Books in the Routledge Communication Series series

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 volume examines children's experiences with electronic media in the home, including children's development of media literacy. To understand the experiences, the book examines the children at various developmental ages and across generations.

Providing a critical examination of public relations' contribution to globalization and international power relations, this title includes chapters that explore alternative paradigms, most notably interpretive and critical perspectives informed by qualitative research. It is suitable for students as well as practitioners of public relations.

Offers insights on the state of online news, exploring the issues surrounding this convergence of print and electronic platforms, and the public's response to it. The heart of the book is formed by empirical studies - mostly social surveys - coming out of the media effects and uses traditions.

Utilizing both psychology and communication perspectives, this volume covers the literature in communication and emotion, with a focus on key theories, media effects, and entertainment theory. This collection synthesizes theory and research in the vital and vibrant area of communication and emotion.

Offers scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication.

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Includes meta-analyses of communication instruction research and reviews literature on communication education/instruction. For scholars, students, and researchers in communication education.

Examines the convergence of biotechnology and communication systems and explores how this convergence directly influences our understanding of the nature of communication. It covers: genetic information and "facticity"; social issues and implications; and the economic and legal issues raised by the production and ownership of information.

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.

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.

An examination of the past, present and potential relationship between American pragmatism and communication research. It addresses topics such as qualitative and quantitative research, ethics, media research, and feminist studies.

This book examines uncertainty reduction theory (URT) and research applicable to organizational settings; it proposes a model for a Theory of Managing Uncertainty (TMU). For scholars/students in organizational/interpersonal/group communication.

Presents an introduction to the field of health care and the Internet, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. This book covers: e-Health trends and theory; searching and evaluating online health information at the individual level of analysis; discussing health information at the group or community level of analysis; and more.

Communication and Social Cognition represents the explosion of work in the field of social cognition over the past 25 years. Expanding the contribution made by Social Cognition and Communication, published in 1982, this scholarly collection updates the study of communication from a social cognitive perspective, with contributions from well-known experts and promising new scholars in diverse areas of communication.

This advanced-level communication law text provides guided readings, introductory legal material, case reading lists, and questions to guide student reading, in addition to the cases. For graduate communication law courses in media and law programs.

Defending the First provides a collection of new perspectives on the First Amendment in legal and communication contexts. Editor Joseph Russomanno brings together a roster of major figures who have participated in the shaping of First Amendment law over the past 30 years. Readers are taken into a realm of personal experience and analysis through the stories of these attorneys at the forefront of the battle to defend the "First." The contributors to this volume--all of whom have argued cases before the Supreme Court--tell about their experiences appearing before the highest court in the United States. Some write many years after being there, while others offer insights from a more recent vantage point. One Supreme Court Attorney offers a historical analysis of a case replete with a variety of First Amendment issues.

This book examines uncertainty reduction theory (URT) and research applicable to organizational settings; it proposes a model for a Theory of Managing Uncertainty (TMU). For scholars/students in organizational/interpersonal/group communication.

To date, the study of communicated explanations has been, at best, unsystematic. There has been little recognition that many, if not most, explanations are eventually delivered to a hearer or hearers. These potential audiences constrain the way the explanation is ultimately shaped. Similarly, researchers have devoted themselves to the study of "accounts," for the most part without an accompanying interest in the fundamental processes of event comprehension. This volume is devoted to bridging the gap between these two traditions.

Computer-assisted investigative reporting (CAIR) can provide the Press with insights into trends and patterns unlikely to be revealed by other means. This book addresses procedures and issues in investigative journalism, explaining the origin and characteristics that make CAIR possible.

This volume addresses some of the central issues of journalism today, such as the nature and needs of the individual versus the needs of broader society; communitarianism versus Enlightenment liberalism; and compassion versus professional distance. The essays present the dilemmas facing the media.

Based on research focusing on the experience of having confused speech and being with confused speakers, this book begins with everyday, commonly understood ideas such as "talking too much" and examines how confused speech is "brought off" as a collaborative activity by the people involved.

This guide explains how a good understanding of audiences of all forms of media can serve to improve the efficiency of media use.

This project examines parental roles in controlling television programmes watched by children in Europe. The structure of the study includes an analysis of the technical devices available to assist parents and a corresponding analysis of potential ratings or labelling systems.

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume provides an historical, philosophical and practical critique of public and civic journalism - a movement that gained momentum in the final decade of the 20th century, postulating that world journalism is veering away from the traditional idea of press freedom.

Topics covered in this volume include: communication privacy management and HIV disclosure; decisions to disclose or not disclose an HIV diagnosis; and stigma as risk criteria influencing disclosure decisions

A collection of perspectives on the First Amendment in legal and communication contexts. Editor Joseph Russomanno brings together those who have participated in the shaping of First Amendment. Readers are taken into a realm of personal experience and analysis through the stories of attorneys at the forefront of the battle to defend the "First.