Communication studies Books
Common Ground Publishing Information design as principled action: Making information accessible, relevant, understandable, and usable
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De Gruyter Texts, Images, and Interactions: A Reader in Multimodality
Book SynopsisThis Reader is a comprehensive text outlining primary approaches to multimodality. In the “Theory and Methodology” section, the scholars who are responsible for the approaches’ developments give some personal insight into how and/or why these approaches were developed. The Reader covers various theoretical and methodological approaches to multimodality, including a great variety of terminology, which are defined in a glossary, and are linked back to the personal narratives or interviews in which scholars highlight why and how the various terms are of importance. Included is also a “Transcription and How-to-Analyze” section that familiarizes the readers with several analytical toolkits. This section is then followed by an extensive “Sample Analyses” section. As the book is intended to address readers from various backgrounds, the examples of multimodal analyses that are introduced in this section belong to various social practices. The book offers an extensive alphabetical glossary, list of further readings, and a list of suggested assignments.
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Vernon Press Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies
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Cascade Books Engaging the Gadfly
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Wipf & Stock Publishers Engaging the Gadfly
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Lexington Books Social Justice and the Modern Athlete
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Bloomsbury Academic Critical Approaches to Crisis Communication in the Classroom and Higher Education Contexts
Book SynopsisAhmet Atay is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.Mark J. Congdon Jr. is Associate Professor of Communication & Media within the School of Communication, Media, and the Arts and Director of Workforce Learning Innovation at Sacred Heart University, USA.
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Lexington Books Entertainment Journalism and Advocacy
Book SynopsisIn this book, Lindsey A. Sherrill explores the exponential growth of true crime podcasting, including the role of the ubiquitous Serial podcast in the growth of the industry. Using both demographic population analysis and interviews with podcast hosts and producers, Sherill demonstrates that true crime podcasts exist as hybrid organizations, with diverse goals ranging from entertainment to criminal justice reform advocacy to journalistic inquiry. These competing motivations of podcast producers are explored, along with the ethical quandaries that emerge in the process of telling true crime stories. Sherrill traces true crime podcasting back to the infancy of the medium and examines the influences, innovations, and events that created the true crime podcast ecosystem, as well as its influence on real cases in the United States. Scholars of communication, sociology, and media studies will find this book of particular interest.
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Lexington Books The PostTruth Condition
Book SynopsisThe Post-Truth Condition: Philosophical Reflections, edited by Tarun Jose Kattumana and Simon Truwant, demonstrates that the absence of a unitary understanding of the phenomenon of post-truth stems from the complex nature of the post-truth condition itself. By approaching post-truth as a broad and multi-layered societal issue, the contributors offer an original contribution to the existing scholarship in three ways. First, they show that post-truth can only be adequately understood if it is viewed not only as a political matter, but also as a pervasive cultural phenomenon. Secondly, the contributors concur that a profound understanding of the post-truth condition can only be gained if it is studied through a conceptual, empirical, and historical lens. Lastly, they maintain that a productive understanding of the post-truth condition also demands a nuanced and openminded take on both its negative, reactionary characteristics and its positive, liberating potential. Throughout this volume, philosophy of history, epistemology, philosophy of science, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and philosophy of art join forces to clarify the pervasive character, dangers, and opportunities of our post-truth condition.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Nigerian Journalism and the Digital Age
Book SynopsisAdeyanju Apejoye is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Mass Communication, Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria.AndrewDanjumaDewan is Associate Professor at the Department of Mass Communication, Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria.Seamus Simpson is Professor of Media Policy in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology at the University of Salford, UK.
