Communication studies Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Corporate Communication
Book SynopsisCorporate Communication: Concepts and Practicea comprehensive and engaging textbookhelps in understanding the underlying concepts and real-life strategies of communication in modern-day corporate set-ups. One of the youngest management disciplines, corporate communication is used by companies to position themselves to the outside world in a highly competitive business environment and to build a sense of being, on the one hand, and creating a feeling of pride in being associated with the company for various stakeholders, especially the employees and investors.Some of the functions of corporate communication include identifying and segmenting stakeholders, articulating brand positioning, selecting appropriate channels of internal and external communication, and managing crises, conflicts, and reputations, among others. This revised edition offers a fresh perspective into all basic and critical aspects of corporate communication and incorporates the latest changes in goTable of ContentsList of tables. Preface. 1 Understanding corporate communication 2 Media -Dynamics and Strategies 3 Corporate Reputation Management 4 Employee communication 5 Managing Government Relations 6 Writing for the Media and Media relations 7 Corporate communication in brand promotion 8 Corporate social responsibility 9 Financial communication 10 Crises communication 11 Corporate communication research 12 Laws and ethics in corporate communication. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Integrity and Historical Research
Book SynopsisThere have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The first chapter discusses the concept of integrity. The chapters that follow reflect on this philosophical treatment in the light of fiction and film that deals with history in a number of ways. How should writers and filmmakers use lives? Can, and may, people who are now dead and who may have lived long ago, be defamed? The authors include academics, historians, social historians, medievalists, oral historians, literary theorists, historical novelists and script writers. They examine the theoretical influences and practical choices that involve and concern writers and filmmakers who rely on historical research. The desire to be accurate may often conflict with the need to p
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intercultural Communication
Book SynopsisIn our age of globalization and mass migration (where, for example, it is estimated that over twelve per cent of its current population was born outside the USA), the importance of successful communication between people of different linguistic and cultural backgrounds has never been greater. As traditional social and geographic boundaries have given way to increasingly complex representations of identity, new â and urgent â questions for psychologists, social scientists, and policymakers arise.As research in and around intercultural communication burgeons as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledgeâs acclaimed Critical Concepts in Psychology series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by a leading social psychologist, the collection is organized into four principal themes: intercultural differences; intercultural conflict; intercultural ideology; and intercultural integration. Intercultural Communication provides a one-stop âmini libraryâ of foundational and canonical work. The collection also includes cutting-edge analyses and discussions of theory and research, as well as major works addressing social intervention and policy implications.
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Taylor & Francis Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving
Book SynopsisBroadcast media has a particular fascination with stories that involve risk and health crisis eventsâdisease outbreaks, terrorist acts, and natural disastersâcontexts where risk and health communication play a critical role. An evolving media landscape introduces both challenges and opportunities for using communication to manage extreme events and hazardous contexts.Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment addresses issues of risk and health communication with a collection of chapters that reflect state-of-the-art discussion by top scholars in the field. The authors in this volume develop unique and insightful perspectives by employing the best available research on topics such as brand awareness in healthcare communication, occupational safety, climate change communication, local broadcasts of weather emergencies, terrorism, and the Ebola outbreak, among many other areas. It features analysis of new and traditional media that connects disasters, crisesTable of ContentsIntroduction; I: Re-defining the Fan; 1: Returning to ‘Becoming-a-Fan’ Stories: Theorising Transformational Objects and the Emergence/Extension of Fandom; 2: Populating the Universe: Toy Collecting and Adult Lives; 3: Much Ado about Keanu Reeves: The Drama of Ageing in Online Fandom; 4: Music for (Something Other than) Pleasure: Anti-fans and the Other Side of Popular Music Appeal 1; 5: A Severe Case of Disliking Bimbo Heidi, Scumbag Jesse and Bastard Tiger: Analysing Celebrities’ Online Anti-fans; 6: Fandom as Survival in Media Life; 7: From Interpretive Communities to Interpretative Fairs: Ordinary Fandom, Textual Selection and Digital Media; II: Fans and Producers; 8: Fan/Celebrity Interactions and Social Media: Connectivity and Engagement in Lady Gaga Fandom; 9: Fans of Folklore Performances: Identifying a New Relationship Between Communication and Marketing; 10: Investors and Patrons, Gatekeepers and Social Capital: Representations and Experiences of Fans’ Participation in Fan Funding; 11: Music Fans as Mediators in the Age of Digital Reproduction; 12: Celebrity: The Return of the Repressed in Fan Studies?; 13: Fans Who Cut Their Soaps Queer: A Queer Theoretical Study into Online Fandom of Gay Television Representation; III: Localities of Fandom; 14: Transnational Cultural Fandom; 15: Retreating Behind the Scenes: The ‘Less’-Civilizing Impact of Virtual Spaces on the Irish Heavy Metal Scene; 16: ‘Kvlt-er than Thou’: Power, Suspicion and Nostalgia within Black Metal Fandom; 17: A Decade in the Life of Online Fan Communities; 18: Placing Fan Cultures: Xenites in the Transnational Spaces of Fandom; 19: Embodied Fantasy: The Affective Space of Anime Conventions; 20: Watching Football in the Fan Park: Mediatization, Spectatorship and Fan Identity; 21: ‘We’re Not Racist, We Only Hate Mancs’: Post-Subculture and Football Fandom
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Taylor & Francis Interviewing in a Changing World
Book SynopsisInterviewing in a Changing World offers students the broadest coverage of interviewing available today by including several unique interview situations. Students begin to develop a better understanding of how to utilize strong interviewing skills in several different settings, as this text demonstrates that interviewing techniques differ in accordance with varying situations and contexts. The Second Edition covers employment contexts such as job interviews, persuasive interviews, performance and appraisal interviews, as well as media interviews on radio, television, newspapers, and political reporting. There are two full chapters on research, including interviewing skills needed for both qualitative and quantitative research. The book covers several unique interviewing situations that are on the cutting edge of communication research with an interview with a professional from the field and multiple sidebars on related theoretical and applied issues within each chapter.Table of ContentsSECTION 1: INTRODUCTION The Basics of Interviewing I. Types of InterviewsA. Workplace InterviewsB. Informational InterviewsC. InterrogationsD. Health InterviewsII. Phases in the Interview ProcessA. PreparationB. OpeningC. Q & AD. ClosingIII. Techniques for InterviewsA. Question SequenceB. Verbal Tools1. Types of Questions2. The Use of SilenceC. MonitoringD. FeedbackV. Interview StructureVI. Interviewer/Interviewee RelationshipVII. Nonverbal Issues in the InterviewVIII. SummarySECTION 2: INTERVIEWING IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING2. The Employment Interview: The Employer’s PerspectiveI. The Purpose of Job InterviewsII. The Interviewer’s PreparationA. Assessing the Organization’s NeedsB. Advertising the PositionC. Filtering the ApplicantsIII. Conducting the InterviewA. Assessing CapabilityB. Assessing Work EthicC. Assessing Interpersonal MaturityIV. The Behavioral InterviewV. Varying by Employment PurposeVI. The Resume ProbeVII. Puzzle-Based InterviewsVIII. The Legal Side of Employment InterviewsIX. Summary3. The Employment Interview: The Job Applicant’s PerspectiveI. Starting the ProcessII. ResumesA. What to DoB. What Not to DoIII. Cover LettersIV. Preparing for the InterviewV. Summary4. Online Employment Interviews: Changing the GameI. The Online Process: First the Ad and then the InterviewII. On-line InterviewsIII. Nailing the Online Interview Preparation & Practice Technology and set-up The Interview IV. Follow-upV. Summary5. Performance Appraisal and Exit InterviewsI. Purposes of Appraisal InterviewsII. Levels of AssessmentIII. Legal IssuesA. DiscriminationB. HarassmentIV. Common Problems with Appraisal InterviewsA. Problems with ReliabilityB. Problems with ValidityV. Methods of Performance AppraisalA. Management by Objectives.B. Behavioral EvaluationsC. Forced RankingsVI. Improving Performance AppraisalsVII. Employee ResponsesVIII. The Exit InterviewIX. SummarySECTION 3: INTERVIEWING IN THE MEDIA6. Newspaper InterviewsI. The Priority of AccuracyII. The Interview ProcessIII. Types of Journalistic InterviewsA. News/Features InterviewsB. Press ConferencesC. Roundup InterviewsD. Reluctant SourcesIV. Levels of ConfidentialityV. Summary7. Interviews on Radio and TelevisionI. The Sound BiteII. Types of Broadcast InterviewsA. Live InterviewsB. Spot InterviewsC. Public Official InterviewsD. Celebrity Interviews.III. Tricks of the TradeIV. The Other Side of the MicrophoneV. Checkbook JournalismVI. Summary8. Interviews in the Political ArenaI. The Press SecretaryII. Media InterviewsA. Newspaper InterviewsB. Broadcast InterviewsIII. Spin DoctorsA. PrimingB. FramingC. Word ChoiceIV. Sunday News ShowsV. Campaign DebatesVI. Legislative HearingsVII. SummarySECTION 4: RESEARCH INTERVIEWS9. Qualitative Research InterviewsI. In-Depth InterviewsA. Retrospective InterviewsB. Known Associates InterviewsC. Field InterviewingD. Extended Telephone InterviewsII. Focus GroupsIII. Participant-Observation ResearchIV. Data AnalysisV. Ethical QuestionsVI. Summary10. Quantitative Research InterviewsI. Public Opinion SurveysII. The Polling ProcessA. Questionnaire DevelopmentB. SamplingC. InterviewingIII. What Can Go WrongIV. Intercept InterviewingA. Mall InterceptsB. Exit PollingC. Convenience InterviewsD. Mystery ShoppersV. The Ethics of Audience AnalysisVI. Pseudo-PollingVII. Summary11. Oral History InterviewsI. Elements of Oral HistoryA. Background ResearchB. Technical PreparationsC. The Oral InterviewD. The Written TranscriptE. Back to the LibraryF. More InterviewsG. Editing the NarrativeII. Oral History for Academic ResearchIII. Oral History as a Narrative of Family HistoryIV. Things to ConsiderV. Summary12. Interviews in ContextI. Forensic InterviewingA. Police InterviewsB. Lawyer InterviewsII. Medical Interviews Functions of Medical Interviews Barriers to Effective Medical Interviews Types of Medical Interviews The Reverse Interview: What the Patient Should Ask the Doctor
