Books in the Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies series

Originally published in 1986. This collection of essays explores the concept that listeners and readers, far from being passive recipients in the communicative process, are active in selecting, interpreting and creating from the disparate signals they receive.

Originally published in 1990. The chapters in this book build upon an approach to the analysis of spoken and written texts that is centred upon the recipient rather than the producer.

Originally published in 1986. This collection of essays explores the concept that listeners and readers, far from being passive recipients in the communicative process, are active in selecting, interpreting and creating from the disparate signals they receive.

Originally published in 1983. This book presents a description and critical analysis of the communication systems and policy at the time in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. It examines the technological and cultural forces shaping policy and communications development.

Originally published in 1993. The essays in this book collectively seek to illuminate the role of communication in sex-role socialization throughout the life cycle.

Originally published in 1974. This is an introductory text on the basic processes in communication with each chapter written by an eminent theorist in one of the main disciplines dealing with communication. It both surveys the range of issues and presents the individual author's personal theoretical approach in each case.

Originally published in 1983. This book presents a description and critical analysis of the communication systems and policy at the time in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. It examines the technological and cultural forces shaping policy and communications development.

This pioneering book, on the ethical and moral dimensions of communication and communication systems in the modern world, was originally published in 1974. It derived from an International Symposium consisting of world-class scholars - from philosophy and anthropology to cybernetics and psychiatry; from literary criticism to behavioural science.

Originally published in 1977. Covering a wide international field and with the emphasis on communications in developing countries, this book contains chapters by eminent contributors looking at questions of policy, governance and planning in the field of mass communications.

Originally published in 1993. The essays in this book collectively seek to illuminate the role of communication in sex-role socialization throughout the life cycle.

Originally published in 1990. The chapters in this book build upon an approach to the analysis of spoken and written texts that is centred upon the recipient rather than the producer.

Originally published in 1992. This book captures the dynamic confluence of feminist and communication scholarship by setting out some of the provocative questions that mark this intersection.

Reissuing works originally published between 1971 and 1993, this set offers a fantastic variety of texts on communications, connecting with psychology, media, sociology, development studies, gender studies and history.