Lying and Deception in Human Interaction

Author(s): Mark Knapp, William Earnest, Darrin Griffin, Matthew McGlone

The emergence of social media, the digital revolution, and the today’s political climate have all brought renewed attention to deception as a human communication phenomenon. Lying and Deception in Human Interaction presents deception from a variety of perspectives.  The text primarily focuses on ...

Communication & Human Behavior

Author(s): Brent D Ruben, Lea Stewart

A knowledge of human behavior helps us understand ourselves, our actions, our motives, our feelings, and our aspirations… Communication and Human Behavior portrays a broad and colorful landscape of the field, outlines the history of communication study, and focuses on communication as a basic lif...

Writing and Reporting for Digital Media

Author(s): Raul Reis, KATHERINE V. MACMILLIN, Michael Scott Sheerin

One of the effects of digital technologies in our lives has been to speed up the pace of everything—from the way we communicate with each other to the way we receive and process news. This sense of speed, urgency and immediacy, which was always part of news production, has been taken almost to an ex...

Public Relations Principles: Bridging Theory to Practice

Author(s): Shawn Wahl, Michelle Maresh-Fuehrer

New Second Edition Now Available!Designed as a core textbook for introductory public relations courses, Public Relations Principles: Strategies for Professional Success provides students with a solid foundation in public relations in a variety of contexts.With possible uses in various industries suc...

Casing Sport Communication

Author(s): Diana Tucker, Jason S Wrench

Groundbreaking Collection Now Available!Casing Sport Communication applies the proven concept of active learning to undergraduate and entry-level graduate courses in sport communication.Students engaged in case analysis learn to think, analyze, react, and evaluate so that they develop transferable c...

Insight into Innovation: Applying Communication Theory in Our Web 2.0 Lives

Author(s): Rebecca Curnalia

Lives are increasingly lived through mediated channels like smartphones and computers… Communication theory is more interesting for students if it fits with what they do every day: using and interacting via mediated channels like social networks, websites, texts, and e-mail. Insight into Innov...

International Public Debate Association Textbook

Author(s): International Public Debate Association

The International Public Debate Association was formally established in 1997 and has grown dramatically ever since. The association is comprised of competitors at all types of schools from community colleges to public and private universities across the country. The International Public Debate Assoc...

GenderSpeak: Communicating in a Gendered World - Concise Edition

Author(s): Diana K. Ivy

Contemporary Studies of Sexuality and Communication: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

Author(s): Jimmie Manning, Carey Noland

Our quality of life is inextricably linked to the quality of our communication and the quality of our personal relationships. The quality of sexual relationships has a significant bearing on our wellness, too.Contemporary Studies of Sexuality and Communication: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives i...

World of Rhetoric: Volume I

Author(s): Sam Perry, Sarah Walden

The use of rhetoric is both an art and a moral responsibility.World of Rhetoric: Volume I helps students comprehend the complexities of rhetoric through a multi-faceted lens. Through an examination of rhetoric’s birth in ancient Greece and its evolution over time, students learn how age-old rhetoric...