Macdonald-Kelce Library: Communication: Books

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Suggested Reading

Below is a sampling of books available in the library that may be of interest to communication majors.

Beyond the Babble : leadership communication that drives results by Bob Matha; Macy Boehm; Marcia Silverman (Foreword by)
Call Number: Main (2nd floor) HD 30.3 .M378 2008
ISBN: 9780470200483
Publication Date: 2008-07-08
Beyond the Babble outlines what you need in order to improve your leadership skills via better communication.
Enchantment: the art of changing hearts, minds, and actions by Guy Kawasaki
Call Number: HD 30.3 .K38 2011
ISBN: 9781591843795
Publication Date: 2011-03-08
Enchantment: the Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, according to it's author, Guy Kawasaki, provides the "how to" when it comes to "bringing to market a cause -- that is a product, service, organization, or idea -- that can make the world a better place."
Information and Society by Michael Buckland
Call Number: MAIN (2nd Floor) HM851 .B82 2017
ISBN: 9780262533386
Publication Date: 2017-03-03
A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.
Network Propaganda by Yochai Benkler; Robert Farris; Hal Roberts
Call Number: MAIN (2nd Floor) JK526 2016 .B46 2018
ISBN: 9780190923624
Publication Date: 2018-10-15
Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new technologies and their manipulation by foreign actors played a decisive role in his victory and are responsible for the sense of a "post-truth" moment in which disinformation and propaganda thrives. Network Propaganda challenges that received wisdom through the most comprehensive study yet published on media coverage of American presidential politics from the start of the election cycle in April 2015 to the one year anniversary of the Trump presidency.
The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities by Jentery Sayers (Editor)
Call Number: Main (2nd Floor) ; P90 .R673 2018
ISBN: 9781138844308
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, culture, and practice. Topics include: access, praxis, social justice, design, interaction, interfaces, mediation, materiality, remediation, data, memory, making, programming, and hacking.

Communication subject headings

The following is a list of Library of Congress subject headings used to describe books on communication found in the library's catalog. Use these terms to do keyword and subject heading searches. Also use these words to brain-storm on your topic.

Combining terms and thinking of new and different ways to describe your topic will help you fine tune your research question:

Communication

Communication and culture

Communication and culture -- United States

Communication and politics

Communication and technology

Communication -- history

Communication in industry

Communication in International Relations

Communication in management

Communication in the social sciences

Communication media

Communication -- Research

Communication -- Sex differences

Communication -- Study and teaching

Communication -- United States

Communication, military

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