Communication Studies: New Books 2021-22

Contemplates the resurgence of the "radical romantic comedy" , new approaches in genre hybridity and serial narrative, and how recent rom-coms deal with divisive issues and contemporary sexual mores.

Explores how Hollywood films have traditionally stereotyped Arab Americans, how Arab Americans are portrayed in Arab films, and how they are portrayed in the works of Arab American filmmakers themselves.

Examines case studies of eloquence in the service of truth including epideictic, forensic, and deliberative eloquence, using filmic narratives and dialogic communication between artists and writers, concluding with a study of the sublime and how it is evoked with awe.

Examines movies from Gone with the Wind to Black Panther--using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture, civil rights, and racism in America

Covers such critical topics as trust, stakeholder engagement, misinformation, messaging, and audience perceptions in the context of stress to help readers communicate effectively in high risk situations.

Insulting the president is an American tradition. This book includes over five hundred insults aimed at American presidents that reflect political and cultural context of their times.

Covers enduring debates in ethics such as privacy, copyright, libel, consent, surveillance and the necessity for truthful discourse as well newer conflicts such as tracking of handheld devices and aritifical intelligence.

Using hundreds of pictures made by amateurs, artists, and commercial photographers, this book uncovers the origins of fifty photographic trends and investigates their original appeal, their decline, and sometimes their reuse by later generations of photographers

In person or online, people wield language to attack others for their race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or other aspects of identity. This book investigates legal approaches and suggestions for limiting the spread of hate speech.

Examines the ethical issues that arise when famous people speak out on issues unrelated to their own work and demonstrates that justifiable speaking requires celebrity speakers, journalists, and audiences to consider ethical issues regarding platform, intent, and harm.

Demystifies exactly how digital influence works, interrogates the phenomenon, analyzes its problems, and forecasts its future to give readers a clear understanding as to the problems now faced by businesses and brands around the world, and how to overcome them.

Explores how the case for amateurism evolved from a moral argument to one concerned with financially and legally protecting college sports and the NCAA.

Shedding light on the long history of today's disputes over disinformation, Not Exactly Lying is a timely consideration of what happens to public life when news is not exactly true.

Early American journalism included a mix of truthful reporting and tall tales. In the 20th century, journalists established professional norms and the goal of objectivity. This book explores how audiences have argued over what news is real and why it matters for democracy.

This work provides an authoritative overview of the composition of public opinion in America, the methodologies by which public opinion is measured, and the importance of polling to U.S. politics, policy, and culture.

How Americans talk, deliberate, and fight about guns is vital to how guns are marketed, used, and regulated. This book examines how the rhetoric around guns is used both to maintain and challenge the deadly status quo of gun violence in the U.S.

Drawing upon a year-long study of journalism in Tasmania, Bill Dodd develops a tripartite theory of solutions journalism at the intersection of three core concepts: hope, leadership, and expertise.

Probes sports documentaries' cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts.

Introduces non-specialists to the essential content in Bible and Film, and to some of the most common and important scholarly methods.

One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and history and then shows us how we can fight back.

An expert analysis of Abraham Lincoln's three most powerful speeches, the Gettysburg Address, the Second Inaugural, and the Lyceum Address, reveals his rhetorical genius and his thoughts on our national character.

Draws on ethnographic case studies of three news organizations to reveal how journalists' assumptions about their audiences shape their approaches to their audiences.

Analyzing a wide set of TV and film genres, covers the complex ways that media responded to the #MeToo movement, including giving voice to silenced stories, but also making facile references that can blunt the potential for change, or even fuel cultural backlash.

Provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their gender but also their race, religion, ability, physical attributes, and political status.

Provides the tools needed to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed research using methods that include interviewing, focus groups, historical research, oral histories, ethnography and participant observation, textual analysis and digital research.

Shows us why the voice is the most efficient, effective means of communication ever devised, distinguishing from all other species and communicating meaning, and also mood, sexual preference, age, income, even psychological and physical illness.

An authoritative discussion of user comments and moderation in digital journalism, examining how user comments have disrupted the field of journalism and how many news organizations have abandoned commenting features altogether.

Tells how a college dropout pioneered a new category of reporting and galvanized citizen journalists--working together from their computer screens around the globe--to crack major cases.

Shows how youth participation--ranging from digital citizenship initiatives to the beats of hip-hop culture-- can be at the forefront of fostering ecologies of artistic and grassroots engagement in order to reshape civic life.