Judy C. Pearson,
North Dakota State University Paul E. Nelson,
North Dakota State University Scott Titsworth,
Ohio University, Athens Lynn Harter,
Ohio University, Athens
ISBN: 0072959886 Copyright year: 2006
Features
Designed as an integrated multimedia learning system, Human Communication supports all types of teaching and learning styles.
Team Challenges support the practice of cooperative learning.
E-Notes highlight technology.
Think-Pair-Share exercises stimulate critical thinking and collaboration.
Cultural Notes encourage sensivity to diversity.
The most comprehensive synthesis available of contemporary communication research. Presented in a manner that is relevant and interesting to undergraduate, basic course students, Human Communication includes current thinking on impression management, language and culture, heterosexist language, accuracy of decoding nonverbal cues, proxemics, expectancy violation theory, chronemics, new definitions of listening, information processing theories, enjoyment listening, the dark sides of interpersonal relationships, relationship initiation, uncertainty reduction theory, dialectic theory, the importance of self-disclosure, p-time cultures and m-time cultures, anticipatory socialization, EEO laws, assigned and emergent groups, groupthink, mass communication vs. computer-mediated communication, the National TV Violence study, media cultivation theory, and communication apprehension.
In addition to Chapter 11, Mediated Communication and Media Literacy, the authors have carefully integrated coverage of how technology is changing the ways we communicate with each other; i.e., netiquette in Chapter 3; emoticons in Chapter 4; listening strategies in mediated communication situations in Chapter 5; mediated interviewing in Chapter 8; the influence of technology on the group communication process and Group Decision Support Systems in Chapter 9; types of CMCs, CMC interactions, the role of CMC in community formation and CMC literacy in Chapter 11; effective use of the Internet and critical evaluation of web sources in Chapter 14; and electronic modes of delivery and transmission in Chapter 16.
Culture is integrated throughout the text. Examples include: cultural differences in the context of observations and inferences, and cultural competence in chapter 3 verbal communication; cultural differences in nonverbal communication in chapter 4; co-cultural differences in maintaining relationships in chapter 6; a full chapter 7 Intercultural Communication; EEO laws in chapter 8; cultural distinctions between observable and implicit within-group diversity, and differences in cognitive paradigms and how they can influence group interaction in chapter 9; cultural stereotypes in mass media and aspects of gender and culture in computer-mediated communication in chapter 11.
Designed as an integrated multimedia learning system, Human Communication supports all types of teaching and learning styles.
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