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.
Assessing Media Education: A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators
1st Edition
Edited
By William G. Christ
January 27, 2006
Assessing Media Education provides guidelines for media educators and administrators in higher education media programs who are creating or improving student-learning assessment strategies. Covering the topics and categories established by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass...
Law for Advertising, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Public Relations
1st Edition
By Michael G. Parkinson, L. Marie Parkinson
January 04, 2006
This exceptional new text offers an up-to-date and integrated approach to communication law. Written by two practicing attorneys with extensive experience teaching the communication law course, Law for Advertising, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Public Relations covers the areas of ...
Gaining Influence in Public Relations: The Role of Resistance in Practice
1st Edition
By Bruce K. Berger, Bryan H. Reber
December 22, 2005
Gaining Influence in Public Relations explores how professionals can increase their influence in practice to help their organizations achieve success. This provocative book explores the largely uncharted territories of power, resistance, dissent, and activism in public relations, arguing that ...
Media Organizations and Convergence: Case Studies of Media Convergence Pioneers
1st Edition
By Gracie L. Lawson-Borders
November 03, 2005
This volume offers a timely examination of technology's impact on media companies and the results of convergence among media industries, considering the effects on journalistic, business, and economic practices. Media Organizations and Convergence: Case Studies of Media Convergence Pioneers ...
Corporate Public Affairs: Interacting With Interest Groups, Media, and Government
1st Edition
By Otto Lerbinger
October 18, 2005
Corporate Public Affairs explores the increasing interest in public affairs by today's organizations. Lerbinger indicates that more and more frequently corporations are establishing public affairs positions--typically within public relations departments--to respond to issues and concerns arising ...
Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines
1st Edition
Edited
By John R. Baldwin, Sandra L. Faulkner, Michael L. Hecht, Sheryl L. Lindsley
September 29, 2005
Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines argues that culture is one of the most important factors we need to know when we interact as well as in our discussions of social problems and their solutions. This book picks up the dialogue where Kroeber and Kluckhohn left off in their ...
Sex in Consumer Culture: The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Reichert, Jacqueline Lambiase
August 31, 2005
Sex in Consumer Culture: The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing considers the use of sex to promote brands, magazines, video games, TV programming, music, and movies. Offering both quantitative and qualitative perspectives from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines, this volume addresses ...
Crisis Management By Apology: Corporate Response to Allegations of Wrongdoing
1st Edition
By Keith Michael Hearit
August 10, 2005
This volume examines the role of apologia and apology in response to public attack. Author Keith Michael Hearit provides an introduction to these common components of public life, and considers a diverse list of subjects, from public figures and individuals to corporations and institutions. He ...
Global Entertainment Media: Content, Audiences, Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Cooper-Chen
June 23, 2005
Global Entertainment Media offers a unique perspective on entertainment media worldwide. As one of the first comprehensive books to address entertainment mass media worldwide, it addresses students as TV watchers and takes them to new places, both geographically and intellectually. Editor Anne ...
Life-Span Communication
1st Edition
By Loretta L. Pecchioni, Kevin B. Wright, Jon F. Nussbaum
June 23, 2005
This innovative text emphasizes how communicative processes develop, are maintained, and change throughout the life span. Topics covered include language skills, interpersonal conflict management, socialization, care-giving, and relationship development. Core chapters examine specific communication...
Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynn M. Harter, Phyllis M. Japp, Christina S. Beck
May 18, 2005
This distinctive collection explores the use of narratives in the social construction of wellness and illness. Narratives, Health, and Healing emphasizes what the process of narrating accomplishes--how it serves in the health communication process where people define themselves and present their ...
Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children: When Harry Potter Meets Pokemon in Disneyland
1st Edition
By Maya Gotz, Dafna Lemish, Hyesung Moon, Amy Aidman
May 17, 2005
Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers new insights into children's descriptions of their invented or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that the children's experience with media plays in creating these worlds. Based on the results of a cross-cultural study conducted in the United ...