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Taylor & Francis Strategic Stakeholder Engagement
Book SynopsisIs it your objective to bring about positive change for your business or organisation by influencing the policy and regulatory environment in which you operate?Do you need to know how to engage with decision-makers in government and other key influencers?Are you looking to pursue or advance your career in Public Relations?Ambitious practitioners working within Public Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility, inside or outside government respectively, and in private or non-profit organisations, will find this an invaluable guide.Revealing insights into the inner workings of government and drawing on real-life case studies, this book offers practical, clear, creative ideas and innovative strategies designed to empower Public Relations professionals to engage with key stakeholders effectively and to influence government policy and regulation. At a time of considerable uncertainty and ever-evolving government policy and regulation, this book shows how it is posTrade Review‘‘Practitioners face major barriers in getting their voice heard. I have considerable experience of the formal and informal processes involved when engaging with decision-makers in government and other key influencers, and I have developed strategies that work. Writing this book enables me to share my experiences and insights with public relations practitioners and related professionals so that they can become more effective influencers’’. Chris Anastasi, Author.'Society today has given voice to many diverse views. People and institutions expect to have a voice in issues that affect their government, their society and their lives. Successful institutions, both public and private, need to find ways to speak to these diverse and (sometimes) competing views such that all stakeholders feel their positions and opinions have been fairly and fully considered. This book gives excellent guidance based on examples of successful stakeholder engagement programs and the experience of leaders who have been successful in effective stakeholder engagement.' — Bill Coley CBE, former President of Duke Power and CEO of British Energy 'Many CEOs and FDs struggle to appreciate the real value of stakeholder engagement. They find it hard to envision what effective stakeholders can achieve for the bottom line in opportunities realised or pitfalls avoided. They should read this book to understand how crucial a focused campaign can be to commercial success. The case studies are illuminating on what works and what not to do. They depend on building trust and relationships based on strong ethical standards. There are lessons here for the private sector in delivering value for money and the public sector in wrongly assuming a government relations function is not needed. It is. Most importantly, there's an understanding of the hands-on role of a Company's leaders in the stakeholder dialogue and building credibility. This is a team effort. The other key audience for this book is Government Affairs professionals. Those running, or setting up, these departments will find the step by step guide to a targeted programme invaluable. Chris Anastasi describes to audiences to target, the many tiers of influencers that shape policy, the importance of galvanising wider support, and above all a focused approach to securing opportunities and managing risks. The case studies show how tangible value can be measured and delivered, Government relations professionals can use this unique book as a benchmarking resource or a template for success. It plugs a gap in the field of stakeholder relations.' — Robert Armour OBE, Deputy-Chair NuGeneration'Never before has it been so vital for business to ensure that its side of the story is properly told and understood. Chris Anastasi has written an invaluable practical guide to strategic stakeholder engagement.' — Sir Adrian Montague CBE, Chairman Aviva'As Energy Adviser to the Welsh Government I am happy to endorse the basic premise of this book which is the importance for successful developments of well-structured and actioned strategic stakeholder engagement. In a UK context it is interesting to reflect on the stress by the UK Government on the four new industrial strategy grand challenges. These cover the widespread use of artificial intelligence; modernised mobility, healthy ageing and clean growth. With all these sectors, effective stakeholder engagement is vital and includes the huge variation of stakeholders from individual consumers to pension funds looking to invest £billions for secure long term returns. The only sensible way to do this is to adopt a very professional and well-researched approach which normally involves the commitment of significant resources. Chris’ book, based on his front-line experience in the energy field and in depth case studies covering a very wide range of circumstances, provides an excellent overview for anyone who is interested in understanding the complexity of the issues and the core elements essential for success. In his book Chris does stress the importance of a clear story as the basis for a successful engagement strategy, whoever the targeted stakeholder. This importance, along with leadership can not be over-stressed: points which Chris makes well, once again illustrated through the use of diverse real-life case studies.' — Professor Ron Loveland, Energy AdviserTable of Contents1. Setting the scene for strategic stakeholder engagement 2. Decision-makers 3. Key influencers 4. Stakeholder engagement processes 5. Organising for stakeholder engagement 6. Delivering the engagement strategy and programme 7. Reflection
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Photocommunication Across Media Beginning
Book SynopsisPhotocommunication Across Media is a must-have for aspiring mass media professionals who are striving to compete in the new landscape of convergence journalism and media. You will learn principles of photography both still and video and how to incorporate them into your storytelling. Thatâs no longer a specialty skillâin todayâs world of media, itâs a necessity.Editors Ross Collins and Keith Greenwood collaborate with highly accomplished photographers to make the concepts and techniques of todayâs mass media photography accessible to all readers. Photocommunication Across Media speaks directly to journalists, advertisers and professional communicators who want to round out their toolkit without sifting through dense texts meant specifically for photographers and photojournalists. This guide, edited by experts who teach these concepts to the next generation of media professionals, is everything you need to knowâand nothing you donâtâto take the next step for Table of Contents00 Introduction01 Basics02 Camera 03 Lighting04 Editing05 Video06 Social Media07 Law Ethics08 History 09 My Story
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Taylor & Francis Investigative Journalism Democracy and the
Book SynopsisTheoretically grounded and using quantitative data spanning more than 50 years together with qualitative research, this book examines investigative journalismâs role in liberal democracies in the past and in the digital age. In its ideal form, investigative reporting provides a check on power in society and therefore can strengthen democratic accountability. The capacity is important to address now because the political and economic environment for journalism has changed substantially in recent decades. In particular, the commercialization of the Internet has disrupted the business model of traditional media outlets and the ways news content is gathered and disseminated. Despite these disruptions, this bookâs central aim is to demonstrate using empirical research that investigative journalism is not in fact in decline in developed economies, as is often feared. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Studying Investigative Journalism 1 From 'Rivers of Gold' to the Digital Economy 2 What is Investigative Journalism? 3 Why Watchdog Reporting Endures: Theories about the Public Sphere, Media Power and Democracy 4 Six Decades of Investigative Journalism: The 1950s to the 2000s 5 The Rise of Collaborative Investigative Journalism 6 New Frontiers: Big Data, Leaks and Large-Scale Investigative Journalism 7 Bankrolling Journalism to Support Investigative Reporting Conclusion: The Future of Investigative Journalism, Reasons for Optimism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Argumentation
Book SynopsisThis book concentrates on argumentation as it emerges in ordinary discourse, whether the discourse is institutionalized or strictly informal. Crucial concepts from the theory of argumentation are systematically discussed and explained with the help of examples from real-life discourse and texts. The basic principles are explained that are instrumental in the analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse. Methodical instruments are offered for identifying differences of opinion, analyzing and evaluating argumentation and presenting arguments in oral and written discourse. Attention is also paid to the way in which arguers attempt to be not just reasonable, but effective as well, by maneuvering strategically. In addition, the book provides a great variety of exercises and assignments to improve the student's skill in presenting argumentation.The authors begin their treatment of argumentation theory at the same juncture where argumentation also starts in practice: ThTable of ContentsPreface1 Standpoints and differences of opinionEssentials1.1 Discussion and disagreement1.2 Explicit and implicit differences of opinion 1.3 Positive and negative standpoints 1.4 Standpoints and expressions of doubt 1.5 Types of differences of opinion 1.6 Main differences of opinion and subordinate differences of opinion 1.7 The presentation of standpoints and doubt Further readingExercisesSpecial assignment 1 2 Argumentation and discussionEssentials 2.1 Resolving a difference of opinion 2.2 Argumentative discourse and having a critical discussion 2.3 The ideal model of a critical discussion 2.4 Argumentation in a critical discussion Further readingExercises 3 The presentation of argumentationEssentials 3.1 Identifying the standpoint 3.2 Indicators of argumentation 3.3 Clues in the context 3.4 Additional means of identifying argumentation 3.5 Explanation, elaboration and clarification 3.6 A maximally argumentative interpretation Further readingExercises 4 Unexpressed standpoints and unexpressed premisesEssentials 4.1 Unexpressed elements in argumentative discourse 4.2 Indirectness and the rules for communication 4.3 Correctness conditions for speech acts 4.4 Violations of the communication rules 4.5 Variants of indirectness 4.6 Making unexpressed standpoints explicit 4.7 Making unexpressed premises explicit 4.8 Unexpressed premises in a well-defined context Further readingExercises 5 The argumentation structureEssentials 5.1 Single arguments5.2 Combinations of single arguments 5.3 Multiple, coordinative, and subordinative argumentation 5.4 Representing the argumentation structure schematically 5.5 The presentation of complex argumentation 5.6 A maximally argumentative analysis 5.7 Unexpressed premises and complex argumentation5.8 Composing an analytic overview Further readingExercisesSpecial assignments 2, 3, 4, 56 The soundness of argumentationEssentials 6.1 Evaluating argumentative discourse 6.2 The acceptability of argumentative statements 6.3 The validity of the reasoning 6.4 The soundness of argument schemes 6.5 Argumentation based on a symptomatic relation 6.6 Argumentation based on a relation of analogy 6.7 Argumentation based on a causal relation 6.8 The presentation of different types of argumentation Further readingExercises 7 Fallacies as violations of discussion rules 1-5Essentials 7.1 Fallacies and discussion rules7.2 Violations of the freedom rule 7.3 Violations of the burden-of-proof rule 7.4 Violations of the standpoint rule 7.5 Violations of the relevance rule 7.6 Violations of the unexpressed premise rule Further readingExercises 8 Fallacies as violations of discussion rules 6-10Essentials8.1 The conclusive defense of standpoints8.2 Violations of the starting point rule 8.3 Violations of the validity rule 8.4 Violations of the argument scheme rule 8.5 Violations of the closure rule 8.6 Violations of the usage rule Further readingExercisesSpecial assignment 6 9 Strategic manoeuvringEssentials 9.1 Reconciling reasonableness and effectiveness 9.2 Three aspects of strategic manoeuvring 9.3 Rhetorical analogues of dialectical aims 9.4 Various kinds of argumentative strategies9.5 Fallacies as derailments of strategic manoeuvring9.6 The treacherous character of fallacious strategic manoeuvring Further readingExercisesSpecial assignment 7 10 The conventionalization of communicative activity typesEssentials10.1 Communicative activity types 10.2 Argumentative characterization of communicative activity types 10.3 Institutional preconditions for strategic manoeuvring 10.4 Different implementations of critical questions Further readingExercisesSpecial assignment 8 Overview of rules for critical discussion and fallacies General references
