Open Educational Resources and Communication Studies – Resources by C-ID
Organizational Communication
Textbooks
- Organizational Communication – Theory, Research, and Practice (LibreTexts) (CC BY-NC-SA) This book looks at organizational communication as a broad term that encompasses a wide array of organizational types which are explored in detail in chapters covering ethics, identity and diversity, stakeholder communication, teams, leaders and followers, as well as chapters covering organizational theories.
- An Introduction to Organizational Behavior (Bauer) (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) An Introduction to Organizational Behavior is a comprehensive text that covers several aspects of organizational communication. It includes chapters on perception, diversity, attitudes and behaviors, motivation, stress and emotions, conflict and decision making, leadership, culture and power, as well as organizational theory.
- Human Relations (Dias, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
Courses
- BUS209: Organizational Behavior (Saylor) (CC BY 3.0) This course will cover five major OB areas including managing individuals, managing groups, power and politics, conflict management, and organizational change. Before delving into more rigorous materials, it is important to understand what an organization is and the history of organizational behavior as a discipline. In taking this into consideration, this course will begin with a look at the basics of an organization.
- BUS210: Corporate Communication (Saylor) (CC BY 3.0) This course focuses on communication tools and activities that connect people within and beyond the organization in order to establish the business’ place in the corporate community and the social community, and as a result, that communication needs to be consistent, effective, and customized for the business to prosper.
Business Communication
Textbooks
Business Communication for Success (Saylor) (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) 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.
Political Communication
Textbooks
- Elements of Political Communication (WikiBook) (CC BY-SA) 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 op-eds, letters to the editor, press releases, social media posts, website content, and spoken messages.
- Classical Rhetoric and Modern Political Discourse (MIT OpenCourseWare) (CC BY-NC-SA) 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.
- Public Opinion and American Democracy (MIT OpenCourseWare) (CC BY-NC-SA) 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.
Mass Communication
Textbooks
- Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication (Open Textbook Library) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) 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.
- Writing for Strategic Communication Industries (Roberts, The Ohio State University) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC) 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.
Negotiation
Courses
Negotiation and Conflict Management (MIT OpenCourseWare) (CC BY-NC-SA) This course presents negotiation theory strategies and styles within an employment context. In addition to the theory and exercises presented in class, students practice negotiating with role-playing simulations that cover a range of topics. Students also learn how to negotiate in difficult situations, which include abrasiveness, racism, sexism, whistle-blowing, and emergencies. The course covers conflict management as a first party and as a third party: third-party skills include helping others deal directly with their conflicts, mediation, investigation, arbitration, and helping the system change as a result of a dispute.
Environmental Communication
Textbooks
The Environment in the Age of the Internet (Graf) (CC BY) 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 light on how these groups tell their distinctive stories of “the environment”. This book draws on case studies from around the world and focuses on activists of radically different kinds: protestors against pulp mills in South America, resistance to mining in the Sámi region of Sweden, the struggles of indigenous peoples from the Arctic to the Amazon, gardening bloggers in northern Europe, and neo-Nazi environmentalists in Germany. Each case is examined in relation to its multifaceted media coverage, mainstream and digital, professional and amateur.
Stories are told within a context; examining the “what” and “how” of these environmental stories demonstrates how contexts determine communication, and how communication raises and shapes awareness. These issues have never been more urgent, this work never more timely. The Environment in the Age of the Internet is essential reading for everyone interested in how humans relate to their environment in the digital age.
Open Educational Resources and Communication Studies – Resources by C-ID
This page last updated 4-5-23.