"As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic, political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such processes. At the same time, international communication scholars have long been inte…
"Exploring Health Communication from Multiple Perspectives provides coverage of the major current areas of interest (e.g., interpersonal, organizational, media). It takes an in-depth approach to health communication research by analyzing and critically evaluating research conduc…
"Social media has had a profound, and as yet not fully understood impact on public relations. In the 24/7 world of perpetually-connected publics, will public relations function as a dark art that spins (or tweets) the truth for credulous publics? Or must public relations be reco…
"The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very partic…
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Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has, in the last two decades, produced a substantial amount of valuable research. Authored by the leading academic authorities in the study of magazine journalism, the chapters in this new handbook not only create an architecture to or…
"Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has, in the last two decades, produced a substantial amount of valuable research. Authored by the leading academic authorities in the study of magazine journalism, the chapters in this new handbook not only create an architecture to o…
"Digital Rebellion examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. Todd Wolfson begins with the rise of the Zapatistas in the mid-1990s, and how aspects of the movement ... network organiza…
"This book provides an introduction to the importance of Levinas's work and an explication of the manner in which the practicality of his insights can assist ethical judgment within the human community" "Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's ethics as first philosophy explicates a hum…
"This work is the first book-length treatment of Jean Baudrillard as a rhetorical theorist" ...