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Lexington Books Feminist Mentoring in Academia
Book SynopsisFeminist Mentoring in Academia offers a varied collection of autoethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle, and resilience from the ivory tower. Contributors write about the moments in-between, where feminist mentoring initiates, renews, thrives, and sometimes struggles. The work presented in this book highlights how feminist mentoring happens between professor and student; junior faculty and tenured; and occurs repeatedly. Featuring contributions from scholars at varying points in their academic careers, the chapters of this book propose best feminist mentorship practices, disclose personal narratives, and critique traditional forms of mentoring with visions for feminist mentorship futures. Scholars of communication, feminist studies, higher education, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionStevie M. Munz, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, and Jessica A. PaulyChapter 1: Feminist Co-Mentoring For Resilience: Institutionalizing Micro-Macro Strategies for Adaptation and TransformationPatrice M. BuzzanellChapter 2: Feminist Pedagogy Collective: Reflections on Feminist Co-Mentoring in U.S. AcademiaDanielle J. Corple, Sean M. Eddington, Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson, Jasmine R. Linabary, Ziyu Long, & Jessica A. PaulyChapter 3: “Fairness, not Equity”: Using Horizontal Feminist Mentoring to Cope with SexismJordan AllenChapter 4: Mentor, Sponsor, or Advocate?: Institutionalized Mentoring Versus Feminist MentoringAshton MoutonChapter 5: Sisters Be Doing it for Themselves: Organic Interstage Feminist Mentoring Cecilia Cerja, Jennifer Bender, Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs, Gabriela I. MoralesChapter 6: Beyond Burnout: Gaming, Glowing, and Building Feminist Mentor CommunityScarlett L. Hester and Katherine J. DenkerChapter 7: Women of Color in Communication Studies: Informal Feminist Mentoring, Building Peer Support Networks and Identity Navigation through Creative CollaborationTui Matelau and Helen YeungChapter 8: Sister circles as Black feminist mentorship for Black doctoral women in PWIsSherella CupidChapter 9: Behind Every Woman: Feminist Mentoring in a Closed Social Media GroupSheri Rysdam; Katharine O’Connor; Alicia Nijdam-Jones; Katherine Fama; Heidi Smith Parker; Brandi FelderhoffChapter 10: The Struggle is RealJennifer HallChapter 11: Feminist Co-Mentoring Across Three Academic GenerationsSharmila Pixy Ferris, Diana Peck and Kelli Jean SmithAbout the Contributors
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Lexington Books Pedagogies of the Enfleshed
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Bloomsbury Academic Environmental Communication and Conciliation
Book SynopsisGeo Takach is Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, and an uninvited visitor to the lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, on so-called Vancouver Island, Canada.
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Bloomsbury Academic A MultiPerspective Approach to Narratives in Health Communication
Book SynopsisJulie E. Volkman is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Language Studies and Faculty Fellow at the Center for Health and Behavioral Sciences at Bryant University. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Health Informatics and Implementation Science at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.
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Lexington Books Queering Communication Studies
Book SynopsisIn this edited volume, contributors recognize and reflect on communication studies? queer past and examine the current state of queer theorizing within communication studies. Through this reflection, the book fills in gaps in the history of this sub-discipline and demonstrates that even as scholars in the field empowered queer voices in the past, they often failed to recognize the intersectional aspects of queer identity, through which scholars can form new understandings of past scholarship in new queer(er) lights. Ultimately, contributors collectively provide a critique for the lack of broader inclusion of queer theorization in the field and provide new pathways for the continued development of queer communication studies.
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Lexington Books Romantic Relationships and Media
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Bloomsbury Academic A Struggle for Unity
Book SynopsisKevan A. Feshami is an independent researcher based in Northern Appalachia, USA. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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Lexington Books Theory and Application of Health Acculturation
Book SynopsisIn this book, Yuxia Qian and Rukhsana Ahmed explore health acculturation, which they argue is a complex, multidimensional communication process involving concerted efforts from migrants, health professionals, researchers, community members, policymakers, and the media, rather than a unidimensional process synonymous with assimilation. Qian and Ahmed examine individual migrant health acculturation experiences, community-based culturally-centered health interventions, and cross-cultural health promotion and campaigns. Ultimately, this book unpacks the complexity surrounding the health acculturation process through different theoretical frameworks and cross-cultural applications in a range of communication contexts, including the interpersonal, family, community, organizational, and media.
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Lexington Books Digital Technology and Communication Policy in
Book SynopsisDigital Technology and Communication Policy in Korea: From Infrastructure to Artificial Intelligence explores the overlap of politics, policy, and digital development in Korea. Despite attention to digital development and its socio-economic effects across the nation, more research must be devoted to studying how Korean communication policymakers and authorities have coped with innovative technologies and a rapidly changing communication landscape. Chang Yong Son argues that communications policymakers must balance regulatory safety and security commitments against the promotion of innovation and growth in the communication market. Scholars of communication, media studies, technology studies, and Asian studies will find this book of particular interest.
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Lexington Books Reimagining Democracy
Book SynopsisReimagining Democracy: Communication Activism, Social Justice, and Prefiguration in Participatory Budgeting presents findings from a multi-year, community-based, critical ethnography of two participatory budgeting (PB) processes in Denver, Colorado. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with PB participants, Vincent Russell argues that the PB processes served as sites of prefigurative communication activism, where participants reimagined how government should operate, and activists transformed social and power relations through their in-group deliberations. Participants from oppressed populations emphasized forging relationships and feelings of solidarity among each other as they struggled for liberation, dignity, and social justice. Reimagining Democracy teaches important lessons about the state of democratic culture in the United States and offers alternative pathways for public decision making that hold the promise of restructuring practices, processes, and outcomes to be more socially just. Written in an engaging style with a focus on narratives about social change, this book is an important contribution for scholars, practitioners, and community members passionate about social justice activism.