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times
Book SynopsisQualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times is written from the perspective that the scholarly lives of academics are changing, constantly in flux, and increasingly bound to the demands of the market a context in which the university has increasingly morphed into a business enterprise, one that treats students as consumers to be marketed to, education as something to be purchased, and research as something to be capitalized on for financial gain. The effects of this market-orientation of scholarly life, especially on those in the social sciences and humanities, are ones that demand serious examination. At the same time, qualitative inquiry itself is changing and evolving within and against the rhythms of this new normal'.This volume engages with these emerging debates in qualitative research over new materialism, ''data'', public policy, research ethics, public scholarship, and the corporate university in the neoliberal age. World-renowned contributors from the United STrade ReviewQualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times is an extremely important and necessary book in our current post-anthropocentric neoliberal condition, a circumstance in which a rhizomatic, immanent capitalism has changed everything. To quote Harry Torrance, author of chapter 5, "neo-liberalism already operates with a more sophisticated theory of change than empirical social science." The multiplicities, diversities, and unthought possibilities embedded within qualitative research serve as points from/through which this all invasive performance can hopefully be countered and challenged.Gaile S. Cannella, Independent Critical Qualitative Research and Policy Studies Scholar and Research Professor at Arizona State UniversityMarket based values permeate audit culture with its performance metrics that increasingly infiltrate higher education. This collection might help us negotiate what is already here with the threat of more to come if we recognize the stakes: the place of the university in the politics of knowledge and the forms of governmentality we will abide. We incalculable subjects have much work to do.Patti Lather, Professor Emerita, Ohio State University. Author of (Post)Critical Methodologies: The Science Possible After the Critiques (Routledge, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction Norman K. Denzin & Michael D. GiardinaSection I: Theory, Data, and Entanglements1 Qualitative inquiry, research marketplaces, and neoliberalism: Adding some +s (pluses) to our thinking about the mess in which we find ourselves Julianne Cheek 2 Post qualitative research: The next generation Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre 3 Qualitative methodology and the new materialisms: ‘A little of Dionysus’s blood?’ Maggie MacLure 4 The importance of small form: ‘Minor’ data and ‘BIG’ neoliberalism Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, Anna Montana Cirell, Byoung-gyu Gong, & Marek Tesar 5 Be careful what you wish for: Data entanglements in qualitative research, policy, and neoliberal governance Harry TorranceSection II: Ethics, Politics, and Resistance6 Feminist poststructuralisms and the neoliberal university Bronwyn Davies, Margaret Somerville, & Lise Claiborne 7 Leaky privates: Resisting the neoliberal university and mobilizing movements for public scholarship Michelle Fine 8 Assembling a we in critical qualitative inquiry Stacy Holman Jones 9 Trickster as resistance: Impacts of neoliberalism on Indigenous research and Indigenous methodologies Roe Bubar & Doreen E. Martinez 10 Turning against each other in neoliberal times: The discourses of Othering and how they threaten our scholarship Kristi Jackson 11 Communicative methodology and social impact Aitor Gomez Coda All I really need to know about qualitative research I learned in high school: The 2016 Qualitative High commencement address Johnny Saldaña
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Press Clause and Digital Technologys Fourth
Book SynopsisDuring the first part of the twenty-first century, bloggers, citizen journalists, social media users, Yelp reviewers, and a myriad of other communicators have found themselves facing defamation, privacy, campaign finance, and other lawsuits as a result of the messages they have communicated. In many ways, these communicators are facing legal questions that are similar to what traditional journalists have faced for centuries regarding their rights to gather and publish information. This book examines how the press clause, a First Amendment freedom with no agreed-upon definition, can be understood in order to help guide the courts and twenty-first-century publishers regarding protecting expression as we move into the fourth wave of networked communication, an era that will be defined by increasingly complex relationships between humans and artificially intelligent communicators. To do so, the book draws upon the discourse theory of communication in democratic society, the legal and foTable of Contents1 Press Rights and the Next Wave 2 Knowledge through Discourse 3 Publishers with Networked Identities 4 Expression in Virtual Communities 5 Re-Examining the Press Clause 6 Writing on a ‘Clean Slate’ 7 Separating Journalists from Publishers 8 The Rights of Artificially Intelligent Communicators 9 The Press Clause and the Fourth Wave
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Relations Cases
Book SynopsisThis unique collection of contemporary international public relations (PR) case studies gives the reader in-depth insight into effective PR practice in a range of organizational contexts. The global cases demonstrate the breadth and sophistication of the public relations function, both in public and private sector organizations.This fully updated third edition of Public Relations Cases offers fresh perspectives on the changing face of contemporary public relations and the development of PR and communication strategies. Addressing the gap in PR literature, it examines political systems, climate, media ownership and structures, as well as the social values and economic conditions which shape the role and work of PR practitioners. The book follows a four-part analytical model CDAO (Context, Decisions, Actions and Outcomes) to successfully identify the key points of comparison between cases to uncover how and why particular events occur and, critically, Table of Contents1. Chester Zoo: Save our Zoo Campaign [UK] (Will Condliffe & Julie Platt) 2. Moms Demand Action: using public relations to combat gun violence [USA] (Barbara DeSanto) 3. Crowd-sourcing potential: Developing the right formula for the prevention and intervention strategy against drug abuse in Malaysia [Indonesia] (Jamilah Amad) 4. A Perfect Storm: The challenge of public relations in the health and social care sector [UK] (Peter Osborne) 5. The Comeback Niño: Puerto Rico’s Tourism Industry on the Re-bound, Post-Maria [ Puerto Rico](Meta G. Carstarphen) 6. Farm Town Strong: Overcoming the Rural Opioid Epidemic [USA] (Ray Atkinson & Barbara DeSanto) 7. Who’s Listening? the importance of internal communication [UK] (Kevin Ruck, Howard Krais and Mike Pounsford) 8. Marketing the Rainbow: the challenges of minority marketing and supporting or subsequent PR initiatives [US/ Global] (Alfred Verhoeven) 9. The Volkswagen Dieselgate crisis: Challenging assumptions about reputation recovery in a major crisis USA /Global] (Matt Tidwell) 10. Iceland foods Rang Tan and the palm oil alarm call UK /International] (Hil Berg) 11. The M.O.M. Squad: PR Transforms Diverse Micro-Influencers Into the World’s First Team of Pregnant Comic Book Superheroes [USA] (Adam Richie) 12. Let’s grab a coffee: a return to Public Relations basics [Portugal] (Ana Raposo & Mafalda Eiró-Gomes) 13. Initiative Angels [Columbia] (Karem Contreras & Miguel Ángel Herrera)
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies
Book SynopsisAround the globe, people now engage with media content across multiple platforms, following stories, characters, worlds, brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia studies in media, cultural studies and communication departments across the academy. The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies is the definitive volume for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of transmediality. