Routledge Research in Communication Studies
About the Book Series
This series features cutting-edge scholarship--both authored books and edited collections--addressing the major issues in communication studies today.
Risk and Crisis Communication in Europe: Towards Integrating Theory and Practice in Unstable and Turbulent Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Audra Diers-Lawson, Andreas Schwarz, Florian Meissner, Silvia Ravazzani
December 25, 2025
This timely volume offers an international and cross-disciplinary examination of risk and crisis communication theory and practice in Europe. Placing the rapidly developing field of risk and crisis communication within the context of a Europe in flux โ experiencing the amplification of the refugee ...
Qualitative Research Methods in Argumentation Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Corina Andone, Marianne Doury, Sara Greco, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Menno Reijven
December 10, 2025
This book explores the core principles, related theories, and conventions of qualitative research methods within the field of argumentation studies. In each chapter, contributors identify and contextualize various issues that a qualitative researcher in Argumentation is likely to encounter, and ...
Critical Communication Research with Global Inclusivity
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanan Badr, Karin G. Wilkins
November 11, 2025
Critical Communication Research with Global Inclusivity provides a critical lens through which to prepare, engage and read communication research methods. Inviting new and innovative perspectives that question the status quo and push the boundaries of knowledge production, the book begins with the ...
Never Enough Time: Communication and the Construction of Time in an Attention Economy
1st Edition
By Brian H. Spitzberg
October 23, 2025
Never Enough Time discusses the directional and irreversible nature of time, its relationship to information and entropy, the deep time history of communication from the genesis of language to today, and the extent to which we occupy time through our communication. Drawing together studies ...
Risk and Crisis Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Muddled Messages
1st Edition
By Martin N. Ndlela
January 30, 2025
This book examines the challenges of communicating messages during the COVID-19 pandemic and provides recommendations for managing future global health crises. Given that outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics are global crises that require global solutions, the book suggests that the world community ...
Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication Pedagogy: Charting New Futurities
1st Edition
Edited
By Mick B. Brewer, Sandra L. Faulkner
December 20, 2024
This volume establishes critical interpersonal and family communication pedagogy (CIFCP) as a distinct academic area of inquiry, highlighting the intersections of identity, power, culture, pedagogy, and interpersonal and family communication concepts, theories, and methods. This practical, ...
Organizing Eating: Communicating for Equity Across U.S. Food Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah E. Dempsey
December 18, 2024
This book develops "organizing eating" as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to actively shape eating and working in the U.S. food system. Drawing together established scholars, the book sheds light on how the interconnected ...
Narratives in Public Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Fuyuan Shen, Heidi Hatfield Edwards
November 29, 2024
This volume explores the applications of narrative and storytelling in corporate, public health, and political communications, and its implications for those fields. Using diverse research methods including surveys, experiments, case studies, and content analyses, an international team of authors ...
Friendship and Technology: A Philosophical Approach to Computer Mediated Communication
1st Edition
By Tiffany A. Petricini
September 25, 2023
This book explores the nature of technology โ participatory media in particular โ and its effects on our friendships and our fundamental sense of togetherness. Situating the notion of friendship in the modern era, the author examines the possibilities and challenges of technology on our ...
Global Perspectives on NGO Communication for Social Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Giuliana Sorce
September 25, 2023
This book examines the central role media and communication play in the activities of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) around the globe, how NGOs communicate with key publics, engage stakeholders, target political actors, enable input from civil society, and create participatory opportunities....
Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret U. D'Silva, Ahmet Atay
August 29, 2022
This book examines the complex and multidimensional relationship between culture and social media, and its specific impact on issues of identity and social movements, in a globalized world. Contemporary cyber culture involves communication among people who are culturally, nationally, and ...
Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Paaige Turner, Soumia Bardhan, Tracey Quigley Holden, Eddah Mutua
August 29, 2022
Globalization and the resulting internationalization of universities is driving change in teaching, learning, and what it means to be educated. This book provides exemplars of how the Communication discipline and curriculum are responding to the demands of globalization and contributing to the ...