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Lexington Books Inside Evangelicalism
Book SynopsisIn Inside Evangelicalism, Mark Ward Sr. combines ethnographic, autoethnographic, and sociolinguistic research to identify and analyze white evangelicals? distinctive culture and speech code from a perspective rooted deeply in both communication studies and the evangelical community. The Bible emerges as evangelicalism?s one dominant symbol that unifies all meaning and divides the world into a cosmic dualism between secular humanism and an all-encompassing ?biblical worldview.? The associated language of literalism drives evangelical culture, cognition, and identity, creating a system of ordered social relations enacted through patriarchy, anti-intellectualism, authoritarianism, and white Christian nationalism. Ward?s positionality as both an ethnographer of religious communication who has observed white evangelical culture for two decades and a self-identified evangelical for four decades makes him uniquely qualified to cast an insider?s critical yet balanced eye on conservative white Christian culture. Inside Evangelicalism complements existing scholarship within anthropology and sociology?where evangelicalism has been studied in conjunction with the rise of the Religious Right?while contributing unique insights from religious communication studies. The book is also a landmark in its own right, a work that demonstrates the productive complementarity of ethnographic and autoethnographic research and the first study to describe evangelical culture through the ethnography of its communication.
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Lexington Books Communication Research in the Big Data Era
Book SynopsisIn this book, Xiaoqun Zhang argues that acquiring knowledge of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools is increasingly imperative for the trajectory of communication research in the era of big data. Rather than simply being a matter of keeping pace with technological advances, Zhang posits that these tools are strategically imperative for navigating the complexities of the digital media landscape and big data analysis, and they provide powerful methodologies empowering researchers to uncover nuanced insights and trends within the vast expanse of digital information. Although this can be a daunting notion for researchers without a formal background in mathematics or computer science, this book highlights the substantial rewards of investing time and effort into the endeavor mastery of ML and AI not only facilitates more sophisticated big data analyses, but also fosters interdisciplinary collaborations, enhancing the richness and depth of research outcomes. This book will serve as a foundational resource for communication scholars by providing essential knowledge and techniques to effectively leverage ML and AI at the intersection of communication research and data science.
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Lexington Books Populism Territories Name Disputes and
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Bloomsbury Academic Mental Health Communication for Underserved Populations
Book SynopsisDo Kyun David Kim is Richard D'Aquin/BORSF Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Jin-Ae Kang is Professor of Strategic Communication in the School of Communication at East Carolina University, USA.
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Bloomsbury Academic Free Speech in the American Workplace
Book SynopsisRandy Bobbitt is an independent researcher and holds a PhD in communication law and policy from Bowling Green State University. His previous books include Controversial Books in K-12 Classrooms and Libraries: Challenged, Censored, and Banned (2019); Free Speech on America's K-12 and College Campuses: Legal Cases from Barnette to Blaine (2016); Us against Them: The Political Culture of Talk Radio (2010); and Lottery Wars: Case Studies in Bible Belt Politics, 1986-2005 (2007), all published by Lexington Books.
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Lexington Books Unmasking Authentic Black Female Identity
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Bloomsbury Academic LiveJournal and Russian Disinformation
Book SynopsisJ.J. Sylvia IV is Associate Professor of Communications Media in the School of Arts and Sciences at Fitchburg State University, USA.
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Lexington Books Social Media Cultures
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Bloomsbury Academic Faith Media and Persuasion
Book SynopsisAdam Bajan is lecturer at Texas A&M University, USA.
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Lexington Books Slow Media
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Lexington Books Images of Utopia in the Advertising Page
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Bloomsbury Academic A Communicative Framework of Mothering Identity amid Postpartum Depression
Book SynopsisKelly M. Weikle is a teaching assistant professor and interpretive identity communication scholar in the Department of Communication Studies at West Virginia University, USA.
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Bloomsbury Academic Rhetoric Intersectionality and Black Women in Pittsburgh
Book SynopsisTahirah Walker is Chair of the Department of Community Engagement and Leadership at Point Park University, USA.
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Bloomsbury Academic Organizational Communication and Sport
Book SynopsisJimmy Sanderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management at Texas Tech University, USA. His research interests focus on social media and its impact for sport organizations and sport stakeholders.
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Lexington Books The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure
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Lexington Books Amending Our Pasts and Futures
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Bloomsbury Academic The Media Literacy of Mental Health Care Access
Book SynopsisJesse Scaccia is Assistant Professor in the Media, Communications, and Journalism program at Fresno State University, USA. He has also developed and taught a course titled The Craft of the Personal Narrative at Valley State Prison.
