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Offers a set of meta-analyses, covering the breadth of media effects research. Organized by theories, outcomes, and mass media campaigns, the chapters included offer important insights on what social science research reveals about effects. This volume is useful for students, researchers, and graduate students in media effects and media psychology.

This volume provides a directory of electronic media archives in the USA and Canada. Covering both private and institutional collections, the book is organized by state and city with indexes to provide the reader with the subject and location of specific topics of interest.

Computers have changed the landscape of both gathering and disseminating information throughout the world. This work is designed to show both students and professional journalists which tools are being used on a daily basis by leading news organizations and journalists.

Combining three elements - communication, ageing and culture - all of which have an increasingly profound impact on today's multicultural society, this text focuses on older Americans in various communicative contexts within the framework of their cultures.

This study systematically examines empirical strategies for the teaching of media, focusing on 14-16 year-old students. It describes an international project based on research which began in England, and aims to initiate a more fruitful dialogue about educational approaches.

This volume examines the convergence of biotechnology and communication systems and explores how this convergence directly influences our understanding of the nature of communication. Editor Sandra Braman brings together scholars to examine this convergence in three areas: genetic information and "facticity"; social issues and implications; and the economic and legal issues raised by the production and ownership of information. The work highlights the sophisticated processes taking place as biotechnology and information technology systems continue to evolve. The chapters in this book approach the complex history of this topic and the issues it raises from a number of directions. It begins by examining the shared features and spaces of biotechnology and digital information technologies as meta-technologies--qualitatively distinct from both the tools first used in the premodern era and the industrial technologies that characterized modernity. Next, the book explores what is and is not useful in treating the types of information processed by the two meta-technologies through a shared conceptual lens and looks at issues raised by the ownership of genetic and digital information. The final chapters are concerned with relationships between information and power. Defining a future research agenda for communication scholarship, this work is beneficial to scholars and students in science communication, cultural studies, information technologies, and sociology.

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Managing Interpersonal Conflict is a systematic review of conflict research in legal, institutional and relational contexts. Each chapter represents a summary of the existing quantitative social science research using meta-analysis, with contexts ranging from jury selection to peer mediation to homophobia reduction. The contributors provide connections between cutting-edge scholarship about abstract theoretical arguments, the needs of instructional and training pedagogy, and practical applications of information. The meta-analysis approach produces a unique informational resource, offering answers to key research questions addressing conflict.This volume serves as an invaluable resource for studying conflict, mediation, negotiation and facilitation in coursework; implementing and planning training programs; designing interventions; creating workshops; and conducting studies of conflict.

Self Versus Others explores the third-person effect and its role in media as a means of persuasion. This scholarly work synthesizes more than two decades of research on the third-person effect, the process in which individuals do not perceive themselves to be impacted by particular messages¿such as persuaded to engage in risky behaviors or encouraged to be violent¿but they believe others will be.

This collection provides current research in language & social interaction (LSI), including historical & cutting-edge examples. The volume is dedicated to and highlights themes in the work of the late Robert Hopper, an outstanding scholar in communication who pioneered research in Language and Social Interaction (LSI).

A remote island in the South Atlantic, St. Helena, was introduced to live TV for the first time in 1995. Before this, the resident's only televisual experience had been through video. The community is a small homogeneous one which has made it possible fo

Public Relations As Relationship Management takes an advanced look at organization-public relationships and the strategies that can be used to cultivate and maintain them.

This book addresses competition between and within media industries, looking at what is at stake and how the competition is structured. It will be of interest to media researchers, economists, and others in the media industries.

The "talk show" has become a ubiquitous feature of American and European television. The various examples have been frequently discussed by academic commentators, as well as journalists in an attempt to place them in a cultural setting.

This volume, arising from the Time and Media Markets conference, offers perspectives on time and its relationship to and impact upon media industries. For libraries, scholars, comm. research centers, and grad-level seminars in media mgmt. & economics.

This collection focuses on communication as a research, education, policy and practice issue for the development and evaluation of health services for older adults. It is intended for those studying communication, geriatrics, life span devel, cog psych.

This collection presents current research and theory in media promotion and explores future directions. For students, scholars and researchers in media promotion, media marketing, media advertising theory, and broadcasting.

This volume moves through the steps of developing an assessment plan, establishing student learning outcomes in the various areas of the curriculum, and measuring these outcomes. For faculty and administrators preparing for accreditation.

This volume is an innovative and potentially controversial consideration of the communication discipline and an examination of its future. Its primary readers will be scholars and students in organizational communication, public relations, and theory.

A comprehensive volume of research & applications in communication & disability study, exploring how disability is socially constructed, conceptualized, and enacted through communicative processes. For scholars and students of communication & disabilitie

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Assessing media education is a formidable task because both assessment and media education are complex and controversial concepts. Assessment, which can take place at the individual student, class, sequence, program, department or unit, and university levels, is questioned in terms of reliability, validity, relevance, and cost. Media education, which has been challenged at a number of schools, finds faculty and administrators in the midst of soul-searching about how to clearly articulate its missions and purposes to a broader audience. Departments are under increasing national, state, and institutional pressure to get assessment procedures carried out quickly, but there is an obvious danger in rushing to implement assessment strategies before establishing what is essential in media education. In communication education in general, the "what" of assessment is often discussed in terms of skills, attitudes, affect, values, and knowledge. People assess students to determine what they know, think, feel, value, and can do. Here it is suggested that one of the places to start defining what students should learn from their media education is by identifying outcomes. Outcomes can be assessed in a variety of ways, but first they need to be developed and clearly articulated.

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book provides academic reformers with a blueprint for tackling the upheaval facing media education. It calls for a new professionalism that rejects the status quo, reflects the mission and diversity of individual programs, and demands a redefinition of both traditional media studies and the liberal arts.

An analysis of the 1996 National Issues Convention, from logistics of execution to the role of news media. Examines the significance the event has in the context of civic discourse & public debate. For scholars & researchers in poli comm & poli sci.

This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of current theory and research written by the top theorists and researchers in each area. It has been updated to address the growing influence of technology, changing relationships, and several growing integrated approaches to communication and includes seven new chapters on: Γûá Digital Media Γûá Media Effects Γûá Privacy Γûá Dark Side Γûá Applied Communication Γûá Relational Communication Γûá Instructional Communication Γûá Communication and the Law The book continues to be essential reading for students and faculty who want a thorough overview of contemporary communication theory and research.

"First edition published by Routledge 1998."

The second edition of Political Public Relations offers an interdisciplinary overview of the latest theory and research in the still emerging field of political public relations, and continues its international orientation to fully contextualize the field amidst the various systems today.

Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies.