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Engaging Theories in Family Communication - Multiple Perspectives (Hardcover): Dawn O. Braithwaite, Leslie A Baxter Engaging Theories in Family Communication - Multiple Perspectives (Hardcover)
Dawn O. Braithwaite, Leslie A Baxter
R5,686 Discovery Miles 56 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

To date, scholars from disciplines other than communication have dominated the study of family communication, and theory has never been positioned as the centerpiece of a book dealing with this subject matter. Engaging Theories in Family Communication covers uncharted territory in its field, as it is the first book on the market to deal exclusively with family communication theory. Its editors (Dawn O. Braithwaite and Leslie A. Baxter) and contributors (including Valerie Manusov, Tamara Golish, Fran Dickson, Julia Wood, Kory Floyd, Sandra Petronio, Beth LePoire, Kathleen Galvin, Mary Ann Fitzpatrick, and Anita Vangelisti) compose a veritable Who's Who in the family communication field. As a core text or a companion text to other topically-based family communication texts, Engaging Theories in Family Communication is written at the level that advanced undergraduate and graduate students can understand, and it will be a valuable resource for scholars, and have applicability and interest coming from family studies, sociology, and psychology as well. Key Features: There is no other book on the market that focuses specifically on family communication theories.Twenty theories, both classical and cutting-edge, each covered in a separate chapter in the volume, each dealing with: (1) purpose of the theory, (2) major features as relevant to the understanding of family communication, (3) how the chapter fits into the section in which the editors have placed it (theories in family communication, theories of communication, theories of family communication), (4) how this theory has been used to understand communication in the family and how this theory could be used to understand communication in the family, (5) strengths and limitations of the theory to shed light on family communication, and (6) research directions for future researchers using this theory The editors (Braithwaite and Baxter) and contributors represent a virtual "Who's Who" of leading scholars in the field of family communication

Applying Relational Sociology - Relations, Networks, and Society (Hardcover, New): Francois Depelteau, C. Powell Applying Relational Sociology - Relations, Networks, and Society (Hardcover, New)
Francois Depelteau, C. Powell
R1,949 Discovery Miles 19 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From networks to fields to figurations to discourses, relational ideas have become common in social science, and a distinct relational sociology has emerged over the past decade and a half. But so far, this paradigm shift has raised as many questions as it answers. Just what are 'relations', precisely? How do we observe and measure them? How does relational thinking change what we already know about society? What new questions does it invite us to ask? This volume and its companion volume Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues bring together, for the first time, the leading experts and up-and-coming scholars in the field to address fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.

Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Luis Reyes-Galindo, Tiago Ribeiro... Intercultural Communication and Science and Technology Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Luis Reyes-Galindo, Tiago Ribeiro Duarte
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This timely and engaging book addresses communicative issues that arise when science and technology travel across socio-cultural boundaries. The authors discuss interactions between different scientific communities; scientists and policy-makers; science and the public; scientists and artists; and other situations where science clashes with other socio-cultural domains. The volume includes theoretical proposals of how to deal with intercultural communication related to science and technology, as well as rich case studies that illustrate the challenges and strategies deployed in these situations. Individual studies explore Europe, Latin America, and Africa, thus including diverse Global North and South contexts.

Rural Community Libraries in Africa (Hardcover): Valeda F. Dent, Geoff Goodman, Michael Kevane Rural Community Libraries in Africa (Hardcover)
Valeda F. Dent, Geoff Goodman, Michael Kevane
R4,837 Discovery Miles 48 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Around the word, in developed as well as developing countries, libraries play an important role in the dissemination of knowledge. The availability of information resources can often mean the difference between poverty and prosperity, particularly in underdeveloped African communities. Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts investigates the relationship between local libraries and community development. From the historical roots of rural libraries to their influence on the literacy, economy, and culture of the surrounding region, this book will present academics, researchers, and, most importantly, librarians with crucial insight into the tangible benefits of rural community libraries and the obstacles they must overcome.

Ideology and Modern Culture - Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication (Hardcover): J. B. Thompson Ideology and Modern Culture - Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication (Hardcover)
J. B. Thompson
R2,191 Discovery Miles 21 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.

Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally - have failed to deal adequately with the nature of mass communication and its role in the modern world. In order to overcome this deficiency, Thompson undertakes a wide-ranging analysis of the development of mass communication, outlining a distinctive social theory of the mass media and their impact.

