A critique of conventional approaches to communication research, the authors argue that the impact of gender on research practives has been ignored. By exploring gender issues, and conducting applied research in the areas of mass and interpersonal communication, therapeutic interaction, and rhetoric, they critique traditional scholarship and offer novel alternatives. The authors take intact theories and methods and show their applicability (or lack thereof) to the study of women's communication. The adaptations allow researchers to conduct more accurate, sensitive, and theoretically sound...
A critique of conventional approaches to communication research, the authors argue that the impact of gender on research practives has been ignored...
." . . provides rich and interesting detail about the conditions, values, and experiences of children and those who rear them" - Contemporary Psychology
." . . provides rich and interesting detail about the conditions, values, and experiences of children and those who rear them" - Contemporary Psycholo...
Selected proceedings from the 6th International Conference on Culture and Communication, held at Temple U., 1986. The eight sections cover language and politics; sociolinguistics; performance as cultural reflection; sales, promotion, and organization; technology in its social context; mass media and
Selected proceedings from the 6th International Conference on Culture and Communication, held at Temple U., 1986. The eight sections cover language an...
This book examines trends that affect citizen's privacy, now that computer files with information on credit and overall financial status are easily accessible, and not always accurate. The unregulated use of individuals' computer files is a serious challenge to the values that underlie this country's social political well-being. The book discusses the need for balance between the privacy interests of individuals and the financial interests of large institutions, who may benefit from these files in locating those trying to cheat the system. It also examines the problem of protecting...
This book examines trends that affect citizen's privacy, now that computer files with information on credit and overall financial status are easily...
Within a comparative, theoretical and global network, this volume focuses on the impact of information technologies on the prospects for democratic development. It deals with the hopes as well as the fears for democracy and development that have emerged out of the current technological revolution in information and communication. The volume argues that information technologies have historically played a dual and paradoxical role in political formations. Generally, the Big Media (the national press, broadcasting and mainframe computers) have served the centralizing forces, while the Small...
Within a comparative, theoretical and global network, this volume focuses on the impact of information technologies on the prospects for democratic...
Until the past decade, development experts shared a conception of how to facilitate development in the Third World countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. One essential factor in this paradigm was the role of mass media communication. The media were expected to convey useful information from government development programs to their intended audiences. This dominant paradigm of mainly one-way communication flows did not lead to widespread development in the Third World. Instead, scholars and development planners began to search for alternative models of development and for other...
Until the past decade, development experts shared a conception of how to facilitate development in the Third World countries of Latin America, Afri...
This volume addresses the various and highly topical controversies surrounding religious television by examining its history, structure, content, viewship, and social impact. It represents a compilation of original essays written by the world's leading scholars, regulators, authorities, and watchdogs of religious television. Each controversy is addressed from a wide range of perspectives. The result is a most interesting exchange of ideas and ideologies: the presentation of empirical data, theology and learned opinion, and an assortment of insightful conclusions.
This volume addresses the various and highly topical controversies surrounding religious television by examining its history, structure, content, v...