Books in the Routledge Communication Series series

Understanding how the elderly adapt to significant changes in their environment provides insight into both the process of communication and the process of ageing. The purpose of this book is to help readers understand how important these communicative relationships are.

This revised edition covers the process of sports writing. Topics include: observation; interviewing techniques and various structures of articles; types of "leads"; and other style and technique points.

Rev. ed. of: The crisis manager: facing risk and responsibility. 1997.

This monograph addresses free speech, arguing that, while interdisciplary approaches can be useful, legal scholars must avoid distorting issues by using vocabularies and tools that do not reflect complexities of the First Amendment.

Tackles the question of media ownership. This title chronicles the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to these changes. It examines how the media industry is being reshaped by technological forces in the various segments, as well as by social and cultural reactions to these forces.

This volume examines the concept of framing in media issues, establishing a foundation for study of the topic and understanding its application. For scholars and advanced students in journalism & media studies, political science, and related areas.

The purpose of this work is to illustrate how the broadcasting industry has evolved to what it is today. This third edition includes: a chapter describing historical developments since 1998; updated and reorganized historical tables; and new tables on topics such as presidential elections.

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 study provides a deconstruction of the actual "talk" of television talk shows, and seeks to demonstrate how this "talk" is a dramatic performance: discursive dynamics fed by the host of the show with certain formulaic progress designed to get the audience hyped up.

With its beginnings as a festschrift in honour of language and social interaction scholar Robert Hopper, this work is a collection of empirical studies and theoretical essays about human communication in everyday life.

In light of the ever-increasing abundance of media channels and messages, selective exposure has become more important than ever for media impacts. This monograph provides a comprehensive review of the research on selective exposure to media messages, which is at the heart of communication science and media effects. It is required reading for media scholars and researchers, and promises to influence and inspire future research.

This volume brings together the major thrusts of contemporary research and theory in political communication. The approach stresses theoretical overviews and research synthesis with the goal of each chapter to provide an overview of the major lines of research, theory and findings for that topic.

In the early 20th century, the audience was seen as a mass of people mostly unknown to one another that was unified through exposure to media. This concept, whilst generally accepted, has been questioned by scholars. This book looks into the meaning of "audience".

This book provides academic reformers with a blueprint for tackling the upheaval facing media education. It calls for a new professionalism that rejects the status quo, reflects the mission and diversity of individual programs, and demands a redefinition of both traditional media studies and the liberal arts. The book directs philosophical assaults and uses real-life examples to challenge the paralyzing effects of the seven deadly sins of media education.

Explores the significance of real-world communication concerns that people are confronted with. This book captures the crucial role of communication in creating better social worlds. It serves as a comprehensive guide to the applied communication research field.

The Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication explores the scope and purpose of risk, and its counterpart, crisis, to facilitate the understanding of these issues from conceptual and strategic perspectives. With perspectives from psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and communication, the Handbook of Ri

Advertising Theory is a comprehensive text that draws on current research and practices in advertising theory by introducing key concepts, models, theories, conflicts, and issues for individuals interested in this area. Editors Shelly Rodgers and Esther Thorson have developed this volume as a forum in which to compare, contrast,

Organized into three general sections, this work introduces both the technologies of the Internet Age and their social implications, considers the issues of online identity, taking into account how people construct presentations of self within a social environment, and addresses issues of how the Internet has affected our culture.

Managing Interpersonal Conflict is a systematic review of conflict research in legal, institutional and relational contexts. Each chapter represents a summary of the existing quantitative social science research using meta-analysis, with contexts ranging from jury selection to peer mediation to homophobia reduction. The contributors provide connections between cutting-edge scholarship about abstract theoretical arguments, the needs of instructional and training pedagogy, and practical applications of information. The meta-analysis approach produces a unique informational resource, offering answers to key research questions addressing conflict.This volume serves as an invaluable resource for studying conflict, mediation, negotiation and facilitation in coursework; implementing and planning training programs; designing interventions; creating workshops; and conducting studies of conflict.

This volume illustrates the application of rhetorical theory and critical perspectives to explain public relations practices. It provides a systematic and coherent statement of the crucial guidelines and philosophical underpinnings of public relations, and it uses a rhetorical lens to give practitioners a clear sense of how their PR campaigns make a contribution to the organizational bottom line.

Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies.

Public Relations As Relationship Management takes an advanced look at organization-public relationships and the strategies that can be used to cultivate and maintain them.