Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Organizational Listening
The Missing Essential in Public Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Organizations, which are central in contemporary industrialized and post-industrial societies, including government departments and agencies, corporations, and non-government organizations, claim to want and practice two-way communication, dialogue, and engagement with citizens, customers, employees,...
by John A. Courtright
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
This is a book about communication behavior: how we conceptualize it, observe it, measure it, and analyze it.
The 1970s and 1980s were times when communication behavior was a primary interest of many communication scholars. The aim of this book is to reignite some interest in and passion about how...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This volume presents state-of-the-art reporting on how to measure many of the key variables in health communication. While the focus is on quantitative measures, the editors argue that these measures are centrally important to the study of health communication. The chapters emphasize constructs, scales,...
Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture
Essays and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Theories help to troubleshoot gaps in our understanding, and to make sense of a world that is constantly changing. What this book tries to do, in part, is blur the lines between the differences between today’s college students – the millennial generation – and their professors, many of whom...
A Culture of Tough Jews
Rhetorical Regeneration and the Politics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
From brutal Nazi killers to Hanukkah heroes in the ’hood, tough Jews refute images of doomed Holocaust victims, wandering Jews of exile before them, and the post-war ‘nice Jewish boys’ who followed. They foster belligerent responses to polemics of fear and self-hatred, and as such, materialize...
Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education
Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This book spotlights six themes or «lenses» for understanding and analyzing education and its relation to oppression and anti-oppressive transformation. It brings together multiple perspectives on anti-oppressive education from various contexts, including K-12 schools, teacher education programs,...
by Leara D. Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book equips students and practicing journalists with information on why and how to implement a course of action for Peace Journalism. Secondary literature and primary examples are used within all chapters to offer a personal examination of the importance of applying concepts of Peace Journalism...
Global Cities and Immigrants
A Comparative Study of Chicago and Madrid
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Global Cities and Immigrants provides a detailed set of comparative case studies of the immigration policies of two global cities undergoing dramatic demographic changes. At the heart of this research are several theoretical questions. One is about the increased importance of municipal and local governments...
Television 2.0
Viewer and Fan Engagement with Digital TV
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Television 2.0 sets out to document and interrogate shifting patterns of engagement with digital television. Television content has not only been decoupled from the broadcast schedule through the use of digital video recorders (DVRs) but from broadcasting itself through streaming platforms such as...
Making Media Studies
The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making – not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement...
The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age
Revisiting a Critical Theory of Commercial Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This edited collection comprises foundational texts and new contributions that revisit the theory of the «audience commodity» as first articulated by Dallas Smythe. Contributors focus on the historical and theoretical importance of this theory to critical studies of media/communication, culture,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Research on the dark side of communication has typically been studied from a single standpoint confined to a specific context. As an intradisciplinary project, this volume transcends the traditional unilateral perspective and focuses on a wide range of communication topics across a variety of contexts....
News Evolution or Revolution?
The Future of Print Journalism in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
This book tells the story of modern-day newspapers by exploring the digital transition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune as a microcosm of the industry. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and professionals across a range of areas, it explores the economic, political, and social context of the move...
South Asia and Disability Studies
Redefining Boundaries and Extending Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Incorporating scholarship that addresses the social, economic, cultural, and historical facets of the experience of disability in South Asia, this book presents the reader with a comprehensive, cogent, and nuanced view of the constructions of disability in this region. In doing so, it focuses on the...