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.
Media Entertainment: The Psychology of Its Appeal
1st Edition
Edited
By Dolf Zillmann, Peter Vorderer
April 01, 2000
This collection represents a systematic exploration of media entertainment from an academic perspective. Editors Zillmann and Vorderer have assembled scholars from psychology, sociology, and communication to provide a broad examination of the primary function of media entertainment--the attainment ...
Communication and Aging
2nd Edition
By Jon F. Nussbaum, Loretta L. Pecchioni, James D. Robinson, Teresa L. Thompson
April 12, 2000
This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging. It continues the groundbreaking work of the first edition, emphasizing a life-span approach toward understanding the social interaction that occurs during later ...
Explaining Illness: Research, Theory, and Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Bryan B. Whaley
December 13, 1999
Understanding one's health conditions plays a key role in a patient's response to illness, influencing stress levels and the likelihood of following treatment regimens and advice. Thus, the explanation of illness is a critical component of the interactions between health care providers and their ...
The Emergent Organization: Communication As Its Site and Surface
1st Edition
By James R. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Van Every
December 13, 1999
Today's organizations face a wide variety of challenges, including such contradictions as maintaining unity of action while becoming increasingly diverse. Even the definition of organization is changing and evolving. In this monograph, the authors apply their academic and professional experience to...
Tailoring Health Messages: Customizing Communication With Computer Technology
1st Edition
By Matthew W. Kreuter, David W. Farrell, Laura R. Olevitch, Laura K. Brennan
November 12, 1999
Through the use of new technologies, researchers, and practitioners in health education and health communication can now provide health information and behavior change strategies that are customized based on the unique needs, interests, and concerns of different individuals. These tailored health ...
Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas J. Socha, Rhunette C. Diggs
September 12, 1999
This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. In assembling this collection, editors Thomas J. Socha and Rhunette C. Diggs argue that the hope for managing America's troubles with "race" lies not only with communicating about ...
Mass Media Education in Transition: Preparing for the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Thomas Dickson
September 12, 1999
Media educators have long been debating the nature and purpose of media education. Issues relating to new technologies and the changing state of the media industry are ongoing concerns, but some of the most difficult questions go to the actual structure of media education itself: Is it best ...
Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social Change
1st Edition
By Arvind Singhal, Everett Rogers
July 01, 1999
Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers have developed this unique volume focused on the history and development of entertainment-education. This approach to communication is the process of designing and implementing a media message to both entertain and educate to increase audience members' knowledge...
Hollywood Planet: Global Media and the Competitive Advantage of Narrative Transparency
1st Edition
By Scott Robert Olson
June 12, 1999
The popularity of American television programs and feature films in the international marketplace is widely recognized but scarcely understood. Existing studies have not sufficiently explained the global power of the American media nor its actual effects. In this volume, Scott Robert Olson tackles ...
Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, Carol L. Rogers
March 15, 1999
Exploring the interactions that swirl around scientific uncertainty and its coverage by the mass media, this volume breaks new ground by looking at these issues from three different perspectives: that of communication scholars who have studied uncertainty in a number of ways; that of science ...
Constructing the Beginning: Discourses of Creation Science
1st Edition
By Simon Locke
November 12, 1998
In Constructing the Beginning, Simon Locke offers a new approach to considering the enigma of creation science, using the perspective of discourse analysis. Using the publications of the British Creation Science Movement to perform a detailed analysis of the creationist case, Locke demonstrates ...
Leadership in Times of Change: A Handbook for Communication and Media Administrators
1st Edition
Edited
By William G. Christ
November 12, 1998
This book addresses many of the issues facing new and seasoned communication and media administrators. Though there are business-oriented management and leadership books, there is no handbook--to the editor's knowledge--that emphasizes academic administration. This book fills an important gap in ...