This volume explores baseball's diverse communication perspectives including: the role of storytelling in the creation of its history; the social function of baseball; the nature of fan experience; public spectacles and rituals; and the nature of sports writing and broadcasting.

Migration and immigration are presently taking place at an unprecedented rate around the world. The potential for chaos and crisis for the nations playing host to diverse groups of immigrants and refugees is quite apparent. While in some nations multiculturalism and diversity are praised and being integrated into educational curricula, anti-immigrant sentiment runs high in others.

This text is about gender, public space and media technology. From historical studies of the physical world to the future-oriented journeys into electronic space, this book offers an introduction to the vast cross-cultural differences in the social use of public spaces which may connect or isolate.

Migration and immigration are presently taking place at an unprecedented rate around the world. The potential for chaos and crisis for the nations playing host to diverse groups of immigrants and refugees is quite apparent. While in some nations multiculturalism and diversity are praised and being integrated into educational curricula, anti-immigrant sentiment runs high in others.

This volume explores the relationship of hero to celebrity and the changing role of the hero in American culture. It establishes that the nature of hero and its function in society is a communication phenomenon, which has been and is being altered by the rapid advance of electronic media.

This volume explores baseball's diverse communication perspectives including: the role of storytelling in the creation of its history; the social function of baseball; the nature of fan experience; public spectacles and rituals; and the nature of sports writing and broadcasting.

This text is about gender, public space and media technology. From historical studies of the physical world to the future-oriented journeys into electronic space, this book offers an introduction to the vast cross-cultural differences in the social use of public spaces which may connect or isolate.

This book explores the concept of the -communicative city-, developed initially by participants in an international Urban Communication Foundation initiative, by bringing together scholars from across the communication arts and sciences seeking to enhance our understanding of the dynamic relationship between urban residents and their social, physical, mediated, and built environments. The chapters are arranged in categories that speak to two larger themes: first, they all speak to at least one aspect of the qualifying and/or disqualifying characteristics of a communicative city. A second,...

Convergence, participatory culture, multimedia technologies, and social media platforms are creating new communicative opportunities that fundamentally influence citizenship and journalism. Social media present a staggering breadth of legal and ethical matters to consider. The limits and laws of free expression in this new media landscape are beginning to emerge both domestically and internationally, causing us to ask the following questions: How do we conceive of privacy? Should the law protect citizen journalists? How do social media affect ethical obligations of journalists and public...

Convergence, participatory culture, multimedia technologies, and social media platforms are creating new communicative opportunities that fundamentally influence citizenship and journalism. Social media present a staggering breadth of legal and ethical matters to consider. The limits and laws of free expression in this new media landscape are beginning to emerge both domestically and internationally, causing us to ask the following questions: How do we conceive of privacy? Should the law protect citizen journalists? How do social media affect ethical obligations of journalists and public...