Decoding Deception by Diana Daly and Kainan Jarrette is a dynamic multimedia OER that turns adults and college and high school students into expert lie detectors. This interactive guide blends humor, games, and activities with cognitive science and media literacy to reveal how biases, fallacies, and AI-fueled content can mislead us. Readers learn practical strategies …
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This textbook has been created specifically for today’s California Community College public speaking students and includes carefully curated content from a variety of public speaking textbooks found in the LibreTexts Social Science Library. This textbook was formatted to meet the California State requirements for speech courses through the Common Course Numbering (CCN) template for COMM …
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The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answers from media and communication studies, social sciences, modern history, and folklore studies. Edited by Heike Graf, its focus is on the communicative approaches taken by different groups to ecological issues, shedding …
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Good writing skills are important in today’s competitive work environment. This is especially the case for communication-related professions such as public relations, brand communication, journalism, and marketing.
Understanding Media and Culture will support an engaging and interesting course experience for students that will not only show them the powerful social, political and economic forces will affect the future of media technology but will challenge students to do their part in shaping that future.
This course will examine public opinion and assess its place in the American political system. The course will emphasize both how citizens’ thinking about politics is shaped and the role of public opinion in political campaigns, elections, and government.
This course is an introduction to the history, theory, practice, and implications of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion through analyzing and creating persuasive texts and speeches.
Elements of Political Communication is an introductory wikibook for beginners who want to produce political messages in various media formats. It is meant as a practical guide for anyone, regardless of political affiliation, and it is organized in such a way that a person new to political communication can learn to create convincing and thought-provoking …
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Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor. LibreTexts authored, remixed, and/or curated this OER via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform.A PDF version from Saylor Foundation is also available: …
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