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.
Applied Public Relations: Cases in Stakeholder Management
3rd Edition
By Kathy Brittain Richardson, Marcie Hinton
April 01, 2015
With its practical orientation and scope, Applied Public Relations is the ideal text for any public relations case studies or public relations management course that places an emphasis on stakeholder groups. Through the presentation of current cases covering a wide variety of industries, ...
Power in the Blood: A Handbook on Aids, Politics, and Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By William N. Elwood
February 27, 2015
In this single volume, William N. Elwood has gathered potent evidence of the impact that the HIV/AIDS epidemic has had on the world, its communities, and its inhabitants, and he addresses the role of communication in affecting the way in which people respond to AIDS. With a multidisciplinary group ...
Time and Media Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan B. Albarran, Angel Arrese Reca
February 27, 2015
This edited collection examines time and its relationship to and impact upon media industries, studying how the media industry views time and makes business and economic decisions based on considerations of time. Contributions from an international set of authors analyze time constraints and ...
Strategic Public Relations Management: Planning and Managing Effective Communication Campaigns
3rd Edition
By Erica Weintraub Austin, Bruce E. Pinkleton
February 13, 2015
Strategic Public Relations Management features an applied approach to evidence-based, strategic public relations management. It emphasizes understanding audiences through research and demonstrates success through quantitative evaluation methods. The volume presents a scientific approach that helps ...
Broadcast Television Effects in A Remote Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Charlton, Barrie Gunter, Andrew Hannan
February 05, 2015
This book reports findings from a major, multidisciplinary study of the impact of broadcast television on the remote island community of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Broadcast television was introduced to the island for the first time in March 1995. This introduction represented a major ...
Critiquing Free Speech: First Amendment theory and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity
1st Edition
By Matthew D. Bunker
December 22, 2014
In this exceptional volume, Matthew D. Bunker explores the work of contemporary free speech critics and argues that, while at times these critics provide important lessons, many of their conclusions must be rejected. Moreover, Bunker suggests that we be wary of interdisciplinary approaches to free ...
Media Competition and Coexistence: The Theory of the Niche
1st Edition
By John W. Dimmick
December 22, 2014
This volume considers how media firms, as well as entire industries, exist and persist over time despite what often seems to be intense competition for such resources as audiences and advertisers. Addressing competition within and among media organizations and industries, including broadcasting, ...
Television Talk Shows: Discourse, Performance, Spectacle
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Tolson
December 22, 2014
The "talk show" has become a ubiquitous feature of American and European television. The various examples have been frequently discussed by academic commentators, as well as journalists in an attempt to place them in a cultural setting. Ultimately, the conclusion is reached by both academics and ...
Cultures, Politics, and Research Programs: An International Assessment of Practical Problems in Field Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Uma Narula, W. Barnett Pearce
September 11, 2014
A compilation of authoritative reports from seasoned researchers working in eight different countries on five continents, this volume examines the concept that conditions of local feasibility are constitutive of research practices not simply obstructions to the realization of an ideal. The result ...
Studies in Language and Social Interaction: In Honor of Robert Hopper
1st Edition
Edited
By Phillip J. Glenn, Jennifer Mandelbaum, Curtis D. LeBaron
July 17, 2014
This collection offers empirical studies and theoretical essays about human communication in everyday life. The writings come from many of the world's leading researchers and cut across academic boundaries, engaging scholars and teachers from such disciplines as communication, sociology, ...
Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization
1st Edition
By Anne Maydan Nicotera, Marcia J. Clinkscales, Felicia R. Walker
May 16, 2014
Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization presents an innovative view of organizations and the communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures, ...
Managing Interpersonal Conflict: Advances through Meta-Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Nancy A. Burrell, Mike Allen, Barbara Mae Gayle, Raymond W. Preiss
February 25, 2014
Managing Interpersonal Conflict is a systematic review of conflict research in legal, institutional and relational contexts. Each chapter represents a summary of the existing quantitative social science research using meta-analysis, with contexts ranging from jury selection to peer mediation to ...