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Book SynopsisNGOs and the United Nations reveals how NGOs have changed their interaction with the UN since the mid-1990s. It also looks at how their representation to the UN, their consultative status and their characteristic features influence their relationship with the UN. The case studies include some of the most renowned players on the international scene, such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, CARE International and Oxfam International.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Foreword Preface PART 1: NGOS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE UN SYSTEM: INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS NGG Participation in Global Affairs Theoretical Approaches to NGO-IGO Relations Contributions of this Study Organization of the Book PART 2: NGO INSTITUTIONALIZATION INTO THE UN SYSTEM: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Current Theoretical Approaches to NGO-IGO Relations Transnational Relations Transsocietal Approaches NGOs in the UN System NGO Activities in the UN System Institutionalizing NGO-UN Relations Categories of Internationally Operating NGOs Case Selection Summary PART 3: ACTIVITIES IN THE UN CONTEXT: CHANGING PATTERNS OF INTERACTION NGO Activities with the UN and New Opportunities for Interaction Policy Initiating Activities Policy Developing Processes Policy Implementing Practices Exploring Individual Cases of NGOs and their Activities with the UN FIDH: Deepening Established Areas of Activity CARE International: Broadening the Spectrum of lnteraction Oxfam International: Acting Individualistically with the UN Other NGOs Summary PART 4: REPRESENTATION AND REPRESENTATIVES TO THE UN: INSTITUTIONALIZATION AS AN INTERNAL FACTOR General Observations about NGO Representation to the UN The Image of NGOs at the UN in the Past NGO Representation at the UN Today NGO Representatives at the UN in Total Exploring Individual Cases of NGO Representation to the UN Amnesty International: Mobilizing Resources for its UN Representation FIDH: Using Limited Resources to its Advantage CARE International: Increasing Investment in its UN Representation Oxfam International: Only Few Resources Mobilized Other NGOs Summary PART 5: ACCREDITATION TO THE UN THROUGH RULES AND REGULATIONS: INSTIUTIONALIZATION AS AN EXTERNAL DEMAND General Observations on Consultative Status of NGOs at the UN Previous Resolutions on NGO-UN Relations and Current Legal Foundations NGOs and the Consultative Status Today Selection Process of NGOs Withdrawal of Consultative Status as a Threat Consultative Status - Two Sides of the One Coin? Single Cases and their Consultative Status at the UN under Examination Amnesty International: Consultative Status as an Entrance Key FIDH: Dependence on Formal Status as Mouthpiece CARE International: Consultative Status as Lowering Bureaucratic Hurdles Oxfam International: Little Significance of Consultative Status Other NGOs Summary PART 6: NGOS IN THE UN SYSTEM AND BEYOND: FINAL REMARKS Conceptualization and Theoretical Frame Adjustments in NGO Patterns of Activity with the UN NGO Representation and Representatives Rules and Regulations for NGO Accreditation at the UN Level Contribution of this Study and Future Prospects Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the multiple meanings of European citizenship, which has been represented and publicly communicated by the European Commission in five distinctive ways Homo Oeconomicus (1951-1972), A People's Europe (1973-1992), Europe of Transparency (1993-2004), Europe of Agorai (2005-2009) and Europe of Rights (2010-2014).Trade Review“The main strengths of this book are the vast and unique materials analyzed and how the sources are woven together to form a rich account of the history of European citizenship, relating both to successes and failures. Pukallus manages to bring life to her story by highlighting the role played by specific individuals in this history.” (Jonna Johansson, Journal of Common Market Studies JCMS, Vol. 56 (04), May, 2018)Table of ContentsPreface.- Chapter 1: A Civil Europe.- Chapter 2: Homo Oeconomicus (1951-1972).- Chapter 3: A People's Europe (1973-1992).- Chapter 4: Europe of Transparency (1993-2004).- Chapter 5: Europe of Agorai (2005-2009).- Chapter 6: ‘Europe of Rights’ (2010-2014).- Summary European citizenship 1951-2014: An Uninterrupted European Civil Narrative.- Bibliography.- Index.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook / PrimerHow did you decide what to wear today? Did you base your selection on comfort or style? Did you want to blend in or stand out or was it just the cleanest outfit available? We each make these decisions every day, reflecting how we view ourselves and impacting how others see us. Our choices matter not just to us personally, but also to the magazine editors, brand ambassadors and trend forecasters who make a living by selling to us. Communicating Fashion introduces key concepts from the intersecting worlds of fashion and communication studies to connect how we all use clothing to express ourselves and how media systems support that process. In doing so, Myles Ethan Lascity explores social, cultural and ethical issues through the work of fashion journalism, brand promotions and the growing role of online influencers as well as the impact of film, television and art on self-image and expression.Key topicTrade ReviewExamines significant moments and movements in clothing and fashion and contextualizes them into a coherent narrative grounded in communication theory. Clothing is an essential part of our culture and this text illustrates how fashion isn’t frivolous but rather an important facet of identity. -- Jeanne M. Persuit, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The University of North Carolina Wilmington, USAMyles Ethan Lascity marries fashion studies and communication in Communicating Fashion. He uses relatable examples, builds on scholarship, and explains in an accessible manner that will be appreciated by students just beginning to study fashion. -- Dr Andrew Reilly, University of Hawai`i, ManoaWith its eminently readable style, Communicating Fashion makes fashion theory accessible by clearly expressing how we constantly send, receive and contextualize messages through our shared experience of dress. Full of excellent examples, visual aids and humorous anecdotes, the text takes a distinctly modern approach and engages the reader while respecting the intellectual underpinnings of the discipline. -- Lorynn Divita, Baylor University, USAThis new landmark text opens readers to the future of how we view fashion, clothing, and the appropriate milieus that communicate with consumers regarding contemporary style. Lascity’s work not only takes on a journey of recent trends but builds on the contextual elements of tomorrow’s fashion and methods of scholarly inquiry. -- Joseph H. Hancock, II, Drexel University, USATable of ContentsPreface 1. Communicating Fashion 2. Clothing as Intra- and Interpersonal Communication 3. Clothing Dynamics in Groups and Cultures 4. Fashion: Systems, Meaning and Time 5. Clothing, News and Tastemaking 6. Clothing on Film and Television 7. Ads, Brands and Retail Considerations 8. Digital Communication, Social Media and Mediatization 9. Fashion, Clothing and/as Art Endnotes References

