Books in the Handbooks of Communication Science [HoCS] series

Countless communication media have been developed throughout the history, ranging from handwriting to movable types press, from telegraph to telephone and radio, from photo to cinema and TV... This volume analyzes in detail digital communication technologies and especially the internet.

This handbook offers an overview of the diversity of perspectives on communication: including perspectives from biology, sociality, economics, norms & human development. The scope of the contributions is global, and the volume is relevant to both the empirical and philosophical traditions in human sciences.

Thishandbook offers an overview of the diversity of perspectives on communication: including perspectives from biology, sociality, economics, norms& human development. The scope of the contributions is global, and the volume is relevant to both the empirical and philosophical traditions in human sciences.

Mediatization characterizes changes in practices and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies. The volume offers a broad spectrum of different approaches to mediatization of communication and in this way provides the reader with the state of research.

Gives on overview on key theories and findings of political communication research. This book provides review articles by renowned international authors on various aspects of the foundations of political communication, different situations, the part played by political actors, mass media and journalism, and features of media messages.