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The title of Donald Blohowiak's engrossing and highly informative new book reflects the often strained relationship between two of America's most powerful institutions: the news media and business.

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Nonverbal Communication in Political Debates presents a framework for understanding the role of nonverbal behavior in political debates, including an examination of candidates attempts to undermine opponents while presenting themselves as likeable. Theory and historical examples underline the importance of nonverbal elements in political contests.

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This book presents a framework for understanding the role of nonverbal behavior in political debates, including an examination of candidates attempts to undermine opponents while presenting themselves as likeable. Theory and historical examples underline the importance of nonverbal elements in political contests.

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This book explores contemporary medias reliance on nostalgia in video games, movies, streaming sites, and even social media in their attempt to attract audiences of all generations. The book is interdisciplinary in approach and looks at the implications of this mediated past-focus on our cultural identities and our perception of memory itself.

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This book describes what communication has to do with the nature of being human, and what being human has to do with communication.

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This book explores how online therapy communities offer an accessible space that is not confined by economic abilities, geographical barriers, or familial restraints. Scholars of communication, sociology, and psychology will find this book of particular interest.

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Structural research in many ways is the most narrowly based of all the approaches to organizational communication. This book seeks to broaden the perspective by discussing the heuristic value of each of the four major approaches for examining the larger concept of structure.

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What kinds of industries, occupations, and organizational behaviors have been presented on prime time television

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A witty, personal and entertaining reflection on the history and meaning of paper during the (passing) era of its universal importance.

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This book explores television's efforts to remain culturally relevant, socially significant, and commercially viable in a changing media environment. It traces its adaptation to the digital era and television's attempts to appeal to its audience by using televisual strategies to simulate interactivity and viewer participation.

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Parasocial Politics explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between the real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies analyzes how actual consumers read the text and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.

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This book argues that the point of critical communication pedagogy otherwise isnt to instill critical sensibilities into our teaching, but to draw on lived experiences as grounds for more effective uses of communication to intervene in oppressive relations across (in)formal pedagogical contexts and in service of liberatory change.

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They also discuss the power of performance to shape personal and cultural identity.

The first two chapters explore the ritual nature of performance in two different cultural contexts: an African-American church service and an Appalachian storytelling event of the legendary Ray Hicks.

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This edited collection focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to the pandemic have impacted human communication and the communication discipline as a whole. Contributors represent a diverse range of sub-disciplines within the communication field.

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This book provides listening researchers, educators, and practitioners with an analysis of listening behavior from current perspectives developed by scholars concerned with the way humans process oral messages.

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This book provides listening researchers, educators, and practitioners with an analysis of listening behavior from current perspectives developed by scholars concerned with the way humans process oral messages.

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In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet the author presents Phillis Wheatley as a preacher and theologian committed to transforming her world through her poetry. The result is a prophetic message of hope for the oppressed and corrective instruction for the institutional power structures.