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The third edition of this popular text offers a uniquely scholarly approach towards the subject and has been fully updated to include technological advances in practice such as AI and virtual marketing, and a brand-new chapter on the rise of influencer culture and marketing.

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This book is based on one of the most important influences on student learning: teachers who believe that they can improve their students' achievements. Along with this, the book explores the notion that this powerful belief can also exist between students, enhancing their achievements but also preparing them for real world encounters and job demands.

The best-selling Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment.

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Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it.

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The bestselling guide to both the theory and practice journalism. An essential resource for all students of journalism.