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Contributing to a series on policy and research issues in new media, Baker (sociology, Ohio U.-Lancaster) adds to the literature on Internet studies by presenting her research on couples who met in cyberspace. Via an e-mail questionnaire, she studied their online meeting places, modes of communication (e.g. cyber-flirting), and offline meeting. Thr
Brings together an international group of leading scholars in the area of literacy education. They discuss and apply a range of contemporary theoretical positions to the materials and practices of literacy in a number of social and ideological settings, including schooling, literary studies, cross-cultural education, and popular culture and media.
This volume attempts to define the concept of dialogue and to indicate basic sources that can illuminate dialogue's potential, its limitations, and relevancy to communication theory.
Addresses the role creativity plays in writing centers. Beginning with the premise that creativity has the potential to make work and learning environments more productive - and possibly more dangerous - this title features ideals that complicate visions of what writing centers can and should be.
A work on communication apprehension, shyness, and reticence. It presents an introduction to the area for the novice. It offers coverage of intervention tactics and their relative effectiveness. It is suitable for those with an interest in phenomena that interfere with communication activities.
Provides a multilayered analysis into the politics of difference and how they played out in four public schools. This volume features stories which are written as a means inquiry into constraints and possibilities of working meaningfully with students who are often resistant untrusting.
Illuminates how content creators can systematically provide engaging journalism for today's empowered audiences. Contributors analyse a lexicon of how people define their media experiences. They then offer best practices and case studies for how a dozen of these rich experiences can make today's media brands relevant and important.
Explores the myriad configurations of Judaic influences in composition studies that are made manifest in the theory and pedagogy of radical/critical teaching, service-learning, and narratives of literacy, identity, and politics. This book explores how Judaic rhetorical texts can be used to reconstruct traditional rhetoric.
This text is an empirical and theoretical inquiry into what constitutes the ""new age"", looking at self-help therapy, holistic health, environmentalism, belief in paranormal phenomenon and other current tendencies considered to be ""new age"".
Health communication scholars both in the US and abroad, explore media-related aspects of AIDS. The books consensus is that whether that media is print, electronic, and/or visual, they all lie at the heart of understanding the messages we have, or perhaps have not, received about AIDS.
Offers an analysis of the origins, transformations, and prospects of the Western mentality behind genetic engineering and similar strategies for manipulating the basic elements of life. This book highlights alternative perspectives from other cultures and urges attention to the inexhaustible resourcefulness of life itself.
This is a historical overview of theory and research in the field of mass communication studies. It is an account of the scholarly discourses that have been concerned with mass communication within a period that extends from the early days of the press to the Internet and other advanced communication and information technologies.
Media consumption and communication technologies' appropriation become increasingly important in the formation of shared identities for populations spread across the globe. In exploring the trends, this book adopts a spatial approach and looks into the locations of diasporic life: the domestic, the public, the urban and the transnational space.
Presents studies that promote public dialogue and discussion and that demonstrate how communication consulting can be used to accomplish needed social change. This volume, along with the other volume, shows how scholars have engaged in communication activism to assist individuals, groups, organizations, and communities to secure social reform.
Scholars have been examining public representations of women and minorities and considering the impact of these representations. This book studies the first half of the 20th century, in period in which the current codes for women's behavior developed.
This work provides insight into managing different aspects of organizational diversity concerns. Its chapters address different facets of workplace conflicts and help the reader to understand and deal with diversity-related barriers.
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