Sports Communication: Dimensions, Theory, Applications, and Culture

Author(s): Alan Jay Zaremba

Sports Communication: Dimensions, Theory, Applications, and Culture by Alan Jay Zaremba examines the interdependent relationships between sport and communication that affect culture, economic, politics, team performance, educational systems, and social interaction.The NEW Second Edition of Sports Co...

Introduction to Mediated Communication: Social Media and Beyond

Author(s): David Keith Westerman, Nicholas David Bowman, Kenneth A Lachlan

Computers allow us to do things today that were barely dreamed of 60 years ago. Today, computers and networks provide us a personal space in which we can share our innermost thoughts and feelings on a large network with others. Introduction to Mediated Communication explains and discusses mediat...

So, What's Your Story? Discovering the Story in You

Author(s): Henry L Roubicek

Unlike the metamorphosis that occurs to a butterfly or a frog, telling a story will probably not dramatically alter your character, physical structure, or even circumstances. However, as a storyteller, you can imagine it did.Anchored by the need to write about storytelling in a human way, So, What’s...

Casing Organizational Communication

Author(s): Jason S Wrench

Casing Organizational Communication Demonstrates Communication Theory via Real-World Examples One of the biggest challenges organizational communication instructors face is that most students have minimal or no corporate experience. As such, showing students how to apply the theoretical content o...

Casing Interpersonal Communication: Case Studies in Personal and Social Relationships

Author(s): Dawn O Braithwaite, Kelly Rossetto, Jeffrey T. Child, Julia T Wood

Casing Interpersonal Communication puts the proven concept of active learning to work for interpersonal communication students by immersing students in real life situations. Easily adaptable to any existing interpersonal communication textbook, Casing Interpersonal Communication: is availab...

Communicating Professionally In Today's Workplace

Author(s): Robert Insley

Business communication instructors and trainers must prepare students and employees to communicate effectively and efficiently in the ever-changing and increasingly global business environment.Communicating in Business fuses a text with continuously-updated website resources that provide a comprehen...

Brave Space-Making: The Poetics & Politics of Storytelling

Author(s): Brittany L. Peterson, Lynn M. Harter

Storytelling is a meaning-making process with catalytic capacity.Brave Space-Making: The Poetics & Politics of Storytelling explores the generative potential of storytelling by focusing on its centrality in brave space-making. Brave spaces are spheres of possibility where participants undo in order ...

Stand Out: Business Communication Strategies That Work

Author(s): Cherilyn Boyer, Cheryl Brodersen, Mikel Chertudi, Caitlin Hills, Michael Mandel, Kimberly Marchesseault, Marisa Michaels, Diza Sauers

Business communication students are curious, insightful, engaged, and conscientious. They deserve educational resources that are thorough, useful, efficient, and fun.Stand Out: Business Communication Strategies that Work rises to the occasion, providing modern students with a text specifically tailo...

Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Business Writing

Author(s): Cherilyn Boyer, Cheryl Brodersen, Mikel Chertudi, Caitlin Hills, Michael Mandel, Kimberly Marchesseault, Marisa Michaels, Diza Sauers

For early-career professionals, your first contact with prospective employers or customers is usually through your writing.  Email introductions, cover letters, and everyday correspondence play a large and important role in your professional success.  Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Bus...

Media Law: A Guide to Understanding Mass Communication Law

Author(s): Mark P. Hanebutt

The health of the American democracy in the 21st Century will depend largely upon the health of American media. Information is the lifeblood of a free republic. Yet, the internet and social media have provided media professionals with new legal challenges regarding privacy, security and credibility....