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Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action
2021 || Paperback || Andrew Reeves e.a. || SAGE
This is your essential guide to standards and ethics in the psychological therapies. The book introduces you to key ethical values and principles and discusses how to practice in accordance with these.
Team Human
2021 || Paperback || Douglas Rushkoff || WW Norton & Co
In one hundred lean and incisive statements, Douglas Rushkoff argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together-not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as a way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further ...
Media/Society: Technology, Industries, Content, and Users
2021 || Paperback || David R. Croteau || Sage Publications, Inc
Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association's The McGuffey Longevity Award
Media/Society: Technology, Industries, Content, and Users helps students understand the relationship between media and society and gets them to think critically about recent media developments. Authors David Croteau, William Hoynes, and new co-author Clayton Childress take an interdisciplinary approach with a sociological focus to answer questions like How do people use the media in their everyday lives?...
Research Methods / 3rd edition
The basics
2021 || Paperback || Nicholas Walliman || Taylor & Francis
Research Methods: The Basics is an accessible, user-friendly introduction to the different aspects of research theory, methods and practice. This third edition provides an expanded and fully updated resource suitable for students and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines including the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. It is structured in two parts - the first covers the nature of knowledge and the reasons for doing research, the second explains the specific methods used...
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
An Introduction
2021 || Paperback || John Storey || Taylor & Francis
In this ninth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition remains a ke...
Applied Mass Communication Theory
A Guide for Media Practitioners
2021 || Paperback || Jack Rosenberry e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Now in its third edition, this dynamic textbook blends coverage of the major theories and research methods in mass communication to enable students to apply their knowledge in today's media and communication careers.
-Hybrid coverage of media theory and research methods that enables students to apply their academic knowledge in professional settings -Focus on building from theory and methods coverage to research projects makes for easy and dynamic use in a range of introductory, capstone, and...
Understanding Communication Research Methods / 3rd edition
A Theoretical and Practical Approach
2021 || Paperback || Stephen M. Croucher e.a. || Taylor & Francis
COMPREHENSIVE: The book offers an unbiased introduction to all three methodological paradigms: positivist, interpretive, critical/cultural (quantitative, qualitative, critical). - INNOVATIVE: The book includes new sample student papers along with critiques of these papers to that students can model their own work on that of their peers.
FOCUSED ON THE STUDENT: Specific attention is given to presenting conceptual and theoretical information regarding methods, and to providing real-life exampl...
Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies / 3rd edition
2024 || Paperback || USA) Bonnie S. (Marquette University Brennen || Taylor & Francis
This fully updated third edition provides students and researchers with the tools they need to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed research using methods that include interviewing, focus groups, historical research, oral histories, ethnography and participant observation, textual analysis and digital research. Each chapter features step-by-step instructions that integrate theory with practice, as well as a case study drawn from published research demonstrating best practices fo...