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.
Communication in Eastern Europe: The Role of History, Culture, and Media in Contemporary Conflicts
1st Edition
Edited
By Fred L. Casmir
December 12, 2011
This volume represents a clear attempt to learn something from the events in Eastern European countries. It does not start with simplistic or old assumptions based on convenient Western communication models, but instead takes a new approach. If chaos theory could fundamentally change how physicists...
Crafting Society: Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory
1st Edition
By Donald G. Ellis
December 12, 2011
The study of communication, language, and discourse is at once simple, elegant, and complex. Each of these areas is informed by "micro" subjective experiences of individuals and the "macro" processes of a culture. Communication itself is thoroughly modern yet it seeks anchorage in the traditions of...
Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film: Film As An Emotion Machine
1st Edition
By Ed S. Tan
December 12, 2011
Introduced one hundred years ago, film has since become part of our lives. For the past century, however, the experience offered by fiction films has remained a mystery. Questions such as why adult viewers cry and shiver, and why they care at all about fictional characters -- while aware that they ...
Justice and the Media: Reconciling Fair Trials and A Free Press
1st Edition
By Matthew D. Bunker
December 12, 2011
USE THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... The First Amendment right of free speech is a fragile one. Its fragility is found no less in legal opinions than in other, less specialized forms of public discourse. Both its fragility and its sometimes surprising resiliency are reflected in ...
Selective Exposure To Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Dolf Zillmann, Jennings Bryant
December 12, 2011
First published in 1985. Research into what is usually referred to as mass communication has concentrated on the societal impact of the media. The ways in which these media influence people and affect their behavior have been at issue. For the most part, undesirable effects were pondered and ...
Aids: A Communication Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Edgar, Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Vicki S. Freimuth
December 09, 2011
Prevention through appropriate behavior is the best weapon available to fight further spread of HIV infection. However, individuals take necessary actions to prevent diseases such as AIDS only when they are properly informed and they feel motivated to respond to the information they possess. In ...
Debate and Critical Analysis: The Harmony of Conflict
1st Edition
By Robert James Branham
December 09, 2011
Rather than approach debate primarily as a form of interscholastic competition, this unique book identifies it as an activity that occurs in many settings: scientific conferences, newspaper op-ed pages, classrooms, courts of law, and everyday domestic life. Debate is discussed as an integral part ...
Interactive Oral History Interviewing
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva M. McMahan, Kim Lacy Rogers
December 09, 2011
The essays in this anthology represent, in the broadest sense, an interpretive perspective of inquiry that has flourished in oral history for the past 15 years. This perspective considers oral history interviews as subjective, socially constructed and emergent events; that is, understanding, ...
Persuasive Communication and Drug Abuse Prevention
1st Edition
Edited
By Lewis Donohew, Howard E. Sypher, William J. Bukoski
December 09, 2011
The history of drug abuse prevention campaigns suggests limitations in producing measurable changes in behavior. In the past, there was concern over the possibility of such publicity actually encouraging interest in drug use, rather than discouraging such behavior. Although little or no ...
The Formation of Campaign Agendas: A Comparative Analysis of Party and Media Roles in Recent American and British Elections
1st Edition
By Holli A. Semetko, Jay G. Blumler, Michael Gurevitch, David H. Weaver, Steve Barkin
December 09, 2011
This unusual volume seeks to accomplish three related goals: * to assess the extent and limits of media power in election campaigns * to extend the concept of media agenda-setting to include the contributions of powerful news sources in the process of election agenda formation * to evaluate ...
Ties That Blind in Canadian/american Relations: The Politics of News Discourse
1st Edition
By Richard L. Barton
December 09, 2011
This volume explores the political impact of journalistic discourse on international -- and especially Canadian/American -- relations. In so doing, it provides a comparative analysis of American and international press accounts of selected Canadian/American issues such as free trade, cruise missile...
Audience Responses To Media Diversification: Coping With Plenty
1st Edition
Edited
By Lee B. Becker, Klaus Schoenbach
December 02, 2011
First published in 1989. This volume holds a collection of papers to support a project looking at media content in the 1980s and the anticipation of audience behaviours. Some where presented at the conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research in Montreux, Switzerland in 1987....