Communication Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Studying Mobile Media

   Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone

   Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book ...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
2. Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies

   Brazil, Russia, India and China

   By Lynne Ciochetto

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world. Strong economic growth in each of these economies has been accompanied by the expansion of the advertising and consumer goods sectors. Using a series of country studies, this book...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Media Firms

   Structures, Operations, and Performance

   Edited by Robert G. Picard

   Media Firms presents studies applying the company level approach to media and communication firms. It explores differences among missions, strategies, organizational choices, and other business decisions. Reviewing economic factors and pressures on media and communications companies, this book...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
4. Communication in Eastern Europe

   The Role of History, Culture, and Media in Contemporary Conflicts

   Edited by Fred L. Casmir

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   This volume represents a clear attempt to learn something from the events in Eastern European countries. It does not start with simplistic or old assumptions based on convenient Western communication models, but instead takes a new approach. If chaos theory could fundamentally change how physicists...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
5. Crafting Society

   Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory

   By Donald G. Ellis

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   The study of communication, language, and discourse is at once simple, elegant, and complex. Each of these areas is informed by "micro" subjective experiences of individuals and the "macro" processes of a culture. Communication itself is thoroughly modern yet it seeks anchorage in the traditions of...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Selective Exposure To Communication

   Edited by Dolf Zillmann, Jennings Bryant

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. Building Communication Theories

   A Socio/cultural Approach

   Edited by Fred L. Casmir

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Concern with various matters related to humans as they communicate has led to an increase in both research and theorizing during the second half of the 20th century. As a matter of fact, so many scholars and so many disciplines have become involved in this process that it is virtually impossible to...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
8. Persuasive Communication and Drug Abuse Prevention

   Edited by Lewis Donohew, Howard E. Sypher, William J. Bukoski

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   The history of drug abuse prevention campaigns suggests limitations in producing measurable changes in behavior. In the past, there was concern over the possibility of such publicity actually encouraging interest in drug use, rather than discouraging such behavior. Although little or no...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
9. Interactive Oral History Interviewing

   Edited by Eva M. McMahan, Kim Lacy Rogers

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   The essays in this anthology represent, in the broadest sense, an interpretive perspective of inquiry that has flourished in oral history for the past 15 years. This perspective considers oral history interviews as subjective, socially constructed and emergent events; that is, understanding,...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Formation of Campaign Agendas

    A Comparative Analysis of Party and Media Roles in Recent American and British Elections

    By Holli A. Semetko, Jay G. Blumler, Michael Gurevitch, David H. Weaver, Steve Barkin

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    This unusual volume seeks to accomplish three related goals: * to assess the extent and limits of media power in election campaigns * to extend the concept of media agenda-setting to include the contributions of powerful news sources in the process of election agenda formation * to evaluate...

    Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge