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Recent
books from the faculty of the
Department of Communication & Journalism
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Culture,
Communication and Cooperation: Interpersonal Relations
and Pronominal Address in a Mexican Organization was
written by communication assistant professor Patricia
Covarrubias. It is based on an ethnographic study of
550 workers in a Mexican industrial organization in Veracruz.
Originally published in 2002, it was re-issued
in paperback in 2005. It can be found at Rowman & Littlefield
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Readings
in Feminist Rhetorical Theory is edited by communication
professor Karen A. Foss, her sister Sonja K. Foss of
the University of Colorado, and Cindy L. Griffin of
Colorado State University. It features the writings
of nine influential feminist theorists: Cheris Kramarae,
bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldua, Mary Daly, Starhawk, Paula
Gunn Allen, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Sally Miller Gearhart
and Sonia Johnson. Each theorist is
introduced with a brief biography, including her relevance
to the study of rhetoric.
Excerpts for each theorist
cross genres and time to capture the range and evolution of her feminist ideas.
The book is intended as
a companion volume to Feminist
Theoretical Theories published by Foss, Foss and Griffin in 1999.
It can be seen at amazon.com or
at barnesandnoble.com.
With her husband Stephen
W. Littlejohn, a part-time instructor at C&J, Foss is co-author of the 8th edition
of Theories of Human Communication.
Thomson/Wadsworth features
the book on its site. It also can be found at amazon.com and
barnesandnoble.com. It
is considered the seminal text in the field of communication.
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Journalism
professor Miguel Gandert is the coauthor with Enrique
R. Lamidrid of the award-winning book Hermanitos
Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption.
Through its text and photographs, the book explores one
of the great shared festivals of the Pueblo and Hispano communities, known as
Los Comanches. Hermanitos Comanchitos won the 2004 Chicago
Folklore Prize and it also won a Border Regional Library Association Book Award.
Available in hardbound or paperback, it includes a CD with performances of festival
songs.
The book can be found at University
of New Mexico Press, and it can be seen at barnesandnoble.com or
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Associate
Professor Dirk C. Gibson produced a second book on serial
murderers, this one titled Serial Murder and Media Circuses.
In his latest book, Dr. Gibson presents and analyzes the role
of communication—rhetoric, journalism and public relations—in
the highly charged and emotional atmosphere of serial murders,
and he points to the troubling downside of mass press coverage
of these horrific crimes.
The book can be
found at Greenwood
Publishing Group, and it can be seen at amazon.com or
at barnesandnoble.com.
His earlier book, Clues
from Killers: Serial Murder and Crime Scene Messages, was
released in 2004 by Praeger Publishers.
The first book describes the rhetorical behavior of serial
murderers. Based on a sample of 500 serial killers, Clues from Killers includes
chapters on the Mad Butcher of Cleveland, Jack the Ripper, the Black Dahlia Avenger,
and Zodiac.
Clues from Killers can be found at Greenwood
Publishing Group, and it can be seen at amazon.com or
at barnesandnoble.com. |
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Media
Management in the Age of Giants, by journalism
lecturer and former newspaper publisher Dennis F. Herrick,
is a primer on how to manage a media company in an
industry dominated by conglomerates.
There is a companion
Web site for the book, and it can be found at Blackwell
Publishing.
The book blends both theoretical foundations and
practical application of management practices. It examines the current media
industry in an age when all the rules seem to be changing because of the new
phenomena of digital technology, publicly traded media conglomerates, and changing
media values and tastes of the public.
Media Management in the Age of Giants can
be seen at amazon.com.
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Two
books have been recently pulished by communication
associate professor John G. Oetzel and Stella Ting
Toomey of California State University-Fullerton.
Dr.
Oetzel is chair of UNM's Department of Communication & Journalism.
Managing
Intercultural Conflict Effectively examines
intercultural conflict in personal relationships,
work groups, and organizations.
The
co-authors also are editors of The Sage
Handbook of Conflict Communication.
Both
books are published by Sage and they are listed together
at http:www.sagepub.com.
The
first book also can be seen at barnesandnoble.com or
at amazon.com.
The
Sage Handbook is
the first resource to synthesize key theories, research
and practices of conflict communication. A number
of expert researchers in the field are featured.
It can be found at barnesandnoble.com or
at amazon.com.
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Communication
Professor Janice Shuetz produced two books in the
2006-07 academic year.
Dr. Schuetz was one
of two editors for the volume,
Perspectives on Argumentation:
Essays in Honor of Wayne Brockriede. She also
was the author of Communicating the Law: Lessons from
Landmark Legal Cases.
Dr. Schuetz is the author
of several books and is this year’s chair of
the Undergraduate Communication Committee. Perspectives
on Argumentation is a compilation
of essays by several communication scholars. Her co-editor
is Dr. Robert Trapp of Willamette University. It
can be found at barnesandnoble.com or
at amazon.com. Communicating
the Law examines communication perspectives of
several high-profile American legal cases. It
can be found at barnesandnoble.com or
at amazon.com.
Another recent book by Dr.
Schuetz is Episodes
in the Rhetoric of Government-Indian Relations.
That book can be viewed at the Greenwood
Publishing Group site. The book also can be found at amazon.com and
at barnesandnoble.com. |
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Communication
professor Gill Woodall is the coauthor with Judee K.
Burgoon and David B. Buller of Nonverbal Communication:
The Unspoken Dialogue. The book was issued in
hardbound in 1988 and re-issued in paperback in 1994.
The book can be seen at barnesandnoble.com and
at amazon.com. |
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