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Forthcoming Communication Studies Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Audience Research Methodologies

    Between Innovation and Consolidation

    Edited by Geoffroy Patriarche, Helena Bilandzic, Jakob Linaa Jensen, Jelena Jurišić

    Series: Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education

    The transformations of people’s relations to media content, technologies and institutions raise new methodological challenges and opportunities for audience research. This edited volume aims at contributing to the development of the repertoire of methods and methodologies for audience research by...

    To Be Published July 23rd 2013 by Routledge

  2. Audience Transformations

    Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity

    Edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrøder, Lawrie Hallett

    Series: Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education

    The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our...

    To Be Published July 23rd 2013 by Routledge

  3. Methods for Analyzing Social Media

    Edited by Klaus Bredl, Julia Hünniger, Jakob Linaa Jensen

    Social media is becoming increasingly attractive for users. It is a fast way to communicate ideas and a key source of information. It is therefore one of the most influential mediums of communication of our time and an important area for audience research. The growth of social media invites many...

    To Be Published August 5th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Popular Representations of Development

    Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media

    Edited by David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, Michael Woolcock

    Series: Rethinking Development

    Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies. Through its accessible and...

    To Be Published August 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  5. 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

  6. New Media and the Nation in Malaysia

    Malaysianet

    By Susan Leong

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological...

    To Be Published October 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Carey Jewitt

    Multimodality is an innovative approach to representation, communication and interaction which looks beyond language to investigate the multitude of ways we communicate: through images, sound and music to gestures, body posture and the use of space. The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis,...

    To Be Published October 28th 2013 by Routledge

  8. 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

  9. The British Board of Film Censors

    Film Censorship in Britain, 1896-1950

    By James C. Robertson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

    More than seventy years after the British Board of Film Censors’ inception no systematic history of film censorship in Britain in general and the BBFC in particular has yet been attempted. One major obstacle for the would-be historian of British film censorship is the secrecy in which the BBFC...

    To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

  10. Media Today

    Mass Communication in a Converging World, 5th Edition

    By Joseph Turow

    Media Today uses convergence as a lens that puts students at the center of the profound changes in the 21st century media world. Through the convergence lens they learn to think critically about the role of media today and what these changes mean for their lives presently and in the future. The...

    To Be Published November 4th 2013 by Routledge