An Introduction to Human Communication
Communicate, Connect, Collaborate
©2024, 506 pages
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An Introduction to Human Communication: Communicate, Connect, Collaborate helps students understand the roles and skills essential to communicating effectively in today’s environment.
Providing a fresh approach to both contemporary and traditional communication topics, this text is divided into three parts: Foundations of Communication; Interpersonal and Small Group Communication; and Public Speaking. The authors use a model of communication that integrates networked digital media, addresses cultural differences and diversity, incorporates examples from popular culture and current events, and offers sound pedagogy based on their extensive teaching and research experience.
The lines between interpersonal, small group, organizational, public, and mass communication have blurred as people routinely share their thoughts and ideas with others via social networking platforms, blogs, messaging apps, texts, and emails. These ways of connecting have altered how individuals think about communication, enact relationships, and inform and persuade each other. In recognizing communicators as active message producers rather than passive message consumers, this text empowers students to successfully negotiate their agency and identity across communication contexts.
This is the ideal textbook for introduction to human communication courses, helping students gain the fundamental knowledge and tools necessary for our increasingly complex world.
Providing a fresh approach to both contemporary and traditional communication topics, this text is divided into three parts: Foundations of Communication; Interpersonal and Small Group Communication; and Public Speaking. The authors use a model of communication that integrates networked digital media, addresses cultural differences and diversity, incorporates examples from popular culture and current events, and offers sound pedagogy based on their extensive teaching and research experience.
The lines between interpersonal, small group, organizational, public, and mass communication have blurred as people routinely share their thoughts and ideas with others via social networking platforms, blogs, messaging apps, texts, and emails. These ways of connecting have altered how individuals think about communication, enact relationships, and inform and persuade each other. In recognizing communicators as active message producers rather than passive message consumers, this text empowers students to successfully negotiate their agency and identity across communication contexts.
This is the ideal textbook for introduction to human communication courses, helping students gain the fundamental knowledge and tools necessary for our increasingly complex world.
Stephanie J. Coopman (Ph.D., University of Kentucky) is a professor of communication studies at San José State University. Her research, teaching, and service focus on applied communication, as with organizational life, games and play, and new media. Dr. Coopman is the author of Public Speaking: The Evolving Art.
Joy L. Hart (Ph.D., University of Kentucky) is a professor of communication and the executive director of the University Honors Program at the University of Louisville. Her work examines discourse, communication skill, culture, and message strategies. Dr. Hart previously served as the editor of Southern Communication Journal and the president of the American Communication Association.
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“I found the philosophy compelling, and I appreciated the authors' attention to social media's impact on how we relate and form/maintain relationships with others. Sometimes textbooks have a tendency to treat social media as separate from everyday communication rather than integrated into our daily lives as communicators. The relevance of the focus of the context we are living in with the Covid-19 Pandemic as well as the protests against racial injustice make this book extremely timely. Culture is created in social acts, and I appreciated how this textbook adopts that perspective and doesn't frame culture as a "context." This text engages a wide variety of undergraduate students (liberal arts, humanities, social sciences, education, etc.) so it would be good for both majors and nonmajors. It could also be used in public speaking courses as well as intro courses that do not include that component. Across chapters, this text recognizes the shift in communication brought about by the internet and constant connection and grounds each chapter in examples that are relevant and engaging to students while incorporating the Covid-19 Pandemic, and protests against racial injustices. The lines separating interpersonal, small group, organizational, public, and mass communication are no longer distinct and this text highlights this and doesn't consider technology as an ‘add on’."
Jenna Abetz, College of Charleston
“I think that this text advances the way we need to teach the basic course in communication studies. Too many introductory texts separate mediated and communicative technologies into separate boxes or examples. This book threads and weaves all of these together through the idea convergence. This is important, because generally our students are ahead of us technologically. What's impressive is that Coopman & Hart have done a first-rate undertaking in threading the idea of convergence—and the metaphor of air—throughout the chapters that I read. I was pleased to see this. I was pleased to see the integration of various forms of media wound in and through each chapter."
Andrew F. Herrmann, East Tennessee State University
“I like the shift from "mass comm" (which some classes and books still reference) to "new media." We aren't in the same journalism world we used to be. Glad this book is focused on the now and future. The book is on point with how it references social media and the impact it is having. The incorporation of social movements our on trend with what our students are looking for in a college level class. This book looks at real day communication and not the cookie cutter "hypothetical" communication that most textbooks in communication rely on.”
Gina Firenzi, Foothill College
“This is the first basic course textbook that addresses digital technology as a central theme. I am excited about the philosophy.”
George Lawson, The University of Nebraska at Kearney
Jenna Abetz, College of Charleston
“I think that this text advances the way we need to teach the basic course in communication studies. Too many introductory texts separate mediated and communicative technologies into separate boxes or examples. This book threads and weaves all of these together through the idea convergence. This is important, because generally our students are ahead of us technologically. What's impressive is that Coopman & Hart have done a first-rate undertaking in threading the idea of convergence—and the metaphor of air—throughout the chapters that I read. I was pleased to see this. I was pleased to see the integration of various forms of media wound in and through each chapter."
Andrew F. Herrmann, East Tennessee State University
“I like the shift from "mass comm" (which some classes and books still reference) to "new media." We aren't in the same journalism world we used to be. Glad this book is focused on the now and future. The book is on point with how it references social media and the impact it is having. The incorporation of social movements our on trend with what our students are looking for in a college level class. This book looks at real day communication and not the cookie cutter "hypothetical" communication that most textbooks in communication rely on.”
Gina Firenzi, Foothill College
“This is the first basic course textbook that addresses digital technology as a central theme. I am excited about the philosophy.”
George Lawson, The University of Nebraska at Kearney
