This edited collection provides a unique and important perspective on how communication within and about families related to issues of identity and difference can ameliorate negative processes and, at times, potentially amplify positive outcomes such as well-being and relational solidarity.
Utilizing a cast of top American scholars with deep roots in asking stereotype-based questions, this book is essential reading for those wishing to understand what we know about past and present media representations as well as those wishing to take the baton and continue to advance media stereotyping research in the future.
Communication and Contradiction in the NCAA: An Unlevel Playing Field is a critical examination of the contradictory nature of the NCAA, and how the inherent contradictions impact the communication activities of its constituents, supporters, and challengers.
The case studies in this book, many of which have won national or international awards, represent an impressive scope of public relations practice - from public diplomacy to corporate social responsibility to community relations to tourism to fundraising. They include best practices of multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations and governmental agencies around the world.
This provocative and groundbreaking book is the first of its kind to propose the concept of Eco-ability: the intersectionality of the ecological world, persons with disabilities, and nonhuman animals. This book calls for a social justice theory and movement that dismantles constructed normalcy, ableism, speciesism, and ecological destruction.