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Book SynopsisWhat is eye tracking? Why is it important for linguistics? How can I use it in my own research project?Answering these questions and more, this book guides you through one of the most exciting and innovative research methods in the field of linguistics. Divided into three parts, the chapters first offer an historical introduction and a foundational overview to the neurology and physiology of the eye and the common measurements and tools used in eye tracking. They then provide a guide to the applications of eye tracking most pertinent to linguists (reading, the visual-world paradigm, social eye tracking, and classroom applications), followed by a step-by-step process to plan, execute, analyze and report your research project in eye tracking. The book covers topics such as reading, lexical and syntactic processing, mind wandering, second language acquisition, and AAC devices, and includes statistical tools and how to write up results. Each chapter also includes self-study questions and aTrade ReviewThe handbook is a comprehensive compilation of oculography and its linguistics applications, covering reading, social gaze, joint attention, and language learning. The text is well structured including chapter-relevant glossary study aids and offers a succinct synopsis of planning an eye-tracking study. It is an excellent addition to the eye-tracking bookshelf. -- Andrew T. Duchowski, Clemson University, USASalvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering have expertly placed their vast experience and teaching knowledge into this informative book on state-of-the-art eye-tracking methods for answering linguistic and applied linguistic research questions. With both foundation and practical topics covered, including an in-depth look at social eye tracking, this book is sure to open minds and will be a must-read for linguists and applied linguists alike. -- Paula Winke, Michigan State University, USATable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction Part I: The Basics 1. Historical Development 2. Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye 3. The Visual System in the Brain 4. Eye Tracking Basics Part II: Applications 5. Reading 6. The Visual World Paradigm 7. Social Eye Tracking 8. Classroom attention and Lx Teaching 9. Applications in Related Fields Part III: Using Eye-Tracking 10. Planning an Eye Tracking Study 11. Principles of Statistical Analysis Conclusions Bibliography Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThere are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader. The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of one's understanding is not easy to describe. Particularly stimulating among the collection are the pieces by Jeffrey Weeks and Patrick Johnson. The intellectual satisfaction derived from the study of the erotic self and the human struggle and search for meaning and means of communicating meaning is quare indeed A book to read and return from time to time.The Book ReviewThis groundbreaking reader will spark the development of new courses in communication and sexuality. Students and teachers wanting to fully understand the constitutive and performative nature of communication will find few other books that meet their needs better than this one.R. Jeffrey Ringer, St. Cloud UniversitySexualities and Communication in EveTrade Review"There are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader. The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of one′s understanding is not easy to describe. Particularly stimulating among the collection are the pieces by Jeffrey Weeks and Patrick Johnson. The intellectual satisfaction derived from the study of the erotic self and the human struggle and search for meaning and means of communicating meaning is quare indeed A book to read and return from time to time."—The Book Review -- Vasanth Kannabiran * The Book Review - December 2007 *Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction: Setting the Stage - Karen E. Lovaas and Mercilee M. Jenkins Part I: Foundations for Thinking About Sexualities and Communication 1. The Invention of Heterosexuality: The Debut of the Heterosexual - Jonathan Ned Katz 2. Necessary Fictions: Sexual Identities and the Politics of Diversity - Jeffrey Weeks 3. On Judith Butler and Performantivity - Sara Salih 4. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part I] - E. Patrick Johnson 5. The Use of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde Part II: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Interpersonal Contexts 6. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence - William Leap 7. "Having a Girlfriend Without Knowing It": Intimate Friendships Among Adolescent Sexual-Minority Women - Lisa M. Diamond 8. Accounts of Sexual Identity Formation in Heterosexual Students - Michele J. Eliason 9. M. Dragonfly: Two-Spirit and the Tafoya Principle of Uncertainty - Terry Tafoya 10. Migrancy and Homodesire - Myron Beasley 11. Performing "I Do": Wedding, Pornography, and Sex - Elizabeth Bell 12. A Critical Appraisal of Assimiliationist and Radical Ideologies Underlying Same-Sex Marriage in LGBT Communities in the United States - Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas, and John P. Elia Part III: Performing and Disciplining Sexualities in Public Discourses 13. Performing the Rhetoric of Science: Dr. Laura′s Portrayal of Homosexuality - Paul Turpin 14. Disciplining the Transgendered: Brandon Teena, Public Representation, and Normativity - John M. Sloop 15. "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well": Memory and Queer Culture in Will and Grace - Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed 16. Living in the Middle: Performances Bi-Men - John T. Warren and Nicholas A. Zoffel 17. "Holly Kowalski": Sex Across the Curriculum - Jennifer Tuder 18. Queering the (Sacred) Body Politic: Considering the Performative Cultural Politics of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence - Cathy B. Glenn Part IV: Transforming Sexualities and Communication: Visions and Praxis 19. The Spirituality of Sex and the Sexuality of Spirit: BDSM Erotic Play as Soulwork and Social Critique - Robert G. Westerfelhaus 20. Menopause and Desire, or 452 Positions on Love - Mercilee M. Jenkins 21. "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother [Part II] - E. Patrick Johnson 22. Activism and Identity Through the Word: A Mixed-Race Woman Claims Her Space - Wendy M. Thompson 23. Making Alliances - Gloria E. Anzaldua About the Editors