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, sets out to contextualize, problematize and scrutinize the current status and future directions of transmediality, exploring the industries, arts, practices, cultures, and methodologies of studying convergent media across multiple platforms.Table of ContentsPart 1: Industries of Transmediality 1. Transmedia Film: From Embedded Engagement to Embodied Experience 2. Transmedia Documentary: Experience and Participative Approaches to Non-Fiction Transmedia 3. Transmedia Television: Flow, Glance, and the BBC 4. Transmedia Telenovelas: The Brazilian Experience 5. Transmedia Comics: Seriality, Sequentiality, and the Shifting Economies of Franchise Licensing 6. Transmedia Publishing: Three Complementary Cases 7. Transmedia Games: Aesthetics and Politics of Profitable Play 8. Transmedia Music: The Values of Music as a Transmedia Asset 9. Transmedia Journalism: The Potentialities of Transmedia Dynamics in the News Coverage of Planned Events 10. Transmedia Sports: The National Basketball Association, Emojis, and Personalized Participation 11. Transmedia Social Platforms: Livestreaming and Transmedia Sports 12. Transmedia Celebrity: The Kardashian Kosmos—Between Family Brand and Individual Storylines 13. Transmedia Attractions: The Case of Warner Bros. Studio Tour—The Making of Harry Potter Part 2: Arts of Transmediality 14. Transmedia Storytelling: Character, Time, and World—The Case of Battlestar Galactica 15. Transmedia World-Building: History, Conception, and Construction 16. Transmedia Characters: Additionality and Cohesion in Transfictional Heroes 17. Transmedia Genres: Form, Content, and the Centrality of Memory 18. Transmedia Writing: Storyworlds and Participation at the Intersection of Practice and Theory 19. Transmedia Photography: Implicit Narrative from a Discrete Moment 20. Transmedia Indie: Creativity Outside Hollywood Part 3: Practices of Transmediality 21. Transmedia Adaptation: Revisiting the No-Adaptation Rule 22. Transmedia Developer: Success at Multiplatform Narrative Requires a Journey to the Heart of Story 23. Transmedia Production: Embracing Change 24. Transmedia Commodification: Disneyfication, Magical Objects, and Beauty and the Beast 25. Transmedia Franchising: Driving Factors, Storyworld Development, and Creative Process 26. Transmedia Distribution: From Vertical Integration to Digital Natives 27. Transmedia Branding and Marketing: Concepts and Practices Part 4: Cultures of Transmediality 28. Transmedia Archaeology: Narrative Expansions across Media Before the Age of Convergence 29. Transmedia Heritage: Museums and Historic Sites as Present-Day Storytellers 30 Transmedia Fandom and Participation: The Nuances and Contours of Fannish Participation 31. Transmedia Paratexts: Informational, Commercial, Diegetic, and Auratic Circulation 32. Transmedia Politics: Star Wars and the Ideological Battlegrounds of Popular Franchises 33. Transmedia Charity: Constructing the Ethos of the BBC’s Red Nose Day Across Media 34. Transmedia Education: Changing the Learning Landscape 35. Transmedia Literacy: Rethinking Media Literacy in the New Media Ecology 36. Transmedia for Social Change: Evolving Approaches to Activism and Representation 37. Transmedia Identities: From Fan Cultures to Liquid Lives 38. Transmedia Psychology: Creating Compelling and Immersive Experiences 39. Transmedia Religion: From Representations to Propaganda Strategy Part 5: Methodologies of Transmediality 40. A Narratological Approach to Transmedial Storyworlds and Transmedial Universes 41. An Ontological Approach to Transmedia Worlds 42. An Experience Approach to Transmedia Fictions 43. A Design Approach to Transmedia Projects 44. A Management Approach to Transmedia Enterprises 45. A Micro-Budget Approach to Transmedia in Small Nations 46. A Genettian Approach to Transmedia (Para)Textuality 47. A Semiotic Approach to Transmedia Storytelling 48. A Mythological Approach to Transmedia Storytelling 49. A Qualitative Network Approach to Transmedia Communication 50. A Metrics Model for Measuring Transmedia Engagement
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Activism and Rhetoric
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this formative collection offers analysis of the work rhetoric plays in the principles and practices of today's culture of democratic activism.Editors JongHwa Lee and Seth Kahnand their diverse contributors working in communication and composition studies both within and outside academiaprovide explicit articulation of how activist rhetoric differs from the kinds of deliberative models that rhetoric has exalted for centuries, contextualized through and by contributors' everyday lives, work, and interests. New to this edition are attention to Black Lives Matter, the transgender community, social media environments, globalization, and environmental activism.Simultaneously challenging and accessible, Activism and Rhetoric: Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement is a must-read for students and scholars who are interested in or actively engaged in rhetoric, composition, political communication, and social justice.Chapters 1, 6, anTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Activism Where We Work 1. Borders of Engagement: Rethinking Scholarship, Activism, and the Academy 2. Rhetorical Activism: Responsibility in the Ivory Tower 3. Reclaiming (Teaching) the "A" Word (Activism) 4. A Time to Remember: Rhetorical Pedagogy, Commemoration, and Activism Part 2: Voices from the Margin(alized) 5. Alt-Country Rhetorics: Relearning (Trans) Activism in Rural Indiana 6. Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles 7. Gadugi: Where the Fire Burns (Still) 8. Memory War: Activist Rhetoric for Historical Justice Part 3: Modalities and Audiences 9. Raging Media: Investing in an Infrastructure for Resistance 10. A Conservative Professorial Pundit in Liberal Surroundings: An Uneven Odyssey Projected through 2020 11. ON STRIKE! A Rhetorician’s Guide to Solidarity-Building 12. Affect and Activism in the Rhetorical Context of the Post-Truth Era Part 4: Re-Theorizing Activist Rhetoric 13. Speaking the Power of Truth: Rhetoric and Action for Our Times 14. Tradition and Transformation in Jane Addams’s New Federalism: Creating Community Sphere by Empowering Municipalities 15. The Work of a Middle-Class Activist: Stuck in History 16. Social Justice Activists, Environmental Fatigue, and the Restorative Practices of Doing "The Work That Reconnects" 17. [Still] The Only Conceivable Thing to Do: Reflections on Academics and Activism Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and
Book SynopsisIn modern politics as well as in historical times, character attacks abound. Words and images, like symbolic and psychological weapons, have sullied or destroyed numerous reputations. People mobilize significant material and psychological resources to defend themselves against such attacks. How does character assassination work, and when does it not? Why do many targets fall so easily when they are under character attack? How can one prevent attacks and defend against them?The Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management offers the first comprehensive examination of character assassination. Moving beyond studying corporate reputation management and how public figures enact and maintain their reputation, this lively volume offers a framework and cases to help understand, critically analyze, and effectively defend against such attacks. Written by an international and interdisciplinary team of experts, the book begins with a theoretical introdTrade Review"Character assassination is poisoning our civil discourse. The editors have created a book that is essential reading for citizens who must learn how to tell truth from fiction. This book will help guide us on how to handle this issue in the future."Donna Brazile, Democratic Strategist, Former Chairwoman, Democratic National Committee and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University"This book is an excellent educational and scientifically sound guide to studying character assassination and reputation management. The team of editors gathered research, insights, and a wide range of cases from prominent scholars across the world."Nancy Snow, Professor Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton and Pax Mundi Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan"This book is an extremely valuable resource tool that provides a wealth of valuable data, theory, and analysis illustrating how personal attack arguments work as powerful public relations tools in many fields and settings."Douglas Walton, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric, University of Windsor"This handbook is a testimony of how common the information misuse has become, greatly assisted by cyber-possibilities and the increasingly un-governable societies."Alena Ledeneva, Professor of Politics and Society, University College London, Founder of the UCL Global Informality Project"Most Handbooks are dutiful efforts to cover well-known fields, with deference to the major figures and ideas. The best, in contrast, help to define emerging fields, providing theory, language, exemplary cases, and methods for studying an aspect of reality that has previously been out of sight. The Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management is in the latter category, putting the topic of character assassination (CA) firmly on the intellectual map through its diverse, sweeping, and often entertaining essays."Journal of Applied Social TheoryTable of ContentsIntroduction. PART I: The Theory of CA and Reputation Management. 1 Character Assassination: Theoretical Framework. 2 Inoculation Theory Against/As Character Assassination. 3 The Traumatic Psychological Impact of Character Attacks on Targets. 4 Character Assassination as a Structurational Phenomenon. 5 Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Character Assassination. PART II: National and International Dynamics. 6 Character Attacks on Dutch Revolutionary Adam Gerard Mappa (1754–1828). 7 Character Assassination in the Soviet Union and Russia. 8 Character Assassination of Activists in Egypt: ElBaradei as a Target. 9 Character Assassination and the Contemporary Anti-Corruption Campaign in the Chinese Military. 10 Character Attacks by Dutch Populist Radical Right Leader Geert Wilders. 11 Ad Hominem Attacks in Greek Politics: The Case of the 2015 Referendum. 12 The Role of Propaganda in the Character Assassination of World Leaders in International Affairs. PART III: Individual and Collective Targets. 13 Agrippina, Theodora and Fredegund as Evil Empresses in the Historiographic Tradition. 14 The Character Assassination of Marie-Antoinette: Defamation in the Age of the French Revolution. 15 Argumentum ad Carricare as a Mode of Character Attack: Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live. 16 Corporate Character Assassination and Crisis Communication. 17 Country Reputation Assassination during the Greek Memorandum Re-Negotiations. PART IV: Strategies of Attack and Defence. 18 The Fight for Public Opinion and Memoria in the Early Roman Principate. 19 The Rhetorical and Ethical Implications of Character Assassination in the Age of McCarthy. 20 Character Assassination and the Nixon White House. 21 Character Assassination and Persuasive Attack on CBS’s Face the Nation. 22 Reductio ad Hitlerum as a New Frame for Political and Geopolitical Conflicts. 23 Show Trials in Communist Countries: Psychology of the Ultimate Cases of Character Assassination. PART V: The Cultures of Emergent Media. 24 Character Assassination in Reformation Propaganda. 25 Late-Night TV Humor and the Culture of Ridicule. 26 Character Assassins and Moral Entrepreneurs: Social Media and the Regulation of Morality. 27 Psychological Traits of Character Assassins: Studies in Cyber-Aggression. 28 Character Assassination as Scapegoating: The Dentist Who Killed Cecil the Lion. 29 Character Assassination by Memes: Mosquitos versus Elephants. Conclusions and Future Research.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication
Book SynopsisOrigins and Traditions of Organizational Communication provides a sophisticated overview of the fundamentals of organizational communication as a field of study, examining the field’s foundations and providing an assessment of the field to date, explaining and demonstrating a communicational approach to the study of organization.It provides a set of literature reviews on focused topics written by experts in each area, and links organizational communication theory and research to practice. In reviewing foundational management theory, the book analyzes how early to mid-20th-century management theories shaped contemporary organizations, providing students both with background knowledge of these foundational theories and an understanding of their influence on our thinking and our organizational world.Written at an accessible level for early graduate students, yet still sophisticated enough for doctoral students, the book is ideal for students and teachers ofTable of ContentsPart I: Organizational Communication History 1. Organizing the Study of Organizational Communication 2. Developments in the 20th Century 3. Developments in the 21st Century 4. Paradigms: Ways of Knowing in Organizational Communication Part II: Foundational Organizational Theory 5. Classical Management Theory 6. Human Relations Theory 7. Human Resource Management Theory Part III: Topics in Theory and Research 8. Socialization 9. Communication Networks 10. Workplace Relationships 11. Identity and Identification 12. Power and Resistance 13. Gender and Feminist Theory 14. Difference and Intersectionality 15. Groups, Teams, and Decision Making 16. Conflict 17. A Communicative Approach to Leadership 18. The Structuration of Emotion 19. Technology and Organizational Communication 20. Globalization and Organizational Communication 21. Organizational Change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Media Effects
