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Death, Dying, and Communication
Teresa Thompson, Louis P. Cusella
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Death, Dying, and Communication Introduction Besides birth, there is nothing more inherent to life than death and the process of dying—despite...
Debates, Televised
William L. Benoit
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Televised DebatesIntroductionTelevised debates are an extremely important election campaign medium for several reasons. Many voters watch debates; the...
Deliberation
Michael A. Xenos
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Deliberation Introduction “Deliberative democracy” refers to democratic processes based on thorough consideration and discussion of issues from a vari...
Developmental Communication
Carla L. Fisher
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Developmental Communication Introduction Developmental communication is a relatively new perspective used to study interaction. Adopted in the...
Diffusion of Innovations
Ronald Rice
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Diffusion of Innovations Introduction Diffusion is the process through which an innovation (an idea, product, technology, process, or service) ...
Digital Divide
Peter A. Chow-White, Betty Ackah, Philippa Adams
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Digital DivideIntroductionThis article explores the different treatments and conceptualizations of the digital divide. In the broadest sense, a digita...
Digital Intimacies
Nathan Rambukkana, Keer Wang
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2020-09-24
Digital IntimaciesIntroductionTo speak of “digital intimacies” is to acknowledge two premises, both foundational to communication studies. The first i...
Digital Literacy
Troy Hicks, Katherine Baleja, Mingyuan Zhang
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Digital LiteracyIntroductionFor centuries, both the technologies of literacy—from cuneiform tablets to the printing press to, most recently, the smart...
Diplomacy, Public
Eytan Gilboa
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Public DiplomacyIntroductionPublic diplomacy (PD) is a relatively new field of scholarship and practice. There is not one widely accepted definition o...
Distributed Work, Comunication and
Claartje ter Hoeven, Jennifer Gibbs
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
Communication and Distributed WorkIntroductionScholars have been studying distributed work since the 1990s. The proliferation of new communication tec...
Documentary and Communication
Caty Borum Chattoo
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Documentary and CommunicationIntroductionDocumentary is a mediated storytelling genre and communication practice shaped by the creative freedom of scr...
E-democracy/E-participation
Giles Moss, Stéphanie Wojcik
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
E-democracy/E-participation Introduction The term “e-democracy” refers to the relationship between democracy and new media and information and...
E-Government
Hans Jochen Scholl
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
E-governmentIntroductionPairing two terms such as “electronic” and “government” to name a phenomenon and create the label of “electronic government” w...
Elaboration Likelihood Model
H. Allen White
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Elaboration Likelihood Model Introduction The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), developed by Richard E. Petty and John T. Cacioppo in the early 1980...
Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM)
Shu-Chuan Chu
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM)IntroductionThe concept of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) was introduced in the mid-1990s, when the Internet was begin...
Embedded Coverage
Michel M. Haigh
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Embedded Coverage Introduction When examining the stories told about the war in Iraq, one notices reporters reporting from the battlefield, “em...
Entertainment
Helena Bilandzic
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Entertainment Introduction Entertainment formats, as trivial as they may seem to an educated audience, are used by millions of audience members duri...
Entertainment-Education
William J. Brown
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Entertainment-EducationIntroductionThe use of entertainment as a strategy for social change is a practice that dates back to the beginnings of organiz...
Environmental Communication
James Shanahan
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Environmental Communication Introduction The study of environmental communication, as a subfield of the study of communication, is a relativel...
Ethnography of Communication
Donal Carbaugh
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Ethnography of Communication Introduction The ethnography of communication was initially proposed as a program of research in 1962 by Dell Hymes. Si...
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