Bücher der Reihe Routledge Communication Series

Building on the measures included in the original 1994 volume and subsequent 2009 volume, Communication Research Measures III: A Sourcebook extends its coverage of measurement issues and trends across the entire communication discipline.

A seminal text, this new edition provides students and scholars a comprehensive survey of the subject¿s key research foundations and trends, authored by the discipline¿s leading scholars. It is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and healthcare professionals doing work in health communication.

A seminal text, this new edition provides students and scholars a comprehensive survey of the subject¿s key research foundations and trends, authored by the discipline¿s leading scholars. It is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and healthcare professionals doing work in health communication.

This third edition again brings together interdisciplinary contributions to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted resource that reflects the breadth and depth of research on family communication and family relationships.

This third edition again brings together interdisciplinary contributions to provide a comprehensive and multifaceted resource that reflects the breadth and depth of research on family communication and family relationships.

This important book chronicles, responds to, and advances the leading theories in the public relations discipline.Taking up the work begun by the books Public Relations Theory and Public Relations Theory II, this volume offers completely original material reflecting public relations as practiced today. It features contributions by leading public relations researchers from around the world who write about new developments in the field. Important subjects include: a turn to more humanistic, social, dialogic, and cocreational perspectives on public relations; changes in the capacity and use of new information technologies; a greater emphasis on non-Western international and intercultural public relations that considers an increasingly politically polarized culture; and issues of ethics that look beyond how clients and the traditional mass media are treated and into much broader questions of voice, agency, race, identity, and the economic and political status of publics.This book is a touchstone for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in public relations theory and a key reference for researchers.

As the "information superhighway" moves into the home through interactive media, enhanced telecom services, and hybrid appliances, interest continually grows in how consumers adopt and use Information Technology (IT), the strategies IT marketers use to reach consumers, and the public policies that help and protect consumers. USE COPY FROM THIS POINT ON FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... This book presents a unique collection of papers dealing with the demand side issues of new information technologies in the home. The contributors are from business, academia, and the public policy sector and represent many disciplines including communication, marketing, economics, psychology, engineering, and information systems. This book provides one of the best introductions to complex issues such as: * business forces that will shape "Home IT" of the future; * industry structure of the future "Infotainment" mega-business; * factors affecting consumer adoption and use of IT; * international differences in the management of the IT sector; and * public policies that will shape the deployment and use of IT.

upper div undergrad, grad and researchers interested in communication and cognition. A focused "follow-up" to Daly/Wiemann and to Hewes.