Book SynopsisNow in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students.This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In recognition of the multitude of research trajectories within media effects, this edition also includes new chapters on narratives, positive media, the self and identity, media selection, and cross-cultural media effects. As scholarship in media effects continues to evolve and expand, Media Effects serves as a benchmark of theory and research for the current and future generations of scholars.The book is ideal for scholars and for undergraduate and graduate courses in media effects, media psychology, media theory, psychology, sociology, political science, and related discTable of Contents1. A History of Media Effects Research Traditions 2. Media Effects Theories: An Overview 3. The World of News and Politics 4. News Framing Theory and Research 5. Cultivation Theory, Media, Stories, Processes, and Reality 6. Media Priming and Accessibility 7. Social Cognitive Theory 8. Currents in the Study of Persuasion 9. Narrative Effects 10. Media Choice and Selective Exposure 11. Media and Emotion 12. Media, Identity, and the Self 13. Media Psychophysiology and Neuroscience: Bringing Brain Science into Media Processes and Effects Research 14. Media Violence and Aggression 15. Media and Sexuality 16. Media Stereotypes: Content, Effects, and Theory 17. Eudaimonia as Media Effect 18. Advertising Effects and Advertising Effectiveness 19. Educational Media for Children 20. Media Effects and Health 21. Entertainment and Enjoyment as Media Effect 22. Video Games 23. Psychological Effects of Interactive Media Technologies: A Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) Perspective 24. Social Media 25. Effects of Mobile Communication: Revolutions in an Evolving Field 26. Virtual Reality in Media Effects 27. Cross-Cultural Media Effects Research
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Soft Skills for the New Journalist
Book SynopsisJournalism is a pool staffed by distracted lifeguards and no matter how fancy your school is, your first week in a real newsroom will feel like a shove in the small of the back into 15 feet of water. Most of us come up for air eventually, but if you're like journalist and educator Colleen Steffen, you may still be left feeling like all that training in inverted pyramids and question lists left something important out: you!Journalism is people managing, wrestling truth and story out of the messy, confusing raw material that is a human being, and the messiest human involved can often be the reporter themselves. So it's time to talk about it. Instead of nervously skirting the sizable EQ (emotional intelligence) portion of this IQ (intelligence intelligence) enterprise, Soft Skills for the New Journalist explores how it FEELS to do this strange, hard, amazing joband how to use those feelings to better your work and yourself.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction: Welcome and congratulations! You’ve chosen wellChapter 1: A is for AttitudeChapter 2: I went to college with an electric typewriter, and other cautionary talesChapter 3: Finally we get to the important stuffChapter 4: So something shiny caught your eyeChapter 5: Working on your pitch (not the sports kind, sorry)Chapter 6: Editors have the worst ideasChapter 7: Hi, stranger! The in-person approachChapter 8: Can’t I just email???Chapter 9: The shy person’s guide to not dying inside while on assignmentsChapter 10: Not everyone is going to like you (unreasonable but true)Chapter 11: All about sourcesChapter 12: Take a flying (imaginative) leapChapter 13: The all-important nutgrafChapter 14: So … I’m supposed to say what to this person?Chapter 15: OK! Finally! Interviewing!Chapter 16: Journalism magic—it’s a thing!Chapter 17: Or maybe just shut up for a minuteChapter 18: Don’t rush off to lunch just yetChapter 19: Yes, you still need a notebook Chapter 20: Don’t be a banker Chapter 21: Get in shapeChapter 22: To outline or not to outlineChapter 23: "I hate writing; I love having written."—Dorothy Parker Chapter 24: But also … try this to love writing a little moreChapter 25: Get your crap together Chapter 26: How to tell when you’re doneChapter 27: A word about grammarChapter 28: Developing a journalist’s conscience Chapter 29: The day afterChapter 30: Speaking of what other people think …Chapter 31: You did it! You’re done!Chapter 32: WWNBD? (What would Nellie Bly do?)Chapter 33: Keep your head in the gameChapter 34: I believe in you! Goodbye!
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Illustrated Guide to the Content Analysis
Book SynopsisThe Illustrated Guide to the Content Analysis Research Project makes mass media research more accessible through an informal and humorous student-centered approach.Author Patricia Swann provides a colorful, step-by-step guide to developing a typical mass media research project using the content analysis method. The fundamental elements of this research method are presented in plainspoken language perfect for undergraduates and new researchers, complete with engaging illustrations and an informal narrative that tackle students' most common sticking-points when learning and applying research methods.Supplemented by online worksheets for further reflection, this book is an excellent companion to research-centered courses in mass media, communication studies, marketing, and public relations at the introductory level. Trade Review"A book like this is long overdue. Hands down, this is one of the clearest, easiest-to-understand research writing texts available. This is an excellent investment for students and professors alike. [...The] images reinforceconcepts in a simple, yet memorable way. [...] Perfect for almost any discipline including communications, public relations, advertising, or marketing."Regina Luttrell, Syracuse University, USA, in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator October 2020Table of Contents1. Getting Started 2. Understanding the Scientific Method 3. Finding Your Research Approach 4. Ethical Considerations 5. Picking Your Research Topic 6. Writing the Literature Review Section 7. Writing the Hypothesis and Research Question 8. Writing the Method Section 9. Writing the Results Section 10. Writing the Discussion and Conclusion Sections 11. Writing the Abstract 12. Formatting, References, and Appendices 13. Sharing Your Research
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Listening in Coaching and Mentoring
Book SynopsisThis book answers a number of fundamental questions about listening in coaching and mentoring. What difference does being heard make to the speaker? How does it have that effect? What are the necessary components of good listening? How do you evaluate your practice as a listener and how do you improve? The process of writing this book led the author to look closely at his own practice, test, experiment, and push his listening to a higher level. He invites the reader to do the same. This book identifies what it takes to listen well the skills, mind-set, presence, self-awareness and self-management and why it can be hard. It demonstrates how four modes of listening attention, inquiry, observation and use of self all contribute to the listener's understanding and to the speaker's awareness. It argues that we all have a learning edge' as listeners and provides a framework that helps each of us find it. The book is intended as a companion for anyone who commits to Trade Review"This is an important guide to both the skills involved in listening and the art of being a good listener, ad full of wisdom and reflections for both new and second coaches." - Coaching at Work, November 2019"It is strange that sometimes the very foundation of our practice is taken for granted. We become fascinated with things as complex as the processes in the brain but tend to overlook the obvious – the role of listening in our work. Stephen Burt does not. His book is a systematic exploration of the various elements of, and conditions for, good listening with a useful structure to guide understanding. Not just an opinion-based text, it is supported by a wide range of relevant conceptual and research-evidenced sources. It will be an important asset for a serious beginner in the coaching field but can also challenge some of the unquestioned assumptions held by seasoned practitioners." - Professor Tatiana Bachkirova, Director of the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies at Oxford Brookes University"A pioneering book which provides the reader with a comprehensive tour of the art of listening. Stimulating from a conceptual point of view and highly practical for those wishing to deepen their way of being with another person. It provides real added-value to the coaching and mentoring world - a book to read and return to many times." - Mary Devine, leadership trainer and coach"Stephen Burt provides a comprehensive exploration of the skill of listening; why we should do it, how we should do it and the impact it can make on our conversation practice. This is an essential read for coaches, consultants, managers, and anyone who wants to communicate effectively with others, on a topic which is too often neglected". - Dr Jonathan Passmore, Director of Henley Centre for Coaching, Henley Business School, University of Reading "Stephen Burt has looked and listened deeply to himself and many others to uncover the power of listening in helping people find their unique voice. Grounded in his understanding that good listening requires an inner stillness and calmness that can often elude us in our busy lives, this book gets to the heart of why listening matters, in all relationships, and offers useful models and tools to help us all do it better." - Sally-Anne Airey, leadership coach and retreat leader"We often take for granted that we know what listening is and how to do it. Stephen’s book is an important reminder of both the science and art of listening, and of the inner work coaches must do to develop their listening capacity. This engaging and well-written book is full of wisdom and reflections - for both new and seasoned coaches." - Aboodi Shabi – Lecturer in Coaching and Behavioural Change – Henley Business SchoolTable of Contents1. The Power of Great Listening2. Getting Ready to Listen3. The Four Modes of Great Listening4. The Four Modes in Operation5. Three Paths to Listening Mastery6. Learning to Attend7. Learning to Inquire8. Learning to Observe9. Learning to Resonate10. Becoming and Being a Great Listener
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Positive Communication
