analog and the Digital 253 Notes 265 Bibliography 274 Image Credits 292 Index of Names 293
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