Bøger i Routledge Communication Series serien

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.

Emphasizes communication as a critical issue for the design, provision and evaluation of health and social services for older adults. Chapters cover such important topics as managed care and older adults, communication issues of severe dementia, and healthcare decision-making within families.

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.

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.

This is the first scholarly work to place the function of fund raising within the field of public relations, redefining it as a specialization responsible for the management of communication between a charitable organization and its donor publics. Combining her academic interest in communication with her experience as a fund raiser, the author has produced one of the few critical studies on fund raising, challenging current perspectives and employing systems theory and the concept of organizational autonomy to lead to a new and different approach. Until now, fund raising has been an anomaly, without an academic home and with few general theories to guide practitioner behavior. This book theoretically grounds fund raising and develops a theory that provides a fuller understanding of one of the fastest growing occupations in the nonprofit sector.

This title combines concise decisions of the primary areas of communication law with the foundational case decisions in those domains. It offers both the key rulings that define each area of law and a detailed summary of the legal concepts, doctrines, and policies vital to understanding the rulings within their legal context.

Focusing on virtual reality (VR), the authors of this book have gathered a team of engineers, social scientists and cultural theorists to give their views of this area of human communication in this medium. Issues such as how virtual reality influences perception of reality are discussed.

First in a trilogy on Communication and Democracy. Also fits with Gonzenbach, Semetko, and Protess/MccOmbs. For grads and beyond in journalism, poli comm, and mass comm.

This volume seeks to examine complex interactions among what we believe to be true, what the world is, and/or what others think it is. The volume aims to reconnect the partially isolated environments of social psychology and communication.

This text provides discussions regarding the intersection of law and behavioural science and its application to deceptive advertising. It offers a foundation on which to base behavioural research into how consumers are deceived by advertising claims and what cognitive processes are involved.

This volume provides a unique synthesis of the relevant literature from academic studies in the fields of political science, marketing, advertising, speech communication, telecommunication, and public relations combined with the practical wisdom of professional consultants. Offering the reader both the theory and practical applications associated with negative political advertising, this is the first book devoted exclusively to the various forms of negative campaigning in the United States. After developing a typology of negative political spots for greater clarity in explaining and evaluating them, the book addresses effectiveness questions such as: What works? When? Why? and How?

This text presents the theory of intrapersonal communication. This theory emphasizes social interaction, the developmental nature of mind, and the role of speech in creating a self, a culture and a mind which then interact in human intrapersonal communication.

This work explores scientific uncertainty and media coverage of science in such major public issues as AIDS, biotechnology, dioxin, global warming, and nature vs nurture. It examines the interrelations of the media in constructing and explaining uncertainty.

This work presents the findings of the largest British study of violence on TV ever undertaken. The study was carried out at the same time as similar research was being conducted in the United States. The research groups kept in contact, and one chapter compares findings from Britain and the USA.

Taking a distinctive behind-the-scenes look at how children's television is created, programmed, and sold, this book presents an analysis of the children's television community - the organizations, major players, and approaches to programming. It also gives an overview of the history and the future of children's programming.

Research on media and the law has generally been atheoretical and contradictory. This volume explains why pretrial publicity is unlikely to affect the outcome of most jury trials, despite many experimental studies claiming to show the influence of publicity.

This volume and its companion case studies book deal with some of the people, groups and classes who are living a disenfranchised existence in the USA. Whether by birth or unfortunate circumstances, they are denied full privileges. These issues are examined through a theoretical framework.

This volume provides case studies of some of the people, groups and classes who are living a disenfranchised existence in the USA. Whether by birth or unfortunate circumstances, they are denied full privileges.

Focuses on the role and significance of science in modernity and public understanding of science. The author treats creationism as a case study of the argumentative engagement between science and non-science and as central to the commonsense lifeworld as it is to the lives of its intellectuals.

This title looks at the influence of case reports on the perception of issues.

Covers the breadth of sports and media scholarship, one of the topics bridging media entertainment, sports management, and popular culture. Organized into historical, institutional, spectator, and critical studies perspectives, this book is for scholars, researchers, and students in the areas of media entertainment, popular culture, and more.