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Book SynopsisBringing together a range of renowned scholars in the field, this book examines eighteen key issues within contemporary media studies. Written in an accessible student-friendly style, Media Studies - Key Issues and Debates is an authoritative landmark text for undergraduate students.Each individual chapter begins with a concise definition of the concept(s) under investigation. This is followed by a 5,000 word discussion on the current state of play within research on the specific area. Chapters contain case-studies and illustrative materials from Europe, North America, Australasia and beyond. Each chapter concludes with annotated notes, which guide the student-reader in terms of future study.With a preface by Denis McQuail, contributors includeJanet McCabe, John Corner, David Croteau, William Hoynes, Natalie Fenton, Jenny Kitzinger, Jeroen de Kloet, Liesbet van Zoonen, Sonia Livingstone and Greg Philo.Trade Review"The topics covered show a fine awareness of the media′s roles in advanced consumer societies, and the book offers student excellent tools with which to critically analyze those roles." -- Stephen Crofts * Media International Australia *Table of ContentsIntroduction Bridging The Mythical Divide - Natalie Fenton Political Economy and Cultural Studies Approaches to the Analysis of Media The Media Industry - Croteau & Hoynes Structure, Strategy and Debates Mass Media & New Media Techologies - Michael J Breen Unravelling the Web of Discourse Analysis - Philippa Smith & Allan Bell News Content Studies, Media Group methods and Discourse Analysis - Greg Philo A Comparison of Approaches Framing & Frame Analysis - Jenny Kitzinger Mass Media Re-Presentations of the Social World - Amanda Hoynes Ethnicity and Race Media Representations of Social Structure - Joke Hermes Gender Media, Power and Political Culture - John Corner Proximity and Scope as News Values - Pamela J. Shoemaker Text and Textual Analysis - Peter Hughes Analysing Fictional Television Genres - Kim Akass & Janet McCabe From Family Television To Bedroom Culture - Sonia Livingstone Young People′s Media at Home Fan Culture - Jeroen de Kloet & Lisbet van Zoonen Performing Difference Community Media & The Public Sphere - Kevin Howley Media and Diaspora - Karim H. Karim

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Book SynopsisMirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and popular culture studied as broad phenomena and not as a collection of case studies. In this volume, popular culture has been thematically treated as it appears in a variety of media, including movies, digital games, advertising, television, popular songs, and the internet. The book considers education in both formal and informal settings, and looks critically at the accepted dichotomy between education and popular culture. It argues that popular culture is capable of educating and that education shares many characteristics with popular culture, and tries to overcome these dichotomous relationships while also trying to clarify the reciprocal effects between the two. The book calls disciplinary and media boundaries into question in an effort to widen the possibility of enlarging the vocabulary and the verbs of all that stays unnamed by what isTrade Review«Few books capture as clearly the critical place and influence of popular culture on education. Silberman-Keller, Bekerman, Giroux, and Burbules have launched a collaboration that helps educators understand the learning process outside the confines of classroom pedagogy but provides the conditions of possibility for improving schools. Its expert contributors travel through social experiences that no educator can take for granted any longer as extra-curricular. If schooling is education of the whole person then this book takes us one step closer to that transformation.» (Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley)«Few books capture as clearly the critical place and influence of popular culture on education. Silberman-Keller, Bekerman, Giroux, and Burbules have launched a collaboration that helps educators understand the learning process outside the confines of classroom pedagogy but provides the conditions of possibility for improving schools. Its expert contributors travel through social experiences that no educator can take for granted any longer as extra-curricular. If schooling is education of the whole person then this book takes us one step closer to that transformation.» (Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley)Table of ContentsContents: Diana Silberman-Keller/Zvi Bekerman/Henry A. Giroux/Nicholas C. Burbules: Introduction – Mary M. Dalton: The Hollywood View: Protecting the Status Quo in Schools Onscreen – Gordon Alley-Young: «Try to See this Movie as an Educational Movie About Life Will You»: A Critical Cultural Study of Race and Education in Popular Film – Henry A. Giroux: Militarization, Public Pedagogy, and the Biopolitics of Popular Culture – Zvi Bekerman: Reappraising Critical Perspectives in Popular Culture and Education – Diana Silberman-Keller: Education and Popular Culture: Chiasmatic Reflections in Almodóvar’s Bad Education and Tarantino’s Kill Bill – Gonzalo Frasca: Make a Point and Score Ten Thousands: Learning from Serious Games – Kurt Squire: Critical Education in an Interactive Age – Rebecca Ward Black: Convergence and Divergence, Informal Learning in Online Fanfiction Communities and Formal Writing Pedagogy – Mary Stone Hanley: Close to the Edge: The Poetry of Hip-Hop – Virginia S. Funes: Advertising and Consumerism: A Space for Pedagogical Practice – David Wong/Danah Henriksen: If Ideas were Fashion – Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas: Popular Culture and the Teaching of History: A Critical Reflection.

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Book SynopsisReading Martin Heidegger''s five conversational texts together for the first time, Heidegger''s Conversations elaborates not only what Heidegger thought but how he did so by attending to the philosophical possibilities of the genre of these under-studied texts written between 1944 and 1954. Though he wrote little on the topic of teaching and learning explicitly, Katherine Davies shows Heidegger performed an implicit poetic pedagogy in his conversations that remains to be recognized. Heidegger launched an experimental attempt to enact a learning of non-representational, non-metaphysical thinking by cultivating a distinctly collaborative sensitivity to the call of the poetic. Davies illustrates how each conversation emphasizes a particular pedagogical element?non-oppositionality, making mistakes, thinking in community, poetic interpretation, and the dangers of such pedagogy?which together constitute the developmental arc of these texts. Whether Heidegger is revising or reinforcing his own earlier pedagogical practices, Davies argues that attending to the dramatic staging of the conversations offers a distinct vantage point from which to contend with Heidegger''s philosophy and politics in the post-war period.

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Book SynopsisDitch the scripts and tricks for a smarter approachKirk Kinnell is a hostage negotiator and counter-terrorism expert with decades of experience. Jim Houghton has conducted complex M&A deals worth hundreds of millions. Despite their dramatically different backgrounds, they share the philosophy that negotiation is not a zero-sum game and that trust, integrity and fairness are essential to achieving a successful outcome.This book combines their vast knowledge to show you how to prepare for and conduct negotiations in almost any environment. What holds true for ending a siege or keeping a hostage alive could be the key to getting your toddler off to bed or agreeing a pay rise with your boss. Their invaluable advice will help you be resourceful and calm amid the stress and volatility of real-world negotiations.In business, this equates to winning repeat business and making more profit. In our personal lives, it means family harmony and better communitie

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Book SynopsisWritten by the founding father of media studies, this book offers a unique analysis of the dynamics and wider implications of communications inequality.

