Bücher der Reihe Routledge Communication Series

This volume examines agenda-setting theory as it applies to the news mediäs influence on corporate reputation. It presents interdisciplinary, international, and empirical investigations examining the relationship between corporate reputation and the news media throughout the world. Providing coverage of more than twenty-five countries, and incorporating scholarship from a broad range of disciplines (including advertising, strategic management, business, political communication, et al), this volume has much to offer scholars and students examining business and the news media.

This collection was assembled in response to the interest in understanding media power using the concept of framing. It covers theoretical and methological perspectives, specific cases and empirical efforts by framing analysis and looks at framing in new subject areas and the future.

Describing a rhetorical approach to crisis communication, this text reviews rhetorical perspective on organizational crisis, raising questions and provoking issues. It aims to add depth and a breadth of understanding to the analysis of the rhetorical implications of a crisis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Includes meta-analyses of communication instruction research and reviews literature on communication education/instruction. For scholars, students, and researchers in communication education.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.