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.
Wedding as Text: Communicating Cultural Identities Through Ritual
1st Edition
By Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
August 01, 2002
A wedding serves as the beginning marker of a marriage; if a couple is to manage cultural differences throughout their relationship, they must first pass the hurdle of designing a wedding ceremony that accommodates those differences. In this volume, author Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz documents the weddings...
Excellent Public Relations and Effective Organizations: A Study of Communication Management in Three Countries
1st Edition
By James E. Grunig, David M. Dozier
July 01, 2002
This book is the final product of the "excellence project"--a comprehensive research effort commissioned by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Research Foundation. Going well beyond any of the previously published reports on the Excellence study, this book contains many ...
Crime and Local Television News: Dramatic, Breaking, and Live From the Scene
1st Edition
By Jeremy H. Lipschultz, Michael L. Hilt
June 01, 2002
This volume offers an analysis of crime coverage on local television, exploring the nature of local television news and the ongoing appeal of crime stories. Drawing on the perspectives of media studies, psychology, sociology, and criminology, authors Jeremy H. Lipschultz and Michael L. Hilt focus ...
Speaking Our Minds: Conversations With the People Behind Landmark First Amendment Cases
1st Edition
By Joseph Russomanno
March 01, 2002
Tinker. R.A.V. Ollman. Hustler-Falwell. Reno-ACLU. Nebraska Press Association. These names are synonymous with contemporary First Amendment litigation. To explore these landmark cases more deeply, author Joseph Russomanno interviewed the people at the core of these and other influential First ...
Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behavior Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Hornik
January 01, 2002
This volume argues the case that public health communication has affected health behavior. It brings together 16 studies of large-scale communication in a variety of substantive health areas--tobacco, drugs, AIDS, family planning, heart disease, childhood disease, highway safety--prepared by the ...
Media Sex: What Are the Issues?
1st Edition
By Barrie Gunter
December 01, 2001
This book examines the representation, impact, and issues relating to the control and regulation of sex in the media. It covers work that has been conducted around the world on the depiction of sex in the mainstream mass media, especially the audio-visual media of film, television, and video, and ...
Parental Control of Television Broadcasting
1st Edition
By Monroe E. Price, Dee H. Andrews, Stefaan Verhulst, Harold F. O'Neil
November 01, 2001
This project, originally developed for the European Community, examines parental roles in controlling television programs watched by children in Europe. The structure of the study includes: *an analysis of the technical devices available to assist in parental control of television broadcasting ...
Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane D. Brown, Jeanne R. Steele, Kim Walsh-Childers
November 01, 2001
This collection explores the sexual content of U.S. mass media and its influence in the lives of adolescents. Contributors address the topic of sexuality broadly, including evidence not only about physical sex acts, but also about the role the media play in the development of gender roles, ...
Stay Tuned: A History of American Broadcasting
3rd Edition
By Christopher Sterling, John Michael Kittross
November 01, 2001
Since its initial publication in 1978, Stay Tuned has been recognized as the most comprehensive and useful single-volume history of American broadcasting and electronic media available. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to bring the story of American broadcasting forward to...
Time, Change, and the American Newspaper
1st Edition
By George Sylvie, Patricia D. Witherspoon
November 01, 2001
Time, Change, and the American Newspaper focuses on newspapers as organizations, examining the role of change in the newspaper industry and providing a model from which to view and respond to change. Authors George Sylvie and Patricia D. Witherspoon discuss environmental and organizational ...
Interpersonal Communication Research: Advances Through Meta-analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Mike Allen, Raymond W. Preiss, Barbara Mae Gayle, Nancy Burrell
August 01, 2001
This exceptional collection--a compilation of meta-analyses related to issues in interpersonal communication--provides an expansive review of existing interpersonal communication research. Incorporating a wide variety of topics related to interpersonal communication, including couples and safe sex,...
Children and Their Changing Media Environment: A European Comparative Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Livingstone, Moira Bovill
May 01, 2001
Focusing on the meanings, uses, and impacts of new media in childhood, family life, peer culture, and the relation between home and school, this volume sets out to address many of the questions, fears, and hopes regarding the changing place of media in the lives of today's children and young people...