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Positive Communication forms a comprehensive reference point for cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding the central role of communication in the construction of hedonic and eudemonic happiness,or subjective and psychological well-being. Including contributions from internationally recognized authors in their respective fields, this reference uses as its focus five main scenarios where communication affects the life of individuals: mass and digital media, advertising and marketing communication, external and internal communication in companies and organizations, communication in education, and communication in daily life interactions.Table of ContentsPreface Carmelo Vázquez INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Presentation: The Flourishing Side of Communication Effects José Antonio Muñiz-Velázquez Cristina Pulido Chapter 2 Emergence of Positive Communication and its Social Impact Beatriz Villarejo-Carballido Cristina PulidoMimar Ramis Chapter 3 What Can Science Tell Us About Human Happiness (and why and how should We Disseminate It)? Gonzalo Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Covadonga Chaves (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria) PART ONE POSITIVE INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION Chapter 4 The Future of Positive Interpersonal Communication Research Thomas J. Socha Chapter 5 What’s in a Smile? Happiness and Communication from a Cultural Perspective Jessie K. Finch (Stockton University) Celestino Fernández (University of Arizona) Chapter 6 On the Nature of Peak Communication: Communication Behaviors that Make a Difference on Well-Being and Happiness Julien C. Mirivel Chapter 7 Prosocial Relationship Maintenance and Resilience/Thriving Nicole N. Zamanzadeh & Tamara D. Afifi Chapter 8 Communication for a Flourishing and Thriving Romantic Relationship Gary A. Beck Joshua Pederson Chapter 9 Explicating Positive Communication within Theories of Family Communication Steven R. Wilson Elizabeth A. Munz Chapter 10 Supportive and Mindful Communication Susanne M. Jones & Lucas J. Youngvorst Chapter 11 Communication Savoring as Positive Interpersonal Communication Margaret Jane Pitts, Sara Kim, Holman Meyerhoffer & Jian Jiao PART TWO HAPPINESS AND MEDIA Chapter 12 Positive Media Psychology: Emerging Scholarship and a Roadmap for Emerging Technologies Mary Beth Oliver Arthur A. Raney Chapter 13 On Being Happy through Entertainment: Hedonic and Non-Hedonic Entertainment Experiences Matthias Hofer Diana Rieger Chapter 14 Eudaimonic Flourishing in Media Consumption: Love, Know and Experience as a Fan Javier Lozano Delmar and Milagrosa Sánchez-Martín Chapter 15 Media, Well-being and Health during Childhood and Adolescence Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Cátia Branquinho & Tania Gaspar PART THREE HAPPINESS, ADVERTISING AND MARKETING COMMUNICATION Chapter 16 Positive Marketing, Virtue and Happiness Dawn Lerman & Santiago Mejia Chapter 17 Advertising and Authentic Happiness: Can They Be Good Friends? José Antonio Muñiz-Velázquez Juan F. Plaza Chapter 18 Brand Engagement and Positive Advertising David Alameda and Irene Martín Chapter 19 Using Ethnographic Insights to Foster Positive Value Exchange between Consumers and Corporations: A Case Study with FedEx Timothy de Waal Malefyt Chapter 20 Branding and the Happiness Formula Belén Gutiérrez-Villar, Pilar Castro-González, Rosa Melero-Bolaños, & Mariano Carbonero-Ruz Chapter 21 Femvertising Discourses and Online Consumer Engagement: A Case Analysis of Under Armour’s #IWillWhatIWant Brand Campaign Linda Tuncay Zayer Catherine A. Coleman Jose Luis Rodriguez Orjuela Chapter 22 Spirituality and Advertising Galit Marmor-LavieGGGGFG PART FOUR NEW PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR A NEW ECONOMY Chapter 23 Corporations for a New Economy of Happiness Luis Rivas ( Elias Soukiazis Chapter 24 Rethinking Internal Communication: Building Purpose-driven Organizations Ángel Alloza Losana Clara Fontán Gallardo Chapter 25 Authentic Communication and Subjective well-being: The Case of a Non-profit Public Service Organization Antonio Ariza-Montes Antonio L. Leal-Rodríguez Horacio Molina-Sánchez Jesús Ramírez-Sobrino Chapter 26 Socially Responsible Consumption and Happiness Rafael Araque-Padilla, María José Montero-Simó & José Javier Pérez-Barea PART FIVE HAPPINESS AND POSITIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 27 Positive Technology: From Communication to Positive Experience Giuseppe Riva, Silvia Serino, Alice Chirico & Andrea Gaggioli Chapter 28Youth Prosumers and Character Strengths PaulaHerrero-Diz Marina Ramos-Serrano Ashley Woodfall Chapter 29Aesthetics, Usability and the Digital Divide: An Approach to Beauty, UX and Subjective Well-being Juan Ramón Martín San Román Fernando Suárez Carballo Fernando Galindo Rubio Daniel Raposo Chapter 30 POPC and the Good Life: A Salutogenic Take on Being Permanently Online, Permanently Connected Frank M. Schneider, Annabell Halfmann, & Peter Vorderer Chapter 31 Wearables for Human Flourishing David Varona & Javier Nó-Sánchez Chapter 32 Digital Altruism: It Is Good to Be Good Also in Social Media Andrés del Toro & Purificación Alcaide-Pulido Chapter 33Happiness and Digital EthicsDon Heider PART SIX HAPPINESS AT SCHOOL: POSITIVE COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION Chapter 34 Positive Education: Promoting Well-being at School Diego Gomez-Baya Jane E. Gillham Chapter 35 The Real Happiness in Education: The Inclusive Curriculum Isabel Lopez-Cobo Inmaculada Gómez-Hurtado Mel Ainscow Chapter 36 Music Education and Happiness Francisco Cuadrado Susan Hallam Chapter 37 Audiovisual and Media Literacy for Social Change Emma Camarero Alexander Fedorov Anastasia Levitskaya Chapter 38 Caring Ethics and Media Literacy Practice Megan Fromm Chapter 39 Seeking Eudaimonia in Online Education Beatriz Valverde Erica C. Boling Chapter 40 Sustainable Happiness and Living Schools: Repurposing Education with a Vision of Well-Being for All Catherine O’Brien Sean Murray Chapter 41Positive Communication and Education: Applying Character Strengths in Schools Mathew White
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Health and Safety Communication
Book SynopsisHealth and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward is an easy introduction to the principles and practice of health and safety communications, providing all you need to know to design and implement communications efforts on a wide range of health and safety topics and issues. Whether you''re a student grappling with a health communications course or a professional wishing to learn how to communicate health and safety messages effectively to a range of audiences using a variety of communications media, Health and Safety Communication is all you''ll need.This book incorporates two broad sections: the grounding and the applications. The model articulates a planning approach for designing, implementing and reviewing a range of communications approaches. The applications segment specifies numerous approaches, including workshops, print materials, campaigns, the media, public speaking and social media that can be used to convey what the health and safTrade Review'If you have ever wanted to know about what is involved in health and safety communication, as a practitioner or as a researcher, then we would recommend this book....the authors ultimately try to show you how you can spot the successes, even if the “holy grail” of behaviour change continues to elude you. This book does a good job of giving the reader as much information as they need to try to do just that.' Anjum Naweed, PhD, Central Queensland University; and Janine Chapman, PhD, Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Flinders UniversityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Messages About the AuthorsPrefacePART 1. HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS MODELChapter 1. Health and Safety CommunicationsChapter 2. The AudienceChapter 3. Aims and GoalsChapter 4. Know-Feel-Do Strategies Chapter 5. ApproachesChapter 6. Review, Revise and RefinePART 2. HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMUNICATION APPROACHESChapter 7. Campaigns Chapter 8. Printed MaterialsChapter 9. Working with the MediaChapter 10. A Public PresenceChapter 11. WorkshopsChapter 12. Social MediaChapter 13. Pulling it TogetherAppendixGlossaryIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Student Workbook to Accompany Crisis
Book SynopsisNo company, organization, or individual whose livelihood depends on public reaction can afford to function without a crisis communications plan. This student workbook reviews the critical terminologies, processes, and skills needed for understanding and responding to crises. It prepares individuals for responding to crises in a variety of contexts, and reinforces strategies and tactics to be used during a crisis. Chapters include instructive case studies of public relations professionals in crises: what they did, what they wished they had done, and what hampered their progress. The exercises provide students with the opportunity to respond to real-world crises, sharpening their own skills and practicing response behaviors. This workbook will serve as a useful tool for all future practitioners.Table of ContentsTable of Contents1 Crisis Communications Today What is a Crisis and What is Crisis Communications?The Five Stages of a Crisis Public Opinion Mini-Case: White Star Line’s Titanic Sinks 2 Crisis Communications Theory Apologia Theory Image Restoration TheoryDecision Theory Diffusion TheoryExcellence Theory The Five W’s of Public Apology –Businesses and Celebrities3 Communications to Prevent Crises The News Media Internal Publics Customers/Consumers Preventing Multicultural Crises4 Communications When the Crisis Strikes Communicating with the News Media 34Communicating with Lawyers 44Communicating with Internal Publics 47Communicating with External Publics 49Communicating Directly with the Masses 505 Social Media and Crisis CommunicationsSocial Media in Strategic Organizational CommunicationMini-Case Studies in Social Media CrisesSocial Media Etiquette for Organizations and Individuals to Prevent CrisesOnline Communities and Crisis Communities6 "Textbook" Crises Case: Johnson & Johnson and the Tylenol Murders Case: Exxon and the Valdez Oil Spill 7 Culture Crises --DomesticCase: Saginaw Valley State University and the Theater Controversy Case: Texas A&M University and the Bonfire Tragedy Case: Police Departments and Community Trust8 Culture Crises: Foreign and International Case: AIDS in Africa Case: Ebola Strikes Liberia: Firestone Strikes EbolaCase: Nut Rage and Korean Airlines 9 Environmental Crisis Case: Häagen-Dazs and Honey Bees 10 Natural Disasters Case: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans Case: The Oso Mudslide in Washington11 Transportation Crises Case: Holland America Line and Cruise Crises Case: US Airways and the Emergency Landing in the Hudson 12 Product Failure and Product Tampering Case: Yuhan-Kimberly and Baby Wet Wipes Case: Maple Leaf Foods and the Battle against Listeria Case: Wendy’s and the Finger-in-the-Chili Hoax Mini-Case: Domino’s Pizza 13 Death and Injury Case: Columbine High School and the Shooting Tragedy Case: School Shootings: Communication To and For Children14 The Crisis Communications Plan Crisis Inventory Developing the Crisis Communications Plan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science Issues and
