Media & Communications Books

New and Published Books

1. The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates

   Edited by Bob Franklin

   Series: Journalism Studies

   The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates analyses the radical shifts in journalism which are changing every aspect of the gathering, reporting and reception of news. The drivers of these changes include the rapid innovations in communication technologies, the competitive and fragmenting...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. African American Women in the News

   Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism

   By Marian Meyers

   African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Media, Religion and Gender

   Key Issues and New Challenges

   Edited by Mia Lövheim

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   Media, Religion and Gender presents a selection of eminent current scholarship that explores the role gender plays when religion, media use and values in contemporary society interact. The book: surveys the development of research on media, religion and culture through the lens of key...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Radio's New Wave

   Global Sound in the Digital Era

   Edited by Jason Loviglio, Michele Hilmes

   Radio’s New Wave explores the evolution of audio media and sound scholarship in the digital age. Extending and updating the focus of their widely acclaimed 2001 book The Radio Reader, Hilmes and Loviglio gather together innovative work by both established and rising scholars to explore the ways...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
5. Manga's Cultural Crossroads

   Edited by Jaqueline Berndt, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga’s culturalization is related to its globalization. Through contributions from leading scholars in the fields of comics and Japanese...

   Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions

   A Multimodal Approach

   By Maria Grazia Sindoni

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in the contemporary age. Online configurations of interaction, such as video chats, blogging, and social networking...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Crossover Cinema

   Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception

   Edited by Sukhmani Khorana

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic forms that do not bear allegiance to a single nation in terms of conceptualization, content, finance...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Rumor and Communication in Asia in the Internet Age

   Edited by Greg Dalziel

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   New communication technology has transformed the way in which news about key events is communicated. For example, in the immediate aftermath of catastrophic events such as the Mumbai attacks or the Japanese tsunami, partial accounts, accurate and inaccurate facts, rumour and speculation are now...

   Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
9. Health and Medical Public Relations

   By Myc Riggulsford

   Health and Medical Public Relations takes a fresh look at media relations and news values. It examines how information about medical research from the academic, pharmaceutical and charitable sectors is disseminated to target audiences through a variety of PR techniques. Scrutinising a wide range of...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media

    Edited by Dafna Lemish

    The roles that media play in the lives of children and adolescents, as well as their potential implications for their cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral development, have attracted growing research attention in a variety of disciplines. The Routledge International Handbook of Children,...

    Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge