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Forthcoming Mass Communication Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Amateur Media

    Social, cultural and legal perspectives

    Edited by Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson, Julian Thomas

    The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. But how do the activities of citizen...

    To Be Published June 20th 2013 by Routledge

  2. The Data Bank Society (Routledge Revivals)

    Organizations, Computers and Social Freedom

    By John Smith

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    This study, written in the context of its first publication in 1970, discusses and documents the invasion of privacy by the corporation and the social institution in the search for efficiency in information processing. Discussing areas such as the impact of the computer on administration, privacy...

    To Be Published July 21st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Transparency, Public Relations and the Mass Media

    Combating Media Bribery Worldwide

    By Katerina Tsetsura, Dean Kruckeberg

    Series: Routledge Research in Public Relations

    This book is about media transparency and good-faith attempts of honesty by both the sources and the gate-keepers of news and other information that the mass media present as being unbiased. Specifically, this book provides a theoretical framework for understanding media transparency and its...

    To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Meanings of Audiences

    Comparative Discourses

    Edited by Richard Butsch, Sonia Livingstone

    In today’s thoroughly mediated societies people spend many hours in the role of audiences, while powerful organizations, including governments, corporations and schools, reach people via the media. Consequently, how people think about, and organizations treat, audiences has considerable...

    To Be Published August 26th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Audiovisual Regulation under Pressure

    Comparative Cases from North America and Europe

    By Thomas Gibbons, Peter Humphreys

    In the face of globalization and new media technologies, can policy makers and regulators withstand deregulatory pressures on the ‘cultural policy toolkit’ for television? This comparative study provides an interdisciplinary investigation of trends in audiovisual regulation, with the focus on...

    To Be Published September 6th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Ratings Analysis

    Audience Measurement and Analytics, 4th Edition

    By James Webster, Patricia F. Phalen, Lawrence W Lichty

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    This 4th edition of Ratings Analysis describes and explains the current audience information system that supports economic exchange in both traditional and evolving electronic media markets. Responding to the major changes in electronic media distribution and audience research in recent years,...

    To Be Published September 16th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Communication, Public Opinion, and Globalization in Urban China

    By Francis L.F. Lee, Chin-chuan Lee, Mike Z. Yao, Tsan-kuo Chang, Jennifer Fen Lin, Chris Fei Shen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

    As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic, political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such processes. At the same time, international communication scholars have long been interested in how local,...

    To Be Published September 18th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Mediating the Message in the 21st Century

    A Media Sociology Perspective

    By Pamela J. Shoemaker, Stephen D. Reese

    Hailed as one of the "most significant books of the twentieth century" by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mediating the Message has long been an essential text for media effects scholars and students of media sociology. This new edition of the classic media sociology textbook now...

    To Be Published September 25th 2013 by Routledge

  9. The Social Media Handbook

    Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Theresa Senft

    The Social Media Handbook explores how social media are changing disciplinary understandings of the internet and our everyday lives. In addition to person-to-person social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, this volume considers a broad range of networked information services that...

    To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

  10. Image and Influence

    Studies in the Sociology of Film

    By Andrew Tudor

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

    To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge