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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication

    Edited by Michael S. Jeffress, Joy M. Cypher, Jim Ferris, Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication covers a broad spectrum of topics related to how we perceive and understand disability and the language, constructs, constraints and communication behavior that shape disability discourse within society. The essays and original research presented in this volume address important matters of disability identity and intersectionality, broader ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Disability Representation and Inclusion in Media

    Edited by Michael S. Jeffress ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    Drawing on a wide variety of print and digital media sources, this book discusses the need for inclusion and authentic portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about them.Containing 15 newly written chapters drawing on representations of disability in popular culture from film, television, social media, and print media in both the Global ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Communication, Sport and Disability

    The Case of Power Soccer

    by Michael S. Jeffress ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    Sports are ubiquitous in American society, and given their prominence in the culture, it is easy to understand how most youth in the United States face pressure to participate in organized sports. But what does this mean for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who live with one or more physical disabilities and, in particular, those in powered wheelchairs? Located at the intersection of sports ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media

    Edited by Michael S. Jeffress ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions.It contains 13 newly written chapters drawing on representations of disability in popular culture from film, television, and print media in both the Global North and the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • International Perspectives on Teaching with Disability

    Overcoming Obstacles and Enriching Lives

    Edited by Michael Jeffress ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    Efforts to reduce discrimination and increase diversity on campuses, coupled with shrinking budgets causing administrators to devote more resources toward recruiting and retaining students with disabilities, are fuelling an explosion of research in the area of inclusive education. An important focus that has been largely neglected is the place of teachers with disabilities in academe. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Pedagogy, Disability and Communication

    Applying Disability Studies in the Classroom

    Edited by Michael S. Jeffress ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    Research has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity negotiation, the practice of communication, and the development of interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, individuals without disabilities often lack the knowledge and tools to experience self-efficacy in communicating with their differently-abled peers. So how do these ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Research: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Michael Saini ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Disability Research Today

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Tom Shakespeare ...
    Grouped around four central themes – illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations – this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways.Disability Research Today starts by showing how engaging with issues around illness and impairment is vital to a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Crip Authorship

    Disability as Method

    Edited by Mara Mills, Rebecca Sanchez ...
    2024 Daniel E. Griffiths Research Award Winner2024 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice ReviewsAn expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing.Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened lead... ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Constructing the Self in a Digital World

    Edited by Cynthia Carter Ching, PhD, Brian J. Foley, PhD ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    It has become popular in recent years to talk about 'identity' as an aspect of engagement with technology - in virtual environments, in games, in social media and in our increasingly digital world. But what do we mean by identity and how do our theories and assumptions about identity affect the kinds of questions we ask about its relationship to technology and learning? Constructing the Self in a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Media Stereotypes

    From Ageism to Xenophobia

    Edited by Andrew C. Billings, Scott Parrott ...
    When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes and representation (both past and present) are crucial to advancing media literacy. Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia becomes one-stop shopping for synthesizing what we know within the composite of stereotyping research in the United States. ... Read more

    $43.79 USD

  • Emotions and Emotional Intelligence in Organizations

    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    An argumentation for the dualistic importance of emotions in society, individually and at community level. The current tendency of awareness and control of emotions through emotional intelligence has a beneficial effect in business and for the success of social activities but, if we are not careful, it can lead to irreversible alienation at individual and social level. The paper consists of three ... Read more

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