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Book SynopsisAn Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America: Disciplining the Maternal Body analyzes the discourses involved in the pro-breastfeeding, breast is best paradigm, highlighting how such politically charged rhetoric restrains women's ability to make the choices that are best for them and their families. Loreen Olson and Jenni M. Simon combat the idea that is so often espoused by medical professionals, researchers, and society at large: to be a good parent, one must provide breast milk to the infant in order for the baby to grow into a healthy, productive citizen. By exposing the biases present, Olson and Simon advocate for the need to make discursive space for all parents and all feeding choices. Scholars of communication, rhetoric, gender and women's studies, and feminism will find this book particularly useful.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Discourse, Ideology, and Breastfeeding: The Breast-is-Best Discursive Formation and the Construction of Hegemonic Mothering Chapter 2: Building the Breast-is-Best Discursive Formation: A Genealogy of Hegemonic Motherhood Chapter 3: Creating the Gaze: The Birth of the Medi-Institutionalization of Breastfeeding Chapter 4: Disciplining the Maternal Body: Discourses for Expecting Moms Chapter 5: Disciplining the Marginalized Maternal Body: Discourses of Race, Class, and Privilege Chapter 6: Talking Back: The Discourses of Lived Experience Chapter 7: Talking Back and Taking Back: Discourses of Resistance and Change

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Book SynopsisThis Bridge We Call Communication: Anzaldúan Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis explores contemporary communication research studies, performative writing, poetry, Latina/o studies, and gender studies through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa's theories, methods, and concepts. Utilizing different methodologies and approachestestimonio, performative writing, and interpretive, rhetorical, and critical methodologiesthe contributors provide original research on contexts including healing and pain, woundedness, identity, Chicana and black feminisms, and experiences in academia.Trade ReviewSuch beautiful, powerful, moving words! I love the multiplicity of Anzaldúan theories, methods, perspectives, and praxes found within this book. Risking the personal, editors and contributors bring forward new insights to support and sustain us during these trying times. They demonstrate the versatility of Anzaldúan theories and perspectives, opening new directions in communication studies and other fields. La Gloria lives on, building bridges changing lives, and assisting us as we work to transform the world. -- AnaLouise Keating, Professor and Director of the Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies Doctoral Program, Texas Woman's UniversityEditors Leandra Hinojosa Hernández and Robert Gutierrez-Perez have crafted an innovative and necessary intervention in the field of Communication Studies that insists on the epistemological possibilities of those who live in the physical and psychological borderlands. Speaking through a mestizaje of genres and modes of storytelling, and passionately grounded in the theories of Chicana feminist scholar Gloria E. Anzaldúa, the pieces in this collection show readers that it is through speaking and writing the viscera-- the flesh--that possibilities for healing and transformation emerge. A necessary book for scholars in Communication Studies, Chicanx Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and more. -- Larissa Mercado-Lopez, California State University, FresnoThis important collection of essays brings much needed perspectives to the communication discipline through art, praxis, and theory of Anzaldúan ideas and philosophies. The artistry, writings, and illustrations in this book feature important Anzaldúan concepts like borderlands, nepantla, testimonios, conocimiento, ambiguities, intersectionalities, and critical pedagogies. -- Stacey Sowards, University of Texas at AustinWith remarkable breadth, stunning vulnerability, and incisive analyses, this collection animates the continued force and malleability of Gloria Anzaldúa’s writings. The commitment to praxis and art, activism and intellect across the book is a testament both to Anzaldúa and the authors, as it is also an exemplar for the contemporary practice of coalitional and transformative scholarship. -- Lisa A. Flores, University of ColoradoTable of ContentsPart I: Healing the Wounds: (Re)imagining Borderlands TheoryChapter 1: “Using Testimonios to Untame Our Silent Tongues: Exploring our Experiences of Child Sexual Abuse Through an Anzaldúan Perspective,”Nivea CastañedaChapter 2: “Testimonio as a Queer Puente for Healing,” Manuel Alejandro Pérez“Make America Great Again,”Robert Gutierrez-PerezChapter 3: “Fronteras Toxicas: Toward a Borderland Ecological Consciousness,”Carlos Tarin“Dolores,”Masha Sukovic Part II: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative: Health Communication, Disability Studies, Pain, and HealingChapter 4: “Facing Tlahtlacolli (Microaggressions) with Nepantla and Conocimiento: A Xicana Epistemological Approach,”Sarah Amira de la GarzaChapter 5: “A Letter to My Hija: Anzaldúa’s Coyolxauhqui Imperative, Your Bisabuela’s Withering Body, and the Life-Affirming Possibilities of Woundedness,”Luis Manuel AndradeChapter 6: “I take something from both worlds”: An Anzaldúan Analysis of Mexican-American Women’s Conceptualizations of Ethnic Identity,”Leandra Hinojosa HernándezPart III: Theorizing Nepantla: Creative Ethnographies on the Path of ConocimientoChapter 7: “Communicating Nepantla: An Anzaldúan Theory of Identity,”Sarah De Los Santos UptonChapter 8: “Between Worlds: A Personal Journey of Self-reflection While on the Path of Conocimiento,”Edmundo M. AguilarChapter 9: “Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa Globally Through A Documentary Altar: ALTAR Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges,”Diana I. BowenPart IV: Critical/Cultural Rhetorics of Ambiguity and HybridityChapter 10: “Sweetening the Pot: Culinary Adventures in Hybridity,”Stephanie L. Gomez“La Dueña de la Casa,”Masha SukovicChapter 11: “A Tolerance for Ambiguity or the American Dream: Using Anzaldúa to Disrupt and Reclaim Latina Lives from Multicultural Feminism,”Sara Baugh-Harris and Bernadette Marie CalafellPart V: Women of Color and Radical Coalition Building“Whispers in the Dark: A Collection of Poems,”Shantel MartinezChapter 12: “Black Women and Girls Trending: A New(er) Autohistoria-Teoría,”Tara L. Conley Chapter 13: “Rasquache Cyborgs and Borderlands Aesthetics in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer,”Alexandrina AgloroChapter 14: “Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, & Topographies of Anger,”Rachel Alicia Griffin Part VI: Anzaldúan Approaches to Critical (Communication) Pedagogy“I Get It from My Mother,”Robert Gutierrez-PerezChapter 15: “Building Community, Decolonizing Spirituality, and Women of Color Feminism: Applying Gloria Anzaldúa in and out of the Classroom for Healing and Empowerment,”Xamuel BañalesChapter 16: “Carrying Gloria on My Back: A Pedagogic and Research Journal,”Luis Gabriel Sanchez RoseChapter 17: “A Crack to Speak Out From: Performing Coalitional Politics Through Dialogue, Listening, and Reflexivity,”Robert Gutierrez-Perez and Bedilia Ramirez Chapter 18: “Becoming a Bridge in/through Critical Communication Scholarship:Meditations on the Affective Afterlife of Cultural Normativities,”Gust A. Yep

