Product Description: Communication Yearbook 23 continues the bold series tradition of providing state-of-the-art reviews of the latest communication research. With contributions from a diverse range of scholars, Michael E. Roloff presents in-depth reviews of the most important issues in communication today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Communication Yearbook 21 reflects the rich diversity of the field of communication, both in terms of content areas and methods. The topics of the eleven reviews range from interpersonal influence to media practices and effects. The authors address issues such as organizational democracy and change, intercultural negotiation, journalism and broadcasting practices, the management off crisis and the relationship between media and the presidency...read more

Product Description: There are few edited volumes on interpersonal communication that have the breadth of focus of Interpersonal Processes. Divided into three broad sections, this interdisciplinary work covers functions of interpersonal communication, interaction phenomena and relationships...read more

Product Description: A book which examines the social exchange theories of relations between people. These theories tend to view communication as an exchange or extraction of benefit undertaken out of self interest. The book attempts to answer three questions: what are these theories and how do their assumptions differ? How do they view a variety of interpersonal communication phenomena? What are their strengths and weaknesses? 'This highly readable book contributes by abstracting the substance of exchange, then attributing it to the human communication processes...read more

An expert in the study of mass communications and an expert on interpersonal communication bring together contributions that explore the ways in which we are persuaded. Essays cover three major aspects of the subject: theory and definition of persuasion, factors in the persuasion process, and the application of persuasion to negotiation, marketing, family relationships and politics. ′This collection seemed to me a good review of a fascinating field. As a therapist, I found I was able to pull together a range of ideas that I considered worthy of development and application...Though not written with therapists in mind, this book represented for me an introduction to a new range of possibilities for influencing people towards