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Lexington Books Encouraging College Students Democratic
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Bloomsbury Academic Public Relations in Times of Dissensus
Book SynopsisBurton St. John III is Associate Chair and Professor of Advertising, Public Relations, and Media Design at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Saima Kazmi is Assistant Professor of Advertising at the University of Oregon, USA.Joshua Foust is Assistant Professor of Public Relations at Syracuse University, USA.
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Lexington Books Overcoming Social Polarization
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Lexington Books Us Political Ritual and the Covid Pandemic
Book SynopsisUS Political Ritual and the Covid Pandemic: The 2020 Democratic and Republican Conventions illustrates the importance of the national nominating convention, both as an ongoing custom that speaks to the unique political structure of the nation and as a source of valuable information that goes well beyond the explicit purposes conceptualized by the parties. In this book, Tammy Vigil specifically interrogates the 2020 nominating programs of the two major U.S. political parties by exploring the decisions Democratic and Republican leaders made regarding the use of technology, inclusion of participants, and construction of messaging during a campaign season altered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Each party had the opportunity to adapt to the constraints of the moment, rethink established practices, and present a vision of the nation that would attract and motivate voters. Vigil delineates the similarities and differences between the Democratic and Republican conventions and demonstrates how the events presaged many aspects of the general election and transition of power that followed.
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Bloomsbury Academic Public Interest Communications
Book SynopsisBrigitta R. Brunner is Professor in the School of Communication & Journalism at Auburn University, USA.Kelly Chernin is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Appalachian State University, USA.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies
Book SynopsisEileen E. Schell is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence in the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition at Syracuse University.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beyond Consensus
Book SynopsisKelly Scarffserves as the Director of the Technical Communication Program and a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech.
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Athena, Goddess Of Communication Strategies
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Good Uke Publishing Shut Up
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The Choir Press It's All Narrative: How to build resilience in children through the use of transformative communication
Book SynopsisIn It's All Narrative Nick Dux expertly draws on his extensive experience working with children and families to give the reader a clear method of how to build Resilience in children. He presents his theory of Transformative Communication in a clear and concise manner, with plenty of practical case studies to bring it to life. It's All Narrative illustrates how to communicate proactively to build a strong inner voice in children, before moving on to detail how to positively challenge negative and/or worrying behaviour. This is an invaluable tool for all parents, teachers and anyone working with children and young people who wish to help their children grow into strong, successful, resilient adults.Trade Review"I am honoured to have worked with Nick, who is so dedicated to supporting and changing the lives of others. "I absolutely love this book; it has an abundance of practical, useful and, most importantly, meaningful 'take aways', resulting in the ideas being much more likely to be put into practice.; "Nick can be proud of all he has done to help others in order to have the wisdom and knowledge to write the excellent content." Helen Morton (parent and head teacher of All Saints Primary School); "A beautiful book. I have certainly been left wanting more and wishing I had known this stuff earlier in my life-both as a parent and a professional." Eleanor Losse (parent, step-parent and head teacher of Manchester Grammar Junior School); "I have always liked that Nick's work is based in practical terms-what to say or do. It is not just a theoretical approach, and this comes across strongly in this short, readable and easily accessible book. "Reading It's all Narrative has given me a renewed sense of vigour, and I will be using Transformative Communication at the forefront of my teaching/leadership styles." Tracy Kendrick (head teacher of Hursthead Junior School); "Such an easy read, but with such insightful advice. "I know it's good, because I often find it an effort to read work-related things but honestly just wanted to keep reading! "I will be recommending it to all of our staff when it is published." Claire Love (parent and head teacher of Lane End Primary School); "Nick has written a book that is supportive and full of strategies that can easily be tried and taken on board. "The way Nick writes is easy to read, and this would be a helpful resource for any parent. "Through opening up and sharing his own challenges, Nick allows the reader to feel a shared understanding that the challenges we meet with our children are quite normal and more common than we may think. "The number of case studies allow us an insight into the strategies in practice and how, although they are not going to be easy, if you persevere, you will be successful. "Nick has shown fantastic perseverance in overcoming challenges and should be proud of his achievements and the compassion he so eloquently writes with throughout this book." Vicky Walker (parent and head teacher of Ludworth Primary School)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Foreword; Chapter 1 It's All Narrative; Chapter 2 How Do I know?; Chapter 3 Superpowers: The Foundation of Transformative Communication; Chapter 4 Empathy and Empowerment: The keys to Sustainable Change ; Chapter 5 Should've, Could've, Would've; Chapter 6 State Changers;
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