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Researching Communications, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks, introducing the major research methods, giving detailed examples of research analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language. Written by highly regarded experts in the field, the third edition includes new sections on social media analysis, digital research methods and comparative research, as well as updated case studies, international examples and details of recent developments in media and communication studies.Undergraduate and postgraduate media and communication students will find Researching Communications an invaluable resource at all stages of their course.Trade ReviewThis welcome new edition is updated and expanded, providing scholars with the what, why and how of communication research. Practical, accessible and truly invaluable. * Janet Wasko, Professor and Emeritus Knight Chair in Communication Research, University of Oregon, USA *Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgements 1. Approaching research 2. Dealing with documentation 3. Selecting and sampling 4. Asking questions 5. Handling numbers 6. Counting contents 7. Analysing texts 8. Unpacking news 9. Viewing the image 10. Interpreting images 11. Being an observer 12. Attending to talk 13. Taking talk apart 14. Making comparisons 15. Using computers 16. Beyond methodology: the what, how and why of researching communications Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen we are told so regularly that we live in a ‘post truth’ age and are surrounded by ‘fake news’, it can be tempting to think of politics as primarily mediated. Discussion and analysis of public affairs is preoccupied with the power and reach of platforms or the passion and rage of social media exchanges. As important as these issues may be, a focus on the communicative risks downgrading the political. Media, Democracy and Social Change puts politics back into political communications. It shows how within a digital media ecology, the wider context of neoliberal capitalism remains essential for understanding what political communications is, and can hope to be. Tackling broad themes of structural inequality, technological change, political realignment and social transformation, the book explores political communications as it relates to debates around the state, infrastructures, elites, populism, political parties, activism, the legacies of colonialism, and more. It is both an expert introduction to the field of political communications, and a critical intervention to help re-imagine what a democratic politics might mean in a digital age. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and activists. Aeron Davis, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman and Gholam Khiabany all work at the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, where they teach together on the MA in Political Communications. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Putting Politics Back Into Political Communications Chapter 2. Infrastructures of Political Communications Chapter 3. The State of Political Communications Chapter 4. Elites, Experts, Power and Democracy Chapter 5. Democracy without Political Parties? Chapter 6. The Violence of an Illiberal Liberalism Chapter 7. Political Communications, Civil Society and the Commons Chapter 8. Intellectuals and the Re-imagining of Political Communications

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Book SynopsisDigital services, platforms and arrangements are often promoted as smooth and convenient, smart or intelligent. When introduced, devices can appear utterly fascinating or awkward, even disquieting. Eventually, however, they soon disappear in the muddle of everyday life. This is how Mundania takes form. Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand technological change. Scholar-artist Robert Willim deftly unpacks the interplay between everyday life and the immense complexity of technological infrastructures. Offering imaginative new insights into our relationship with technology, this book will appeal to readers in a range of fields from science and technology studies and media studies to the arts.Table of Contents1. Arrival 2. Vanishing Points 3. In-between 4. Beyond 5. Beneath 6. Opacity 7. Order Variability Openings

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Book SynopsisWe are often expected to trust technologies, and how they are used, even if we have good reason not to. There is no room to mistrust. Exploring relations between trust and mistrust in the context of data, AI and technology at large, this book defines a process of ‘trustification’ used by governments, corporations, researchers and the media to legitimize exploitation and increase inequalities. Aimed at social scientists, computer scientists and public policy, the book aptly reveals how trust is operationalized and converted into a metric in order to extract legitimacy from populations and support the furthering of technology to manage society.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Trust Issues 2. Trustification: Extracting Legitimacy 3. State: Measuring Authority 4. Corporate: Managing Risk 5. Research: Setting Terms 6. Media: Telling Stories 7. Case Study: COVID-19 Tracing Apps 8. Case Study: Tech for Good 9. Case Study: Trusting Faces 10. Conclusion: False Trade-Offs

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Book SynopsisHow can we achieve digital justice in the age of COVID-19? This book explores how the pandemic has transformed our use and perception of digital technologies in various settings. It also examines the right to resist or reject these technologies and the politics of refusal in different contexts and scenarios. The book offers a timely and original analysis of the new realities and challenges of digital technologies, paving the way for a post-COVID-19 future.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake 1. (En)forcing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: The Racialization of Digital Disengagement and Digital Solutionism - Miyake 2. Digital Engagements and Work-life Balance in Creative Labour - Sezgin 3. '#RoeVsWadeOverturned: Any Idea How Fast Your #PeriodtrackingApp Can Lead to Jail?': Digital Disengagement and the Repeal of Roe vs Wade - Martin 4. #SnailMailRevolution: The Networked Aesthetics of Pandemic Letter-Writing Campaigns - Butkowski 5. Data Minimalism and Digital Disengagement in COVID-19 Hacktivism - Richterich 6. Digital Solutionism Meets Pandemic Imaginaries - Kuntsman 7. State Violence. Digital Harms and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Imagining Refusal, Resistance and Community Self-Defence - Gangaharan, Williams, Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake 8. Epilogue: Digital Disengagement - Questions of Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Digitalities - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection rethinks the political economy of the digital market by asking what came before platforms and suggesting what might come after them. Addressing themes like internet decolonisation, the book makes a timely assessment of the impact of evolving connections between technology, information, society and markets.

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Book SynopsisThis timely volume tackles the challenges of privacy in the digital sphere, addressing fundamental societal and structural issues from three perspectives: people, practices and politics. Experts from diverse fields provide a valuable contribution to key debates about privacy and data protection, surveillance capitalism and big tech companies.

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Book SynopsisLooking for an approachable introduction to media studies? This lively text will tell you everything you need to know using a practical industry-text-audience trio to frame your understanding.

