LibGuides: Communication Studies: Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

Easley, D. & Kleinberg, J. (2010). Networks, crowds, and markets: Reasoning about a highly connected world. New York: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/

Hanneman, Robert A. and Mark Riddle. (2005). Introduction to social network methods. Riverside, CA: University of California, Riverside http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/

Anonymous. (2013). Communication Theory.

This book is an introduction to communication theory — the theory of how humans share, encode, and decode what they know, what they need, and what they expect from each other. http://www.oercommons.org/courses/communication-theory/view

Open Access Textbooks

Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies
(2016). Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
First seven chapters are about interpersonal communication. A key feature of this book is the integration of content regarding diversity and organizational communication in each chapter through examples and/or discrete sub-sections. Discussions of diversity are not relegated to feature boxes. Also integrated into the content are examples that are inclusive in terms of race, gender, sexuality, ability, age, marital status, religion, and other diverse identity characteristics.
Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Communication examines culture as a variable in interpersonal and collective communication. It explores the opportunities and problems arising from similarities and differences in communication patterns, processes, and codes among various cultural groups. It explores cultural universals, social categorization, stereotyping and discrimination, with a focus on topics including race, ethnicity, social class, religion, gender and sexuality as they relate to communication.