Academic Articles & Research Papers

Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

Experts analyze how mobile communication is changing daily life and local culture around the world, in both industrialized and developing countries. Mobile communication has become mainstream and even omnipresent. It is arguably the most su...

Building Inclusive Communication in Empowering Farmers: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainability in the Digital Era

The need for inclusive communication in farmer empowerment is becoming increasingly urgent in the digital era, especially in rural areas such as Sumberejo Sub-district, Tanggamus Regency, and Lampung, where most people depend on the agricul...

Perception of hate speech in the 2023 presidential political campaigns on voter behaviour in Nigeria

The 2023 general elections in Nigeria were characterised by a surge in hate speech, particularly across digital platforms, significantly shaping the political landscape and influencing voter behaviour. The study highlights how ethno-religio...

Introduction to Social Media, Activism, and Organizations

Social media have become increasingly pervasive. However, the literature on social movements and social media has not fully grasped just how much social media have fundamentally changed the landscape of organizational communication, ranging...

Social Justice Mathematics and Public Health Equity: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Literacy in Health Decision-Making

Background: Public health decision-making increasingly requires individuals to interpret numerical information such as risks, probabilities, treatment benefits, and epidemiological trends. However, disparities in quantitative literacy may c...

Effects of women’s economic empowerment interventions on antenatal care outcomes: a systematic review

Objectives Early and adequate antenatal care (ANC) has been shown to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality globally. Increasing evidence suggests that women’s economic empowerment (WEE) is a critical factor that may influence uptake of AN...

Communication Studies

After 100 years of disciplinary evolution, communication studies has matured into multidisciplinary scholarly inquiries, a diversified curriculum, and complex academic units. Academics in the United States have played a primary role in deve...

Critical Communication Studies

The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and pr...

Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies

The Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies has provided students and the general public alike with a gateway into the study of intercultural communication, public relations and marketing communications since 1984. In this 9th edition...

The Violence of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies

Heteronormativity is everywhere. It is always already present in our individual and collective psyches, social institutions, cultural practices, and knowledge systems. In this essay, I provide some sketches for a critical analysis of hetero...

The effect of Ethical leadership on life Satisfaction and well-being by Mediation of job Satisfaction: The case of Private Hospitals in Mashhad city

Abstract In recent years, organizations have shown a growing interest in creating and promoting ethical leadership and leader’s effectiveness (Elci et al, 2012: 291). The reason for the recent time increasing importance of ethical leadershi...

Evaluating Urban–Rural Disparity of Public Facilities Provision in Chengdu–Chongqing: An Equity Index Approach with Multi-Source Data

Urban–rural public facility disparity is a systemic challenge that reflects dysfunctional feedback loops within and across social and technical subsystems. Traditional administrative-unit-based analyses cannot capture such systemic alignmen...

Nota bibliográfica: Previsión social de los funcionarios públicos y del personal no funcionario al servicio de la Administración pública

Editorial: Institutional adaptation and transformation for climate resilience

Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration

Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions – political pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law—are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe. While liberal-democratic backsliding fea...

Social Media and Public Administration

(2011). Social Media and Public Administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 325-340....

Public administration and development

Public Administration is the study of the activities of government. Where governments accept responsibility for development, public administration is the administration of development. The approach of public administration to development is...

Fantasies of being somebody: Auto / biographic potential of posing conventions

The article examines the tension between the individual and the collective in current mainstream photographic practice, which is considered within the long-term historical context of commercial portraiture. The individualizing tendencies of...

Public Administration

What is understood by “public administration” in the contemporary UK higher education setting? Is it still being taught and, if so, why? These questions initially appear to be fairly straightforward but any review of the topic quickly poses...

Introducing Public Administration

Now in an extensively revised 9th edition, Introducing Public Administration provides students with the conceptual foundation they need, while introducing them to important trends in the discipline. Known for its lively and witty writing st...