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Book SynopsisAs he has done for each presidential campaign since 1992, Robert E. Denton, Jr. gathers a diverse collection of communications scholars to analyze specific areas of the most recent campaign season. Topics include early campaign rhetoric, the nomination process and conventions, candidate strategies, presidential debates, political advertising, the use of new media, news coverage of the campaigns. This volume looks at the 2020 Presidential campaign from three categories. The first section addresses the major political campaign communication areas to include pre-primary/candidate surfacing, the conventions, the debates, political advertising, social media and news coverage of the campaign. The second section includes two unique aspects of political branding and the politics of food in the 2020 campaign. The final section of the volume provides the broad overviews of campaign spending and finance as well as the national perspective of explaining the vote. Thus, the chapters cluster around the themes of campaign communication, studies of unique or special topics relevant to the campaigns.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a compilation of twelve interviews with brief therapy experts and some of the field's most influential innovators (O'Hanlon, de Shazer, White, and Meichenbaum to name a few). The interviews, conducted to explore technical, theoretical, and ethical aspects of the theory and practice of brief therapy, offer the give-and-take spontaneity that can only be found in an interview style. The selection of the content is based on both the expertise of the interviewees as well as those issues of most concern to the field: managed care and economics, ethics, and being solution-focused.Trade Review"The unifying themes of these conversations are a concern with the potential of psychotherapy to dehumanize and demoralize through the use of pathologically based language and an awareness of how the intrinsic power imbalance in the therapeutic relationship may lead to the imposition of agendas that are inconsistent with a client's goals." -- Psychiatric Services"Twelve interviews with psychotherapists address the technical, theoretical and ethical aspects of their craft." -- SciTech Book NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction. On the Importance of Keeping It Simple and Taking the Patient Seriously: A Conversation with Steve de Shazer and John Weakland. Welcome to PossibilityLand: A Conversation with Bill O'Hanlon. On Ethics and the Spiritualities of the Surface: A Conversation with Michael White and Gene Combs. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from a Narrative Constructivist Perspective: A Conversation with Donald Meichenbaum. Contact, Contract, Change, Encore: A Conversation about Redecision Therapy with Bob Goulding. Constructing Therapeutic Realities: A Conversation with Paul Watzlawick. Solution Building and Language Games: A Conversation with Steve de Shazer (and Some after Words with Insoo Berg). Postmodernism, the Relational Self, Constructive Therapies, and Beyond: A Conversation with Kenneth Gergen. About Constructivism (or, If Four Colleagues Talked in New York, Would Anyone Hear It?): A Conversation with Scott Miller, Barbara Held, and William Matthews. Brief Therapy and Managed Care: A Conversation with Michael Hoyt and Jon Matthew Carlson. Honoring Our Internalized Others and the Ethics of Caring: A Conversation with Karl Tomm and Stephen Madigan. Direction and Discovery: A Conversation about Power and Politics in Narrative Therapy with Michael White and Jeff Zimmerman.

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Book SynopsisA detailed account of the struggle to cultivate connectedness out of the divisiveness of apartheid In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyses the tension surrounding the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa through a rhetorical lens. Marback studies the heart of South Africa's desire for reconciliation and contends that this goal could be achieved only through the creation of a language of vulnerability in which former enemies become open to the influence of each other, to the constraints of their respective circumstances, and to the prospects of a shared future. Through a series of informative case studies, Marback illustrates how the cultivation of openness and the management of vulnerability take shape through the circulation of artefacts, symbols, and texts that give empowering expression to virtues of connectedness over the temptations of individual autonomy. Marback discusses the construction and impact of the narrative tours of Robben Island, the silencing of Robert Sobukwe, the debates over a proposed Freedom Monument, a brief gesture of ubuntu from Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela to Eugene de Kock, and the transformation of the title character in the film adaptation of the 1980 novel Tsotsi. Ultimately, Marback contends, finding a means to manage vulnerability is both the immediate success of and the ongoing challenge to South African democracy and is indicative of the nature of rhetoric in democracies in general and in contemporary civic life.

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Book SynopsisHow does China speak for nature? How are the pollution and climate change crises being addressed? What are the possibilities and limitations of mobilizing publics to care about the environment through new media, tourism, and government policy? Green Communication and China is the first volume to identify the importance of studying environmental communication in, about, and with China, a rising global environmental leader whose ecological and political controversies often make international headlines. Organized into three sections on communicating crisis, communicating care, and environmental futurity, these essays span multimodal communication practices and methods in green public culture and address topics ranging from The North Face advertisements to NGO advocacy to global governmental policy. The volume showcases the work of leading scholars, all of them deeply intimate with China, in disciplines ranging from cultural studies and rhetoric to public opinion polling, discourse analysis, ethnic studies, and sociology. These complex projects engage transnational and national politics, ecological and economic challenges, media saturation, and government control. Holding these tensions together without glossing over differences, Green Communication and China will inform new agendas for environmental communication in China, the United States, and beyond.Trade ReviewA must-read for those interested in environmental issues in the globalized China. This collection eloquently weaves influential forces from various sectors to examine how the environment is engaged from the Chinese cultural lens. A groundbreaking resource for researchers and practitioners working in the field of environmental communication." - Hsin-i Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Santa Clara University

