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This volume includes discussions dealing with the evolution and the role of ethics from the standpoint of communication scholars employing a process orientation, and the resulting conclusions concerning the significant roles of ethics in dialogic, mutually enhancing, constructive interactions.

This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume defines entertainment studies and provides a theoretical spine for future research. For scholars/researchers/students in media studies and mass communication, psychology, marketing, etc.

This text discusses the emphasis on meaning, the importance of a mediated culture, and the links between micro communication activities and macro social categories. It explores principles of medium theory and documents the impact of media on psychological and sociological phenomena.

Tailored health messages enhance communication effectiveness on health issues and concerns. This volume includes a practical approach for practioners and students of health communication, health psychology, behavioural medicine, public health and related areas.

This oral history introduces the people involved with some of the most important 1st Amendment law cases in recent times. It is aimed at students and scholars of media law and 1st Amendment issues.

Provides an overview of communication-centered theory and research regarding organizational knowledge and learning. This book brings together the work of scholars in communication, management, information technology, and other disciplines that represents existing research and theory on communication-related knowledge work.

Provides an overview of communication-centered theory and research regarding organizational knowledge and learning. This book brings together the work of scholars in communication, management, information technology, and other disciplines that represents existing research and theory on communication-related knowledge work.

Targeted towards public relations practitioners, this book is about understanding organizations, especially the role played by organizational decision-making in the development and implementation of PR programmes and activities, emphasizing how this can affect the success or failure of PR efforts.

Argues that culture is perhaps the most important thing to know about people if one wants to make predictions about their behavior. The goal of this volume is to present a theoretically exhaustive integration of multidisciplinary approaches

Introducing the process of producing television news with current digital and automation technologies, author Phillip O. Keirstead walks readers through the steps and identifies the key players and procedures for producing televised news broadcasts.

This work proposes that the American newspaper industry must begin to view change as more than just something to which it must react and adjust, offering instead a view of change as a process with causes, phases and. cycles. The book is concerned with the past, present and future of a paper.

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.