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.
Making Media Content: The Influence of Constituency Groups on Mass Media
1st Edition
By John A. Fortunato
December 14, 2012
Making Media Content addresses the development of media content and the various factors and constituencies that influence content, such as advertisers, corporate interests, owners, and advocacy groups. It examines the strategic decision-making of mass media organizations as they determine what ...
Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face
1st Edition
By Dale Hample
November 28, 2012
Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face describes the process and products of face-to-face argument. Author Dale Hample presents arguing as a type of interpersonal interaction, rather than as a kind of text or a feature of a public speech. He focuses primarily on argument production, and explores ...
Communication and Law: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Amy Reynolds, Brooke Barnett
July 27, 2012
Communication and Law brings together scholars from law and communication to talk both generally and specifically about the theoretical and methodological approaches one can use to study the First Amendment and general communication law issues. The volume is intended to help graduate...
Strategic Conflict
1st Edition
By Daniel J. Canary, Sandra Lakey
July 03, 2012
Strategic Conflict offers a research-based, accessible analysis of how people can manage conflict productively. Moving beyond the basics of conflict, it examines interpersonal situations in which conflict occurs and promotes strategic communicative responses based on the latest theoretical research...
Children Communicating: The First 5 Years
1st Edition
By Beth Bonniwell Haslett, Wendy Samter
June 21, 2012
Offering a unique focus on the development of human communication, this book integrates and synthesizes a more comprehensive array of research than most investigations of communicative development. As such, it incorporates materials dealing with the development of nonverbal communication, language,...
The Global Journalist in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By David H. Weaver, Lars Willnat
May 10, 2012
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...
Culture and Public Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Dejan Vercic
April 16, 2012
Culture and Public Relations explores the impact of culture – societal and organizational – through the global lens of public relations. Structuring the volume around three themes -- culture as an environment for public relations; the culture of PR globally; and the impact of PR on culture -- the ...
eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Seth M. Noar, Nancy Grant Harrington
March 08, 2012
eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change provides an overview of technological applications in contemporary health communication research, exploring the history and current uses of eHealth applications in disease prevention and management. This volume focuses on the use of ...
Stories of Life in the Workplace: An Open Architecture for Organizational Narratology
1st Edition
By Larry Browning, George H. Morris
March 01, 2012
Addressing both renowned theories and standard applications, Stories of Life in the Workplace explains how stories affect human practices and organizational life. Authors Larry Browning and George H. Morris explore how we experience, interpret, and personalize narrative stories in our everyday ...
Mass Media, An Aging Population, and the Baby Boomers
1st Edition
By Michael L. Hilt, Jeremy H. Lipschultz
January 21, 2012
As the oldest members of the baby boomer generation head into their retirement years, this demographic shift is having a substantial influence on uses of mass media, as well as the images portrayed in these media. Mass Media, An Aging Population, and the Baby Boomers provides a comprehensive ...
Data Mining Methods for the Content Analyst: An Introduction to the Computational Analysis of Content
1st Edition
By Kalev Leetaru
December 13, 2011
With continuous advancements and an increase in user popularity, data mining technologies serve as an invaluable resource for researchers across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this comprehensive guide, author and research scientist Kalev Leetaru introduces the...
Building Communication Theories: A Socio/cultural Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Fred L. Casmir
December 12, 2011
Concern with various matters related to humans as they communicate has led to an increase in both research and theorizing during the second half of the 20th century. As a matter of fact, so many scholars and so many disciplines have become involved in this process that it is virtually impossible to...