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Book SynopsisEnglish is used in diplomatic contexts worldwide, including in situations where none of the interlocutors are native-speakers. This ground-breaking volume brings together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners to discuss the needs of those using and learning English for Diplomatic Purposes. Chapter authors use concepts from sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Peace Linguistics and English as a Lingua Franca. Combined with this theoretical background is a pragmatic understanding of the work of diplomacy and the realities of communication, as well as exercises designed to help students, teachers and practicing diplomats reflect on, and develop, their language use. This book represents an important first step in the opening-up of English for Diplomatic Purposes as a distinct field of study and learning, and as such will be required reading for those working and studying in this area.Trade ReviewThis book is an important and remarkable publication about English as a diplomatic language. It will be very useful, appropriate and suitable for scholars, instructors, students and all professionals working in this global field. Patricia Friedrich and her team of 9 international scholars must be congratulated and praised for having edited and published this unique book which is a real milestone in the field of English as a diplomatic language. * Joseph-G. Turi, Secretary-General, International Academy of Linguistic Law *At a time when the need for border-crossing has become vital for a lot of people who are struggling for a better life, this book may help teachers, policymakers, gatekeepers etc understand the centrality and the complexity of what is called ‘English’ in the construction of alternative futures nowadays. * Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes, The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *This ground-breaking collection focuses on a key area of international communication, that of diplomacy. The chapters deal with diplomacy at a variety of levels, including the interpersonal, intercultural, and intergovernmental. The volume is informed by an appreciation of and respect for all languages and all peoples in the world, illuminated by an ethos of ‘peace linguistics’, which highlights the potential of the English language to contribute to global understanding at an individual as well as an institutional level. * Kingsley Bolton, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore *(This book) is a thoughtful and practical commentary on the language all of us probably use from time to time and how to humanise our use of language and make it more compassionate. -- Barry Tomalin * Training Language and Culture, Vol 1, Issue 3, September 2017 *The editor and the contributors to this volume must be praised for having published this unique book which is a milestone in the field of English as a diplomatic language. -- Zsuzsanna Zsubrinszky, Budapest Business School, Hungary * LINGUIST List 28.499 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Patricia Friedrich and Francisco Gomes de Matos: Toward a Nonkilling Linguistics 2. Noriko Ishihara: Softening or Intensifying Your Language in Oppositional Talk: Disagreeing Agreeably or Defiantly 3. Josette LeBlanc: Compassionate English Communication for Diplomatic Purposes 4. Andy Kirkpatrick, Sophiaan Subhan and Ian Walkinshaw: English as a Lingua Franca in East and Southeast Asia: Implications for Diplomatic and Intercultural Communication 5. Patricia Friedrich: World Englishes and Peace Linguistics: Their Contribution to English for Diplomatic Purposes 6. Danton Ford and Paul Kim: Negotiation in English 7. Biljana Scott: Force and Grace 8. Francisco Gomes de Matos: Pedagogy of Positiveness Applied To English for Diplomatic Purposes 9. Patricia Friedrich: Conclusion Contributor Biographies

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Book SynopsisExploring Politeness in Business Emails explores the contextual complexities of workplace emails by comparing British English and Peninsular Spanish directive speech events and systematically assessing the impact of contextual factors. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis, and the inclusion of metapragmatic insights in the interpretation of the results, the book offers an innovative approach to the study of politeness. The book partially contradicts previous assumptions about English and Spanish directives and provides new insights into the role of politeness in the workplace. By offering a meticulous account of the linguistic choices made by the English and Spanish first language users and the contextual factors influencing these choices, the book suggests far-reaching implications for future research in cross-cultural pragmatics and business discourse, as well as practical implications relevant for academics, postgraduate students and practitioners interested in these fields.Trade ReviewThis book is a timely and welcome contribution to the field. It rests on solid interdisciplinary theoretical grounds and employs an innovative, carefully designed methodological framework to examine two comparable data sets of naturally-occurring, socially-situated emails in British English and Peninsular Spanish. Its ethnographically-informed interpretation of the texts sheds fresh light on our understanding of language variation vis-à-vis a number of relevant social factors. * Patricia Bou-Franch, Universitat de València, Spain *Politeness is like oil that allows the cogs of human interaction to run smoothly. However, not everybody uses the same oil and the cogs may grind to a halt when the 'wrong oil' is applied. This highly innovative book shows how the cogs function in cross-cultural business communication. * Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *This book by Vera Freytag is an important contribution to such diverse fields as cross-cultural pragmatics, institutional discourse, and politeness research. In her analysis of directive speech events in English and Spanish (L1) emails, she employs an innovative mixed-method analysis to reveal the interactive dynamics of computer-mediated communication (CMC). * Ronald Geluykens, University of Oldenburg, Germany *[This] is a well-written book that provides valuable insights into the choice of head act strategies, request modification in business directive emails and how these are determined by the interpersonal parameters of the interaction. -- Nicolas Ruytenbeek, Ghent University, Belgium * LINGUIST List 31.1983 *A key advantage of Freytag's book is that it brings together politeness research and fully fledged cross-cultural pragmatics [...] The book makes an excellent contribution to the field in this respect, as it incorporates various notions that have been widely used in recent politeness theory, such as 'emic evaluations' into analytical repertoire of contrastive cross-cultural analysis. -- Dániel Z Kádár, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China * Pragmatics and Society 11:4 *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Directive Speech Events in Business Emails Chapter 2. A Mixed-Method Approach to the Analysis of Speech Events Chapter 3. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of English and Spanish Email Directives Chapter 4. The Contextual Complexity of Email Directives Chapter 5. The Study of Politeness in Business Emails: Concluding Observations

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Book SynopsisThe eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism. Wade Rowland first introduces readers to the basic ideas of leading moral thinkers from Plato to Leibniz to Putnam, and then explores the subject through today''s political, economic and environmental conundrums.

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Book SynopsisGiven the importance of cross-cultural competence, it is important that scholars from different parts of the world describe the conceptual frameworks underlying their cultures to provide people with knowledge helpful for understanding and navigating cultural barriers and promoting harmony and productivity in places of work. The literature is replete with reference points for understanding Eurocentric worldviews. Little has been written about non-Eurocentric worldviews with respect to the subject of socio-cultural harmony and interpersonal relations such as Ubuntu, Africa's indigenous philosophy and its relevancy. This philosophy teaches the importance of maintaining good human relations and sensitivity to the wellbeing of other people both as individuals and collectively. In the teachings of this African conceptual framework, the wellbeing of others is more important than that of self. Another important distinguishing feature of Ubuntu is that it places great value on communalism as opposed to individualism. The tenets of Ubuntu include human-centeredness, teamwork, collaboration, cooperation, respect for diversity of opinion, and joint consideration of problems. These tenets can be applied for intercultural competence and communications. Understanding Ubuntu for Enhancing Intercultural Communications sheds some light on Ubuntu, Africa's unique philosophy, and explores how the knowledge of Ubuntu can help minimize cross-cultural communication barriers. Within this context, the chapters work to make readers aware of the existence of an African worldview, specifically Ubuntu, and its possible contribution to interpersonal communication. This book also shares the lived experiences of being born and raised in sub-Saharan Africa where Ubuntu is a way of life. This book is essential for businesses seeking to expand internationally and managers overseeing diverse workforces as well as business executives, government officials, public relations officers, academicians, researchers, and students including those studying African studies, world religions, international business, international relations, management, communication, and more.

