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This book draws on Catherine Malabous work on plasticity, investigating the transformative power of sport both in its ability to positively shape and, conversely, to destroy. Foschia positions sport as the ontological and discursive force that shapes how we work, watch, and play

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This volume examines political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. It contains studies of political campaign communication using a wide range of empirical, rhetorical, and social science methodologies and reflects the growth and maturity of the discipline of political communication.

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This book analyzes political conversion stories as a communication strategy aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the public. Through key cases, it charts the historical and contemporary uses of this strategy as a type of civilreligious persuasion in public discourse, evaluating its features and functions in politics.

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This book is devoted to anticipating and addressing where the field of political humor and its effects will move in the next generation of scholarship, exploring the continued evolution of the study of political humor as well as the normative implications of these developments.

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This book explores how social media influenced presidential campaign rhetoric. Janet Johnson discusses media use in American presidential campaigns as well as social media campaigns for Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump.

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Examines the Agreement and its implementation through the eyes of the four major parties The Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP, Sinn Fein and the DUP and considers the role of smaller parties in the region. Each interpreted the Agreement in different ways and continued to use the situation to pursue their own distinctive goals and aims.

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Examines the Agreement and its implementation through the eyes of the four major parties The Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP, Sinn Fein and the DUP and considers the role of smaller parties in the region. Each interpreted the Agreement in different ways and continued to use the situation to pursue their own distinctive goals and aims.

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This book uses multiple methods to consider flaws in the current regulation of direct-to-consumer advertising, using Mercks launch of Gardasil as a primary case study. It offers a specific way forward for both regulators of Big Pharma as well as scholars of mass communication.

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This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies.

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This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies.

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Population Policy and Women's Rights presents a forceful argument for a more responsive approach to fertility limitation in developing countries--one that builds on women's concerns about their survival and security and strengthens women's rights.

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Population Policy and Women's Rights presents a forceful argument for a more responsive approach to fertility limitation in developing countries--one that builds on women's concerns about their survival and security and strengthens women's rights.

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Populism, Territories, Name Disputes, and Hyperreality: Greek Nationalism and the Macedonian Case explains why and how societal actors preserve, construct, and use different names to refer to the same territory, provoking external and internal conflicts for personal gains.

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Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: A Paradigm Shift discusses how COVID-19 upended the college and university pedagogical paradigm. This collection looks at what we thought we knew about good teaching, how those notions changed during the pandemic, and speculates on where we will go from here in our classrooms and on our campuses.

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This book introduces the concept of transnational critical communication pedagogy by interweaving critical communication pedagogy and critical intercultural communication methods. Contributors emphasize the importance of the role of geopolitics and postcolonial and global turns in power, articulation, voice, and oppression.

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The author seeks to broaden the debate on development by exploring how different local, regional and national actors respond to the changing discourses and practices of development through examining the case of Yacyreta hydroelectric project built jointly by Argentina and Paraguay.

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This book examines the historical forces that have shaped contemporary politics in the Global South, drawing from events in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. It provides insights on internal political processes and the international system and contributes an elemental theory of political development.

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In President Trump and the News Media Kuypers analyzes policy addresses by President Trump, comparing them with reporting through lenses of framing analysis and Moral Foundations Theory. Differences point to widespread journalistic bias. The effect of this bias on reportorial practices and the functioning of the American Republic is addressed.

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This book is the first to address the problem of economic concentration and monolopoly in the newspaper industry. Some of the chapters are written from an economic standpoint and deal with the factors that bring about this occurence with the resulting effect that economic conditions have on newspapers' content.