Books in the Routledge Communication Series series

This volume includes discussions dealing with the evolution and the role of ethics from the standpoint of communication scholars employing a process orientation, and the resulting conclusions concerning the significant roles of ethics in dialogic, mutually enhancing, constructive interactions.

This text draws on communication, public health, psychology and theories from related disciplines to illuminate issues involved with communication, politics and HIV/AIDS around the globe. It also examines past efforts to prevent infection and to provide treatment, and the barriers to such actions.

This volume in the Applied Communication Series explores communication in black, white and biracial families. Topics covered include African-American child rearing, parent-child communication about racial derogation, and the influences of parents and peers on adolescents' self esteem.

The goal of this text is to represent the primary areas of entertainment - from sports to computer games to fine arts - at a non-technical, accessible level. It aims to reach a broad audience and introduces the reader to the empirical exploration of the how's and why's of media entertainment.

This collection of research essays focuses on children and "Sesame Street". It covers a variety of issues and topics including: creation and evolution of the "Sesame Street" curriculum; "Sesame Street" viewers as adolescents; and the role of "Sesame Street"-based materials in child care settings.

This collection brings together research from independent scholars and studies supported by the Kaiser Foundation to illustrate innovative research on the media's sexual content and adolescents. Contributors address the topic of sexuality and the role of media.

This title examines the representation, impact and issues relating to the control and regulation of sex in the media. It covers work that has been conducted around the world on the depiction of sex in the mainstream mass media, especially the audio-visual media of film, television and video.

"Explaining Communication" presents in-depth discussions of communication theories by some of the foremost scholars working in communication today. With contributions from the original theorists and scholars known for their work in specific theoreti

This study assembles and presents the cross-disciplinary research being conducted on access to new technology. It departs from popular understandings by recognizing the distinction between having access to the Internet as a technology and being able to access the content that resides on it.

This edited collection examines time and its relationship to and impact upon media industries, studying how the media industry views time and makes business and economic decisions based on considerations of time. Contributions from an international set of authors analyze different media.

This work provides journalists with the empirical tools they need to operate in the current reporting climate. It offers ways in which news coverage is expanded and enhanced through the use of qualitative methods developed in the social sciences.

Offers a systematic review of the literature on communication education and instruction. This volume approaches the topic from the perspective that meta-analysis serves as a useful tool for summarizing experiments, and for determining how and why specific teaching and learning experiences have positive student outcomes.

In this examination of the complexity of health-related communication, detailed case studies demonstrate in-depth applications of communication theory in relation to the real situations. With its breadth of coverage and practical approach, it is appropriate for courses addressing the application of communication theory in a health-related context.

Talks both specifically and generally about the theoretical and methodological approaches one can use to study the First Amendment and general Communication Law issues. This book helps graduate students and scholars at various skill levels to think about new approaches to questions about Communication Law.

Offers a set of meta-analyses, covering the breadth of media effects research. Organized by theories, outcomes, and mass media campaigns, the chapters included offer important insights on what social science research reveals about effects. This volume is useful for students, researchers, and graduate students in media effects and media psychology.

This collection explores the use of narratives in the social construction of wellness and illness. The emphasis is on what the process of narrating accomplishes--how it serves in the health communication process where people define themselves and present their social and relational identities.

Intended for students and researchers in broadcast history, this book provides an understanding of the qualitative methodological tools necessary for the study of electronic media history, and illustrates how to find primary sources for electronic media research. Divided into five parts, it provides a broad topical look at history in broadcasting.

Provides theoretical, empirical, and legal analyses for a broader understanding of the influences of communication technology on social change. Arranged into 15 chapters, this book presents a discussion of the role communication technology plays in shaping social, political, and economic influences in society within specific domains and settings.

This volume studies the explanation of illness in various cultural and social contexts. It is aimed at scholars and practitioners in health communication and health care fields, including nursing, public health, and medicine.

This volume provides a directory of electronic media archives in the USA and Canada. Covering both private and institutional collections, the book is organized by state and city with indexes to provide the reader with the subject and location of specific topics of interest.

Offers various perspectives relating to the development, effectiveness, and implementation of interactive computing technology for health promotion - programs and interventions aimed at improving various health-related outcomes such as involvement in care, quality of life, adherence, disease management, healthy lifestyle, and more.

Computers have changed the landscape of both gathering and disseminating information throughout the world. This work is designed to show both students and professional journalists which tools are being used on a daily basis by leading news organizations and journalists.

Combining three elements - communication, ageing and culture - all of which have an increasingly profound impact on today's multicultural society, this text focuses on older Americans in various communicative contexts within the framework of their cultures.

Focusing on the agenda-setting function of the news media from an information processing stand-point, this volume examines how individuals expose themselves to news media content and how this content translates into issue salience.

This study systematically examines empirical strategies for the teaching of media, focusing on 14-16 year-old students. It describes an international project based on research which began in England, and aims to initiate a more fruitful dialogue about educational approaches.

This text emphasizes academic administration, for communication and media administrators. It contains philosophical, theoretical and practical information. It is divided into sections on: background material and specific and programmatic challenges facing administrators.

This volume provides an overview of the changes taking place in media education. It is aimed at educators and administrators in communication departments.