Routledge Communication Series
About the Book Series
The Routledge Communication Series covers the breadth of the communication discipline, from interpersonal communication to public relations, offering textbooks, handbooks, and scholarly reference materials.
Family Communication
4th Edition
By Chris Segrin, Jeanne Flora
September 19, 2025
The fourth edition of this textbook provides a thoroughly updated and comprehensive introduction to contemporary and classic research and theories of family communication and family relationships. In a language that is understandable to a broad range of readers, this book imparts what is known ...
Communicating and Organizing in Context: The Theory of Structurational Interaction
1st Edition
By Beth Bonniwell Haslett
October 14, 2024
Communicating and Organizing in Context integrates Giddens’ structuration theory with Goffman’s interaction order and develops a new theoretical base—the theory of structurational interaction—for the analysis of communicating and organizing. Both theorists emphasize tacit knowledge, ...
Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach
6th Edition
By Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Kevin Kawamoto
June 20, 2024
Now in its sixth edition, this book provides engaging, practice-oriented case studies analyzing communication professionals’ crisis preparation and responses, illustrating key considerations for communicating with both internal and external stakeholders during and after a crisis. This edition ...
The Dynamics of Persuasion: Communication and Attitudes in the 21st Century
8th Edition
By Richard M. Perloff
June 30, 2023
The eighth edition of The Dynamics of Persuasion again guides readers in understanding the power and limits of persuasion in contemporary society. This edition continues its accessible and detailed illustration of the theoretical underpinnings of persuasive communication through contemporary and ...
Professional Feature Writing
6th Edition
By Bruce Garrison
May 30, 2023
Professional Feature Writing provides an essential introduction to the basics of news media feature writing and establishes a solid foundation for students and writers making feature writing their careers. This sixth edition offers a thorough and up-to-date look at newspapers, magazines, ...
Public Relations Theory III: In the Age of Publics
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl Botan, Erich Sommerfeldt
February 22, 2023
This important book chronicles, responds to, and advances the leading theories in the public relations discipline. Taking up the work begun by the books Public Relations Theory and Public Relations Theory II, this volume offers completely original material reflecting public relations as practiced ...
The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication
3rd Edition
Edited
By Anita L. Vangelisti
December 28, 2021
This third edition again brings together interdisciplinary contributions to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted resource that reflects the breadth and depth of research on family communication and family relationships. Chapters continue to address theoretical and methodological issues ...
Choice and Preference in Media Use: Advances in Selective Exposure Theory and Research
1st Edition
By Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
June 30, 2020
Mediated messages flood our daily lives, through virtually endless choices of media channels, genres, and content. However, selectivity determines what media messages we attend to and focus on. The present book examines the factors that influence this selectivity. Seminal books on selective media ...
Televised Presidential Debates and Public Policy
2nd Edition
By Sidney Kraus
June 30, 2020
With this second edition, Kraus continues his examination of formal presidential debates, considering the experience of television in presidential elections, reviewing what has been learned about televised debates, and evaluating that knowledge in the context of the election process, specifically, ...
Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media
2nd Edition
Edited
By Sheree Josephson, James Kelly, Ken Smith
April 28, 2020
This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas and research methods of visual communication. With chapters contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in visual communication, this volume brings together significant and influential work in the discipline. ...
African American Communication: Examining the Complexities of Lived Experiences
3rd Edition
By Ronald L. Jackson II, Amber L. Johnson, Michael L. Hecht, Sidney A. Ribeau
November 26, 2019
Now in its third edition, this text examines how African Americans personally and culturally define themselves and how that definition informs their communication habits, practices, and norms. This edition includes new chapters that highlight discussions of gender and sexuality, intersectional ...
Communication Research Measures III: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth E. Graham, Joseph P. Mazer
October 03, 2019
Building on the measures included in the original 1994 volume and subsequent 2009 volume, Communication Research Measures III: A Sourcebook extends its coverage of measurement issues and trends across the entire communication discipline. Volume III features entirely new content and offers an ...