AI is growing rapidly around the world and has already changed many aspects of our societies. Journalism and mass communication educators are faced with the task of learning about the technology, while immediately applying it to their teaching.What are the ramifications of AI’s expansion for mass communication and journalism education? This book centers the voices of diverse educators, who share their concerns and hopes, as well as the insights that they have gained from their use ...

This edited volume employs a case study approach to examine communication surrounding the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The text is accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, while also useful for scholars’ teaching and research. The chapters are written by a diverse group of scholars and experts in a wide-array of communication contexts—from public relations and advertising to health, organizational, and political communication, and beyond. The chapters fo...

Since the invention of the telephone in 1876, publicity has been central to the growth of the industry. In its earliest years the Bell company enjoyed a patent monopoly, but after Alexander Graham Bell’s patents expired, it had to fight competitors, the public, and the U.S. government to maintain control of the telephone network. It used every means its executives could imagine, and that included constructing one of the earliest and most effective public relations programs of its time. This...

Agendamelding: News, Social Media, Audiences, and Civic Community builds on the premise that people construct civic community from the information that they seek—as well as the information that seeks them—to trace the processes by which we mix, or meld, agendas from various sources into a coherent picture of the civic community in which we live. Using the presidential elections of 2008, 2012, and 2016, this book tests a formula that allows us to predict how potential voters lean t...

This book identifies and analyzes priorities, themes, projects and publications in the world’s leading communication research institutes, centers and doctoral programs. It also presents an assessment of the state and future of communication research by prominent international scholars in communication. Using these data sources, the book provides a comprehensive review of communication and media research outside the United States, a critical gap in the literature. It is a useful reference f...

This cultural biography tells the story of Birmingham World editor Emory O. Jackson. During his 35-year career in Alabama, he waged numerous sustained civil-rights campaigns for the franchise, equal educational opportunities, and justice for the victims of police brutality and bombings. The semiweekly newspaper was central to his advocacy. Jackson wrote editorials and columns that documented injustices and urged legislative and legal action in an effort to secure civil rights for ...

PR Women with Influence: Breaking Through the Ethical and Leadership Challenges makes a unique and timely contribution by exploring how women in public relations navigate through attitudinal, structural and social barriers in advancing their leadership roles. The book is thoroughly grounded in rich empirical evidence gained through two phases of a funded research project conducted in the field. Phase I involves 51 in-depth interviews with current female leaders in public relations...

Este estudio aborda temas importantes y muy discutidos en la actualidad (el matoneo, las emociones cotidianas de los niños, la relación hogar-escuela, la construcción de comunidad en el ámbito escolar, etc.), que rebasan cualquier enfoque estrictamente curricular sobre la escuela.

Popular newspapers played a vital role in shaping British politics, society and culture in the twentieth century. This book provides a concise and accessible historical overview of the rise of the tabloid format and examines how the national press reported the major stories of the period, from World Wars and general elections to sex scandals and celebrity gossip. It considers the appeal and influence of the most successful titles, such as the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror,...

As well as a highly respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956–2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. He spent most of his twenty-five-year career working for the Times Literary Supplement, reinterpreting familiar writers from Tennyson and Trollope to Larkin and Muldoon, and – as his interest in his Scottish background grew – elucidating those fallen from favour, such as Barrie, Buchan, Muir and Scott. With a preface by Mark Ford, this volume draws togeth...

Two years is a long time in the world of new media – a world of phubbing and selfies, of cyberbullying and neknomination, of bitcoins, Prism surveillance and Google Glass. Much has occurred since the first edition of this book: from the extraordinary social media responses to the deaths of Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela and Peaches Geldof, to the Twitterstorms occasioned by allegations against a late peer of the realm, the rise of the UK Independence Party and the popularity of The ...

Wenn sie in Prag über die Hauptstraße gehe, kreuzten mehr Bekannte ihren Weg als in Berlin, schrieb die emigrierte Ärztin und Sozialdemokratin Käte Frankenthal. Tausende deutsche Exilsuchende hatte es nach 1933 in die tschechoslowakische Hauptstadt verschlagen: Ernst und Karola Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Wilhelm Cassirer, Oskar Maria Graf, Stefan Heym, Leo Kestenberg, Gabriele Tergit und viele mehr. Prag war nicht nur, besonders von Berlin aus, leichter zu erreichen als Paris oder Amsterdam, e...