Communication Studies

Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance investigates the tensions between politics and aesthetics by exploring the ways in whi...

When Black runway models began throwing phones and VH1s «Divas Live» riveted viewers, a new paradigm for Black women had fully evolved in the form ...

In light of current and projected demographic changes in the U.S., this book examines the attention paid to Latina/o youth from mainstream media co...

Digital media law is now the dynamic legal territory. Mass Media Law: The Printing Press to the Internet is a textbook designed to introduce studen...

Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultural, social, and economic phenomena, examining th...

Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship. Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemo...

Advances in digital technology over the past two decades have created a wide array of new media platforms, channels, and delivery mechanisms. Throu...

How does one make sense of YouTube? There is no reliable sample of videos on YouTube; no easily identifiable way to determine its dominant themes; ...

Signs exist as fundamental markers of the urban landscape. Whether in the form of street signs offering directions, the airbrushed promises of adve...

Public relations experts and crisis management personnel have done an excellent job over the years of drawing attention to the grand scope of risks...

Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field provides students with an understanding of sports media, rhetoric, culture, and organizations through ...

Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a publi...

The Chinese in the Philippines constitute one of the many Chinese communities globally. Although many Chinese have maintained their cultural tradit...

Business and Professional Communication Playbook teaches students the essentials of business communication and necessary skillset that employers lo...

Networked Selves is an original analysis of one of the most defining cultural features of our time: how people turn to the Web to construct a publi...

Living in a post-truth world during an era of information wars, making sense of events is increasingly challenging for everyone. The fact that toda...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt used radio fireside chats to connect with millions of ordinary Americans. The highly articulate and telegenic John F. K...

KakaoTalk and Facebook: Korean American Youth Constructing Hybrid Identities explores the role smartphones play in the lives of Korean American you...

PR Women with Influence: Breaking Through the Ethical and Leadership Challenges makes a unique and timely contribution by exploring how women in p...

PR Women with Influence: Breaking Through the Ethical and Leadership Challenges makes a unique and timely contribution by exploring how women in p...

The essays in Playing Shakespeares Villains trouble our assumptions of whatand whoconstitutes villainy in Shakespeares works, through probing and p...

This book is based on the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse. It adopts a communication perspective to campaigns for public office. ...