Polarization - Rhetorical Strategies in the Tea Party Network (Hardcover): Alan Fortuna Polarization - Rhetorical Strategies in the Tea Party Network (Hardcover)
Alan Fortuna
R3,853 Discovery Miles 38 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The concept of polarization has become an important topic of interest in politics, society, and discourse around the world today. In the European Union (EU), polarizing rhetoric has driven politics into divided camps on issues ranging from immigration to economic integration. In the United States, polarization has become a universal buzzword, and significant research has been done on it as a political and sociological phenomenon. But there has been little scholarly work on polarization as a communicative phenomenon since the late 1970s. At the same time, holes remain in contemporary rhetorical theory regarding the concept of the orator. In short, the discipline lacks a clearly defined category to deal with strategic communication by collective entities such as social and political movements. This work fills both gaps at once. It focuses on polarization as a rhetorical strategy that seeks to create division and solidarity in audiences. In doing so, it establishes and develops new theoretical categories for contemporary rhetoric, updates and refines existing work on polarization as a communicative phenomenon, and illustrates the utility of new concepts by providing a case study involving the tea party network in the United States.

A New Archetype for Competitive Intelligence (Hardcover): John J. McGonagle, Carolyn M. Vella A New Archetype for Competitive Intelligence (Hardcover)
John J. McGonagle, Carolyn M. Vella
R2,776 Discovery Miles 27 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

McGonagle and Vella maintain that competitive intelligence as we know it is just the first step toward the creation of true corporate intelligence. 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. In doing so, they introduce readers to new techniques, such as shadow benchmarking and fractal management analysis. Readable, with useful checklists, forms, reminders, and drawing from real world cases, this book will be essential reading for executives in the public and private sectors, and their colleagues in the academic business community.

Vella and McGonagle premise their book on the evidence that modern companies throughout the world are undergoing radical, involuntary transformations, the result of an explosion of raw information suddenly available to them. Not only does this demand new ways to collect, process, and use information, but also a new way to look at and link information sources that until now have been unconnected. After discussing the importance of intelligence today and its greater importance tomorrow, Vella and McGonagle develop the concept of Cyber-Intelligence(TM), then show how it applies to strategy-creation, marketing, crisis management, benchmarking, and other organizational functions. They turn next to data gathering in the context of their Cyber-Intelligence(TM) concept, ending with a thoughtful discussion of where C-I is going next.

Conceptualizing Relational Sociology - Ontological and Theoretical Issues (Hardcover, New): C. Powell, F. Depelteau Conceptualizing Relational Sociology - Ontological and Theoretical Issues (Hardcover, New)
C. Powell, F. Depelteau
R3,836 Discovery Miles 38 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From networks to fields to figurations to discourses, relational ideas have become common in social science, and a distinct relational sociology has emerged over the past decade and a half. But so far, this paradigm shift has raised as many questions as it answers. Just what are 'relations', precisely? How do we observe and measure them? How does relational thinking change what we already know about society? What new questions does it invite us to ask? This volume and its companion volume Applying Relational Sociology: Networks, Relations, and Society bring together, for the first time, the leading experts and up-and-coming scholars in the field to address fundamental questions about what relational sociology is and how it works.

Doing Research on Women's Communication - Perspectives on Theory and Method (Hardcover, New): Kathryn Carter, Carole... Doing Research on Women's Communication - Perspectives on Theory and Method (Hardcover, New)
Kathryn Carter, Carole Spitzack
R2,782 Discovery Miles 27 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A critique of conventional approaches to communication research, the authors argue that the impact of gender on research practives has been ignored. By exploring gender issues, and conducting applied research in the areas of mass and interpersonal communication, therapeutic interaction, and rhetoric, they critique traditional scholarship and offer novel alternatives. The authors take intact theories and methods and show their applicability (or lack thereof) to the study of women's communication. The adaptations allow researchers to conduct more accurate, sensitive, and theoretically sound analyses of womens' communication than those promoted by traditional paradigms.

Thinking about Friendship - Historical and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover): Damian Caluori Thinking about Friendship - Historical and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)
Damian Caluori
R2,656 R1,980 Discovery Miles 19 800 Save R676 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It's hard to imagine a good life without friends. But why is friendship so valuable? What is friendship at all? What unites friends and distinguishes them from others? Is the preference given to friends rationally and morally justifiable? This collection examines answers given by classic philosophers and offers new answers by contemporary thinkers.

