Communication Studies

Digital piracy cultures and peer-to-peer technologies combined to spark transformations in audio-visual distribution between the late 1990s and the...

Originally published in 1983. The conventions, institutions and practices of communication today are issues of great concern to all. Using a dual a...

This volume explores concepts of mentoring, leadership and issues faced by early childhood teachers. Foregrounded against inadequate leadership and...

Interpersonal Communication: Competence and Contexts prepares students to communicate successfully in today's fast-paced and complex society throug...

When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic...

The politics of the internet has entered the social science mainstream. From debates about its impact on parties and election campaigns following m...

This invaluable resource guides readers through the process of creating scholarly, publishable prose from the results of quantitative experiments a...

Contemporary events which have catastrophic global ramifications such as the current economic crisis or on-going conflicts across the globe are not...

As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic, political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions arise about ...

This book joins together disclosure, privacy, and secrecy to pursue a greater understanding of how people are both public and private in their inte...

Addressing the explosive growth in qualitative research in recent years, this volume represents the first anthology to bring together a representat...

A New Semiotics is an introductory guide to the field of semiotics. Assuming no prior knowledge of semiotics, this accessible text takes a fresh lo...

Communicating science and technology is a high priority of many research and policy institutions, a concern of many other private and public bodies...

A New Semiotics is an introductory guide to the field of semiotics. Assuming no prior knowledge of semiotics, this accessible text takes a fresh lo...

Honourable Mention, ICQI 2022 Outstanding Qualitative Book AwardEntanglement in the World’s Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist Inquiry explo...

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a channel through which the public sector can seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector to...

Introducing a new framework for teaching and learning literature in secondary schools, this book presents Dialogic Literary Argumentation as an inq...

This innovative text reinvigorates argumentation studies by exploring the experience of argument across cultures, introducing an anthropological pe...

Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment—or "militainmen...

Race(ing) Intercultural Communication signals a crucial intervention in the field, as well as in wider society, where social and political events a...

Intimate discourse – that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings – lies at the heart of our everyday lingu...

This book examines third-party review sites (TPRS) and the intersection of the review economy and neoliberal public relations, in order to understa...

This book outlines and contributes to the foundations of Marxist-humanist communication theory. It analyses the role of communication in capitalist...

This exciting new text traces the common themes in the long and complex history of mass communication. It shows how the means of communicating grew...

Multigenerational Communication in Organizations explores generational differences in the changing workplace from a communication perspective. Star...

This book investigates neoliberalism in education and explains how it is a complex phenomenon which takes on local characteristics in diverse geopo...

Media and the Ecological Crisis is a collaborative work of interdisciplinary writers engaged in mapping, understanding and addressing the complex c...

This comprehensive and practical guide covers the elements, style, and use of annotated bibliographies in the research and writing process for any ...

What are we to make of our digital social lives and the forces that shape it? Should we feel fortunate to experience such networked connectivity? A...

Wayfinding and Critical Autoethnography is the first critical autoethnography compilation from the global south, bringing together indigenous, non-...

This book critically explores how meanings of ‘independence’ are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, w...

This third edition again brings together interdisciplinary contributions to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted resource that reflects the bre...

Digital Development in Korea explores the central role of digital information and communication technology in South Korea. Analyzing the role of IC...

Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies. It starts by simply bringing n...

This interdisciplinary, international collection examines how sophisticated digital practices and technologies exploit and capitalize on emotions, ...

Political Management lays out the core tools to manage government, campaigns and parties. The first book to combine management concepts with politi...

Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as ‘memories’ and deliver them back ...

Surveying a wide variety of disciplines, this fully-revised 7th edition offers a sophisticated and engaging treatment of the rapidly expanding fiel...

The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk provides a theoretical framework for how, in a post-truth era, media audience...

This book examines third-party review sites (TPRS) and the intersection of the review economy and neoliberal public relations, in order to understa...

Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highligh...

This book explores the concept of cultural chauvinism as the sense of superiority that ethnic or national groups have of themselves relative to oth...

This book presents a model of Practitioner Inquiry (PI) as a systematic form of empirical research and provides a rationale for its suitability wit...

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the way in which human reproduction interweaves with the reproduction of society and economy in coastal ...

True Storytelling is a new method of studying, planning, facilitating, ensuring, implementing and evaluating ethical and sustainable changes in com...

Western philosophy has often claimed for itself not just a distinct sphere of knowledge, but a distinct form of communication, set against ordinary...

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication psychology and media effects courses. This book gives read...