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Book SynopsisCutting across the world of work and education, this is a timely refresh for equipping a diverse range of both students and professionals with the tools to understand, discuss, and ultimately fulfil the role that they can play on the international stage.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the recent evolution of online spaces and their impact on networked democracy. Through an illuminating mix of theoretical and methodological analysis, contributors provide an understanding of how a range of individuals and groups, including activists and NGOs, governments and griefers, are using digital technologies to influence public debates. Contributions consider these phenomena in a global contemporary context, providing within the same volume rigorous examinations of the design of digital platforms for deliberation, users’ attempts to manipulate those platforms, and the ways activists and governments are responding to emerging threats to democratic discourse. Providing diverse, global case studies, this collection is a valuable tool for academics within and beyond the fields of new media, communication, and information policy and governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Platform Utopianism after Democracy.- 3. Inside the Swarm: Cognition, Conformity, and the Affective Instruments of the Social Web.- 4. The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Networks: Heterogeneity in the Effect of Technology on Collective Action Mobilization.- 5. Social Media Effects: Hijacking Democracy and Civility in Civic Engagement.- 6. Reasons of the Heart: Political Applications of Emotion Analytics.- 7. Cyber Creeps: The Alt-right and the Evolution of Social Media Hatemakers.- 8. Third Spaces, Sequencing, and Intertextuality: (De)Constructing Misinformation and Fake News.- 9. Subverting the Platform Flexibility of Twitter to Spread Misinformation.- 10. Creation of an Alt-Left Boogeyman: Information Economics and the Emergence of ‘Antifa’.- 11. Tweeting Inequity: @realDonaldTrump and the World Leader Exception.- 12. Extrapolating Ideological Divisions in the Indian Public Sphere through Online Twitter Conversations.- 13. Digital Solidarity in Times of Crisis: The Case of Greece.- 14. #Metoo in China: Affordances and Constraints of Social Media Platforms.- 15. Trump Daddy.- 16. Censorship and Digital Dissent in the Kashmir Conflict.- 17. The Fifth Estate Joins the Debate: The Political Roles of Live Commentary in the First Televised Presidential Debate of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.- 18. “Just Don’t Put It on Our Mauna”: Sovereignty and Algorithms in Digital Democracy.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a succinct, contemporary introduction to intercultural communication with a focus on actual language use. With English as a lingua franca and Communicative Accommodation Theory as the underpinning concepts, it explores communication, language use, and culture in action. Each chapter includes discourse extracts so that students can apply what they have learned to real text examples, and supplementary instructor materials including suggestions for discussion points and activities are hosted on springer.com. The book will be key reading for students taking modules on Intercultural Communication or Language, Culture and Communication as part of a degree in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, or English Language both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Table of Contents​Chapter 1: Shared Language, Different Cultures, and Common Communicative GoalsChapter 2: Adjustments as Strategies for Successful CommunicationChapter 3: Barriers in Intercultural CommunicationChapter 4: Communities of Practice and Writing CulturesChapter 5: Speaking and Embodying CulturesChapter 6: Learning and Goals in EducationChapter 7: Communication in Workplaces: Equal Services and Professional Discourses

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Book SynopsisWhen the COVID- 19 pandemic occurred, all the main communication systems of medical research have undergone an epochal change. Many online journals and magazines have tried to publish inherent works of this specific problem as soon as possible, soliciting and preferring them to others, thus changing the system of free acceptance of scientific works once. Moreover, the way to communicate these works has no longer occurred through standard Scientific Congresses but with other systems, websites/streaming and webinars or virtual conferences. Now there is something systematic missing, which foresees that this may last in the future, in the post COVID-19 era (AC): the communication system of the medical sciences will be different from now on. There will be far fewer classical-style conferences like the ones so popular before COVID-19 outbreak (BC) but there will be more webinars, in streaming and virtual conferences. This new book fits well in this period, creating a bridge between those who do research, how it is communicated, what are the classic communication methods and what is all the necessary background to communicate with new tools. The book idea is based on the legacy left by Michael Faraday, the famous American chemist, who sensed how communicating what happens in science can make the difference between the success and failure of the research itself: “A lecturer should appear easy and collected, undaunted and unconcerned” “Lecturers which really teach will never be popular; lecturers which are popular will never really teach “ Michael Faraday, "Advice to lecturers", 1848 The volume approach is multidisciplinary and written by top experts in the field of communication and education. It will be a useful tool for scientists in this moment of epochal change in medical communication. Table of ContentsThe Island Of Research (Do Not Block The Path Of Enquiry).- Big Data, Metanalysis And Sistematic Reviews : The Jungle Of Statistics.- Essentials On Writing A Paper For A Peer Reviewed Journal.- The Value Of The Websites And Online Journals .- Ways To Implement Your Key Messages.- The “ Classical” Meetings And Congresses.- The New Ways To Communicate Your Research: Webinars And Beyond.- The Virtual Theatre : The Lure, The Title, The Scene, The Backstage, The Space.- The World Of Audience : Listeners Or Gazers, Learned Or Unlearned.- Connect And Be Understood.- Narrative Science And Medicine.- The Legacy Of Michael Faraday.

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Book SynopsisFear is an inescapable part of how human beings experience reality. The impact of fear becomes particularly evident in a crisis. When a crisis strikes, be it a war, a pandemic, global warming or a financial crisis, leaders are challenged to exercise sound judgement by speaking and acting. This book argues that there are three fears every leader has to know – apocalyptic fear, political fear, and private fear. By appealing to these three fears in an adequate manner, a leader’s appeal to fear may serve a constructive purpose in a crisis.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Dilemma of Fear. - Chapter 2. Two Stories – One Dilemma. -Chapter 3. Apocalyptic Fear. - Chapter 4. Political Fear. - Chapter 5. Private Fear. - Chapter 6. Dressing up to Address Fear. - Chapter 7. The Virtue of Fear

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