Media, Diaspora and Conflict - Nationalism and Identity amongst Turkish and Kurdish Migrants in Europe (Hardcover): Janroj... Media, Diaspora and Conflict - Nationalism and Identity amongst Turkish and Kurdish Migrants in Europe (Hardcover)
Janroj Yilmaz Keles
R4,234 Discovery Miles 42 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For migrant communities residing outside of their home countries, various transnational media have played a key role in maintaining, reviving and transforming ethnic and religious identities. A vital element is how media outlets report and represent ethno-national conflict in the home country. Janroj Yilmaz Keles here examines how this plays out among Kurdish and Turkish communities in Europe. He offers an analysis of how Turkish and Kurdish migrants in Europe react to the myriad mediated narratives. A vital element is how media outlets report and represent the ethno-national conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish PKK.Janroj Yilmaz Keles here offers an examination of how Turkish and Kurdish migrants in Europe react to the myriad narratives that arise. Taking as his starting point an analysis of the nature of nationalisms in the modern age, Keles shows how language is often a central element in the struggle for hegemony within a state. The media has become a site for the clash of representations in both Turkish and Kurdish languages, especially for those based in the diaspora in Europe. These 'virtual communities', connected by television and the internet, in turn influence and are influenced by the way the conflict between the Turkish state and subaltern Kurds is played out, both in the media and on the ground.By looking at first, second and third generations of Turkish and Kurdish populations in Europe, Keles highlights the dynamics of migration, settlement and integration that often depend on the policies of each settlement country. Since these settlement states often see the proliferation of such media as an impediment to integration, Media, Diaspora and Conflict offers timely analysis concerning the nature of diasporas and the construction of identity.

Cogent Communication - Overcoming Reading Overload (Hardcover): A.Neil Yerkey Cogent Communication - Overcoming Reading Overload (Hardcover)
A.Neil Yerkey
R1,952 Discovery Miles 19 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance - The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora (Hardcover, New): D. Stone Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance - The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora (Hardcover, New)
D. Stone
R1,938 Discovery Miles 19 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of industrial public-private partnerships, she addresses how, and why, international organisations and global policy actors need to incorporate ideas, expertise and scientific opinion into their 'global programmes'. Rather than assuming that the encouragement for 'evidence-informed policy' in global and regional institutions of governance is an indisputable public good, she queries the influence of expert actors in the growing number of part-private or semi-public policy networks.

Intelligence Communication in the Digital Era: Transforming Security, Defence and Business (Hardcover): R. Arcos, R. Pherson Intelligence Communication in the Digital Era: Transforming Security, Defence and Business (Hardcover)
R. Arcos, R. Pherson
R4,061 Discovery Miles 40 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited volume argues that producers of analysis need to shift from producing static, narrative products to much more dynamic, digitally-based platforms in order to remain competitive and relevant.

Technologies of Power (Hardcover): Majid Tehranian Technologies of Power (Hardcover)
Majid Tehranian
R2,788 Discovery Miles 27 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Within a comparative, theoretical and global network, this volume focuses on the impact of information technologies on the prospects for democratic development. It deals with the hopes as well as the fears for democracy and development that have emerged out of the current technological revolution in information and communication. The volume argues that information technologies have historically played a dual and paradoxical role in political formations. Generally, the Big Media (the national press, broadcasting and mainframe computers) have served the centralizing forces, while the Small Media (the alternative press, small scale audio-video production and transmission facilities and increasingly personal computing networking) have provided the channel for community resistance and mobilization. The volume argues that the new information technologies, like the old, should be viewed neither as technologies of freedom nor of tyranny but primarily as technologies of power that lock into existing or emerging techno-structures of power.

Communications at the Crossroads - The Gender Gap Connection (Hardcover): Ramona R. Rush, Donna Allen Communications at the Crossroads - The Gender Gap Connection (Hardcover)
Ramona R. Rush, Donna Allen
R2,806 Discovery Miles 28 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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. They challenge that women's language, reality, orientations, and experiences are different from those of men. A further challenge makes the case for breaking the hold and subsequent control by traditional mass media on women's issues.