Book SynopsisLandmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science, tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its development in the 1970s.A companion to Randy Allen Harris's foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies, this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carolyn R. Miller, Jeanne Fahnestock, and Alan G. Gross, along with an early prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris's detailed introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual context, and frames the important contributions of each essay, which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical figures and topical invention to Modal Materialism and the Neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies. Race, revolution, and Daoism come up along the way, and the empirical recalcitrance of the moon.This collection serves as a textbook for graTable of ContentsPart 1: Issues 1. Ideas, Stray or Stolen, About Scientific Writing, No. 1 2. The Personae of Scientific Discourse3. The Rhetoric of Science 4. Are Scientists Rhetors in Disguise? 5. Rhetorical Criticism and the Rhetoric of Science 6. Some Cautionary Strictures on the Writing of the Rhetoric of Science 7. Rhetoric of Science Without Constraints 8. Reclaiming Rhetoric of Science and Technology: Knowing In and About the World 9. The Productivity of Scientific Rhetoric 10.When We Can’t Wait on Truth: The Nature of Rhetoric in The Rhetoric of Science Part 2: Methods 11. Rhetoric, Topoi, and Scientific Revolutions 12. Kairos in the Rhetoric of Science 13. Figures of Argument 14.Switch-Side Debating Meets Demand-Driven Rhetoric of Science 15. Uncertainty, Spheres of Argument, and the Transgressive Ethos of the Science Adviser 16. The 1923 Scientistic Campaign and Dao-Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Rhetoric of Science 17. Race and Genetics from a Modal Materialist Perspective 18. Socioscientific Controversies: A Theoretical and Methodological Framework 19. Presence as a Consequence of Verbal-Visual Interaction: A Theoretical Approach 20. Networks, Genres, and Complex Wholes: Citizen Science and How We Act Together through Typified Text
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Taylor & Francis Ltd DataDriven Public Relations Research
Book SynopsisThe public relations industry is undergoing a revolution in using data to define promotional programs, to measure influence and to address the needs of clients with more precision than ever. Applying tools that range from online surveys to social-media listening to applying big data with sophisticated algorithms, today's PR professionals are data-driven in virtually everything they do. Data-Driven Public Relations Research is the first book for PR students and practitioners to offer an overview of these new practices as well as a glimpse into the future of these new applications, including big data and some of the applications from real-world PR campaigns and strategic planning. It includes contemporary cases involving brand name companies who are blazing new trails in the use of metrics in public relations. This book presents a practical, accessible approach that requires no prior training or experience, with easy to follow, step-by-step measurement examples frTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1 Perspective on Public Relations Research Chapter 2 Truth and the Researcher’s AttitudeChapter 3 Starting to Apply Statistics Chapter 4 Quantitative Analysis – Part 1Guest Author Chapter: Problem Definition for Data-Driven PRChapter 5 Quantitative Analysis – Part 2Chapter 6 Qualitative/Categorical Analysis – Part 1Chapter 7 Qualitative/Categorical Analysis – Part 2Chapter 8 Online and Social Media MeasurementsChapter 9 Ethics in ResearchChapter 10 Presenting Research ResultsChapter 11 Managing PR ResearchChapter 12 Data-Driven Media RelationsChapter 13 Data-Driven PR for Nonprofit Organizations Chapter 14 Looking Ahead in PR ResearchChapter 15 Broadcast ResearchChapter 16 Advertising ResearchAppendix The Barcelona Principles
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Autobiography of a Disease
Book SynopsisAutobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarily on the author's sudden and catastrophic collapse into a coma and long hospitalization thirteen years ago; but it has also been crafted from twelve years of research on the history of microbiology, literary representations of illness and medical treatment, cultural analysis of MRSA in the popular press, and extended autoethnographic work on medicalization. An experiment in form, the book blends the genres of storytelling, historiography, ethnography, and memoir. Unlike most medical memoirs, told from the perspective of the human patient, Autobiography of a Disease is told from the perspective of a bacterial cluster. This orientation is intended to represent the distribution of perspectives on illness, disability, and pain across subjective centersfrom patient to monitTrade ReviewPatrick Anderson’s Autobiography of a Disease offers a poetic and indispensible contribution to the growing body of literature that traces illness from an autethnographic perspective. It will reward a broad spectrum of lay, academic, and medical professional readers with its detailed account of the broad web of relationships impacted by one person’s illness. Anderson depicts each of these relationships with exemplary ethical care—including his relationship with the virus itself, personified in a captivating and moving way that reveals the flaws in our health care system and the dedicated people who struggle within and against that system as they fight for their lives and the lives of others.Craig Gingrich-Philbrook, Professor of Communication Studies, Southern Illinois UniversityI’ve been waiting for this book for a long time, anticipating Patrick Anderson’s always acute, insightful, nuanced, approach to understanding the performances and representations of our lives. Autobiography of a Disease exceeds all my expectations, as it experiments with form, multiplies narrative voices, and undoes the primacy of disciplinary approaches to knowledge and experience. Anderson deploys any and all strategies to evoke the uncanny journey to the precipice of mortality and back to another kind of life. A moving, stunning, necessary book.Jill Dolan, Dean of the College, Annan Professor of English, Professor of Theatre, Princeton UniversityThis is a captivating intervention into medical and illness narratives. It realizes the power of disease and care with equal parts precision and pleasure. A must-read for anyone interested in how we live in, with, and by our bodies. Della Pollock, Professor of Communication Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillPatrick Anderson’s Autobiography of a Disease offers a rare and much-needed view of illness that binds the political economy of American medicine to the personal and interpersonal work of healing. With precision and poignancy Anderson offers a harrowing narrative of disease as a communal event linking human and nonhuman agents, moments of peril, and moments of grace. It is an unflinching, creative, and utterly compelling account. Everyone who has been -- or will be -- a patient or a caregiver should read this book.Judith Hamera, Professor, Program in Dance, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Prelude Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Coda Afterword Acknowledgements
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performed Ethnography and Communication
Book SynopsisPerformed Ethnography and Communication explores the relationships between these three key terms, addressing the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and staged collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections: Embodied technique and practice, which addresses improvisation, devised theatre-making, and body work to consider what makes bodies move, sound, behave, mean, or appear differently, and the effects of these differences on performance; Oral history and personal narrative performance, which is concerned with the ways personal stories and histories might be transformed into public events, looking at questions of perspective, ownership, and reception. Including specific historical and theoretical case studies, exercises and activities, and practical applications for improvisation, ethnograpTable of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroductionPART 1 Embodied technique and practiceChapter 1 Embodied technique and practice Technique Practice Interview with Ben Spatz Examples of technique and practice Case study one: Digital Portobelo with Renee Alexander Craft Chapter 2 Improvisation The inherited body we bring to performance practice Key concepts in improvisational acting and performance Examples Chapter 3 Devised theatre Ethnographic data and process Suggested stages for devised performance In summary Interview with Honey Pot Performance Case study two: the digital in dialogic performance across two continents Chapter 4 Movement and scenes of body work Warm-up improvisations for neutral mask Efforts and factors from Laban/Bartenieff Improvisation exercises for efforts and factors Improvisational exercises for BESS The 5Rhythms from Gabrielle Roth Augusto Boal and Newspaper Theatre PART 2 Oral history and personal narrative performanceChapter 5 The value of oral history and life story Who owns the story? Interview with E. Patrick Johnson Oral history as permission, public pedagogy, and provocation On truth Chapter 6 The narrative/narrated event and the anatomy of emotion The narrative event The narrated event Case study three: holograms in a live staging of history: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire Chapter 7 Anatomy of emotion: the brain, performance, and oral history Proprioception Mirror neurons and simulation theory Chapter 8 Performing oral history and life stories Solo performance Exercises Chapter 9 Viewpoints in rehearsal Examples Selected viewpoints for oral history and performance Case study four: the storyteller's magnified embodiments in real-time telling Chapter 10 Jerzy Grotowski's plastiques and Viola Spolin's speech and sound The brain of the body and the body of the brain Interview with Stephen Wangh Examples Epilogue: the intermix of performance, ethnography, and communicationAppendix: illustration of creativity and the brainBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political TV
Book SynopsisThis book serves as an accessible critical introduction to the broad category of American political television content. Encompassing political news and scripted entertainment, Political TV addresses a range of formats, including interview/news programs, political satire, fake news, drama, and reality TV. From long-running programs like Meet the Press to more recent offerings including Veep, The Daily Show, House of Cards, Last Week Tonight, and Scandal, Tryon addresses ongoing debates about the role of television in representing issues and ideas relevant to American politics. Exploring political TV's construction of concepts of citizenship and national identity, the status of political TV in a post-network era, and advertisements in politics, Political TV offers an engaging, timely analysis of how this format engages its audience in the political scene. The book also includes a videography of key and historTable of ContentsIntroduction: Political TV and Mediated Citizenship 1. Selling Politics: Advertising After Citizens United 2. Political News in the Post-Network Era 3. Fake News as Political Satire 4. Comedy and the Political Spectacle 5. Political Process Melodramas and Serial Narrative 6. Surveillance Culture: Melodramas of National Security Conclusion Political TV: Questions for Discussion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Landmark Essays on Historiographies of Rhetorics
