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.
The V-chip Debate: Content Filtering From Television To the Internet
1st Edition
Edited
By Monroe E. Price
September 01, 1998
The V-chip is a highly significant part of the discussion about whether television (or broadcasting in general) deserves some special attention in terms of its accessibility to children, its particular power to affect conduct, and its invasiveness. But as this notion of filtering and labeling has ...
Literacy in a Digital World: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information
1st Edition
By Kathleen Tyner
August 01, 1998
In this book, Kathleen Tyner examines the tenets of literacy through a historical lens to demonstrate how new communication technologies are resisted and accepted over time. New uses of information for teaching and learning create a "disconnect" in the complex relationship between literacy and ...
Aspects of Confused Speech: A Study of Verbal Interaction Between Confused and Normal Speakers
1st Edition
By Pamela Shakespeare
December 01, 1997
Based on research focusing on the experience of having confused speech and being with confused speakers, this book begins with everyday, commonly understood ideas such as "talking too much" and examines how confused speech is "brought off" as a collaborative activity by the people involved. The ...
Political Communication: Politics, Press, and Public in America
1st Edition
By Richard M. Perloff
December 01, 1997
In this political communication text, Richard M. Perloff examines the various ways in which messages are constructed and communicated from public officials and politicians through the mass media to the ultimate receivers-the people. With a focus on the history of political communication, he ...
Teaching the Media: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Hart
December 01, 1997
In TEACHING THE MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Andrew Hart initiates a challenging dialogue about approaches to Media teaching in the major English-speaking nations of the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa. By animating actual lessons and...
Effective Fund-Raising Management
1st Edition
By Kathleen S. Kelly
November 01, 1997
In a ground-breaking departure from existing works, almost all of which are how-to manuals based on anecdotal evidence, this is the first academic textbook on fund raising. By integrating practical knowledge with social science theory and research, it presents a comprehensive approach to the ...
Humor and the Healing Arts: A Multimethod Analysis of Humor Use in Health Care
1st Edition
By Athena du Pré
November 01, 1997
Offering a social scientific look at humor's role in medical transactions, this volume is based on extensive field study in seven medical settings. It includes excerpts from dozens of actual conversations between patients and caregivers. Analysis of these episodes reveals that humor is a practical ...
Ethics in intercultural and international Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Fred L. Casmir
September 01, 1997
There has been an increased interest in both intercultural and international communication, as well as ethical aspects of such interactions. In spite of this, there are no books which address this specific subject matter beyond limited surveys of different types or forms of ethics, or attempted ...
Message Production: Advances in Communication Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By John O. Greene
September 01, 1997
The last two decades have seen the development of a number of models that have proven particularly important in advancing understanding of message-production processes. Now it appears that a "second generation" of theories is emerging, one that reflects considerable conceptual advances over earlier...
Cross-cultural Communication and Aging in the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Hana Noor Al-Deen
August 01, 1997
Recently, the communication discipline has devoted increasing energy toward the study of aging, yet most of the research has insufficiently addressed a crucial factor in communicative relationships--culture. Meanwhile, cross-cultural/intercultural communication has not adequately addressed the ...
Future Radio Programming Strategies: Cultivating Listenership in the Digital Age
2nd Edition
By David MacFarland
July 01, 1997
Fundamental beliefs is what the reader will be exploring here -- a common understanding of what the radio enterprise should be about: entertainment and information. A major thrust of this book is to arrive at a set of fundamental beliefs about the values and realities of the radio business in ...
Partnership for Health: Building Relationships Between Women and Health Caregivers
1st Edition
By Christina S. Beck, Sandra L. Ragan, Athena du Pr‚, Athena du Pre
July 01, 1997
In the 1960s, feminists voiced their outrage about the health care system in the United States which routinely discriminated against women and, in so doing, literally jeopardized their health and well-being. Over a decade later, women's health advocates still stressed the need for reform of this ...