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  • UAVs for Spatial Modelling and Urban Informatics

    by Tony H. Grubesic, Jake R. Nelson, Ran Wei ...
    This book aims to provide a wide range of real-world applications in using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for geographic observation, spatial modeling, and urban informatics. Specifically, UAVs are incredibly effective platforms for connecting people, places, and technology. This book explores the utility of UAVs for monitoring, measuring, and improving urban infrastructure systems, urban ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic

    An Asian Perspective

    by Ran Wei, Ven-Hwei Lo, Dong Dong, Hai Liang, Guanxiong Huang, Sibo Wang, Yi-Hui Huang ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    This book tackles the infodemic—the rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramifications—triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on four Asian societies, the book compares and analyzes the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and its broad impacts on the public in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Singapore.Providing both a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • News in their Pockets

    A Cross-City Comparative Study of Mobile News Consumption in Asia

    by Ran Wei, Ven-hwei Lo ...
    Series series Studies in Mobile Communication
    Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news. With three billion mobile phone subscribers, Asian countries have led this seismic shift in news consumption. They provide a wide range of opportunities to study how, as mobile technology matures and becomes routinized, mobile news is increasingly ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Biomethane Production from Vegetable and Water Hyacinth Waste

    by Wei Ran, Zhao Youcai ...
    Biomethane Production from Vegetable and Water Hyacinth Waste explores the production of biomethane from vegetable waste and water hyacinth via anaerobic fermentation, focusing on effect factors, control methods and optimization. The book introduces principles and key technologies before proceeding into a deeper exploration of the fundamentals of municipal vegetable waste, such as composition, ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Refining Milestone Mass Communications Theories for the 21st Century

    Edited by Ran Wei ...
    The ‘Milestones’ essays in Mass Communication and Society are reflective and analytical articles by the most notable scholars in the field. These classic essays address 21st century issues from the pioneers of media and communication studies, including Elihu Katz on new media and social movements, George Gerbner on cultivation analysis, and Dietram Scheufele on political communication. As ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Advances in Foundational Mass Communication Theories

    Edited by Ran Wei ...
    Providing leading-edge perspectives on the legacy theories of mass media and society, this collection advances the foundational theories of mass communications, which have sustained the field of study over the past fifty years. Many of these contributions were originally published as a Deutschmann Scholarly Essay in the Mass Communication and Society journal, and together they comprise a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia

    Private Chat to Public Communication

    Edited by Ran Wei ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weibo, mobile WeChat, etc.) are featured as a response to calls for theorization of the mobile media's ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The State of Asian Communication Research and Directions for the 21st Century

    Edited by Ran Wei ...
    The 21st century has been called ‘the Asian Century’ by Eastern and Western academics, largely due to the economic and cultural rise of China and India. This volume explores both what this means for communication research, and the implications of Asia’s rising global power for communication scholars in Asia and from around the world. Hot topics and emerging trends are explored, encapsulating the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • E-Government in China

    Technology, Power and Local Government Reform

    by Jesper Schlæger ...
    Series series China Policy Series
    This book looks at how information and communication technology and e-government influences power relations in public administration in China. It highlights the role of technology in combating corruption, and clarifies the interplay between ideas, institutions and technologies in shaping the foundation for organisational change. Using fieldwork based case studies, the book provides an incisive ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

    Edited by Jesper Strömbäck, Åsa Wikforss, Kathrin Glüer, Torun Lindholm, Henrik Oscarsson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
    This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that ... Read more

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  • Understanding Communication Theory

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Stephen M. Croucher ...
    This book offers students a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical guide to communication theory. Croucher defines the various perspectives on communication theory—the social scientific, interpretive, and critical approaches—and then takes on the theories themselves, with topics including interpersonal communication, organizational communication, intercultural communication, persuasion, ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Doing News Framing Analysis

    Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Paul D'Angelo, Jim A. Kuypers ...
    Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames – what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites. Chapters feature framing analysts reflecting on their own empirical work in research, classroom, and public settings to address specific aspects of framing analysis. Taken ... Read more

    $67.99 USD