A Century of Communication Studies

A Century of Communication Studies

Author: Pat J. Gehrke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1134062796

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This volume chronicles the development of communication studies as a discipline, providing a history of the field and identifying opportunities for future growth. Editors Pat J. Gehrke and William M. Keith have assembled an exceptional list of communication scholars who, in the thirteen chapters contained in this book, cover the breadth and depth of the field. Organized around themes and concepts that have enduring historical significance and wide appeal across numerous subfields of communication, A Century of Communication Studies bridges research and pedagogy, addressing themes that connect classroom practice and publication. Published in the 100th anniversary year of the National Communication Association, this collection highlights the evolution of communication studies and will serve future generations of scholars as a window into not only our past but also the field’s collective possibilities.


Comprehensive Dissertation Index

Comprehensive Dissertation Index

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 872

ISBN-13:

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Vols. for 1973- include the following subject areas: Biological sciences, Agriculture, Chemistry, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Engineering, Mathematics and statistics, Earth sciences, Physics, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law & political science, Business & economics, Geography & regional planning, Language & literature, Fine arts, Library & information science, Mass communications, Music, Philosophy and Religion.


Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts

Audience Engagement in the Performing Arts

Author: Ben Walmsley

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-11

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 3030266532

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This book explores the concept of audience engagement from a number of complementary perspectives, including cultural value, arts marketing, co-creation and digital engagement. It offers a critical review of the existing literature on audience research and engagement, and provides an overview of established and emerging methodologies deployed to undertake research with audiences. The book focusses on the performing arts, but draws from a rich diversity of academic fields to make the case for a radically interdisciplinary approach to audience research. The book’s underlying thesis is that at the heart of audience research there is a mutual exchange of value wherein audiences ideally play the role of strategic partners in the mission fulfilment of arts organisations. Illustrating how audiences have traditionally been side-lined, homogenised and vilified, it contends that the future paradigm of audience studies should be based on an engagement model, wherein audiences take their rightful place as subjects rather than objects of empirical research.


Distance in Preaching

Distance in Preaching

Author: Michael Brothers

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1467440345

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Based on several years of teaching and careful observation in preaching classes, this book by Michael Brothers explores the benefits of "distance" in preaching -- and listening to -- sermons. Having noticed that sermon listeners generally want to be given room for their own interpretations and experiences, Brothers argues that critical and aesthetic distance as a hermeneutical tool is vital to hearing the gospel today and should be intentionally employed in sermon construction and delivery. He explains this "distance" in the field of homiletics, equips teachers and students of preaching to evaluate the function of distance in sermons, and encourages preachers to practice the use of distance in their preaching.


Theorising Performance

Theorising Performance

Author: Edith Hall

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-03-25

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0715638262

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Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.


Performance: pt. 1. Foundations and definitions

Performance: pt. 1. Foundations and definitions

Author: Philip Auslander

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780415255127

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This collection reflects not only the multidisciplinary nature of current thinking about performance, but also the complex and contested nature of the concept itself.


Risk, Participation, and Performance Practice

Risk, Participation, and Performance Practice

Author: Alice O'Grady

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-17

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 3319632426

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This book explores a range of contemporary performance practices that engage spectators physically and emotionally through active engagement and critical involvement. It considers how risk has been re-configured, re-presented and re-packaged for new audiences with a thirst for performances that promote, encourage and embrace risky encounters in a variety of forms. The collection brings together established voices on performance and risk research and draws them into conversation with next generation academic-practitioners in a dynamic reappraisal of what it means to risk oneself through the act of making and participating in performance practice. It takes into account the work of other performance scholars for whom risk and precarity are central concerns, but seeks to move the debate forwards in response to a rapidly changing world where risk is higher on the political, economic and cultural agenda than ever before.