This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the applications of communication inquiry to the solution of relevant social issues. Nationally recognized experts from a wide range of subject areas discuss ways in which communication research has been used to address social problems and identify direction for future applied communication inquiry.
"This book offers a refreshing and engaging overview of the ways some research traditions in organizational communication have unfolded over time and continue to be connected to everyday, real events." —Patrice Buzzanell, Purdue ...
The Handbook of Applied Communication Research addresses a wide array of contemporary communication issues, their research implications in various contexts, and the challenges and opportunities for using communication to manage problems.
Featuring new case studies, updated examples, and the latest research, the Fourth Edition of this bestseller introduces communication theory in a way that helps students understand its importance to careers in communication and business.
What Predicts Divorce? The Measures. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Guerrero, L. K., and Andersen, P. A. (1991). The Waxing and Waning of Relational Intimacy: Touch as A Function of Relational Stage, Gender, and Touch Avoidance.
Whereas other communication theory texts have a more academic focus on theory or research methods, this book is specifically designed to introduce communication theory in a tangible way.
In a follow-up piece of research, Donahue, Tichenor, and Olien (1975) found that the knowledge gap declines when an issue has a strong local impact and when there is conflict in a community – for example, a community that becomes home ...
... she teaches courses on discourse analysis, language and identities, and the practices and problems of meetings. ... and Ordinary Democracy, and is in the final stage of preparing a book, titled Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: ...
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Thank you for picking up this book and reading the preface. I am a communication researcher who conducts and publishes quantitative and qualitative research.
This volume presents a report of the first discipline-wide, nationally sponsored communication research conference in 20 years--the Tampa Conference on Applied Communication.