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Communication studies

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African Writing Systems: Provides an insight into means of written communication used in various African regions. Users are invited to click on an interactive map to investigate systems in operation in Northern, Eastern, Western, Central and Southern Africa, or, alternatively, to choose from a selection of syllographic, alphabetic, pictographic, petrographic, chromatographic, or philosophical systems. Information provided includes articles on the development and composition of systems, and samples of the handwritings themselves.
Author: Bekerie, Ayele
Subjects: african studies, communication studies
DeweyClass: 411
Resource type: documents, images
American Communication Association: A national professional organisation of scholars, students, and practitioners created to enhance and promote the academic and professional study, research, knowledge, criticism, teaching, exchange, and application of the basic principles of human communication.
Author: American Communication Association
Subjects: communication studies
DeweyClass: 302.2
Resource type: institution
Braille It: Service which transcribes print, electronic, or taped materials into Braille documents for blind people. Describes the arrangement of dots in Braille and how Braille was invented.
Author: Pranghofer, Maureen
Subjects: blindness, communication studies
DeweyClass: 411
Resource type: service
Center for the Study of Group Processes: Promotes basic research in the field of group processes, including formal organisations, political groups, families, social categories and societies, with special interest in the discovery and analysis of general principles underlying group processes across diverse empirical settings, and the interplay between individual and group levels of analysis.
Author: University of Iowa
Subjects: communication studies, sociology
DeweyClass: 302.3
Resource type: institution
CMC: Computer Mediated Communication: Magazine that reports about people, events, technology, public policy, culture, practices, study, and applications related to human communication and interaction in online environments.
Author: December Communications
Subjects: communication studies, human-computer interaction
DeweyClass: 004.019
Resource type: magazine
Current Research in Social Psychology: Refereed journal covering all aspects of social psychology.
Author: University of Iowa Center for the Study of Group Processes
Subjects: communication studies, social psychology
DeweyClass: 302.3
Resource type: journal
Directions in Knowledge Networking: Advances and Opportunities: Paper discussing developments in knowledge networking as a result of computing and communication technologies such as digital libraries and collaboratories.
Author: Olson, Gary M. & Atkins, Daniel E.
Subjects: communication studies
DeweyClass: 004.65
Resource type: article
Happy Fun Communication Land: A tutorial and reference resource supporting the study of communication theory and history. Includes citations, glossaries, focus sections on specific topics including paradigmatic and syntagmatic analyses, and questions on semiotics, culture, codes, speech and mass communication.
Author: Dillman, Richard
Subjects: communication studies, rhetoric
DeweyClass: 302.2
Resource type: guide
Hieroglyphs: Annotated links to material on Egyptian hieroglyphs, a picture based writing system consisting of phonograms and ideograms. Resources cover the learning and decipherment of hieroglyphs, together with translators, Hieroglyphic fonts, and software.
Author: Spalding, Tim
Subjects: communication studies, egypt
DeweyClass: 411
Resource type: index
HomeNet: HomeNet is an ongoing study of how ordinary families use the Internet.
Author: Carnegie Mellon University
Subjects: communication studies, internet users
DeweyClass: 302.2
Resource type: documents
Intute: arts and humanities: A catalogue of Internet resources on arts and humanities, each evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities.
Author: Intute
Subjects: architecture links, archives, communication studies, cultural studies, history links, humanities links, language learning, library and information science links, linguistics, media studies, museum links
DeweyClass: 001
Resource type: index
KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15: A non-profit organisation aimed at getting youths up to age 15 involved in a global dialog.
Author: Kidlink
Subjects: communication studies, community and youth studies, electronic mail
DeweyClass: 305.2
Resource type: service
LTSN Centre for Art, Design and Communication: Subject centre aiming to establish and support a network of academic practitioners, identify and promote information on good practices of learning, teaching and assessment, and create opportunities for professional development in the field of art, design, and communication.
Author: Learning and Teaching Support Network, Brighton University
Subjects: art education, communication studies, design education
DeweyClass: 700
Resource type: documents
MUDs and MOOs: An Experimental Virtual Helpdesk: The Forest After Dark: The Forest After Dark MUD is a social and experimental mud. It's social in that people come to hang out with people that they want to keep in touch with. It's experimental in that, if you want to mess around with MUD programming, it's easy to do.
Author: The Forest After Dark
Subjects: communication studies, distance education, internet users
DeweyClass: 384.3
Resource type: proceedings
Nonverbal Dictionary: Dictionary of gestures, signs, and body language cues from the Centre for Nonverbal Studies which aims to advance the study of human communication in all forms excepting oral means. Draws on the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and semioticians to provide a compendium of brief essays on the way people say things without speaking.
Author: Givens, David B.
Subjects: communication studies, social psychology
DeweyClass: 302.2
Resource type: dictionary
Numbers in Various Writing Systems: An examination of the numbers from one to ten in a range of native writing systems. Covers monosyllabic scripts such as Chinese, syllabic scripts like Japanese and Cherokee, modified syllabaries including Sanskrit and Thai, consonantal scripts such as Arabic, the Greek, Russian, and Fali alphabets, featural systems like Korean, and sign. The numbers from one to ten are also presented in over 4500 languages.
Author: Rosenfelder, Mark
Subjects: communication studies
DeweyClass: 411
Resource type: document
Post Office: National postal and retail service, incorporating the Royal Mail, Parcelforce, and Post Office Counters Ltd. It is one of the UK's leading businesses and employs over 190,000 people.
Author: Post Office
Subjects: british business, communication studies
DeweyClass: 383
Resource type: institution
Royal Mail: Postcodes On-line: Searchable directory of postcodes and addresses in the UK. Service is free but limited to 50 successful searches per day
Author: Royal Mail
Subjects: communication studies
DeweyClass: 383.1455
Resource type: directory, reference data
Semiotics for Beginners: Introduces the key concepts of semiotics, defined as the study of signs and symbols, as a means of communication, in relation to their physical referents. Signs, modality and representation, paradigms and syntagms, codes, and articulation are among the topics covered.
Author: Chandler, Daniel
Subjects: communication studies
DeweyClass: 302.2
Resource type: documents
Technorealism: Description of the main principles of technorealism, including the view that information is not knowledge and that the Internet provides a range of new opportunities for people, communities, businesses, and government that may be empowering or enlightening, yet also dimensions that are malicious, perverse, or ordinary.
Author: Shenk, David; Shapiro, Andrew L. & Johnson, Steven
Subjects: communication studies, internet culture
DeweyClass: 384
Resource type: documents
UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society: Provides news items about the ethical, legal and societal challenges brought about by new technologies. Offers information on national and international changes within the Information Society with four main themes, Privacy and Confidentiality, Content Regulation, Multilingualism, and Access to Public Domain Information.
Author: UNESCO
Subjects: communication studies, information society, technology impact
DeweyClass: 303.483
Resource type: news index