Ghosts and Ghouls in Twenty-First-Century Presidential Campaign Advertis
In Horror Framing and the General Election, Montgomery argues that the horror genre has become a dominant framework in U.S. presidential campaign advertising. Analyses of each presidential election from 2000 through 2020 provides a multitude of implications for this increasing horror.
Exploring the Lasting Consequences of the Movement's Early Rhetoric
The Battle for Birth Control dissects the rhetorical tactics utilized by the movement in its formative years to execute a strategy of political accommodation and traces the reverberations of these tactics in contemporary American discourses surrounding contraception specifically and reproductive politics more generally.
Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse explores how U.S. news and social media discourse hierarchies overshadow transnational feminist politics and reinforce femonationalist narratives, thereby unpacking how protesters' voices on the ground are obscured in favor of elite sources who reaffirm U.S Islamophobia.
Post-Pandemic Pedagogy: A Paradigm Shift discusses how COVID-19 upended the college and university pedagogical paradigm. This collection looks at what we thought we knew about good teaching, how those notions changed during the pandemic, and speculates on where we will go from here in our classrooms and on our campuses.
This book captures contemporary debates around indigenous languages and social change communication. Contributors bring together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
This book explores the capitalist exploitation of digital media where creativity is a fundamental element in the production of digital goods. Yilmaz Aliskan focuses in particular on open-source hardware communities in which hackers give up a considerable amount of free time and labour to produce open technology they are not compensated for.
Gender has a tremendous effect on journalists and the journalism industry; the stories they tell; and the people who consume those stories. Alongside histories of journalism, equal rights, and feminist movements, this textbook incorporates issues of race, class, and sexuality including the experiences of men and LGBTQ communities.
Gender has a tremendous effect on journalists and the journalism industry; the stories they tell; and the people who consume those stories. Alongside histories of journalism, equal rights, and feminist movements, this textbook incorporates issues of race, class, and sexuality including the experiences of men and LGBTQ communities.
When Communication Became a Discipline describes how speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication as central to their scholarly work. It tells the story of how they transformed themselves and established an academic discipline of communication.