Public Speaking Guides

Portable phones are now miniature multi-media centers that can fit neatly in ones pocket, and media industries of all types are adapting content fo...

For more than a decade, girl power has been a cultural barometer, reflecting girlhoods ever-changing meanings. How did girl power evolve from a sub...

Todays world is in turmoil. Economic crises are bringing countries to the brink of ruin, and old models are being questioned. The same sense of cri...

The second edition of Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media has been extensively revised and expanded in order to systematically examine how r...

From high-tech kitchen gadgets and magazines to the Food Network, the last few decades have seen a huge rise in food-focused consumption, media, an...

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...

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

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...

Few periods of American history have been studied more extensively or debated more intensely than the last four decades of the eighteenth century, ...