Communication Studies

Executives continue to lose their position because of inability to communicate organizational decisions to employees and boards effectively. More t...

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and pl...

The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian pe...

Once Upon a Pixel examines the increasing sophistication of storytelling and worldbuilding in modern video games. Drawing on some of gamings most p...

This book accounts for the transformation of organizations in a post-bureaucratic era by bringing a communicational lens to the ontological discuss...

Communicating for Success, third edition, is a core textbook for Introduction to Communication courses and gives students an overview of the subfie...

The vast majority of the worlds population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that ca...

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harv...

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and econ...

The studies in this volume conceptualize populism as a type of political communication and investigate it comparatively, focusing on (a) politician...

Detailed yet accessible, Translation and Localization brings together the research and insights of veteran practicing translators to offer comprehe...

Societies today are in a period of dynamic change, highly fluid and contested in moving from traditional to liberal and from local to global, as we...

Diverse in economic development, political and mass media systems, the countries in Southeast Asia cast a unique light on the parallels between dev...

Television today means moving pictures in colour with sound, brought to the viewer by terrestrial or satellite broadcast, cable or recording medium...

The Discourse of YouTube explores the cutting edge of contemporary multimodal discourse through an in-depth analysis of structures, processes and c...

Discourses of Denial explores the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor....

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorica...

Elite Discourse examines how language and communication or just discourse define, mediate and legitimize class privilege. It does so from the per...

In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, eith...

This book focuses on mediated intercultural communication in the context of globalization. Analyzing social and traditional media using qualitative...

As digital reading has become more productive and active, the lines between reading and writing become more blurred. This book offers both an explo...

The United States has been near the forefront of global consumption trends since the 1700s, and for the past century and more, Americans have been ...

Power, Diversity and Public Relations addresses the lack of diversity in PR by revealing the ways in which power operates within the occupation to ...

Trust is a core concept in International Relations (IR), representing a key ingredient in state relations. It was only relatively recently that IR ...