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Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions examines a wide range of communication structures and control systems from low- to high-tech and advocates a media ecological view of human communication in a time of intelligent, learning machines.

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The 1980s witnessed a rapid growth of communication technology and an immense expansion of new media around the globe. The development of new information and communication technologies has emphasized again the importance of economic, social, political, and cultural institutions associated with the definitions of new technologies.

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Focusing on the role communication plays in the process of student socialization at the elementary and secondary school levels, this text examines the underlying theoretic framework. It contains chapters that explore the socialization process by youngsters at various grade levels or with special needs.

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This edited collection examines how geography and space, two key constructs of communication, affect the public understanding of religion.

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Communication pervades everything managers do. What most people mistakenly assume about communication can and does limit their effectiveness, professionally and personally. Communication is hard work. This book offers advice and thought-provoking questions on how to be an effective communicator.

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Communication Centers: A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management addresses what communication centers are and why they are valuable, examines their rich rhetorical roots, and offers advice to faculty who are asked to develop a communication center. Directors of established centers and peer tutors will also find valuable information.

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(This book) is a clearly written and well-documented review of social communication theory, and an alternative to texts which focus primarily on the psychology of interpersonal communication and tend to exclude the social perspective on understanding interpersonal communication.

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(This book) is a clearly written and well-documented review of social communication theory, and an alternative to texts which focus primarily on the psychology of interpersonal communication and tend to exclude the social perspective on understanding interpersonal communication.

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Investigates the modern history of communication in relation to the thinking of the political community in the United States. This title examines different representations of society and their political implications against the development of communication systems from the telegraph, to the telephone, to computer networks.

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Communication in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic centers around changes in communication as a byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific contexts include changes in our intimate relationships and changes in how media outlets communicate to audiences.

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Presenting pedagogical materials useful in the design and delivery of the most frequently taught communications courses, Lederman writes in a clear lucid fashion that assumes no previous knowledge of communication teaching. Part Two provides an expanded course analysis of 13 frequently found courses in undergraduate communications curricula.

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This book explores new and emerging ways to approach popular culturefrom case studies to emerging theoriesand examines how popular culture, media, and communication influence our everyday lives.

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Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture contains all new writings from many important established scholars as well as brilliant young scholars in the communication field. Contributors explore new and emerging ways to approach popular culture - from case studies to emergi...

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This collection, edited by Kamran Afary and Alice Marianne Fritz and authored by contributors with experience as educators, artists, and licensed therapists, integrates communication, therapy, and pedagogy to explore the role and efficacy of expressive arts therapies.

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This book provides critical feminist and communication insights into womens experiences of ovarian cancer. It argues for renewed critical examination of discourses around ovarian cancer diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and advocacy and reflections on how these discourses further hegemonic practices that undermine womens lived experiences.

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Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Contexts serves as a resource for anyone on the quest of diversifying and globalizing communication studies. It captures significant communication tendencies in several post-socialist countries and situates these tendencies within communication theory and application in a wide array of areas.

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This book addresses contemporary urban life through ethnographic examinations of mundane experience. International in scope, authors explore the city as image, movement, history, and relationship.

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This collection provides a comprehensive examination of the growth of the Korean media and communications industry in recent decades. The contributors analyze such topics as the Korean Wave, newspapers, broadcast television, film, gaming, and new communications technologies.

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Heyer approaches his subject as a problem in intellectual history and social thought, includes major twentieth-century thinkers who deal with the communications/history question, and concludes his study with an appraisal of the work of several contemporary researchers who have attempted detailed studies of specific media or historical periods.

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Providing perspectives on women's issues and the communication process, this book contends that communications is at important crossroads because of, rather than in spite of, women. A further challenge makes the case for breaking the hold and subsequent control by traditional mass media on women's issues.

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This book explores how women within the male-dominated Communist Party in the United States built a home for feminist ideology and practice during the early Cold War. It explores how, in articles and petitions, women carefully crafted voices that spoke to the partys concerns while challenging its theoretical and practical limitations..

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Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution profiles people in eight locations across the U.S. leading unique clean energy projects. This book provides unique insight into transitioning to solar, wind, and other types of clean, renewable power and the transformation of Americas energy system.