28 Communication Studies
Advanced Public Speaking
Lynn Meade (University of Arkansas)
2021
Licence: CC BY
This advanced public speaking textbook is designed to encourage you as a speaker and to help you sharpen your skills. It is written to feel like you are sitting with a trusted mentor over coffee as you receive practical advice on speaking. Grow in confidence, unleash your personal power and find your unique style as you learn to take your speaking to the next level–polished and professional.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Be Credible
Peter Bobkowski and Karna Younger (University of Kansas)
2018
Licence: CC BY-NC
This book teaches college-level journalism and strategic communication students to become information experts.
Formats: Online
Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This book overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. Each chapter includes timely, concrete, and real-life examples of communication concepts in action.
Formats: Online, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Suggested for: CMNS 301
Communication Theory
Wikibooks
2019
Licence: CC BY-SA
This communication studies text covers introductory concepts in communication theory, from reduction to the network society.
Formats: Online (wiki) and PDF
Suggested for: CMNS 301
Digital Photography for Graphic Communications
Richard Adams, Reem El Asaleh, Art Seto, Jason Lisi, and Martin Habekost (Ryerson University)
Licence: CC BY
The purpose of this book is to serve as a reference for a one-semester course in digital photography for graphic communications. Since digital cameras have mostly replaced colour scanners, graphic communicators need to capture images for use in magazines, catalogs, brochures, packages, signs, banners—all forms of printed materials—and also for eBooks, web sites, and apps. It is based on a 2009 print book by the authors that was called Digital Photography for Print and published by the Printing Industries of America (PIA) Press.
Formats: Online, PDF
eGirls, eCitizens
Edited by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves (University of Ottawa)
2015
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada’s foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications for girls and young women as revealed through the findings of The eGirls Project (www.egirlsproject.ca) and other important research initiatives. Aimed at moving dialogues on scholarship and policy around girls and technology away from established binaries of good vs bad