Guides: Communication Studies: New Books 2021-22

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After Happily Ever After by Maria San Filippo
Publication Date: 2021

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.
Arab Americans in Film by Waleed F. Mahdi
Publication Date: 2020

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.
The Call by Craig R. Smith; Michael Hyde
Publication Date: 2022

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.
Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black FIlms in a White World by Wil Haygood
Publication Date: 2021

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
Communicating in Risk, Crisis, and High Stress Situations: Evidence-Based Strategies and Practice by Vincent T. Covello
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.
Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels by Edwin L. Battistella
Publication Date: 2020

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.
Ethics in the Digital Domain by Robert S. Fortner
Publication Date: 2020

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.
Good Pictures by Kim Beil
Publication Date: 2020

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
Hate Speech by Caitlin Ring Carlson
Publication Date: 2021

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.
Having Their Say by Kristie Bunton
Publication Date: 2021

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.
Influence by Sara McCorquodale
Publication Date: 2020

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.
The Myth of the Amateur by Ronald A. Smith
Publication Date: 2021

Explores how the case for amateurism evolved from a moral argument to one concerned with financially and legally protecting college sports and the NCAA.
Not Exactly Lying by Andie Tucher
Publication Date: 2022

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.
Not Exactly Lying by Andie Tucher
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.
Polling America by Samuel J. Best
Publication Date: 2020

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.
Rhetoric and Guns by Lydia Wilkes
Publication Date: 2022

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.
Solutions Journalism by Bill Dodd
Publication Date: 2021

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.
Sporting Realities by Samantha N. Sheppard (Editor);
Publication Date: 2020

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

Books

Bible and Film: The Basics by Rindge, Matthew A.
Call Number: PN 1995.9 .B53 R56 2022

ISBN: 9780815392231

Introduces non-specialists to the essential content in Bible and Film, and to some of the most common and important scholarly methods.
Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin
Call Number: HS 2325 .L38 2020

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.
His Greatest Speeches by Diana Schaub
Call Number: E 457.2 .S35 2021

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.
Imagined Audiences by Jacob L. Nelson
Call Number: PN 4784 .N48 N45 2021

Draws on ethnographic case studies of three news organizations to reveal how journalists' assumptions about their audiences shape their approaches to their audiences.
The Limits of #MeToo in Hollywood by Margaret Tally
Call Number: PN 1995.9 .W6 T35

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.
Minority Women and Western Media by Maha Bashri
Call Number: P 94.5 .M555 M56 2020

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.
Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies by Bonnie Brennen
Call Number: P 91.3 .B74 2022

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.
This Is the Voice by John Colapinto
Call Number: PN 4162 .C53 2021

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.
User Comments and Moderation in Digital Journalism by Thomas B. Ksiazek; Nina Springer
Call Number: PN 4784 .O62 K75 2020

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.
We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins
Call Number: PN 4784 .O62 H495 2021

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.
Youth Power in Precarious Times by Melissa Brough
Call Number: HQ 799.2 .P6 B768

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.

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