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Recent books from UNM C&J faculty
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Associate
professor Glenda R. Balas, the current chair of the C&J
Department, is the author of Recovering a Public Vision
for Public Television. The book investigates three important
developments in the development of public media in the U.S.
and explores how they restrict public broadcasting's institutional
vision. The book's six-point plan proposes a reconstitution
and rejuvenation of public broadcasting's mission so it can
advance into the twenty-first century as a leader in public
speech.
Originally published in 2003
by Rowman
& Littlefield, the book can be found at Amazon.com,
and as well as at barnesandnoble.com.
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Culture,
Communication and Cooperation: Interpersonal Relations and Pronominal
Address in a Mexican Organization was written by communication
associate professor Patricia O. 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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The
first compilation of about 300 theories in the communication
academic field was published in 2009, edited by C&J Regents
Professor Karen A. Foss and her husband, Stephen W. Littlejohn,
who is also on faculty at C&J.
Titled the Encyclopedia of Communication Theory,
nearly 200 communication scholars provided entries for the
books, including several other C&J faculty members
It is available from Sage
Publications and also from barnesand
noble.com and amazon.com.
Foss
also edited Readings in Feminist Rhetorical Theory along
with 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.
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, Dr. 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
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Journalism
professor Miguel Gandert is the co-author 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
at amazon.com.
Gandert also took the photographs and co-authored Nuevo México: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland. It conveys the colorful and enduring mestizo culture in the upper Rio Grande corridor with Indo-Hispanos performing rituals and dances rooted in the syncretism of garb and gods of the Old and New Spains.
The book can be found at at barnesandnoble.com or
at amazon.com.
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C&J professor emeritus Bob Gassaway's 2007 book, Dirty
Work, was co-edited with Shirley K. Drew and Melanie
Mills, both of Bowling Green University.
The book
illuminates the experiences of people who are not only doing
the work that most of us would rather avoid, but who are socially
defined and often stigmatized by that work, regardless of
how valuable their work is to society.
Published by
Baylor University Press, Dirty Work can be seen at
amazon.com
and at barnesandnoble.com.
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Associate
professor Dirk C. Gibson has produced a third book on serial
murderers, this one titled Serial Killing for Profit:
Multiple Murder for Money.
In his 2009 book, Dr. Gibson focuses
on serial killers motivated by monetary gain, which includes
one-quarter of cases classified as serial murders.
Serial Killing for Profit
can be seen at amazon.com
and it also can be seen at barnesand
noble.com.
In his second book in the series,
Serial Murder and Media Circuses, 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 first book in the series,
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
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C&J part-time instructor Tony Hatch’s book Tinder Box, The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903,
published by Academy Chicago Publishers in 2003 as hardcover, was released in paperback in Fall 2011.
The account, based on original research begun in 1962, focuses on a tragedy that occurred in America’s
newest playhouse, advertised as being “absolutely fireproof,” which claimed over 600 lives.
The Chicago Tribune calls the book “An important and relevant story...it succeeds in placing the reader
back in time, exposing immense tragedy, blatant corruption and terrible irresponsibility.” And from
The American Library Association “Booklist”: “A painful, but superbly written work about
a wholly unnecessary tragedy.”
Tinder Box, The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 can be seen at amazon.com
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Communication and the Natural World, by lecturer
Judith Hendry, was published in 2010 by Strata Pub Co. Dr.
Hendry's book explores the many ways in which our communication
about the natural world profoundly affects how we perceive
and interact with it. It discusses the complex and dramatic
environmental issues that pervade our relationship with nature
today. And it shows, clearly and vividly, how cultural, philosophical,
commercial, mass-mediated, and popular discourse shape and
are shaped by our responses to those issues.
Communication
and the Natural World can be seen at amazon.com
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Media Management in the Age of Giants, by retired
C&J journalism lecturer and former newspaper publisher
Dennis Herrick, is a primer on how to manage a media company
in an industry dominated by conglomerates.
The book has a companion
website.
Lecturer Emeritus Herrick's 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. An updated second edition of the book will
be published in July 2012 by University of New Mexico Press.
Media Management in the Age of Giants (first edition) can
be seen at amazon.com.
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Stephen Littlejohn publishes general works in communication, particularly in
the areas of communication theory and conflict. Two recent communication
theory works include the two-volume Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
published in 2009 by Sage and Theories of Human Communication, 10th edition,
published in 2010 by Waveland Press, both written with Karen Foss.
With Kathy Domenici (now Isaacson), Stephen recently wrote Communication, Conflict,
and the Management of Difference published by Waveland in 2007 and Facework:
Bridging Theory and Practice, published by Sage in 2006.
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Associate professor Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, a well-known
expert on workplace bullying, published a book in 2009 titled
Destructive Organizational Communication: Processes,
Consequences & Constructive Ways of Organizing.
Dr. Lutgen-Sandvik is an editor of the new volume with Beverly Davenpo Sypher.
Destructive workplace issues such as bullying, racism, stress and harassment are examined by several communication scholars.
The book is available from barnesandnoble.com and from amazon.com. |
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Journalism associate professor Richard Schaefer is the author
of the department's first online textbook, titled Introduction
to Media Writing. It is for aspiring journalists
and nonfiction writers, and it's the text for C&J 171:
Introduction to Writing. The online book includes interactive
exercises, and its contents can be shaped to support a nonfiction
writing course structure.
The online book was published
by Great River
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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. 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
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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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