Comparative Politics

Diana Trebing• Ahmet Atay (eds.) Mentoring and Communication

Theories and Practices

New York, 2021 . VIII, 280 pp ., 2 b/w ill .

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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 . Agnieszka Walecka-Rynduch• Andrzej Zegler A MediaEgo in the MediaPolis. Towards a New Paradigm of Political Communication

Berlin, 2021 . 304 pp ., 50 fig . b/w, 3 tables . Studies in Communication and Politics. Vol. 14

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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 .