This book explores how to develop engaging science communication initiatives that motivate audiences and researchers into collaboration. Contributors present scientific evidence and case studies to illustrate how to carry out engaging initiatives that unite researchers, and people around collaboration and interest in scientific research.
This collection brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences to reflect on extremity's polysemic and polymorphic characteristics.
Social Media and Oil in Southern California: Greenwashing Los Angeles chronicles the use of social media (old and new) to greenwash the petroleum industry in Southern California. As this research documents, oil-not Hollywood-is the key industry that drives the California dream.
In recent years, household indebtedness in the United States reached its highest levels in historyt. From mortgages to student loans, from credit card bills to US deficit spending, debt is widespread and increasing. Drawing on scholarship from economics, accounting, and critical rhetoric and social theory, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins critiques debt ......
Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze, and may have the potential to inspire a future politics in a world beset by crises.
This volume addresses teaching and research across disciplines, communication and identity development, and the centrality of communication in our quickly changing world. Contributors convey the social and global need, value, and responsibility of communication instruction across disciplines.
In this book, autoethnographies reflect a wide range of perspectives on grief and loss to reflect the unique and individual experiences of each contributor's story while also analyzing broader cultural themes and discussing how we communicate about these experiences.
In The Letter in Black Radical Thought, Tendayi Sithole analyzes the letters of Sylvia Wynter, Assata Shakur, George Jackson, Aime Cesaire, and Frantz Fanon. Each letter is taken as an important site where dehumanization is criticized by means of black radical thought which these figures advocate.
This one-stop handbook to leveraging social media to foster collaboration and achieve positive change uses success stories to illustrate how activists produce transformations in their extended communities.
