Communication
Screen Love
Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.
The Ideology of Civic Engagement
Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.
Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World
Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women’s lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.
Improv for Democracy
Explores how improv-based teaching and training methods can bridge differences and promote the communication, leadership, and civil skills our world urgently needs.
Servant-Leadership and Forgiveness
A compelling gathering of perspectives on the intersection of servant-leadership and forgiveness.
Breaking Boundaries
Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making.
Cub Reporters
Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.
One America?
Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.
From News to Talk
Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.
Neo-race Realities in the Obama Era
Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.
I'll Be Home
Editorials, op-eds, and other writings by a memorable newspaperman.
Hearts and Minds
Uses Israel’s public diplomacy efforts during the second intifada (2000–2005) as a prime example of interactions between state security, diplomacy, and the media.
The Art of Gratitude
Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.
The Politics of Persuasion
Examines how the US media covers high-profile public policy issues in the context of competing claims about media bias.
Trendy Fascism
Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.
Meaning-Making, Internalized Racism, and African American Identity
Presents research on how variations in African Americans’ racial self-concept affects meaning-making and internalized oppression.
Rhetorical Healing
Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.
Tongue of Fire
Examines the influence of the notorious American anarchist “Red Emma” on the shifting social geography of sex and gender at the turn of the twentieth century.
Peaceful Persuasion
Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.
Lessons Learned from Popular Culture
Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.
Social Media in Iran
First comprehensive account of how the Internet has impacted life in Iran.
Selling War, Selling Hope
Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.
Green Voices
Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.
The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.
The Philosopher-Lobbyist
The history of John Dewey's leadership of the progressive People's Lobby.