CIOS Open Text Project
The CIOS Open Text Project aims to increase the availability of important academic texts in communication, ensuring the widest possible readership, and continuing access. Making texts openly available provides an avenue through which the broadest audience can become acquainted with seminal works of the communication field.
Communication in the Real World
Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field, while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. Each chapter will include timely, concrete, and real-life examples of communication concepts in action.
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.
Introduction to Public Communication
Introduction to Public Communication is an open textbook created specifically for ISU's COMM 101 course. A guiding team of Communication instructors compiled content from other open sources, and wrote original content to complete this text. Content includes: introduction to communication, verbal and nonverbal communication, diversity, conflict management, and more.
Survey of Communication Study
This text offers the opportunity to introduce people to Communication as an academic field of study. We have broken the book into two parts. First, we lay the foundation by covering the scope of communication study, its history, as well as a brief introduction to theories and research methods. Second, we provide chapters that survey many of the areas of specialization practiced in the field of Communication today.'
By Tucker, B., & Barton, K., Dalton State College, Dalton, GA, 2016. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike License.
A free course developed by Christie Fierro and Brent Adrian. Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs License.
University of Minnesota Publishing, 2016. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license.
By Steven Ginley, Morton College, Cicero, IL. 2018. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.