Pieces - Towards a Revisioning of Communication/Life (Hardcover, New): Lee Thayer Pieces - Towards a Revisioning of Communication/Life (Hardcover, New)
Lee Thayer
R2,771 Discovery Miles 27 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work focuses on communication and how humans talk about things. It also explores how we conceive of, understand, and think about communication.

Mastering the Changing Information World (Hardcover): Martin E. Ernst, Anthony G. Oettinger, Anne W. Branscomb Mastering the Changing Information World (Hardcover)
Martin E. Ernst, Anthony G. Oettinger, Anne W. Branscomb
R2,809 Discovery Miles 28 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The introduction of new technologies exerts a profound influence on our ways of thinking about current businesses and issues. They quickly make obsolete the products and services that these businesses provide. Nowhere has this been more evident in the early 1990s and the decades before than in the information industries, the focus of this book.

Laugh like an Egyptian - Humour in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel (Hardcover): Cristina Dozio Laugh like an Egyptian - Humour in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel (Hardcover)
Cristina Dozio
R3,669 Discovery Miles 36 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Egyptians are known among the Arabs as awlad al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muhammad Mustajab, Khayri Shalabi, and Hamdi Abu Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective. Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.

Culture and Technology in the New Europe - Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations (Hardcover): Laura Lengel Culture and Technology in the New Europe - Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations (Hardcover)
Laura Lengel
R2,831 Discovery Miles 28 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Culture and Technology in the New Europe presents the insights of an international group of academic researchers and media practitioners who examine the impact of technology on East Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States and the Russian Federation. Drawing from the expertise of authors from and working in the region, the book addresses concerns that the New Europe faces at the eve of the Third Millennium and a decade after the fall of communist rule. Such concerns include access to information and communication technology and the culturally-specific discourses articulated through media and technology. While the book focuses on information and communication reforms, and the development of a participatory democracy are examined. The book is distinguished by diverse studies ranging from the problems of Cyber Hate from and about the New Europe, to online activism in war-torn Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia, to how digital media art articulates new cultural and creative freedoms once silenced by the Soviet regime. Finally, the book looks to the future of media, technology and communication in the New Europe, particularly the gaps between post-socialist nations and those more technologically advantaged, and how these gaps can be narrowed or eradicated in the Third Millennium.

The World Needs Dialogue! Four - Putting Dialogue to Work (Hardcover): Helena Wagener, Cliff Penwell The World Needs Dialogue! Four - Putting Dialogue to Work (Hardcover)
Helena Wagener, Cliff Penwell; Foreword by Peter Garrett
R1,248 Discovery Miles 12 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ways of Friendship - Anthropological Perspectives (Paperback): Amit Desai, Evan Killick The Ways of Friendship - Anthropological Perspectives (Paperback)
Amit Desai, Evan Killick
R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.

Imagining the Cosmopolitan in Public and Professional Writing (Hardcover): Anne Surma Imagining the Cosmopolitan in Public and Professional Writing (Hardcover)
Anne Surma
R1,892 Discovery Miles 18 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Surma develops a critical cosmopolitan orientation to public and professional writing. Combining threads from ethical, political, communication, sociological, feminist, rhetorical and discourse theories, she examines the influences and impacts of writing in a range of contexts - government, corporate, organizational and community. Case-study examples illustrate the ways in which writing may be mobilized to strengthen our connections with others, and to reflect on how writing practices might entrench or transform our positions as both citizens of the world and members of situated communities.

Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect - Hard to Accept? (Hardcover): J. Dobbernack, T. Modood Tolerance, Intolerance and Respect - Hard to Accept? (Hardcover)
J. Dobbernack, T. Modood
R1,964 Discovery Miles 19 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity that is a feature of European societies today, pluralism is experienced in new and challenging ways. In many places, an urban cosmopolitan mix sits side by side with group-based expressions of faith and culture. The debate about the types of 'acceptance' that these situations require tend to follow new patterns. Increasing openness and respect for some may rest upon a reinforced intolerance towards others. This complicates and challenges our understanding of what it means for societies to be accepting, tolerant or respectful of cultural diversity in its various forms. This volume seeks to meet this challenge with perspectives that consider new dynamics towards tolerance, intolerance and respect.

Memory and Political Change (Hardcover, New): A. Assmann, L. Shortt Memory and Political Change (Hardcover, New)
A. Assmann, L. Shortt
R1,531 Discovery Miles 15 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions.

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