Recent Articles

1. 

   Jeremy Butler, Author of the Month, December 2011

   Jeremy G. Butler is Professor of Telecommunication and Film at the University of Alabama. He has taught television, movie, and new media courses since 1980 and is active in online educational resources for television and movie studies.

2. 

   Review: The Situated Organization

   "Taylor and Van Every contribute to the general understanding of the sometimes overly abstract writing of the Montreal School. ... The Situated Organization is a good first read for students and teachers of organizational communication ... it is Taylor and Van Every’s very practice of empirical research that sheds yet another light on organization, organizations, and – organization studies.'"
   --Organization Studies 2011 (Reviewed by Steffen Blaschke, University of Hamburg, Germany)
    

3. 

   Just published! Concepts in Composition, 2nd Edition

   Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing is designed to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice, enabling prospective teachers to develop their own comprehensive and coherent conception of what writing is or should be and to consider how people learn to write. Contact your Routledge Rep for more information.

4. 

   Review: Qualitative Research in Technical Communication

   "Conklin and Hayhoe have assembled an impressive collection of work ... The editors neatly weave the chapters into a coherent whole. ... For students and academics, this book would be a valuable (and at a list price of $44.95 paperback, an affordable) addition to one’s professional library."
   --IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION, VOL. 54, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2011
    

5. 

   Society for Technical Communication: The Top 100 Technical Communication Books of 1991–2010

   Society for Technical Communication's Intercom magazine names Research Primer for Technical Communication one of the top 100 books in the field in the past 20 years. Contact your Routledge Rep for more information. 

6. 

   Just published! Communicating and Organizing in Context

   This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars as an orientation to the field of organizational communication and as an integration of organizing and communicating. It will also be useful for practitioners as a tool for understanding how conceptual frames limit possibilities and constitute the nature of organizing and members' participation in organizations. 

7. 

   Book review: Doing Ethics in Media

   "I have to admit that I wish I had written this textbook. It does what I have been arguing for years that textbooks in the field should do ... Roberts and Black have put together excellent content and hands-on analysis techniques that one finds scattered throughout the best existing texts in the field. ... Doing Ethics includes a multitude of questions that challenge students and their instructors to think beyond simplistic notions."
   --Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Volume 26, Number 3, 2011 

8. 

   Now available: Psychophysiological Measurement and Meaning

   This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological research on media responses. It addresses the theoretical underpinnings, methodological techniques, and most recent research in this area.

9. 

   Review of Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach, 4th Edition

   Reviewed by George J. Okaty, CPP
   Security Management magazine, July 2011

10. New review of Activism and Rhetoric

    Featured in the June 2011 issue of Rhetoric Review