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Understanding Humor through Communication explores the origin of humor and analyzes the function of humor in groups and societies. Meyer utilizes key theories and case studies to examine humor in persuasive, organizational, and interpersonal settings.

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Looking at knowledge as a shared resource: experts discuss how to define, protect, and build the knowledge commons in the digital age.

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This book argues that the unintended consequences of electronic medical records (EMRs) do more harm than goodnamely, that EMRs negatively impact health care providers, threaten patients safety, and bankrupt hospitals. The author examines ways in which EMRs fundamentally change emergency medicine practice and providersnot always for the better.

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This book examines how Black women display an authentic identity in the face of stereotyping intended to subjugate them and justify the mistreatment they experience. The author argues that both everyday and socially elite Black women can and do - utilize self-definition to disrupt inauthentic and negative portrayals of themselves.

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In this book, the authors describe and challenge the pervasive and often unconscious ease in our everyday communication. By both raising critical awareness of ease and introducing cognitive, emotional and communicative resources, the authors provide readers with strategies to engage in effective communication about difficult subjects.

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In this book, the authors describe and challenge the pervasive and often unconscious "ease" in our everyday communication. By both raising critical awareness of "ease" and introducing cognitive, emotional and communicative resources, the authors provide readers with strategies to engage in effective communication about difficult subjects.

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* The language of everyday deception stripped bare

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This book interrogates the altered nominating processes of the 2020 U.S. election, illustrating the importance of the national nominating convention, both as an ongoing custom that speaks to the unique political structure of the nation and as a source of valuable information that goes well beyond the explicit purposes conceptualized by the parties.

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This book explores how prominent sites across the National Mall remember US history, both individually and in concert with other sites throughout the Mall. Collectively, these sites reveal how the nation remembers itself and convey key elements of its collective nature.

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Conville has assembled a collection of essays that share a consideration of structure as it manifests itself in human communication.

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Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media.

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Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing addresses the ways in which camera-produced images are used to support governmental authority in contemporary Western culture.

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Public discourse receives the concerted attention of linguists, political analysts, and others involved with language as a persuasive tool of communication.

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Web 2.0 and the Political Mobilization of College Students investigates young adults political participation by looking at their online activities and the ways in which these forums help mobilize young adults to participate in their political system online and offline.

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Web 2.0 and the Political Mobilization of College Students investigates young adults political participation by looking at their online activities and the ways in which these forums help mobilize young adults to participate in their political system online and offline.

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When Communication Became a Discipline describes how speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication as central to their scholarly work. It tells the story of how they transformed themselves and established an academic discipline of communication.

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This books uses information to reveal the current interconnections between domestic and foreign economic, cultural and political developments in the information sector.

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In this book, authors mesh two philosophies about language: the whole language approach that is sweeping across reading/learning and current theory of language acquisition pervading the bilingual community.

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In this book, authors mesh two philosophies about language: the whole language approach that is sweeping across reading/learning and current theory of language acquisition pervading the bilingual community.

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By comparing the scholarship of both Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky with that of Harold Innis, and by making detailed use of Inniss neglected writings, including particularly Political Economy in the Modern State, Inniss media and communication scholarship is unfolded in new, startling, critical, yet ultimately appreciative ways.

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By comparing the scholarship of both Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky with that of Harold Innis, and by making detailed use of Inniss neglected writings, including particularly Political Economy in the Modern State, Inniss media and communication scholarship is unfolded in new, startling, critical, yet ultimately appreciative ways.

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Taking three women bishops as exemplars, this book argues that the concept of shalom offers a way for Christians to advocate for social justice in an increasingly multi-faith world.