Now in its eighth edition, Thinking Through Communication provides a balanced introduction to the fundamental theories and principles of communication. It explores communication in a variety of contexts—from interpersonal to group to mass media—and can be used in both theoryand skills-based courses. With a dynamic approach, Trenholm helps students to develop a better understanding of communication as a field of study, as well as its practical applications. This edition devotes attention to how new technologies are changing the ways we think about communication, with revised chapters on both traditional and social media.
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This original and engaging book investigates American television viewing habits as a distinct cultural form.
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The essays collected in this volume thus approach television as a medium both of thought and of action in its own right.
Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson describe these two models as follows: According to the code model, a communicator encodes her intended message into a signal, which is decoded by the audience using an identical copy of the code.
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People make media, media takes up two-thirds of our waking hours, media impacts our lives; it is critical to understand how the media work and why, to grasp the global nature of communication, and to assess media messages to attain media ...
This first Canadian edition is filled with Canadian references, Canada-specific discussions, and thorough coverage of communication issues important to Canadians, whiletaking a rigorous social scientific approach that will engage and ...