Comunicación y cultura

Political Culture and Media Genre explores the forms and meanings of mediated politics beyond the news cycle; it encompasses genres drawn from television, radio, the press and the Internet, assessing their individual and collective contribution to contemporary political culture through textual analysis and thematic review, including attention to audience responses and reflections.

Now in its second edition, Argumentative and Aggressive Communication is the only text dedicated to the presentation and synthesis of research, theory, and application efforts on the aggressive communication traits of argumentative and verbal aggressiveness.
In this updated edition, Rancer and Avtgis present new research and theory on argumentative and aggressive communication that has been influential in communication and in other social science disciplines since the first edition was published in 2106. The volume includes a discussion of new contexts in which argumentative and aggressive communication has become salient as well as new areas of research which extend into the domains of healthcare, sports, politics, digital media, and nonverbal communication. This edition includes over 100 new studies and references.
With student-friendly features such as discussion questions at the end of chapters, the text is ideal for courses in communication and conflict, interpersonal communication, communication and personality, and personality theory and research, among others. It is also an invaluable resource and reference for scholars and graduate students who conduct research on argumentative and aggressive communication.

From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology’s place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners and an invaluable resource for those deeply committed to understanding the new digital culture. The award-winning first edition (2105) has been comprehensively updated to incorporate new technologies and contemporary theories about them. Slack and Wise untangle and expose cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don’t recognize their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological progress, the role of control and convenience, and the very sense of what technology is. It considers resistance to dominant stories by Luddites, the Unabomber, and the alternative technology movement. Most important, it builds an alternative, cultural studies approach for engaging technological culture, one that considers politics, economics, space, time, identity, and change. After all, what we think and what we do make a difference.

The third in a trilogy on communication and ethnopolitical conflict, this book focuses on multicultural groups significantly divided by politics and religion. These groups have become «fiercely entangled»; that is, they are inescapably politically, socially, and culturally interdependent. Using the Israeli Palestinian conflict as the primary example, Ellis offers a timely analysis of how communication can begin to untangle these groups. Group differences lead to cultural differences – some of the most difficult aspects of a conflict. This book examines the nature of group differences as well as solutions-based conflict resolution that is embedded in theories of communication and democracy.
Ellis argues that resources are unequally distributed and differences are the norm. Politics is used to manage these differences and although communication is the fundamental tool of conflict management, there are other components in resolving conflicts that complement communication approaches. Dialogue and deliberation are posed as workable responses to untangling these differences and managing intractability.

Are you struggling to design your social network research? Are you looking for a book that covers more than social network analysis?

If so, this is the book for you! With straight-forward guidance on research design and data collection, as well as social network analysis, this book takes you start to finish through the whole process of doing network research. Open the book and you'll find practical, 'how to' advice and worked examples relevant to PhD students and researchers from across the social and behavioural sciences.

The book covers:

Fundamental network concepts and theories
Research questions and study design
Social systems and data structures
Network observation and measurement
Methods for data collection
Ethical issues for social network research
Network visualization
Methods for social network analysis
Drawing conclusions from social network results

This is a perfect guide for all students and researchers looking to do empirical social network research.

This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography

The book provides a philosophical overview of the field alongside practical support for designing and developing your own ethnographic research. It demonstrates how to build and develop arguments and engages with practical issues such as ethics, transcription and impact.

There are chapter long case studies based on real research that will explain key themes and help you create and analyse your own linguistic data. Drawing on the authors’ experience they outline the practical, epistemological and theoretical decisions that researchers must take when planning and carrying out their studies.

Other key features include:

A clear introduction to discourse analytic traditions
Tips on how to produce effective field notes
Guidance on how to manage interview and conversational data
Advice on writing for different traditions
Annotated suggestions for further reading
Full glossary

This book is a master class in understanding linguistic ethnography, it will of interest to anyone conducting field research across the social sciences.

La fórmula para la comunicación personal de éxito consiste en la suma de tres elementos: saber ser, saber actuar y saber comunicar; dominar esto puede conducirnos a tener un mayor control sobre nuestras relaciones, con resultados más óptimos, tanto para nosotros como para nuestros interlocutores.

Con un estilo claro y muy divulgativo, Teresa Baró —una de las mayores expertas en comunicación de nuestro país— nos ofrece las claves para sacar lo mejor de nosotros en cada situación.

In an increasingly global society, the ability to identify a culture’s visual aesthetics helps us localize messages for better understanding and resonance with targeted audiences. But how do we identify the visual cues that specific cultures respond to? Based on Web design «best practices» and data collected from close to 2100 websites in more than 30 countries over a period of eight years, this book defines a methodology for identifying patterns – a «pattern language» – by which one can analyze the cultural aesthetics of a website to: (1) learn more about the visual communication patterns of a particular culture, (2) apply what is learned to the creation of new Web communication, and (3) identify trends in visual communication on the Web as influenced by emerging technologies.

Is it possible to incite a turn towards Media Philosophy, a field that accounts for the autonomy of media, for machine agency and for the new modalities of thought and subjectivity that these enable, rather than dwelling on representations, audiences and extensions of the self? In the wake of the field-defining work done by Friedrich Kittler, this important collection of essays takes a philosophical approach to the end of the media era in the traditional sense and outlines the implications of a turn that sees media become concepts of the middle, of connection, and of multitude – across diverse disciplines and theoretical perspectives. An expert panel of contributors, working at the cutting edge of media theory, analyse the German thinker's legacy and the possibilities his thought can unfold for media theory. This book examines the present and future condition of mediation, within the wider context of media studies in a digital age.

Politische, wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Transparenz ist für das Funktionieren einer pluralistisch-liberalen Demokratie von größter Wichtigkeit. Direkt verbunden damit ist die Notwendigkeit offener politischer Kommunikation. Der Autor kommt zum Schluss, dass die Europäische Union beim Knüpfen des Kommunikationsnetzes entscheidende Fehler gemacht habe, die auch zur sinkenden Beliebtheit des institutionalisierten Europa beitrugen. Die EU sollte daher ihre Kommunikation verändern und verbessern, um eine neue europäische Öffentlichkeit mitzuerschaffen. Zuhören, Kommunizieren, Regionalisieren, Europäisieren: Der Autor entwirft einen „Plan E“, der durch integrierte Kommunikation und „Transparent Governance“ proaktiv und unter Einbeziehung klassischer und neuer Medien als Blueprint für eine neue europäische Initiative fungieren kann.