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Understanding Human Communication
Now in its ninth edition, this classic book retains the features that have made it the best-selling introductory human communication text in the field: an engaging and reader-friendly sty an inviting visual design that includes high-interest marginalia on virtually every pa up-to-date information on technology, gender, and cultural diversity; and everyday applications based on solid research and theory. Maintaining the quality of presentation and student-focused pedagogy that have characterized previous editions, Understanding Human Communication, Ninth Edition, incorporates updated examples and coverage of current communication theory. It continues to equip students with effective communication skills that will make a difference in their everyday lives. Book jacket.
Making Connections
The Fourth Edition has been updated, expanded, and reorganized to reflect the changing field of relational communication. New essays address emerging topics such as anti-comforting messages, friendship in urban tribes, and discourse-dependent families. The new edition also contains a new section on the dark side of communication with articles on topics such as lying and irresolvable conflicts. Three out of four of the essays in the technology section are new, reflecting current thinking in Internet-based interpersonal relationships, communication norms in an online support group, and how student use of technology challenges existent communication theories. A complete subject index has been a...
Mass Media in a Changing World
This engaging text introduces students to the world of media through a unique structure that makes the material easily intelligible and meaningful to their lives. Each chapter is divided into three-part narrative sections: history, industry, and controversy. Mass Media in a Changing World is the story of where the media came from, why they do what they do, and why those actions cause controversies. The Third Edition features updated statistics and current examples including the selling of the war in Iraq, shock jock Michael Savage, the work being done to save Darfur and much more!
Technology and Psychological Well-being
This book considers the impact of technology on our lives and ways to ensure technology enhances, rather than damages, our psychological well-being.
Update Edition Mass Media in a Changing World
Mass Media in a Changing World helps students understand media in today's world through a unique structure that makes the material easily intelligible and meaningful to their lives. Each chapter is divided into three-part narrative sections: history, industry, and controversy. This text tells the story of where the media came from, why they do what they do, and why those actions cause controversies. Students will develop an ability to analyze the ways in which we use mass media to change the world. The updated third edition includes current examples (often found in the new close-ups and new chapter openers), updated statistics, and rewritten sections that provide a treatment of new concepts and events that have evolved over the last year.
Media Criticism in a Digital Age
Media Criticism in a Digital Age introduces readers to a variety of critical approaches to audio and video discourse on radio, television and the Internet. It is intended for those preparing for electronic media careers as well as for anyone seeking to enhance their media literacy. This book takes the unequivocal view that the material heard and seen over digital media is worthy of serious consideration. Media Criticism in a Digital Age applies key aesthetic, sociological, philosophical, psychological, structural and economic principles to arrive at a comprehensive evaluation of programming and advertising content. It offers a rich blend of insights from both industry and academic authoritie...
Mass Media in a Changing World
Accompanying DVD-ROM contains ... : Media tours videos: takes students on a virtual field trip into the actual facilities and daily operations of a television and radio station, a newspaper, a public relations company, and Vibe magaaine, [and] Online learning center: includes self-tests, electronic Timeline of Mass Media Milestones study guide, Web Excursions, additional Internet exercises, recommended readings, movies, and documentaries."--Page 4 of cover.
