Bücher der Reihe Routledge Communication Series

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.

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.

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.

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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.

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.

Changing the News examines the difficulties in changing news processes and practices in response to the evolving circumstances and struggles of the journalism industry. It details the forces that shape and challenge journalism and journalistic culture, and explains why journalists and their organizations respond to troubles, challenges and uncertainties in the way they do.

Changing the News examines the difficulties in changing news processes and practices in response to the evolving circumstances and struggles of the journalism industry. The editors have put together this volume to demonstrate why the prescriptions employed to salvage the journalism industry to date haven't worked, and to explain how constraints and pressures have influenced the field's responses to challenges in an uncertain, changing environment. If journalism is to adjust and thrive, the following questions need answers: Why do journalists and news organizations respond to uncertainties in the ways they do? What forces and structures constrain these responses? What social and cultural contexts should we take into account when we judge whether or not journalism successfully responds and adapts? The book tackles these questions from varying perspectives and levels of analysis, through chapters by scholars of news sociology and media management. Changing the News details the forces that shape and challenge journalism and journalistic culture, and explains why journalists and their organizations respond to troubles, challenges and uncertainties in the way they do.