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'A Matter of Fact' explores the science of communicating and presents innovative ways to talk effectively (and empathetically) about contentious information. The discussion is based on contemporary examples such as immunisation, the gender pay gap, and climate change.

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A celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.

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From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. Patchen Barss breaks the embarrassed silence to tell the history of what's really been driving communications technology - and where it will drive it next.

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Presents concepts written by communication and cultural theorists, such as Saussure, LZvi-Strauss, de Certeau, McLuhan, Postman, and many others. This guide, in fifty short segements, covers a range of important ideas from psychoanalysis and semiology to humor, otherness, and nonverbal communication, for anyone interested in how we communicate.

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This book looks at British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1975 through 1991, during which Mrs. Thatcher was Conservative Party Leader and then Prime Minister. Janet Fallon emphasizes her rhetorical appeals to enact a vision of social, economic, and political change in Britain.

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This book looks at British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1975 through 1991, during which Mrs. Thatcher was Conservative Party Leader and then Prime Minister. Janet Fallon emphasizes her rhetorical appeals to enact a vision of social, economic, and political change in Britain.

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A Communication Universe offers a new approach to theorizing the nature of communication which is conceptualized as transformations of a space-time continuum of meaning. Igor E. Klyukanov also shows how each transformation can be best discussed in terms of certain theories of ...

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This book describes the available options, and the rationale for selecting among them, for observing, measureing or assessing process of communication.

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This book provides a critical history of runaway production, a phrase used by Hollywood production labor to describe the outsourcing of film work to foreign locations. Beginning with its inception in the 1940s, Camille Johnson-Yale argues that runaway production represents Hollywoods historical evolution from a place to a global commodity.

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This edited volume covers the various research and application of narratives for health and well-being, focusing on individual, family, and community uses of narrative.

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Their book thus explores ways in which new channels of communication and new uses of information and intelligence will change corporations, and how these changes can be anticipated now in an organization's strategic planning, crisis management, benchmarking, reverse engineering, and defensive intelligence activities.

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This book establishes Herbert G. Klein as a formative figure in the Nixon White House. His contributions to Nixons press strategies and their subsequent impact on the presidents actions have been overshadowed in scholarly literature. It explores the enduring conflict between journalistic truth and presidential image.

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In A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Gifts, Eberhardinger discusses how gift character is one of the only qualities that individuate us as social beings on Earth. The horizon and rhetorical power of gift character offers discursive revelations about communication and the human condition.

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This book deconstructs the 2016 campaign appeals of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to disenfranchised and polarized publics at opposite ends of the political spectrum through a rhetoric of divisive partisanship grounded in antipolitics. These ultimately contributed to the defeat of Hillary Clinton and a decline in American democratic discourse.

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This critical ethnography describes the context, vision, and social change tactics of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas. It explicates the important roles of intergroup alliances, strategic use of language, and arts programming as a means of connecting personal consciousness-raising to collective agency.

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This critical ethnography describes the context, vision, and social change tactics of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas. It explicates the important roles of intergroup alliances, strategic use of language, and arts programming as a means of connecting personal consciousness-raising to collective agency.

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This book shows how traditional notions of the processes and products of creative adaptation are evolving online. It provides a vocabulary to analyze, discuss, and theorize about the implications of online forms of adaptation and highlights the potential and possible ethical quandaries of adaptation online.

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This book considers teens social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. It investigates how young women use social media to address, mediate, and negotiate the struggles they face in their daily lives as minors, females, and racial minorities.