Books from Hampton Press
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The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media
By Raymond GozziThis work examines the methaphors through which culture comprehends new media, such as cyberspace, the information superhighway, the computer virus, and hot and cool media. It also gives a history...
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Perspectives on Culture, Technology and Communication: The Media Ecology Tradition
By Casey Man Kong LumThis book is an introduction to media ecology as a theory group that encompasses a coherent body of canonical literature and perspectives on understanding culture, technology and communication. It examines...
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Remarkable Women: Perspectives on Female Talent Development
By Karen D. Arnold, Kathleen Diane Noble, Rena Faye SubotnikRemarkable Women: Perspectives on Female Talent Development is the first book to consolidate and expand existing knowledge about highly capable women and the internal and external forces that lead them...
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Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training the Next Wave in Rhetoric and Composition
By Virginia Anderson, Susan RomanoThis book steps into the long-standing debate about how doctoral programs should prepare students for the profession. The contributors explore both the conceptual and practical specifics of a refocused training....
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Morality Tales: Political Scandals and Journalism in Britain and Spain in the 1990s
By Karen Sanders, Maria Jose CanelTaking political scandal as the entry point, this book presents a study of comparative political communication. It explores themes such as how and why journalists construct their scandal stories, what...
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Contexts, Intertexts, and Hypertexts
By Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Kip StrasmaThis collection studies the practical application of hypertext theory within the contexts of writing classrooms. Although it does not describe ways to teach writing with hypertext, many of the studies...
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Commitment to Excellence: Transforming Teaching and Teacher Education in Inner-city and Urban Settings
By Linda Anne Catelli, Ann C. Diver-StamnesThis volume represents a working commitment by individuals and institutions to improve the education of inner-city youngsters and to transform radically the preparation of people who will teach in the...
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Looking Beyond the Hijab
By Stephen Michael Croucher"This volume is one of the only case studies that tests cultural adaptation theory in the real world. It examines the failed cultural integration of France's Muslim population and the...
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Media, Politics, and Asian Americans
By H. Denis Wu, Tien-Tsung LeeUsing a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, this book examines racial attitudes toward Asian Americans, their media habits, how Asian American politicians are covered in the news media, and...
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Understanding the Media: A Sociology of Mass Communication
By Joel SmithThis volume aims to clarify the social role of the media and illuminate mass communication as a social system. It applies traditional sociological concepts to an examination of why the...
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Consuming Audiences?: Production and Reception in Media Research
By Janet Wasko, Ingunn HagenThis text explores the intersection between research in political economy and reception analysis - the interaction between media production and audience reception/consumption. Questions asked include: what role does textual analysis...
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On Complexity
By Edgar MorinIn this volume of key essays Morin turns his attention to the technical and philosophical underpinnings of complexity theory and applies it to a wide-ranging number of issues. These essays...
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An Arsenal for Democracy: Media Accountability Systems
By Claude Jean Bertrand'Everyone agress that news media cannot be rued solely by the profit motive and that government regulation on media is extremely dangerous. How then can we obtain good service from...
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Early Childhood Classroom Processes
By Rebecca Kantor, David FernieThis volume is the culminating project of ten years of collaborative study in a preschool classroom, where each year, three- and four-year-olds and their teachers meet daily to construct a...
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Communication and Terrorism: Public and Media Responses to 9/11
By Bradley S. Greenberg"This volume compiles the best of those research efforts. Studies include diffusion of news of the attacks, the role of the Internet, tracking of media use and gratifications, how television...
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Keeping Pace with Technology: The challenge and promise for K-12 educators
By Kathleen P. KingKeeping Pace with Technology: The challenge and promise for K-12 educators
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Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action
By Jeffrey T. GrabillThis is a book about how people use advanced information technologies to write for community change. The author argues that the work of citizenship is knowledge work - on the...
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War in the Media Age
By A. Trevor ThrallThis study traces the evolution of US government press strategy from Vietnam through the Gulf War and its consequences. It illustrates how the rising importance of the press in everyday...
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Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century
By Charles Bazerman, Brian A. Huot, Beth StrobleThis volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of literacy as a multi-faceted, complexly situated activity. Contributing authors represent a wide variety of theoretical and research perspectives. Each chapters...
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International and Multicultural Organizational Communication
By George Cheney, George A. BarnettThis book focuses on the current research on and implications of globalization for social organizations and the study of organizational communication. The chapters are wide-ranging in terms of how they...