Now, more than ever, media surround, enhance, and affect our everyday experiences. Navigating the converged worlds of text, audio, and visual media--and understanding how they fit together--can be challenging. "Media & Culture" recognizes these challenges and makes the media industries accessible in print and online. The new edition reflects the latest and most relevant changes to the digital m…
Mass Communication: Living in a Media World" presents a highly accessible introduction to mass communication that equips students with the critical thinking skills they need to become savvy media consumers. To help students better retain the material, author Ralph E. Hanson uses a storytelling approach that weaves in examples drawn from everyday life. Readers are encouraged to consider the medi…
During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice--drawing persistent attention to what they called "fictitious capital." In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually dis…
edited by Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench.
This edition provides readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date look into the field of public communication campaigns. It includes a variety of recent campaign dimensions, such as community-orientated and entertainment-education campaigns
Gain a clear understanding of the fundamental concepts and applications behind operations and supply chain management with the reader-friendly approach in Collier/Evans' popular Operations and Supply Chain Management. The authors present detailed, solved problems throughout this edition to illustrate key formulas and computations as you learn to complete both manual and digital calculations usi…
The Thirteenth Edition of Advanced Financial Accounting is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and highly illustrated presentation of the accounting and reporting principles and procedures used in a variety of business entities. Every day, the business press carries stories about merger and acquisition mania, the complexities of modern business entities, new organizational structures for conducting b…
This volume explores communication in organizations and advances the theory that an organization is both a pragmatic and cognitive construction. It is written for scholars in organizational communication, org studies, management, and related fields.
The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication provides the first comprehensive review of research in the strategic communication domain and offers educators and graduate-level students a compilation of approaches to and studies of varying aspects of the field. The volume provides insights into ongoing discussions that build an emerging body of knowledge. Focusing on the metatheoretical, phi…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International COST 264 Workshop on Networked Group Communication, NGC'99, held in Pisa, Italy in November 1999. The 20 revised full papers presented are carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 49 submissions. Among the topics addressed are communication protocols, multicast communication, communication architectures, large-scal…