The Routledge Communication Series covers the breadth of the communication discipline, from interpersonal communication to public relations, offering textbooks, handbooks, and scholarly reference materials.
By Michael W. Kramer
April 24, 2013
In this book, Michael W. Kramer applies uncertainty reduction theory (URT)--a key theory in current communication scholarship--to the context of organizational communication. Examining URT and the range of research applicable to organizational settings, Kramer proposes a groundbreaking theory of ...
By Maya Gotz, Dafna Lemish, Hyesung Moon, Amy Aidman
May 17, 2005
Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers new insights into children's descriptions of their invented or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that the children's experience with media plays in creating these worlds. Based on the results of a cross-cultural study conducted in the United ...
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By Sharon Hartin Iorio
October 01, 2003
This volume highlights the integration of qualitative research methods into traditional journalism, offering new ways of expanding and enhancing news coverage. Designed for readers without prior experience in social science research, this collection presents a wide variety of qualitative techniques...
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By Tom Reichert, Jacqueline Lambiase
December 01, 2002
Sex in Advertising: Perspectives on the Erotic Appeal is the first book to thoroughly tackle important issues about sex in advertising. What is it? Does it work? How does it affect individuals and society? Well-respected scholars and popular writers answer these questions as they address the ...
By Davis "Buzz" Merritt, Maxwell E. McCombs
August 01, 2003
In this timely volume, the authors explore public affairs journalism, a practice that lies at the core of the journalism profession. They go beyond the journalistic instruction for reporting and presenting news to reflect on why journalism works the way it does. Asking current and future ...
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By Nancy A. Burrell, Mike Allen, Barbara Mae Gayle, Raymond W. Preiss
February 25, 2014
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 ...
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By Frank Biocca
October 01, 1991
This volume represents one of the first major scholarly efforts to unravel the psychological and symbolic processing of political advertising. Utilizing survey, experimental, qualitative, and semiotic methodologies to study this phenomenon, the contributors to Television and Political ...
By Beth Bonniwell Haslett
April 01, 1987
First Published in 1987. This book provides an outline for a descriptive basis for the study of human communication by advocating a pragmatic approach to communication, based on the study of language use in context. It covers work on verbal communication in many disciplines, and represents a ...
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By Dudley D. Cahn
May 01, 1994
In keeping with a broad conception of interpersonal conflict, this book is organized into two parts. The first focuses on conflict on different types of couple relationships -- homosexual, cross cultural, dating but violent, engaged, and married -- and group relationships -- student peers, parents ...
By Richard A. Winett
April 01, 1986
First Published in 1986. This book has two basic goals. The first goal is to present how information is formed, used, channelled, and delivered in a number of different contexts and systems with varying impacts. The second goal is to present these diverse applications within one framework so that ...
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By Ruby Roy Dholakia, Norbert Mundorf, Nikhilesh Dholakia
March 01, 1996
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 ...
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By Peter Vorderer, Hans Jurgen Wulff, Mike Friedrichsen
April 01, 1996
This volume begins with the general assumption that suspense is a major criterion for both an audience's selection and evaluation of entertaining media offerings. This assumption is supported not only by the popularity of suspenseful narratives, but also by the reasons users give for their actual ...