Books in the Handbooks of Communication Science [HoCS] series

Competence in communicating is vital to health, relationships, and all collective human endeavors. This volume brings together international scholars to examine the various facets of communication competence, including its history as an organizing concept, its essential components, and its application in interpersonal, group, and more.

A handbook that comprehensively covers the field of interpersonal communication, including research on processes of social influence, the role of communication close personal relationships, nonverbal communication, cognitive approaches, conflict, bargaining and negotiation, health communication, organizational socialization, and social networks.

Drawing on research in communication, this book on verbal communication addresses how explicit and implicit meanings are negotiated in conversations, arguments and narratives, covering the media and contexts of verbal communication, the impact of cultural and linguistic diversity and the assessment of verbal communication quality.

Ethics in communication and media has arguably reached a pivotal stage of maturity in the last decade, moving from disparate lines of inquiry to a theory-driven, interdisciplinary field presenting normative frameworks and philosophical explications for communicative practices. The intent of this volume is to present this maturation, to reflect the vibrant state of ethics theorizing and to illuminate promising pathways for future research.

This volume expands the interdisciplinary dimensions of the field of journalism. The economic and technological foundations of the journalism profession have shifted so dramatically in recent years that research and theory about the empirical realities of journalism are necessarily in flux as well. This volume captures the ferment in the professional and academic fields of journalism while also identifying the state-of-the-art in the discipline.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.