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.
Self Versus Others: Media, Messages, and the Third-Person Effect
1st Edition
By Julie L. Andsager, H. Allen White
December 11, 2013
Self Versus Others explores the third-person effect and its role in media as a means of persuasion. This scholarly work synthesizes more than two decades of research on the third-person effect, the process in which individuals do not perceive themselves to be impacted by particular messages—...
Strategic Interpersonal Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By John A. Daly, John M. Wiemann
November 18, 2013
This book discusses how people go about achieving their social goals through human symbolic interaction. The editors' collective presumption is that there are more or less typical ways that people attempt to obtain desired outcomes -- be they persuasive, informative, conflictive, or the like -- ...
Public Relations As Activism: Postmodern Approaches to Theory & Practice
1st Edition
By Derina R. Holtzhausen
November 11, 2013
This volume applies postmodern theory to public relations, providing an alternative lens to public relations theory and practice and developing public relations theory within the context of postmodernism. Author Derina Holtzhausen focuses on two key issues and their application to public relations ...
Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip M. Napoli
October 10, 2013
Questions concerning the quality of media performance and the effectiveness of media policymaking often revolve around the extent to which the media system fulfills the values inherent in diversity and localism principles. This edited volume addresses challenges and issues relating to diversity in ...
Ratings Analysis: Audience Measurement and Analytics
4th Edition
By James Webster, Patricia F. Phalen, Lawrence W. Lichty
October 01, 2013
This 4th edition of Ratings Analysis describes and explains the current audience information system that supports economic exchange in both traditional and evolving electronic media markets. Responding to the major changes in electronic media distribution and audience research in recent years...
The Global Journalist in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By David H. Weaver, Lars Willnat
July 29, 2013
The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more...
Biotechnology and Communication: The Meta-Technologies of Information
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Braman
May 01, 2013
This volume examines the convergence of biotechnology and communication systems and explores how this convergence directly influences our understanding of the nature of communication. Editor Sandra Braman brings together scholars to examine this convergence in three areas: genetic information and "...
Communication and Social Cognition: Theories and Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen, Jennifer L. Monahan
May 01, 2013
Communication and Social Cognition represents the explosion of work in the field of social cognition over the past 25 years. Expanding the contribution made by Social Cognition and Communication, published in 1982, this scholarly collection updates the study of communication from a social cognitive...
Deciding Communication Law: Key Cases in Context
1st Edition
By Susan Dente Ross
May 01, 2013
This clearly written and well-focused volume combines concise decisions of the primary areas of communication law with the foundational case decisions in those domains. Thus, in one volume, students of communication law, constitutional law, political science, and related fields find both the key ...
Defending the First: Commentary on First Amendment Issues and Cases
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Russomanno
May 01, 2013
Defending the First provides a collection of new perspectives on the First Amendment in legal and communication contexts. Editor Joseph Russomanno brings together a roster of major figures who have participated in the shaping of First Amendment law over the past 30 years. Readers are taken into a ...
Managing Uncertainty in Organizational Communication
1st Edition
By Michael W. Kramer
April 24, 2013
In this book, Michael W. Kramer applies uncertainty reduction theory (URT)--a key theory in current communication scholarship--to the context of organizational communication. Examining URT and the range of research applicable to organizational settings, Kramer proposes a groundbreaking theory of ...
Sourcebook for Political Communication Research: Methods, Measures, and Analytical Techniques
1st Edition
Edited
By Erik P. Bucy, R. Lance Holbert
March 27, 2013
The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research will offer scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication. The need for this Sourcebook...