Communication Studies
Comparative Politics
Diana Trebing • Ahmet Atay (eds.)
Agnieszka Walecka-Rynduch • Andrzej Zegler
Mentoring and Communication
A MediaEgo in the MediaPolis. Towards a New Paradigm of Political Communication
Theories and Practices New York, 2021. VIII, 280 pp., 2 b/w ill. hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-6271-8 CHF 129.– / €D 109.95 / €A 109.40 / € 104.20 / £ 84.– / US-$ 124.95 pb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-6272-5 CHF 50.– / €D 42.95 / €A 42.– / € 40.– / £ 32.– / US-$ 47.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-1-4331-6275-6 CHF 50.– / € 40.– / €A 42.– / €D 42.95 / £ 32.– / US-$ 47.95
Although mentoring occupies a paramount role in higher education and is part of a faculty’s expected duties, nowadays increasingly so, it is not an area to which graduate schools pay close attention. There is no formalized training and faculty and graduate students alike are expected to know how to mentor effectively once they graduate or start a new teaching or administrative position. This book tackles two interrelated issues: the role and importance of mentoring in the communication discipline as well as critical/cultural studies and using critical communication to illuminate the ways in which students and junior faculty among others are mentored in higher education. The authors of these chapters present a position or an issue in regards to mentoring students and faculty or the lack of it in higher education. Their goal is to generate a scholarly discussion by utilizing qualitative and narrative-based research approaches and critical and cultural perspectives to promote awareness about the importance of mentoring. Additionally, the authors highlight some of the important issues in mentoring as a form of critical communication pedagogy and present some guidelines, ideas, and examples to mentor more effectively. This edited book will be helpful for various audiences. First, it will provide guidance for graduate students, junior and senior faculty members who are asked to mentor others at various stages of their academic careers. Second, it will help students and faculty who are currently trying to identify and work with mentors. And third, it gives ideas on what to do and not to do in successful mentor-mentee relationships.
Berlin, 2021. 304 pp., 50 fig. b/w, 3 tables. Studies in Communication and Politics. Vol. 14 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-85576-8 CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-85644-4 CHF 58.– / € 46.70 / €A 51.40 / €D 49.95 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95
The monograph is focused on three essential research problems identified by the key terms used in its title. The analysis covers concepts that previously were not subject to in-depth research projects: the MediaPolis, a MediaEgo and evolution of the political communication paradigm, observed and analysed on the political scene in Poland. Evolution of the public sphere and the media requires consideration of the causes of ongoing changes and of forecast transformations initiated by those changes. Hence, the research project focused on the sphere that emerged in an intersection of known discourse areas – public, political, meta-political and media discourses. The monograph summarizes years of research into the proposed concepts of a MediaEgo politician and the MediaPolis public sphere.
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