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.
Queer Communication Pedagogy
1st Edition
Edited
By Ahmet Atay, Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway
August 29, 2022
This book addresses queer issues and current events from a communication perspective to articulate a queer communication pedagogy. Through putting communication pedagogy and queer studies into dialogue, the book investigates how queer theory and critical communication pedagogy intersect in ...
Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States: The Limits of Toleration
1st Edition
By Chris Demaske
August 01, 2022
Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States explores the concept and treatment of hate speech in light of escalating social tensions in the global twenty-first century, proposing a shift in emphasis from the negative protection of individual rights toward a more positive support of social ...
Innovation in Advertising and Branding Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Lluís Mas-Manchón
August 01, 2022
This book addresses innovative and new aspects of branding and advertising communication, by drawing on a broad, interdisciplinary range of theories, methods and techniques– from body image, identity and mental imagery, to self-exposure and LCM4P – intersecting with branding and advertising ...
Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Ahmet Atay, Margaret U. D'Silva
September 30, 2020
This book focuses on mediated intercultural communication in the context of globalization. Analyzing social and traditional media using qualitative, interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives, contributors engage with diverse topics - ranging from hybrid identities in different ...
Interrogating the Communicative Power of Whiteness
1st Edition
Edited
By Dawn Marie D. McIntosh, Dreama G. Moon, Thomas K. Nakayama
June 30, 2020
The field of communication offers the study of whiteness a focus on discourse which directs its attention to the everyday experiences of whiteness through regimes of truth, embodied acts, and the deconstruction of mediated texts. This book takes an intersectional approach to whiteness studies, ...
Media in War and Armed Conflict: Dynamics of Conflict News Production and Dissemination
1st Edition
Edited
By Romy Fröhlich
June 30, 2020
This book focuses on the social process of conflict news production and the emergence of public discourse on war and armed conflict. Its contributions combine qualitative and quantitative approaches through interview studies and computer-assisted content analysis and apply a unique comparative and ...
Communication, Advocacy, and Work/Family Balance
1st Edition
By Jenny Dixon
December 10, 2019
This book presents an understanding of work-family balance for working adults belonging to a number of different family structures (e.g. single and/or childfree adults, LGBT couples, families with female breadwinners). It contends that family structure should serve as a way of thinking about ...
Integrative Framing Analysis: Framing Health through Words and Visuals
1st Edition
By Viorela Dan
December 10, 2019
Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an integrative framing analysis. This approach is then ...
Setting Agendas in Cultural Markets: Organizations, Creators, Experiences
1st Edition
By Philemon Bantimaroudis
December 10, 2019
This book draws on agenda setting theory to examine how cultural organizations relate to media in order to increase their visibility, valence, and eventually build their public image. Most organizations have a keen interest in their symbolic presence, as their media visibility influences public ...
The Discourse of Special Populations: Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Ahmet Atay, Diana Trebing
December 10, 2019
The term "special population" occupies a particular purpose and has a particular role in the discourse of higher education. This book uses the term as an umbrella term for any student who tends to be underrepresented on college campuses and has a very specific set of unique needs: among others, ...
Populist Political Communication in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Toril Aalberg, Frank Esser, Carsten Reinemann, Jesper Stromback, Claes H. de Vreese
June 01, 2018
In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, either by electoral successes on their own or by influencing other political parties and the national political discourse. While it is widely acknowledged ...