Routledge Focus on Communication Studies
Enhancing Intercultural Communication in Organizations: Insights from Project Advisers
1st Edition
Edited
By Roos Beerkens, Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman, Roselinde Supheert, Jan Ten Thije
August 01, 2022
This book provides a qualitative analysis of the process of consultancy, to prove how intercultural communication can solve issues rising from multiculturalism in organizations and policymaking. Experts in intercultural consultancy examine 12 different cases from real situations, focusing on ...
Globalism and Gendering Cancer: Tracking the Trope of Oncogenic Women from the US to Kenya
1st Edition
By Miriam O'Kane Mara
September 30, 2021
This book connects a rhetorical examination of medical and public health policy documents with a humanistic investigation of cultural texts to uncover the link between gendered representations of health and cancer. The author argues that in western biomedical contexts cancer is considered a women’s...
Communicating Science and Technology Through Online Video: Researching a New Media Phenomenon
1st Edition
Edited
By Bienvenido León, Michael Bourk
June 30, 2020
Online video’s unique capacity to reach large audiences makes it a powerful tool to communicate science and technology to the general public. The outcome of the international research project "Videonline," this book provides a unique insight into the key elements of online science videos, such as ...
Strategic Communication and Deformative Transparency: Persuasion in Politics, Propaganda, and Public Health
1st Edition
By Isaac Nahon-Serfaty
June 30, 2020
This book examines deformative transparency and its different manifestations in political communication, propaganda and public health. The objective is to present the theoretical foundations of deformative transparency, as grotesque and esperpentic transparency, and illustrate the validity of such ...
A Relational Model of Public Discourse: The African Philosophy of Ubuntu
1st Edition
By Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian
December 18, 2019
Contemporary democratic discourses are frequently, though not exclusively, characterized by an attitude of ‘pro and con' where the aim is to persuade others, a jury or an audience, of what is right and what is wrong. Challenging such procedures, this book teases out an alternative model of public ...