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Media, Telecommunications, and Business Strategy

2013-05-17T13:14:44Q

With today’s dynamic and rapidly evolving environment, media managers must have a clear understanding of different delivery platforms, as well as a grasp of critical management, planning, and economic factors in order to stay current and move their organizations forward.

Communication Yearbook 37

2013-05-16T13:31:15Q

Next month we will be attending the ICA conference in London. In advance of this event we are pleased to announce the publication of Communication Yearbook 37 in association with the International Communication Association. This yearbook continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Elisia Cohen presents a volume that is highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association.

The Global Journalist in the 21st Century

2013-05-16T13:24:51Q

The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more than a dozen countries, and provides material on comparative research about journalists that will be useful to those interested in doing their own studies...

The Life of Voices

2013-05-16T13:09:10Q

The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialogue with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the relation between bodies and speech expression to develop a unique theory of communication and bodies.

Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

2013-05-16T12:59:30Q

This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism—the notion of global citizenship—as a multilayered lens for research.

Health and Medical Public Relations

2013-05-16T10:52:33Q

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 health-related public relations activities, the book combines a critical, analytical and cultural overview of these methods with helpful guidance on their practical application.

Book of the Month - Strategic Planning for Public Relations

2013-04-30T09:31:57Q

4th Edition

By Ronald D. Smith

Named as one of Routledge's Books of the Month, as an example of an innovative revision of a popular text.

Confronting The Digital Elephant in the Room

2013-04-10T09:02:54Q

Consumer research is only just beginning to emerge on how digital consumption affects basic human and consumer behaviours.

"In a few short decades digital consumption has colonized more and more of our lives from entertainment to communication to shopping to learning about the world," say Russell Belk and Rosa Llamas, editors of The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption, "issues of what digital consumption do to our notions of self, trust, friendship, and consumer activism have been less appreciated until recently, even though they likely have a more profound on our well being."

Read more about the topics explored in The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption in this fascinating interview with the editors.

Interpersonal Communication

2013-04-09T13:22:41Q

Putting Theory into Practice
By Denise Solomon and Jennifer Theiss

'Solomon and Theiss do a masterful job of translating cutting-edge scholarship into an accessible format. Their work offers a delicate blend of scholarship coupled with practical skill-building activities, creative exercises, and thought-provoking reflection questions. Their enthusiasm for the subject matter leaps off every page. Instructors and students alike will no doubt find this book to be an indispensable part of their interpersonal communication course.'
- Leanne Knobloch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design

2013-04-09T09:48:29Q

This year the International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design will be held from 1-3 May in Famagusta, Cyprus. The scope of the conference includes Communication Technologies, Social Media, Visual Communication and Design, Integrated Marketing Communication, Communication Education, Communication Barriers, Media Management and Economics, Political Communication.

Routledge are offering all delegates a 20% discount on our communication and media books.

Rhetoric, History, and Women’s Oratorical Education

2013-04-09T09:33:16Q

Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak is the latest title in our Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Series, our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering topics such as ancient and modern rhetoric, public relations, popular culture, ecology, food studies, and Internet studies, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.

Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.

Identity and Communication

2013-04-09T09:19:17Q

Identity and Communication: New Agendas in Communication is the latest title in our New Agendas in Communication Series, offering an innovative take on traditional topics of intercultural communication while promoting new ideas and progressive theories.

Originating from the University of Texas at Austin‘s New Agendas in Communication symposium, this volume represents some of the latest and most forward-looking scholarship currently available.

Public Relations and Communication Management

2013-04-09T09:03:01Q

Public Relations and Communication Management serves as a festschrift honoring the work of public relations scholars James E. Gruning and Larissa A. Grunig. Between them, the Grunigs have published 12 books and more than 330 articles, book chapters, and various academic and professional publications, and have supervised 34 doctoral dissertations and 105 master’s theses. This volume recognizes the Grunig‘s contributions to public relations scholarship over the past four decades.

Public Relations And Nation Building: Influencing Israel

2013-04-05T13:56:08Q

Why not read this interview with Margalit Toledano and David McKie, authors of Public Relations And Nation Building, and find out the answers to such questions as "Does the definition of PR change when used in the context of nation building?", and "What makes Israel stand out from other countries, in terms of the use of PR to inform/build national identity?"

Sourcebook for Political Communication Research

2013-04-03T11:23:49Q

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK, The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research offers scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication.