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Illustrates various issues and ideas that affect the regulation of advertising and public relations speech, including the categorization of different kinds of speech afforded different levels of First Amendment protection; court-created tests for laws and regulations of speech; and, non content-based restrictions on speech and expression.

Revised edition of the authors' Applied organizational communication, c2008.

As an in-depth analysis of US Pres. debates, focusing on the past four decades, this volume offers insight into the practice & policies of political debate in a public forum. Of interest to scholars and researchers in pol. comm., journalism, & poli. sci.

This thoroughly updated third edition focuses on the primary concerns of media economics, the techniques of economic and business analysis, and the overall characteristics of the media environment; and explores contemporary business practices within spec

The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in 33 countries around the world. As the most comprehensive and reliable source on journalists around the world, it will serve as the primary source for evaluating the state of journalism. It promises to become a standard textbook among journalism, media, and communication students and researchers around the world.

Rev. ed. of: The crisis manager: facing risk and responsibility. 1997.

Tackles the question of media ownership. This title chronicles the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to these changes. It examines how the media industry is being reshaped by technological forces in the various segments, as well as by social and cultural reactions to these forces.

This volume examines the concept of framing in media issues, establishing a foundation for study of the topic and understanding its application. For scholars and advanced students in journalism & media studies, political science, and related areas.

Offers training, support and advice for prospective news editors. Through history, analyses, and anecdotes, this book offers a grounding to prepare potential editors for the range of their responsibilities in newsrooms: developing ideas; evaluating and editing copy; working with writers; determining what is news; and, directing news coverage.

This volume provides a comprehensive examination of key issues regarding global communication, focusing particularly on international news and strategic communication. It  addresses those news factors that influence the newsworthiness of international events, providing a synthesis of both theoretical and practical studies that highlight the complicated nature of the international news selection process. It also deals with international news coverage, presenting research on the cross-national and cross-cultural nature of media coverage of global events, in the interdisciplinary context of research on political communication, war coverage, new technologies and online communication. The work concludes with a focus on global strategic communications: in the age of globalization, global economies and cross-national media ownership, chapters here provide readers with some of the most up-to-date research on international advertising, public relations and other key issues in international communications. With contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field of international media communication research, this collection presents a valuable resource for advancing knowledge and understanding of the complicated international communication phenomenon. It will be of value to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in mass media and communication programs, and to scholars whose research focuses on global communication research.

The primary objective of this book is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of visual reportage in our understanding of ourselves, others and the world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of visual reportage as a form of human visual behaviour in contemporary culture.

This work argues that although journalistic images of the audience may be incomplete, they do exist and powerfully help shape the work of journalists. Using case studies, this work examines academic notions of audience and the ways in which they are embedded within the news construction.

A synthesis of insights gleaned from linguistic, semiotic, sociological and management theories. It presents an argument for communication-based organizational analysis that takes into account the structuring capacities of discourse.

This title represents a resource book that introduces its readers to E-E literature written from varied perspectives. Chapter authors include E-E theoreticians, practitioners and researchers and display a wide range of nationalities and theoretical orientations.

"Working With Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists" is designed to bolster the journalists' math skills and in turn improve math confidence.

Offers a consideration of destructive communication in organizations - including workplace bullying, racism, stress, and harassment. This book is suitable for scholars and researchers studying organizational communication, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students in organizational communication.

This volume seeks to chronicle changes in the roles of men and women and the changes that need to occur. It addresses issues relevant to female and male differences in power, dominance, communication, equality, and expectations and beliefs.

Presents a variety of scales that measure a number of important communication construct, and are drawn from areas of interpersonal, mass, organizational, and instructional communication - areas in which the use of formal, quantitative scales is well developed.

Organized into three general sections, this work introduces both the technologies of the Internet Age and their social implications, considers the issues of online identity, taking into account how people construct presentations of self within a social environment, and addresses issues of how the Internet has affected our culture.

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.

Illustrates the state of journalistic practice in the United States. This work looks at the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of print, broadcast, and Internet journalists at the beginning of the 21st century; providing results from telephone surveys of nearly 1,500 US journalists.

The reader is encouraged to explore fundamental beliefs with this book - understanding of what the radio enterprise should be about: entertainment and information. A consideration is to arrive at a set of fundamental beliefs about the radio business values in regard to entertainment programming.

This broad consideration of the lifespan component of communication study emphasizes how communicative processes develop, are maintained, and change throughout the life span. Topics covered include language skills, interpersonal conflict management, socialization, care-giving, and relationship development.

This volume provides a summary of current measures used in quantitative communication research. It is appropriate for researchers and graduate students in the communication field.

In light of the ever-increasing abundance of media channels and messages, selective exposure has become more important than ever for media impacts. This monograph provides a comprehensive review of the research on selective exposure to media messages, which is at the heart of communication science and media effects. It is required reading for media scholars and researchers, and promises to influence and inspire future research.

This volume brings together the major thrusts of contemporary research and theory in political communication. The approach stresses theoretical overviews and research synthesis with the goal of each chapter to provide an overview of the major lines of research, theory and findings for that topic.

Explores the significance of real-world communication concerns that people are confronted with. This book captures the crucial role of communication in creating better social worlds. It serves as a comprehensive guide to the applied communication research field.

Advertising Theory is a comprehensive text that draws on current research and practices in advertising theory by introducing key concepts, models, theories, conflicts, and issues for individuals interested in this area. Editors Shelly Rodgers and Esther Thorson have developed this volume as a forum in which to compare, contrast,