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  • Climate Change Denial and Public Relations

    Strategic communication and interest groups in climate inaction

    Edited by Núria Almiron, Jordi Xifra ...
    Series series Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research
    This is the first book on climate change denial and lobbying that combines the ideology of denial and the role of anthropocentrism in the study of interest groups and communication strategy.Climate Change Denial and Public Relations: Strategic Communication and Interest Groups in Climate Inaction is a critical approach to climate change denial from a strategic communication perspective. The book ... Read more

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  • Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights

    A Comprehensive Guide

    Edited by Livia Holden ...
    Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights introduces readers to the theory and practice of cultural expertise in the resolution of conflicts and the claim of rights in diverse societies.Combining theory and case-studies of the use of cultural expertise in real situations, and in a great variety of fields, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the field of cultural expertise: its ... Read more

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  • The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research

    Volume 4

    Edited by Robert X. Browning ...
    Series series The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research
    C-SPAN is the network of record for US political affairs, broadcasting live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided––without editing, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view.C-SPAN Video Library, adjacent to Purdue University, archives copies of all ... Read more

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  • Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication

    Concepts and Connections

    by Sarah Young ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    What is surveillance, and why should we care? Why are those who use technology susceptible to being both agents and targets of contemporary surveillance practices? Working Through Surveillance and Technical Communication addresses these questions, discussing what it means to engage in surveillance, examining why this participation may be problematic, and offering entry points into assessing one's ... Read more

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  • Slogans

    Subjection, Subversion, and the Politics of Neoliberalism

    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    Focusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neoliberal governance, and civic subversion. Bringing together a collection of ethnographic studies from Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Abu Dhabi, Peru, and China, the contributors analyze the way in which slogans both convey and ... Read more

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  • Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Journalism

    Series series Routledge Research in Journalism
    This book examines the impact of the "Big Five" technology companies – Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft – on journalism and the media industries. It looks at the current role of algorithms and artificial intelligence in curating how we consume media and their increasing influence on the production of the news.Exploring the changes that the technology industry and automation ... Read more

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  • Spanish Short Stories for Beginners Book 1: Over 100 Dialogues and Daily Used Phrases to Learn Spanish in Your Car. Have Fun & Grow Your Vocabulary, with Crazy Effective Language Learning Lessons

    Spanish for Adults, #1

    Series Book 1 - Spanish for Adults
    WANT TO LEARN SPANISH THE EASIEST AND MOST EXCITING WAY POSSIBLE?YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!Learning a second language is a great mental exercise if you want to create new neural pathways in your brain, so you can stay quick and sharp. Plus, learning a widely spoken language – Spanish in particular – can open up a myriad of new opportunities for you in both life and work.One great obstacle that ... Read more

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  • The Hybrid Face

    Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

    Edited by Massimo Leone ...
    Series series Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
    This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face.The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face, exploring its biological and social functions, the concept of masks ... Read more

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  • Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism

    The 'end of history' has not taken place. Ideological and economic crisis and the status quo of neoliberal capitalism since 2008 demand a renewed engagement with Marx. But if we are to effectively resist capitalism we must truly understand Marx: Marxism today must theorise how communication technologies, media representation and digitalisation have come to define contemporary capitalism. There is ... Read more

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  • The Media Systems in Europe

    Continuities and Discontinuities

    Series series Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication
    This open access book traces the evolution of the European media landscape in the last 30 years, from 1990 to 2020. It is based on the theoretical classical hypotheses of regional media systems provided by Hallin and Mancini and at the same time puts them to test. The book further defines the proportions between geocultural patterns – national, regional, European, and global – to outline ... Read more

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  • The Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe

    Edited by Marina Costa Lobo ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
    This open access book focuses on the importance that EU politicization has gained in European democracies and the consequences for voting behaviour in six countries of the EU: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Most of the studies which research the way the EU is being legitimised focus on the European Parliament elections. In this book we argue that to understand how EU ... Read more

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  • Digitalization and Society

    This book presents a collection of papers by researchers from several different institutions on a wide range of digital issues.Digitalization describes the phenomenon of how knowledge is processed and the processed knowledge provides social transformations beyond digitization, interaction, annihilation of time and space, the phenomenon of usage in multimedia. Transformed is not only the society ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

    Series series Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
    This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that ... Read more

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  • Political Communication and COVID-19

    Governance and Rhetoric in Times of Crisis

    This edited collection compares and analyses the most prominent political communicative responses to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus within 27 nations across five continents and two supranational organisations: the EU and the WHO. The book encompasses the various governments’ communication of the crisis, the role played by opposition and the vibrancy of the ... Read more

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  • Mothers on Mothers

    Maternal Readings of Popular Television

    From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the varied and diverse ways in which expectant, new and existing mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television. The volume ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on Science and Culture

    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific discourse from the perspectives of rhetorical criticism, comparative cultural studies, narratology, ... Read more

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  • Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics

    This Open Access book examines the link between intercultural competence (IC) and pragmatics by asking frontline modern foreign language teachers in higher education teaching a variety of languages (e.g., Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish) how they conceptualise intercultural competence and which skills, competences and knowledge they consider important in their teaching ... Read more

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  • The C-SPAN Archives

    An Interdisciplinary Resource for Discovery, Learning, and Engagement

    Edited by Robert X. Browning ...
    Series series The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research
    The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and preserves all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, and research uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, from all House and Senate sessions in the US Congress, to hearings, presidential speeches, conventions, and campaign events, totaling over 200,000 hours, is contained in the video library and is immediately and freely accessible through ... Read more

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  • Exploring the C-SPAN Archives

    Advancing the Research Agenda

    Edited by Robert X. Browning ...
    Series series The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research
    Exploring the C-SPAN Archives is a collection of path-breaking research studies that use video drawn from the C-SPAN Archives. The book, based on the papers presented at a November 2014 conference, includes chapters that explore issues in presidential debates, minority representation, the presentation of the first ladies, stem research, and innovative ways to analyze video. The book is divided ... Read more

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  • Integrative Framing Analysis

    Framing Health through Words and Visuals

    by Viorela Dan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Communication Studies
    Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an integrative framing analysis. This approach is then demonstrated through a study investigating the way words and visuals are used to frame people living ... Read more

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  • Scientific Communication

    Practices, Theories, and Pedagogies

    Edited by Han Yu, Kathryn M. Northcut ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture
    This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and communication with publics, as well as changed and changing contexts and genres. The pedagogy section ... Read more

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  • Noncommunicable Diseases

    A Compendium

    Edited by Nick Banatvala, Pascal Bovet ...
    Noncommunicable Diseases: A Compendium introduces readers to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – what they are, their burden, their determinants and how they can be prevented and controlled.Focusing on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory disease and their five shared main risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and air ... Read more

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  • Communicating Linguistics

    Language, Community and Public Engagement

    Edited by Hazel Price, Dan McIntyre ...
    Increasingly, academics are called upon to demonstrate the value of linguistics and explain their research to the wider public. In support of this agenda, Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement provides an overview of the wide range of public engagement activities currently being undertaken in linguistics, as well as practically focused advice aimed at helping ... Read more

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  • Social Media Use In Crisis and Risk Communication

    Emergencies, Concerns and Awareness

    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online.Crises pose an immediate risk to life, health, and the environment and require urgent action. The public’s use of social media has important implications for contingency policies and practices. Social media have the potential for risk reduction and preventive interaction with the public.This book is about how ... Read more

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