COM 207 - Human Communication

"The National Communication Association advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific and aesthetic inquiry. "

Information on ASL: American Sign Language (ASL) is a complete, complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body.

"ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication."

"The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a nonprofit organization of more than 3,700 educators, students and practitioners from around the globe. AEJMC’s mission is to promote the highest possible standards for journalism and mass communication education, to encourage the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multi-cultural society in the classroom and curriculum, and to defend and maintain freedom of communication in an effort to achieve better professional practice, a better informed public, and wider human understanding."

"ACA is committed to enabling the effective use of new and evolving technologies to facilitate communication instruction, research and criticism, and to offering a technologically supportive venue for all who study the ways in which humans communicate."

A nonpartisan/nonprofit organization that research's critical issues and seeks to make progress regardless of differences.

The American Press Institute is dedicated to helping journalists fulfill the mission of the First Amendment – to sustain a free press in the public interest. That mission continues in the digital age.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. CPJ takes action wherever journalists are censored, attacked, imprisoned, or killed for their work. Hundreds of journalists are killed, harassed, or imprisoned every year. Journalism plays a vital role in the relationship between a government and its people. When a country's journalists are silenced, its people are silenced. By protecting journalists, CPJ protects freedom of expression and democracy.

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, [ICPSR] is an international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations that provides data access, curation, and methods of analysis for social science research.

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The World Factbook is published annually by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the web version is updated weekly.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The available information includes: political and physical maps of the major world regions, other maps, and the Flags of the World. This is a handy reference work for basic and reliable statistical data on the countries of the world. The appendices and the The World Factbook Users Guide can lead you to additional interesting data on the website.

The World News (WN) Network was founded with the goal of being the most comprehensive, one-stop news resource on the Internet.

Libraries exist to preserve society's cultural artifacts and to provide access to them. The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.