Communication
A subject guide for conducting research in the field of Communication.
Your Librarian
Jeremy Smith
he, him, his
Contact:
W.E.B. Du Bois Library
154 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003
154 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-6729
Subjects: Journalism
Open Educational Resources in Communication
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, openly licensed, educational materials such as textbooks, videos, podcasts, primary source materials, syllabi, etc. that can be used for teaching in place of traditional high-cost course materials. OER can be found in repositories, individual websites, government and educational websites. The library offers incentives to transition your class away from a traditional textbook to an open textbook. More information about our grant program and OER in general can be found here.
Below are recent examples of Communication-oriented OER. I will add new material as I find it.
Textbooks
- Boundless CommunicationIn collaboration with Boundless team, Lumen Learning imported this OER course to the Lumen Platform, to ensure they remain freely available to the education community after Boundless ceased operations. Lumen maintains the Boundless content in the same condition it was provided to them. Courses may contain issues with formatting, accessibility, and the degree to which content remains current, accurate, and complete.
- Business Communication for SuccessThis text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee.
- Communication in the Real WorldThis text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee.
- Media, Society, Culture, & YouMedia, Society, Culture, and You is an approachable introductory Mass Communication text that covers major mass communication terms and concepts including "digital culture." It discusses various media platforms and how they are evolving as Information and Communication Technologies change.
- Moving Pictures: An Introduction to CinemaA free and open-source introduction to the art and science of moving pictures, offering in-depth exploration of how cinema communicates, and what, exactly, it is trying to say.
- Public Speaking: The Virtual TextA textbook from the Public Speaking Project, a project by speech professionals who are dedicated to providing free and low cost original instructional materials.
- The Seven Challenges WorkbookA workbook that proposes seven ways to guide conversations in directions that are more satisfying for both conversation partners. The author has solicited suggestions from the work of a wide range of communication teachers, therapists and researchers in many fields.
- Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public SpeakingAdapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2011 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.
- Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass CommunicationThis text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee.
- Writing for Strategic CommunicationWritten by Jasmine Roberts, a strategic communication lecturer in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. Roberts teaches classes in public communication campaigns, writing for strategic communication, persuasive communication, and public speaking.
Video
- Media Perceptions
Frontiers of Knowledge: State of Fear - Hollywood, the News Media and Global Warming - Film Studies
UCTV Video Series: Carsey-Wolf Center A series of filmed conversations with directors, editors, screenwriters and more.
UCTV Video Series: Script to Screen A series of filmed conversations with screenwriters, directors, and editors.
Lesson Plans
- Filmmaking
3-2-1 Vocabulary: Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films. Deborah Kozdras & Allison Papke
Arab Culture Through Literature and Film. Portland State University, Qatar Foundation International
The Film Experience. M.I.T. OpenCourseWare - Speech
Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues. ReadWriteThink - Mass Media
Introduction to Mass Media. Saylor
Comparative Media Systems. Saylor
Media and Society. Saylor
Introduction to Civic Media. M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Using Internet Communication. UMass Boston OpenCourseWare
Media Industries and Systems. M.I.T. OpenCourseWare - Communication Theory
Intercultural Communication. Saylor
Principles of Human Communication. Saylor
Media Studies 101. Dr Erika Pearson, Dr Sy Taffel, Dr Brett Nicholls, Martina Wengenmeir, Khin-Wee Chen, Hazel Phillips, Collette Snowden, Bernard Madill, Jane Ross, Sarah Gallagher, Thelma Fisher, Shah Nister J. Kabir, Maud Ceuterick, Hannah Mettner, Massimiliana Urbano - Advertising/Consumerism
Critical Consumerism - Public Speaking
Public Speaking. Saylor - Gender
Gender and Media Studies: Women in the Media. M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
The below titles are all Open Access works available via Knowledge Unlatched
