Routledge Focus on Communication Studies
Challenges in Environmental Communication: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Bartłomiej Łódzki, Justyna Arendarska
November 17, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the multifaceted roles of communication in addressing global environmental challenges. The overarching framework connecting all chapters is the belief that environmental communication is at a decisive moment, as effective communication interventions ...
Celebrity Rhetoric and Sexual Misconduct Cases: Discursive Self-Cleaving
1st Edition
By Andrea McDonnell
September 28, 2025
This book considers the rhetorical strategies used by celebrities and their surrogates and attorneys when faced with claims of sexual misconduct. During the past five years, a series of public figures has claimed that their celebrity persona is distinct from their “real” self as a way of eluding ...
A Confucian Approach to Media Ethics
1st Edition
By Yayu Feng
January 23, 2025
A Confucian Approach to Media Ethics offers a comprehensive theorization of an approach to media ethics based on the moral philosophy that originated from China and that profoundly influenced East Asian countries. This book engages with foundational concepts from Confucian ethics and explicates a ...
Energy Politics and Discourse in Canada: Probing Progressive Extractivism
1st Edition
By Sibo Chen
December 19, 2024
This book examines the discourse around the intricate economic, political, and ideological struggles underlying Canadian fuel extractivism. Focusing on the two contending discourse coalitions formed by supporters and opponents of British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, the book ...
Fear and Crisis in the Post-Truth Era: The "Othering" of America
1st Edition
By Laura Constable Franklin
December 12, 2024
This book explores how political crisis talk, even false, can thread its way into the media and impact public opinion, legislation, and everyday lives. Grounded in theory and supported by data, it illustrates the powerful presence of the media in the public sphere and argues for a different ...
War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine
1st Edition
By Olga Baysha
October 08, 2024
This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism’s tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good versus evil" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine—with...
Comparing Charismatic Leaders’ Communication Styles: A Study of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump
1st Edition
By Tim P. McMahon
August 28, 2024
In examining the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and by extension their communication styles, this book provides a foundation for understanding charismatic leadership and its potent effect on followers. The book identifies each leader’s charismatic leadership attributes, focusing ...
Participatory Community Inquiry in the Opioid Epidemic: A New Approach for Communities in Crisis
1st Edition
By Craig T. Maier
January 29, 2024
This book explores a research project focused on finding a community-level response to the opioid epidemic. Grounded in communication ethics, appreciative inquiry, and action research, this book contends that the opioid epidemic in the United States is as much a social disease as it is a ...
Democracy, Populism, and Neoliberalism in Ukraine: On the Fringes of the Virtual and the Real
1st Edition
By Olga Baysha
September 25, 2023
This book explores the reasons behind the unexpected rise to power of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian with no political background, and offers an in-depth analysis of the populist messages he delivered to the Ukrainian people via his TV show. Taking a discourse ...
Communicating Aggression in a Megamedia World
1st Edition
By Beata Sierocka
May 31, 2023
This book describes how, in the era of megamedia culture, aggression in communication constitutes a threat to the communication community. Based on the theoretical incorporation of transcendental pragmatics, the book explores how conceptualizing the phenomena of megamedia aggression from this ...
Multigenerational Communication in Organizations: Insights from the Workplace
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael G. Strawser, Stephanie A. Smith, Bridget Rubenking
May 31, 2023
Multigenerational Communication in Organizations explores generational differences in the changing workplace from a communication perspective. Starting from the reality that a workplace can contain up to five different generations, these chapters examine topics like generational perceptions on the...
Maatian Ethics in a Communication Context
1st Edition
By Melba Vélez Ortiz
August 29, 2022
Maatian Ethics in a Communication Context explores the ethical principle of Maat: the guiding principle of harmony and order that permeated classical African political and civil life. The book provides a rigorous, communication-focused account of the ethical wisdom ancient Africans cultivated ...