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.
Twilight of Press Freedom: The Rise of People's Journalism
1st Edition
By John C. Merrill, Peter J. Gade, Frederick R. Blevens
April 01, 2001
This volume offers a historical, philosophical, and practical critique of public and civic journalism--a movement that gained momentum in the final decade of the 20th century. During that period, proponents of the movement have published nearly a dozen books expanding upon and expounding the ...
Intergenerational Communication Across the Life Span
1st Edition
By Angie Williams, Jon F. Nussbaum
January 01, 2001
Individuals of all ages interact with one another, and their interactions have significance throughout their lives. This distinctive volume acknowledges the importance of these interactions and provides a life-span developmental view of communication and aging, attempting to capture the many ...
Communication and Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregory J. Shepherd, Eric W. Rothenbuhler
December 01, 2000
This distinctive volume combines synthetic theoretical essays and reports of original research to address the interrelations of communication and community in a wide variety of settings. Chapters address interpersonal conversation and communal relationships; journalism organizations and political ...
G Is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street
1st Edition
Edited
By Shalom M. Fisch, Rosemarie T. Truglio
November 01, 2000
This volume--a collection and synthesis of key research studies since the program's inception over three decades ago--serves as a marker of the significant role that Sesame Street plays in the education and socialization of young children. Editors Shalom M. Fisch and Rosemarie T. Truglio have ...
Persuading People To Have Safer Sex: Applications of Social Science To the Aids Crisis
1st Edition
By Richard M. Perloff
November 01, 2000
Persuading People to Have Safer Sex offers a lucid, in-depth, student-friendly and academically thorough discussion of AIDS prevention and health persuasion. In so doing it provides an introduction to the ways that social scientific research can be brought to bear on a daunting health problem. ...
White News: Why Local News Programs Don't Cover People of Color
1st Edition
By Don Heider
November 01, 2000
Is TV news racist? If the purpose of local news is to cover individual communities and to present issues of interest and concern to local audiences, why are local newscasts so similar in markets around the country? These are the questions that motivated Heider's research, leading to the development...
The Burden of Visual Truth: The Role of Photojournalism in Mediating Reality
1st Edition
By Julianne Newton
October 01, 2000
As the visual component of contemporary media has overtaken the verbal, visual reportage has established a unique and extremely significant role in 21st-century culture. Julianne Newton has prepared this comprehensive analysis of the development of the role of visual reportage as a critical player ...
Understanding Audiences: Learning To Use the Media Constructively
1st Edition
By Robert H. Wicks
October 01, 2000
Understanding Audiences helps readers to recognize the important role that media plays in their lives and suggests ways in which they may use media constructively. Author Robert H. Wicks considers the relationship between the producers and the receivers of media information, focusing on how ...
Underwriting 101: Selling College Radio
1st Edition
By Shyrl L. Plum
August 01, 2000
This media sales primer serves as a step-by-step manual to assist students in attaining sales proficiency and confidence. The author employs a practical, hands-on approach, enabling readers to develop valuable professional and interpersonal skills and to improve their options for obtaining sales ...
Human Communication Theory and Research: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges
2nd Edition
By Robert L. Heath, Jennings Bryant
June 01, 2000
Human Communication Theory and Research introduces students to the growing body of theory and research in communication, demonstrating the integration between the communication efforts of interpersonal, organizational, and mediated settings. This second edition builds from the foundation of the ...
Who Owns the Media?: Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media industry
3rd Edition
By Benjamin M. Compaine, Douglas Gomery
June 01, 2000
This thorough update to Benjamin Compaine's original 1979 benchmark and 1982 revisit of media ownership tackles the question of media ownership, providing a detailed examination of the current state of the media industry. Retaining the wealth of data of the earlier volumes, Compaine and his ...
Exemplification in Communication: the influence of Case Reports on the Perception of Issues
1st Edition
By Dolf Zillmann, Hans-Bernd Brosius
April 01, 2000
This volume offers a new conceptual framework for exemplification, a coherent theoretical approach based on contemporary psychological models of information processing, and an exhaustive integration of the pertinent research demonstrations. Focus is on the news media, but the influence of fiction ...