Book SynopsisThis reader presents essays that editor Victor Vitanza describes as efforts at revisionary histories that are either quasi-traditional histories or radical subversive histories. They are influential works published over the past four decades by major rhetoricians and historians with radically different presumptions and challenges to the status quo of history. Their discussions present a full array of possible histories in terms of originations, classicisms, scientific objectivities, temporalities, literary criticisms, feminisms, modernity/post-modernity, aesthetics, and perpetually more and more contestations. Providing a forum for scholars' original voices as the discussions have developed over the decades, this collection is a unique and valuable text for advanced study on the history of rhetoric.Table of ContentsEnos, Richard Leo. "Notions, Presumptions, and Presuppositions in Hellenic Discourse: Rhetorical Theory as Philological Evidence." Philosophy and Rhetoric, 14.3 (1981): 173-84.Murphy, James J. "The Historiography of Rhetoric: Challenges and Opportunities." Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. 1.1 (1983): 1-8. Blair, Carole. "Contested Histories of Rhetoric: The Politics of Preservation, Progress, and Change." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78.4 (November 1992). 403-28. Ballif, Michelle. "Re/dressing Histories; Or, On Re/Covering Figures Who Have Been Laid Bare By Our Gaze." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 22.1 (1992): 91-98. Farenga, Vincent. "Periphrasis on the Origin of Rhetoric." Modern Language Notes 94.5 (1979): 1033-55. Foucault, Michel. "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1980: 139-65.Poulakos, John. "Testing and Contesting Classical Rhetorics." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 36 (2006): 171-79.Struever, Nancy S. "The Classical Background." Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009: 1-8. DuBois, Page. "Prologue." Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2010: 1-26. Berlin, James, Robert J. Connors, Sharon Crowley, Richard Leo Enos, Victor J. Vitanza, Susan C. Jarratt, Nan Johnson, Jan Swearingen, James J. Murphy. "Octalog: The Politics of Historiography." Rhetoric Review 7.1 (1988): 5-49. Lois Agnew, James J. Murphy, Cheryl Glenn, Nan Johnson, Jan Swearingen, Richard Leo Enos, Jasper Neel, Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Janice Lauer Rice, Janet M. Atwill, Kathleen Ethel Welch, Roxanne Mountford, Thomas Miller, Victor J. Vitanza. "Octalog: A Retrospective. Rhetorical Historiography and the Octalogs." Rhetoric Review, 30.3 (2011): 237-57. Kennedy, George A. "A Hoot in the Dark: The Evolution of General Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric. 25.1 (1992): 1-21. Appendix
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Media Giants
Book SynopsisGlobal Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News Corp., The Microsoft Corporation) in terms of revenues, but also media corporations that hold considerable power within national, regional, or geolinguistic contexts (Televisa, The Bertelsmann Group, Sony Corporation). Each chapter approaches a different corporation through the lens of economy, politics, and culture, giving students and scholars a thoughtful and data-driven guide with which to interrogate contemporary media industry power. Trade Review"A brilliant conception, masterfully executed. The editors have given us a path-breaking survey of capitalist power over world communications - conglomerate by conglomerate, region by region, and product by product, from TV program ratings to smartphone apps." -Dan Schiller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"This authoritative and encyclopaedic volume provides a rich, systematic, and comprehensive analysis of one of the most devastating and significant developments of our century, the universal domination of culture, information, and communications by ever more powerful private corporations." –Peter Golding, Northumbria University "This is without doubt the essential guide to the communication companies that define today’s media-saturated world." –Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World"This systematic global overview of the most powerful media corporations shows the present-day inequalities of global capitalism through the lenses of converging media and information services, revealing both the dominating forces and the on-going resistances." –Helena Sousa, University of Minho, PortugalTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I. Global Giants. 1. The Walt Disney Company. 2. National Amusements Incorporated. 3. Time Warner. 4. Comcast Corporation. 5. News Corporation. Part II: Regional & Geolinguistical Giants. 6. Televisa. 7. América Móvil. 8. The Bertelsmann Group. 9. Vivendi. 10. Mediaset S.p.A. (Gruppo Mediaset). 11. Telefónica. 12. Grupo Prisa. 13. TV Globo & The Globo Group. 14. Sony Corporation. Part III: Regional Overviews. 15. South America. 16. The Middle East. 17. Sub-Saharan Africa. 18. Eastern Europe. 19. South Asia. 20. East Asia & China. 21. Australian and New Zealand Media Corporations. Part IV: Internet Giants. 22. Apple, Inc. 23. The Microsoft Corporation. 24. Google, Inc. 25. Amazon.com. 26. Facebook. Part V: Global Ratings & Advertising Giants. 27. The Nielsen Company 28. Interpublic Group of Companies. Conclusion: Reflections on Media Power.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ritual Communication
Book SynopsisRitual Communication examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal ritual. Ritual communication extends beyond collective religious expression. It is an intrinsic part of everyday interactions, ceremonies, theatrical performances, shamanic chants, political demonstrations and rites of passage. Despite being largely formulaic and repetitive, ritual communication is a highly participative and self-oriented process. The ritual is shaped by time, space and the individual body as well as by language ideologies, local aesthetics, contexts of use, and relations among participants. Ritual Communication draws on a wide range of contemporary cultures - from Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific - to present a rich and diverse study for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology and sociolinguistics.Trade ReviewThis volume will stand as a benchmark work in the exploration of ritual communication, a notoriously expansive notion that can include the stereotypy of animal behavior, the routinization of social interaction and the symbolic density of religious enactment. The richness of the essays makes the volume a true delight to read, and the analytical rigor that the authors bring to bear in their case studies sheds clear light on the complex relations between discursive form, social function, cultural meaning, and personal experience in ritual semiosis. - Professor Richard Bauman, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ritual CommunicationEllen B. Basso and Gunter Senft1Little RitualsJohn B. Haviland2Everyday Ritual in the Residential WorldN. J. Enfield3Trobriand Islanders' Forms of Ritual CommunicationGunter Senft4"Like a Crab Teaching its Young to Walk Straight": Proverbiality, semantics and indexicality in English and MalayCliff Goddard5Access Rituals in West African Communities: an Ethnopragmatic PerspectiveFelix K. Ameka6Ritual and the Circulation of ExperienceSuzanne Oakdale7Communicative Resonance across Settings: Marriage Arrangement, Initiation and Political Meetings in KenyaCorinne A. Kratz8Ritualised Performances as Total Social Facts: the House of Multiple SpiritsIngjerd Hoëm9"Pengunjuk Rasa" (expression of feelings) in Sumba: "Bloody Thursday" in its Cultural and Historical ContextJoel C. Kuipers10Civility and Deception in two Kalapalo Ritual FormsEllen B. Basso11Private Ritual Encounters, Public Ritual IndexesMichael Silverstein 12"Kantámpranku awiúnkanam enkémturnai..." "While I sing I am Sitting in a Real Air-Plane..." Innovative Contents in Shuar and Achuar Ritual Communication.Maurizio Gnerre13Interior Dialogues: The Co-Voicing of Ritual in SolitudeJohn W. Du Bois Index
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Cambridge University Press PowerPoint Communication and the Knowledge Society
Book SynopsisPowerPoint has become an integral part of academic and professional life across the globe. In this book, Hubert Knoblauch offers a complete analysis of PowerPoint presentations as a means of communication, exploring the dynamic relationships between the aural, visual, physical and social dimensions of this communicative genre.Trade Review'… The book is intended for an academic audience with an interest in understanding how knowledge is created via powerpoint. … Knoblauch's book is an extensive and in-depth investigation into why powerpoint has become the de facto presentation style.... This book is a first step to fully understanding a means of communication that is exploding in use.' Kimberly Fairchild Kimberly Fairchild, PsycCRITIQUES'On the whole, this is a significant work which examines the globally important phenomenon of PowerPoint - and powerpoint - in a context that is highly meaningful for sociological theory … The study is not just about the software and related performances but also about the contemporary development of information and knowledge society, which has been a major social and cultural change across the globe. The analysis is also pertinent to the classic questions concerning human action that have captivated the greatest sociological thinkers … the overall quality and significance make it a valuable piece of sociological scholarship.' Stanisław Krawczyk, State of AffairsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Part I. Introduction: 1. 'PowerPoint' and powerpoint; 2. Communication culture; 3. Information and knowledge society; 4. Structure of the book; Part II. On the History of PowerPoint: 5. The archaeology of PowerPoint; 6. The double invention of PowerPoint; 7. Presentation as digital document and presentation as event; 8. PowerPoint is evil - discourse and studies on PowerPoint; 9. Tufte and the public discourse on PowerPoint; 10. The inconclusiveness of studies on PowerPoint; 11. Presentation as event and genre; Part III. Communicative Action, Culture, and the Analysis of Communicative Genres: 12. Communicative actions and genres; 13. The three levels of genre analysis and communication culture; Part IV. The Internal Level: Slides, Speech, and Synchronization: 14. Rhetoric of visual presentation; 15. Slides, text, and speech; 16. Multimodality and the synchronization of speech slides; 17. Speech and talk; 18. Linguistic deixis, paralleling, and communicative things; 19. Lists and seriality; 20. Macrostructures; Part V. The Intermediate Level: Pointing, the Body Formation, and the Triadic Structure of PowerPoint Presentations: 21. Pointing, gesture, and speech; 22. Pointing, speech, and the objectification of meaning; 23. Body formation and the triadic structure of the presentation; 24. Technology, failures and footing; Part VI. The External Level: Settings, Meetings, and the Ubiquity of PowerPoint: 25. Objects, settings, and spaces; 26. The temporal order of presentations and the meeting; 27. The multiplication and the ubiquity of PowerPoint presentation; Part VII. Conclusion: the Ubiquity of PowerPoint and the Communicative Culture of Knowledge Society: 28. The invention and ubiquity of PowerPoint presentations; 29. Contextualization and mediatization; 30. Communicative things and the subjectification of knowledge; 31. PowerPoint presentation in the communicative culture of knowledge society; Part VIII. Appendices: Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; References; Index.
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