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Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

This volume applies postmodern theory to public relations, providing an alternative lens to public relations theory and practice and developing public relations theory within the context of postmodernism. Author Derina Holtzhausen focuses on two key issues and their application to public relations theory and practice: the postmodernization of society, and the possibilities postmodern theories offer to explain and understand public relations practice in today’s changing society.

March 13-16, 2013: Routledge will be attending the 64th Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Las Vegas, NV. Visit our booth for 20% off all titles and free worldwide shipping.

Sally Weintrobe, editor of Engaging with Climate Change, explores what the ecological crisis actually means to people and why in spite of a scientific consensus people continue to resist or ignore the message of climate communicators. Click here to listen to the full interview on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed program.
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Making Media Content addresses the development of media content and the various factors and constituencies that influence content, such as advertisers, corporate interests, owners, and advocacy groups. It examines the strategic decision-making of mass media organizations as they determine what content they present to their audiences through broadcast, publication, or electronic access.

Culture and Public Relations explores the impact of culture – societal and organizational – through the global lens of public relations. Structuring the volume around three themes -- culture as an environment for public relations; the culture of PR globaly; and the impact of PR on culture -- the editors bring together compelling discussions on such questions as how spirituality, religion, and culture have affected public relations, and how public relations culture has been affected by the "corporate cultures" of business enterprises.

Interpersonal Communication: Putting Theory into Practice draws on theory and research in the interpersonal communication discipline to help you identify strategies to improve your communication skills. Denise and Jen introduce interpersonal communication as a subject of scientific research that has enormous relevance to your daily lives.

The question ‘how far can emotions be changed?’ lies at the heart of innumerable psychological interventions. Although oftentimes viewed as static, changes in the intensity, quality, and complexity of emotion can occur from moment to moment, and also over longer periods of time, oftentimes as a result of developmental, social or cultural factors.

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.

This innovative and popular text provides a clear pathway to developing public relations campaigns and other types of strategic communication. Implementing the pragmatic, in-depth approach of the previous editions, author Ronald D. Smith presents a step-by-step unfolding of the strategic campaign process used in public relations practice.

Intended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical criticism, The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism uniquely lends itself to thoughtful discussion of the role of the critic in the critical process. It assists readers not only in learning the tools of criticism, but also in reflecting on the values that underlie the critical endeavor.