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.
Television and Children: Program Evaluation, Comprehension, and Impact
1st Edition
By Jill L. McAleer, Brian R. Clifford, Barrie Gunter
March 01, 1995
This book addresses the subject of children and television -- how they view it, what they think of specific programs, and how these likes and dislikes affect learning of the content presented. Broad in coverage, it looks at evaluation, comprehension, and impact in the drama, information and ...
The Information Society: Economic, Social, and Structural Issues
1st Edition
By Jerry L. Salvaggio
February 01, 1995
First Published in 1989. There is still much concern over social problems. Invasion of privacy, computer crime, control of information, information inequity, and unemployment due to automation continue to be studied as their existence is no longer a matter of speculation. The emphasis of this book ...
The Consequentiality of Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart J. Sigman
January 01, 1995
In a bold attempt to redirect the ways theories of communication are conceived and research on communication processes are conducted, this volume questions prevailing communication scholarship that emphasizes the cultural, psychological, and sociological variables that impact on, and/or are ...
Coherence, Continuity, and Cohesion: Theoretical Foundations for Document Design
1st Edition
By Kim Sydow Campbell
November 01, 1994
There is a need for general theoretical principles describing/explaining effective design -- those which demonstrate "unity" and enhance comprehension and usability. Theories of cohesion from linguistics and of comprehension in psychology are likely sources of such general principles. Unfortunately...
Assessing Communication Education: A Handbook for Media, Speech, and Theatre Educators
1st Edition
Edited
By William G. Christ
October 01, 1994
Designed as a handbook, this text provides media, speech (public speaking, interpersonal, small group, and organizational communication), and theatre educators with both the theoretical and practical ammunition to fight the assessment battles on their campuses. The philosophical implications of ...
Conflict in Personal Relationships
1st Edition
Edited
By Dudley D. Cahn
May 01, 1994
In keeping with a broad conception of interpersonal conflict, this book is organized into two parts. The first focuses on conflict on different types of couple relationships -- homosexual, cross cultural, dating but violent, engaged, and married -- and group relationships -- student peers, parents ...
The Unseen Power: Public Relations: A History
1st Edition
By Scott M. Cutlip
March 01, 1994
Based largely on primary sources, this book presents the first detailed history of public relations from 1900 through the 1960s. The author utilized the personal papers of John Price Jones, Ivy L. Lee, Harry Bruno, William Baldwin III, John W. Hill, Earl Newsom as well as extensive interviews -- ...
Media, Children, and the Family: Social Scientific, Psychodynamic, and Clinical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Dolf Zillmann, Jennings Bryant, Aletha C. Huston
January 01, 1994
This book brings together a group of scholars to share findings and insights on the effects of media on children and family. Their contributions reflect not only widely divergent political orientations and value systems, but also three distinct domains of inquiry into human motivation and behavior ...
Rhetorical Memory and Delivery: Classical Concepts for Contemporary Composition and Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By John Frederick Reynolds
September 01, 1993
Why has classical rhetoric been a subject of such growing interest for the past ten years? Because the most exciting work in classical rhetoric has asked us to rethink classical concepts in modern terms. What's been missing, at least in book-length form, is a scholarly rethinking of rhetorical ...
Semiotics and Communication: Signs, Codes, Cultures
1st Edition
By Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
August 01, 1993
Communication is, among other things, about the study of meaning -- how people convey ideas for themselves and to one another in their daily lives. Designed to close the gap between what we are able to do as social actors and what we are able to describe as social analysts, this book introduces the...
Social, Political, and Economic Contexts in Public Relations: Theory and Cases
1st Edition
Edited
By Hugh M. Culbertson, Dennis W. Jeffers, Donna Besser Stone, Martin Terrell
May 01, 1993
Two commissions within the Public Relations Society of America have recently defined courses in case-study analysis, research methods, and behavioral-science theory as central to an acceptable public relations curriculum. To date, these three "streams" within PR education have run independently of ...
Bad Tidings: Communication and Catastrophe
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynne Masel-Walters, Lee Wilkins, Tim Walters
February 01, 1993
First Published in 1993. In the 1970s, a book collecting research about the mass media and their role in disasters would have been unimaginable. This book, then, is an attempt to compile a somewhat eclectic view of research on mass communication and catastrophe. The editors have attempted to ...